Laura Childs

Best selling author, Michelle McNamara, wrote some of the greatest crime novels of our time, but few people knew about her secret life. Michelle had her own private drug den filled with a variety of prescription and illegal drugs.

After Tea Cake ignores all the preemptive warnings of the approaching Hurricane Okeechobee, Janie gets trapped in a flood in the Everglades with a rabid dog. Witnessing this event, Tea Cake risks his life and jumps into the water to save Janie from this beast. Afterwards, Janie tells Tea Cake, “Once upon uh time, Ah never 'spected nothin', Tea Cake, but bein' dead from standin' still and tryin' tuh laugh. But you come 'long and made somethin' outa me. So Ah'm thankful fuh anything we come through together.” (Hurston 167). Janie’s quote demonstrates her gratitude to Tea Cake, who was the only person to truly treat Janie as an equal. By following Nanny’s ideals, Janie lived most of her life neglected in various ways by both Logan and Joe. However, when she finally abandoned Nanny’s dream and met her own needs by marrying Tea Cake, she experienced happiness for the first time. The life of security with little emotional fulfillment deeply contrasts with Janie’s new life with Tea Cake. Finally, she is able to experience true love instead of living as a mule under Joe and Logan, both of whom tried to shape Janie to fit their own personal needs instead of treating her as an equal . Although Nanny wanted to secure Janie’s life by marrying her off to a respected, landowning man, this resulted in unintended consequences that restricted her freedom and harmed her well being. Unlike

Over the years they fall out of love and Janie begins to despise Joe for humiliating and degrading her. After Joe dies because of a sick liver Janie doesn’t remarry, till she meets Tea Cake. Tea Cake is a couple years younger than her, which is why she questions his motives at first. They end up marrying and moving to the Everglades where they both take the job as agricultural workers. During a hurricane Tea Cake gets bitten by a mad dog, yet doesn’t go see a doctor after the hurricane. After the rabies spread throughout his body Tea Cake tries shooting Janie which is why she shoots him to defend herself. She is acquitted by the court for killing Tea Cake and returns to Eatonville where she tells her friend Pheoby her life story. The main character, Janie, in Their Eyes Were Watching God serves as an effective looking glass through which the reader experiences the lives of both the average and remarkable black woman, the role of men in their achievements, and their effects on society during the early

He wins her heart with his energy, and willingness to make Janie his equal. Tea Cake is the only husband that actually takes a genuine interest in Janie. He takes her hunting, fishing, and plays checkers with her. She especially enjoys playing chess, the fact that he considers her intelligent enough to learn such a game shows that he thinks more of Janie than Logan or Joe ever did. The town disapproves of Janie and Tea Cake because he is poor and younger than her. They have the impression that he is just after her money. Janie and Tea Cake leave the town of Eatonville and travel to a town called Jacksonville where Tea Cake has work. The sense of gender equality is very important to Janie in a relationship. Tea Cake asks Janie to work alongside him in the Everglades fields. Logan and Joe both wanted her to work, but she resented it. The difference is that Logan wanted Janie to do hard labor because he thought of her as an object like a workhorse. Joe wanted Janie to work in the store, which she also disliked because Joe just wanted to publicly display her as his trophy wife. Tea Cake’s attitude about Janie working is completely different. He gives her the choice of working and doesn’t command her. Janie goes to work the next day, “So the very next morning Janie got ready to pick beans along with Tea Cake. There was a suppressed murmur when she picked up a basket and went to work. She was already getting to be a special case on the muck. It was generally assumed that she thought herself too good to work like the rest of the women and that Tea Cake "pomped her up tuh dat." But all day long the romping and playing they carried on behind the boss’s back made her popular right away.”(133) This is the first relationship that Janie doesn’t care to work. She actually likes working alongside Tea Cake. As time passes the town gets word of a hurricane coming. All the people start fleeing to different places, but the boss

Yvonne Daniels, also known as the first lady of radio, is an influential women who paved the way for more women to become disc jockeys. In her 30 plus year career in radio she worked at WYNR, WCFL, WSDM, WLS-AM, WVON, WGCI-AM/FM , and WNUA. Daniels was an African American “broadcast pioneer”.

Some can seem good, but actually be very horrible people and some can seem bad, but actually just have a few flaws in their lives. Tea Cake falls under the latter. When Tea Cake was bitten by the rabid dog, he starts to become very ill. He starts going crazy and Janie begins to get scared of him. One night, Tea Cake awakes and threatens Janie with a pistol. Janie had kept a shotgun loaded just in case. Tea Cake starts to shoot, but Janie has turned the revolver to the blank shots. Janie tries to talk him down, but she has to defend herself and shoot Tea Cake. She is charged with murder, and then later proved innocent. Overall, Tea Cake is the best man for Janie because he was a selfless person with her, he loves her with all his heart, and he works hard to provide for her. He treats her the best a man could and also provides an amazing life for her. Tea Cake is just an ordinary man that tries his best to be the best man, and overall, the best husband in the

When the novel reaches its climax with the death of Tea Cake, Janie transforms into a fulfilled character who begins to live a life of acceptance. The death of Tea Cake closes the door on Janie’s third marriage, however, that marriage taught Janie more about herself than any other caregiver. As Tea Cake and Janie begin to spend more time with one and other, the townspeople of Eatonville grow anxious. During her marriage with Joe, Janie is subjugated to severe classism which separates her from the townsfolk. When Janie begins to act like a regular woman and not a noble, the town is surprised, as Pheoby mentions “Janie, everybody’s talkin’ ‘bout how dat Tea Cake is draggin’ you round tuh places you ain’t used tuh” (Hurston 112). With Tea Cake, Janie experiences more adventure and more life than with anyone else. Every day brings a new adventure for their relationship, for example:

In their relationship, they both experience their times of jealousy, but by working in the Everglades Janie and Tea Cake find mutual joy. A hurricane comes, Tea Cake is given plenty of warnings and even an opportunity to flee, but instead he chooses to stay. While trying to get away from the storm, Tea Cake saves Janie from a dog but gets himself bitten instead. Tea Cake gets rabies from the bite, and develops an aggressive behavior over Janie. At the end, Janie has shoot Tea Cake to save herself. She's is then accused for murder, but found innocent. After Tea Cake’s funeral, Janie returns home to Eatonville. She cannot bear to remain in the Everglades because all the memories that remind her of the love of her life. Once is Eatonville she meets up with an old friend, Pheoby Watson, and tells her the whole story of her life. Thus, the story, which actually spans nearly 40 years of Janie's life, is "framed" by an evening visit between two friends. This frame becomes the first part of the structure of the novel. The rest of the story is told chronologically in order of Janie’s

He teaches her how to play checkers, how to handle guns, and how to shoot. They go on picnics, much to the dismay of the porch sitters, who resent his intrusion on Janie's mandatory mourning period. He listens to Janie's opinions, helps her in the store, and plays his guitar for her. Tea Cake is able to give her the dream of love that Joe Starks never understood and failed to giver her. Although they both have feelings for each other they too had their problems in marriage.

V.C. Andrews was best known as the author of the Dollanganger series. It’s the story of four children trapped in an attic by their cruel grandmother because of an incest situation. Because men didn’t like to read novels by women authors during this time, Virginia’s publisher decided to use the initials V.C. instead of her full name. The intention was to neutralize her gender so men would buy her books. Her accomplishments were familiarized by a worldwide audience. In 1984, Seeds of Yesterday was the best-selling fiction paperback novel. That same year, in Norfolk, Virginia, she was honored with the title “Professional Woman of the Year.”

Janie falls in love with the Everglades, everything there is new and strange. Tea Cake finds them a room, and he decides that he will pick beans during the day and at night, he will play guitar and roll dice. Once the season begins they live a comfortable life picking beans. Tea Cake teaches Janie how to shoot a gun, and she eventually becomes a better shot than him. Once the season starts, poor workers start to move in to town, and soon all the houses are taken, those who could not get houses sleep in the fields at night. The bars soon come to life and all night there is loud music spilling out of them. Tea Cake and Janie’s house becomes the center of the Everglades; people hang out at their house and listen to Tea Cake play his music. In the beginning of the season, Janie mainly stays home and cooks meals for Tea Cake, but he soon starts to gets lonely working in the field alone all day. He begins to leave work early so he can see her, Janie decides that it would be best if she would join him in their field picking beans that they can be together all day everyday. Janie wonders what the people of Eatonville would say if they

Love is a subject often talked about in society, love is viewed as an essential part of human emotions and one’s life is not complete until one has experienced it. Seldom talked about is selflessness, when selflessness is talked about it is usually accompanied by an unlying need for acknowledgement. A selfless act is generally manipulated to create a false image of a person to boost the of opinions of the surrounding community. Because of humanity's natural inclination to self-interest love and positive emotions conflicts with selflessness. In our readings, Barbara Fredrickson’s ideas about love and positive emotions shared in her text Selections from Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become conflicts with Robert Thurman’s claims about selflessness shared in his text Wisdom.

As the nation’s First Lady, Laura Bush is keely aware of the opportunity she has to share her love of reading with Americans; especially young children. She will use her role as First Lady to encourage people to share the magic of reading and the love of the arts, to promote women’s health care issues, to encourage Americans to pursue the honorable career of teaching and showcasing early childhood development initiatives that show the results on behalf of the children.Mrs. Bush’s passion for literary works was sparked at 3 an early age. As a child, Laura Bush dreamed of one day becoming a teacher. Promoting her dream, Laura was introduced to books at her local library. She was born in Midland, Texas. She earned a bachelor’s degree in education

With Joe finally gone from Janie's life in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” everything changed for her! She is no longer the unmarried dreaming girl she was at 16; she has grown into a strong and proud woman who finally knows what she wants. And at first, that is just be alone. This in itself is a huge time of growth for Jamie. Janie tended to the store and collected rent from tenants in Eatonville, doing mature Joe Starks things. She still needed to fight off suitors now again, hounding her for her money, but she is finally free from the shackles of an abusive marriage. However, there is more to life than survival and for once Jamie understands that. Tea Cake and Janie meet when everyone else was at a ballgame, so they

Tea Cake seems to be the man to fulfill her ideal view of marriage. He gives her freedom to experience life, unlike her other two marriages. As their relationship progress, people begin to envy them because they are living their lives together harmoniously. However, one person that is not pleased by Tea Cake because he is “too dark”, is Mrs.Turner. She attempts to get Janie to leave Tea Cake for her brother.