Nanny

reader of the arranged marriage made by nanny for Janie and Logan. Janie is reluctant and unsure with this marriage, but her nanny positively reassures her. She explains to Janie that she will start to uncover the truth about love after a couple days of the marriage. Three months have passed and Janie returns to nanny with a depressed frown. Janie opens up and reveals that she still has not been overcomed with the emotions she should have towards Logan. Nanny again reassures her by saying that…

2. Janie is initially attracted to each man differently in each one of her marriages. Her first marriage to Logan, was set up by her Nanny. “She could see no way for it to come about, but Nanny and the old folks had said it, so it must be so” (Hurston 21). Her Nanny saw Logan as a protective love for Janie. Janie felt that her marriage to Logan would develop love between them. For once she felt the representation of the blossom in the pear tree at her Nanny’s house. Janie attracted to Joe…

years of her life are spent with her Nanny. These years were very important developmental years for her. She does not have her parents around, and is teased for it greatly. She originally is living in a white family's backyard, but eventually her Nanny moves them to their own home and land, because she believes it would be better for Janie. Around the age of 16, her Nanny marries her off to an man named Logan Killicks. This man is very wealthy and secure. Nanny…

injustice. Multiple characters, including Janie, reference a God or a higher power throughout the novel in times of adversity. Hurston’s characters are watching a God that is able to offer what they believe will make them complete. Janie’s grandmother, Nanny, watches a God that is the decider of fate.…

Nanny goes on to tell Janie how she is now a woman, and that she needs to get married to someone who can take care of her. She tells Janie about a man whom has been asking for her named Logan Killicks. “The vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the pear tree, but Janie didn’t know how to tell Nanny that. She merely hunched over and pouted at the floor.” (14) Nanny then begins to tell Janie about her mother and starts off with a…

as read about, the effects of the harsh immigration laws on families and I hope that in the future no family will have to go through the hardships unnecessarily created by unfair immigration laws. When I was a child, my family hired a part time nanny to help take care of my…

she knew her actions would receive little to zero societal brushback, she leaves Logan and the safety of his 60 acres. Again, she hoped love would follow them to Eatonville as Joe created a whole new world in which they could live. The naiveté that Nanny feared reappears as Janie 's hopes to live with Joe until death with “flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything” (32). Janie quickly realizes her gaffe to have married Joe as he denies her a voice, yet her respect for society and…

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, we follow our protagonist, Janie Crawford, through a journey of self-discovery. We watch Janie from when she was a child to her adulthood, slowly seeing her ideas change while other dreams of hers unfortunately die. This is illustrated by the quote: “She knew that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.” This realization made by Janie supports one of the biggest themes in this novel, which…

In this metaphor, Nanny tells Janie that the African American women are the mule of the world. Nanny starts it off by talking about a white man being on top of the society and looking down at African American people. This “load” they talk about would be something like a burden. The African American males do not want a burden so they just give it to the African American women and they have to deal with everything. Nanny sees this way of life due to the fact she was a slave. Nanny relates the…

I remember waking up early in the morning, even before the sun began its day. I knew it would be cold, but still I couldn't wait to get out on the water in my grandfathers boat. "Come on sleepyhead, don't forget the early bird catches the worm," my grandmother called out. I'd holler back, "I'm awake," even though I never understood what a worm or a bird had to do with anything. I was eleven years old and had so much of life figured out, and it wasn't until I was thirteen that I realized I was…