Pam's Effect On Family

went to care for her elderly mother in State B. Approximately six months later, while Pam was

she has moved onto a different phase of life. Their loved ones live on in spirit

She died March 31, 1995. She was also the youngest in her family. I am mainly

Amanda Wingfield’s life is turned upside down by her husband’s departure. In her mind it shatters hope for

The final stage in Janie’s development as a woman is her marriage with the twelve years younger Tea Cake. Both are totally in love with each other and Janie lives a live she has never lived before. She experienced a big change when she moves from her formal live as “Mrs. Major” (43) in Eatonville to the Everglades where Tea Cakes teaches her how to farm, fish and hunt and introduces a totally new rural life to her. Janie described her lifestyle in these days with "...we ain't got nothin' tuh do but do our work and come home and love" (127).

When the disease worsened, she relocated to Milledgeville, Georgia, where her family aided her daily life. Although she battled the disease in the latter part of her life, the disease did not stop her from writing her stories. ("Flannery O 'Connor.")

On her short visit home, how did her former life compare to her new life?

After staying with Joe for a short time, Tempie 's sister Virginia took Ella home. Shortly afterward Joe suffered a heart attack and died, and her little sister Frances joined them.

Today, my family and I are mourning the loss of our beloved sister, Essie Lee Expose Franklin. She was our oldest sister; she was calm, cool, and logical. My father and mother spurned 13 children together. One child died in early infancy and one brother died in a car crash at the tender age of 21 or 22, shortly after he returned from the Vietnam War.

Linda Sue Park shows on page 65-66 how painful it is to loose someone who you were very close to. “Marial was gone. Uncle was gone... There is no one left to help me. They think I am weak and useless.

In 1914 after her husband died, she and her children return to Georgetown where she went to work at the Georgetown Telephone Company, owned by her mother, also a widow. Both emerged as competent, tough-minded competitors in a male-dominated business.

From this point on, Janie yearns for true love. Her journey involves many obstacles, though, including her grandmother forcing her to marrying a rich man named Logan and an abusive second husband named Jody, but these obstacles never stopped Janie from achieving her dream. These experiences only helped Janie grow as a person and also aided in fully shaping her dream. After she liberates herself from those that held her back, she manages to achieve her dream by marry a man who respected her, Tea Cake. Janie’s journey inspired me to not be afraid to move on and to always persevere through obstacles to accomplish my dreams because struggles only strengthen you.

Janie has longed for love and after Joe died Janie became free in a sense to where she didn’t have to hide as much and became more involved in the town. Although, when Tea Cake comes walking into her store Janie is instantly attracted to him but he is much younger than she is and Janie doesn’t necessarily want to be in a relationship she likes having no one to tie her down. Janie has always been a possession in her last two marriages. Moreover, Janie starts getting worried when Tea Cake and her start becoming closer, she is scared Tea Cake will treat her like her last two marriages and she again will fall into a loveless

She moved to America around the age of four, and was very content with her life. Unfortunately at a young age she was diagnosed with a deadly form of cancer called “Ewings Sarcoma”. She was not given very much hope to survive the cancer but

Even though Janie had many husbands, each husband gave Janie an experience that developed her into a woman. Janie was a woman searching for true love and many of her friends couldn’t see that. Everyone thought Teacake took over Janie and left her, but Janie repeatedly said, "me an Teacake had us a real love." Throughout all of Janie's marriages and husbands, Janie is now a worker, a house wife, and a stronger