Jan Muir and Roleplaying

Hurston harnesses juxtaposition to distinguish between the situations of white folk and black folk experiences, as the differences between the two display Janie’s personal growth even more. After the failures between Logan and Janie’s marriage, Janie was ready to embark on new adventures independently. Janie now realizes she wants to find true love instead a forced love that follows how her grandmother’s outdated beliefs. When Janie was free of her abuser, the transition in her life was expressed by, “She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman,” indicating the mental development of maturity in Janie (25).

Joe has been controlling Janie for the entirety of their marriage. One of the ways he did this was by not allowing her to show her hair because he was possessive and afraid of other men looking at her. After Joe’s death, Janie is finally able to let down her hair. Taking down her hair symbolizes that she is free from her relationship with Joe and his controlling ways. The “glory” she notices shows that she is still confident in herself as a woman and in her new freedom. Since she was not allowed to let down her hair because other men would notice it, this also marks the beginning of a new time in Janie’s life, and the opportunity for a new relationship.

Maturity is a huge part of growing up and in those two books that one or two of the characters did mature throughout the books. The characters have to find themselves throughout the books and by the end they all do. Both books have similar maturing stories but their are also some major differences. Jem was went from being a childish kid to a more mature teenager. In the beginning Jem would play in childish games with Scout to try and get Boo Radley to come out of his house.

Blanche repeatedly lied to make herself look pure to others. It only served as a masquerade to hide her dirty, sinful reality. She lied about her age, alcoholism, promiscuity, and why she had to leave Laurel. When Stanley asked her if she wanted a shot, she replied, “No, I—rarely touch it” (Scene 1, page 1548). She could not confront her reality, so she retreated to her world of illusion. This was Blanche’s most prominent flaw. If she could have accepted things for what they are, she could have salvaged her sanity. If, from the beginning, she had been truthful to Stanley’s friend Mitch, he could have forgiven her. Dismally, Mitch would not trust her after finding out everything she said was fabricated. “I don’t want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don’t tell truth, I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it” (Scene 9, page 1590). Blanche feared lights which symbolized her fear of reality. She claimed that with Alan’s death, all light had gone out of her life. “And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that’s stronger than this—kitchen candle.”

While exploring her room, the narrator notices that “on the white ceiling… [there is] a blank space, plastered over, like the place in a face where the eye has been taken out.” (9) She

The story of her life begins to unfold as she sits with Phoebe Watson, her friend for decades that brought her some mullato rice. I think Phoebe shows signs of hypocrisy because although she defended Janie when the other women spoke badly about her, prior to Janie’s arrival she accompanied these women daily as they gossiped about other people. Sheep don’t stay in the presence of wolves for too long. “Well, nobody

Throughout the whole novel, there was a plentiful number of scenes where the community and Janie are having fun. One scene that I thought of particularly, is when it was night time at the Muck and the Everglades were filled with wild energy and while the bars explodes with music and partying. Then Tea Cake’s house becomes a center of the community, a place where people can hang out and hear Tea Cake play his music. At first, Janie stays at home and cook’s meals, soon after Tea Cake gets lonely and begins cutting from work to see Janie at the house. Janie then decides to join him at work so they can be together the rest of the day. Working in her overalls and sitting on the cabin stoop with the other migrant workers, then Janie laughs to herself

Every creature goes to journey on an seemingly endless rollercoaster as life can be. Dreams that lie beyond the horizon is something people continually try to achieve and Janie is no exception to this as she defines her own strength and self worth. From facing gender roles to endless criticism she has the strength to keep moving forward. As the story's main conflict is concentrated around Janie relationships through she acquires the desire to want more for her own life. Where these hardships she gains experience to live independently and especially learn to stand up for oneself no matter the adversity. Characters like: Nanny, Logan Killicks, Joe Starks, and Vergible “Tea Cake” Woods gave her experiences that help her gain her own ambitions and accomplish the quest of happiness Janie searches for. The bravery exemplified by the author, Zora Neale Hurston throughout the story is perfect to learn from as strength is exemplary to live today.

It’s quite common for an individual to undergo an internal and external battle within ones self. Outwardly, many people plaster on a facade to conceal an unpleasant or discreditable reality, while inevitably suppressing those feelings inwardly. In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston uses symbolism and metaphors to convey the complexity of Janie’s experience.

The novel starts with Janie's return to Eatonville after Tea Cake's death. Eatonville is significant because it is an all-black town that Janie's second husband Joe Starks was the mayor of before his death. In flash back, the novel tells about Janie's childhood in West Florida, where she grew up with white children on the Washburn's plantation. Then Janie and her grandma moved to their own house. After Janie's first marriage to Logan Killicks, she moved to his sixty-acre farm. Janie wasn't happy despite her security, so she left Logan for Joe Starks, her second husband. Janie and Joe traveled from West Florida to Eatonville, an all-black town where Joe was elected mayor, and Janie had to work in the general store that Joe owned. After

The images of nature help to emphasize the contrast between chapter three and the ending of chapter four. When Janie first arrives at Logan’s house as a newlywed, she paints it as “a stump in the middle of the woods” (21), and this description sets the gloomy tone for the rest of the chapter. With the same underlying morose tone, the narrator reveals that “Janie’s first dream [about love and marriage] was dead, so she became a woman”(25). Because Janie has suffered the disappointment of love and marriage, Janie believes that now she has entered womanhood. In addition, Janie yearns for passion which is what she felt under the pear tree but not with Logan.

Without realizing, Blanche compares herself to being like the light bulb and how it uses a paper lantern to cover up. She is however, fully aware of her alternating personality and that she uses it to impress others because in order for people to like her she feels she has to act like something that she is not making her very vulnerable. In order to protect herself, Blanche covers up by making fake stories and lying to everyone to seem more attractive. When her sister asks why she cares so much about her age, Blanche responds, “Because of hard knocks my vanity’s been given. What I mean is—he thinks I’m sort of prim and proper, you know. I want to deceive him enough to make him—want me . . .” (Williams 58). As opposed to letting herself shine, Blanche uses the

She has chosen to disguise her

I chose to include a drawing of a mirror in order to reiterate the fact by solely looking at Gertrude’s outer appearance, there is not much that the reader can learn about

As she tightened her faja, wrapped around her waist, she suddenly paused for a moment. She lifted her gaze slowly, and contemplated the figure the mirror exposed in front of her. She became mesmerized by her reflection, as if she could see beyond the glass mirror and instead through a portal that made her envision all the history, traditions, and culture of her ancestors.