Inman And Veasey: A Brief Summary

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In life people may run into many obstacles that will create a bump in their path, in these occurrences they must persevere and strive for what they believe in. If you don’t always like your odds in your situation or fail your first time, it does not mean you should give up; it only means that you should keep on persevering. In the book, “Michael Vey: Rise of the Elgen” a huge corporation called the Elgen took Michael’s mom from him. They did this so they could lure Michael into their trap to capture him as well. Michael creates a group with his friends called the “Electroclan” due to the variety of electric abilities each of them have. They created this group in order to get Michael’s mother back from Dr. Hatch, the leader of Elgen. The Elgen are a worldwide corporation with thousands of soldiers, where the Electroclan only contained about 10. Despite the odds Michael decides to fly out to Peru, where his mother is being held captive, and attempt to save her. The main theme of Michael Vey: Rise of the Elgen is perseverance which draws many parallels between the overall plot and society.

Mutual respect and love exists in their relationship, so Janie does not mind doing things for Tea Cake. This willingness to act for her husband juxtaposes Janie in her marriage to Logan, whom she did not love, and in her marriage to Joe, who did not respect Janie and treated her like an inferior. The “blue denim overalls (134)” are what the male workers picking crops in the Everglades wore, and what Janie wore when she joined the work. For Janie, they recall the raucous, music-filled nights at Tea Cake’s house with the simplistic workers, and she expands her identity in making the overalls a traditionally masculine staple in her wardrobe. Janie outgrows her shallowness during her time in the muck and becomes “sorry for her friends back [in Eatonville] and scornful of the others (134)”, who she remembers were so fixated on

Joe was on his way to Eatonville to make a better life for himself, he asked Janie where her parents were and Janie explained that she is married and her husband was out getting a mule for her to plow. Joe expresses that that is not a way for her to be treated and asks her to leave Logan and marry him.

After leaving Logan, Janie marries Joe Starks, believing that their marriage will flourish where her marriage with Logan failed, as Janie is the one choosing her partner, not Nanny. However, her initial attraction to Joe blinds her from his flaws and causes Janie to unknowingly enter into a more oppressive relationship than she previously had with Logan. Joe’s controlling nature becomes more apparent when he is around other people, as he yearns for a strong public persona in which he is tremendously respected. He craves to gain the admiration of the people of Eatonville and concludes that keeping Janie quiet is the best way to accomplish this. When the people of Eatonville prompt Janie to offer “words uh encouragement” Joe stops them, explaining that his “wife don’t know nothin’ ‘bout…speech-makin” (Hurston 43).

She marries him because he starts seeing her secretly at her current home with Logan Killicks. He convinces her to run away with him to Eatonville where they establish a town. Their relationship starts very loving and close, but as time passes their love fades away slowly. Jody is a man who needs power and rule to satisfy him; therefore, he seems to be a bit bossy. He was in charge of the town, the store and more and “They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the own bowed to him.” (Their Eyes Were Watching God 50). At the end of their marriage Jody gets sick and dies. Janie is left a widow for six months until she meets Tea Cake, a store

Janie’s first marriage escalates from her love of the blossoming pear tree where “She had been spending every minute that she could steal from her chores under that tree for the last three days (chapter 2).” As Janie lays under the pear tree listening to the buzzing of the bees, “she saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight (chapter 2).” Janie suddenly thinks what she has just watched is indeed what marriage is. After she witnesses the “marriage” between the pear tree and the bee, Janie looks for similar marriages elsewhere (Weatherspoon,2008). At the age of sixteen, Janie is curious and wants answers. Johnny Taylor is coming up the road and before she knows it, Nanny “bolted upright and peered out of the window and saw Johnny Taylor lacerating her Janie with a kiss (chapter 2).” Janie was no longer a child but instead Nanny says, “Yeah, Janie, youse got yo’ womanhood on yuh (chapter 2).” Nanny demands Janie to get married immediately.

He wants to run a town and the only way he feels he can look good is to have a pretty woman by his side. In the beginning of their marriage Joe treats he like a queen. He tells her that his woman needs to relax in the shade sipping on molasses water and fanning herself from the hot sun. Janie fell in love with the idea.

In some instances, the women conform to and depart from the assumptions made by the men. Mrs. Hale has found an important piece of evidence, a dead bird. The ladies decide not to allow the men to know of the true reason for the bird's death. As concerns the loyalty of one woman to another, evidence is found in line 366 that seems to allude to such a bond. Line 366 begins:

The gunslinger and his mule are after the man in black. As he crosses the dessert he encounters a farmer and his crow. He stays at the farmer’s house whose name is Brown and his crow, Zoltan. Later that day, the gunslinger started to talk about his old town Tull. When the gunslinger was in Tull he proceeded to a nearby café. He then met this women bartender who told the gunslinger what had happened lately. One day, this guy named Nort had passed away. All of a sudden he had got resurrected by the man in black. The girls name was Allie and she told him about a note that Nort had given her after he was alive again. The note talked about if she wanted to know about death, say nineteen to Nort. After talking to the women bartender, he had left

The men?s prejudice is blatant and although it was easy for Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters to pick up on it, they react to it in a variety of ways. Defensively, Mrs. Hale, replies rigidly to the County Attorney?s remark by stating that "there?s a great deal of work to be done on a farm," (958) offering an excuse for Minnie?s lapse in cleaning. Later, he brushes her off when she explains that John Wright was a grim man. To the County Attorney, the women are just there to collect personal items for Minnie, they are not going to give him any valuable insight into the murder. To their credit, the women do not force their thoughts or feelings on the men when biased statements are made in their direction. They hold back and discuss the remarks later after the men go upstairs. Mrs. Peters observes that "Mr. Henderson is awful sarcastic in a speech and he?ll make fun of her sayin? she didn?t wake up" (960). The fact that she believes the men would laugh if they heard the two women discussing the dead canary reveals how sure she is that the men think of them as concerned with the

Author also surprises readers, when he introduces conflict between a couple that used to love each other deeply. Diverting the story from love to betrayal, author develops an irony. In the story, reader sees two examples of betrayal. Ms. Maloney, while talking with her tired husband, finds out her husband no longer want to keep their marriage. Without giving any kind of reason, Patrick betrays her wife with a decision of breaking marriage. Mary shocks, when her husband, boldly, says, “ This is going to be bit shock of you”(P. Maloney) Author creates a total opposite picture of Patrick by describing him as a husband who used to give her wife surprises; he is now giving her shock in the middle of her pregnancy. Mary, who was previously shown as “anxiety less”(Dahl), with “a slow smiling air”(Dahl) and “curiously tranquil”(Dahl), had began to get upset and now inculcate her eye with a “bewildered look.” After betrayed by her husband, she, without any argue, she goes to the basement to look for frozen food. She decides to have leg of a lamb as a last dinner with her husband, but she smashes the frozen leg in to Patrick’s head with killing him. Mary betrays her husband by killing him and takes revenge of her betrayal. Later, Author confirms her as a murdered with the statement of “I’ve killed him”(Mary) from her own lips. Dahl, in the story,

The women empower themselves through silence, particularly in the kitchen communicating and reflecting upon things around them in the limited space they were given. The men dismiss the kitchen finding nothing that is relevant to the murder case. The men keep crisscrossing through the kitchen, ignoring and not realizing they could find the vital evidence through trivial details. Even though they were having difficulty in finding clues that lead to the murder. While the women were alone looking through Minnie’s kitchen they found the most valuable evidence the “missing piece to men’s puzzle” (Holstein 283). Mrs. Hale found the dead bird strangled in the sewing box telling “Mrs. Peters-look at it! Its neck! Look at its neck!” (782). Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters recognize the bird was strangled brutally “their eyes meet. A look of growing comprehension, of horror” (Glaspell 782). Both of them realized the bird was killed the same way as Mr. Wright with the rope around their neck. The strangled bird represents Minnie Foster how her freedom and joy was strangled to death. When the men came in the kitchen, the county attorney noticed the bird cage, wondering if the bird flew away, but Mrs. Hale lied and said “we think the- cat got it” ( Glaspell 782). The county attorney seek only visible evidence for murder he was wasn’t thinking critically what it may mean. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters covered the evidence keeping it between themselves for their own knowledge. They

She retrieves dinner, a frozen leg of lamb, from the freezer in their basement, and numbly returns to the living room. When she sees her husband “standing by the window with his back to her” she walks up behind him and “without any pause” , kills him with the frozen leg(Dahl 2). This brings her out of her shock and transforms her into a calculating killer.

Immediately upon the men’s arrival from their hunting trip, Liz is filled with anxiousness and excitement. Once again Mrs. Smith and Liz fixed dinner, while the men waited in the front drinking whiskey and waiting to be served. After eating, in the stereotypical feministic world, the men went back into the living room while the women stayed behind to clean up. After everything was cleaned and everyone had their fill of the night, the Smith’s went to bed leaving Jim, Liz and Mr. Charley behind. Jim left Mr. Charley in the living room and headed to the kitchen where Liz remained.