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Janie Silence

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In this novel, Janie do go through “silence” in her marriage with Jody (Major Starks) the man she left when she was married to Logan, he first husband. In the “silence” Janie takes with Jody there were many things that Jody did to Janie. Jody was the boss of Janie and told her what and what not to do. I will give details on how it all started from the beginning of the marriage to the end of it all together.
In the beginning, Janie meet Jody as she spies a good-looking, sharply dressed stranger ambling down the road. As he approaches her, she gives him something to drink and they sit and talk. Jody tells her where he’s from also, she tells him a little about herself as well. After he leaves she gets back to doing her chores. Soon after she meet Jody, they start each other every day after that. One day, Logan wants her to stop what she’s doing in the kitchen to help him outside, but she refuses. They then get into a argument because she doesn’t want to help, so now Janie has an excuse to leave Logan, because the argument, so now she able to …show more content…

Soon after they quickly became the town favorites (Jody for his business and ability to manipulate with words, and Janie for her beauty), then Jody builds a store in the center of the town and becomes the major too. Since Jody has become the major Janie has to follow his rules that has been set for her. The first is to silence her when she wants to speak her mind; he has a very specific point of what a woman’s proper place is. The second is his conception of what is the way proper for a mayor’s wife; he will not let her associate with the townspeople or attend social events. The third is his obsession with binding up her hair in public so that it will not be seen by

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