Summary Of In The Ted Talk By Janie Shepherd

The text my partner and I were originally going to analyze was Robb Willer’s Ted Talk called How to have better political conversations. We decided not do analyze his speech however we did take inspiration from it. The text we analyzed in the end were article titles posted on The Washington Post written by a variety of people.

Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman" (24). Janie's prayer is her final plea for a change in her life. She says "Lawd, you know mah heart. Ah done de best Ah could do. De rest is left to you" (23).

Throughout the book Janie struggles to find the true definition of love and how to make herself happy with her relationships. She goes through several different ideas of love before finding that it is mutual compassion, understanding, and respect that makes her the most happy.

This Ted Talk about how the criminal condemnation of most young adults are based on unfair circumstances. These circumstances being based upon race and background. Alice Goffman throughout the Ted Talk tells stories that persuade the audience through pathos to be tentative of injustices based on race. Goffman wants the audience to understand how these injustices are created and at then end gives some solutions. This Ted Talk will be helpful in showing some injustices and also showing some logos of criminal cases based on race. The Ted Talk will also be helpful in comparing the incarceration probability to the different

Janie’s outward appearance and her inward thoughts contrast following Joe’s death. She finally frees herself from his control only after he dies as she, “…tore off the kerchief…and let down her plentiful hair” (87). In freeing her hair, Janie begins to free herself from others’ control and social norms. However, she chooses to keep it tied up until after Jody’s funeral in order to keep appearances that she is grieving his passing in front of the townspeople. However, on the inside, Janie doesn’t really feel any sorrow and “sent her face to Joe’s funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world” (88). It is only after Joe’s elaborate funeral that Janie shows her first act of freedom by burning “every one of her head rags and went about the house next morning with her hair in one thick braid swinging well below her waist” (89). She chose to let her hair be free from his domination, thus freeing herself from him overall and allowing herself to move onto the next journey in her life.

The novel opens up on a woman, who appears to be sullen tired, trudging through a small town, all the while the town’s residents are making sly comments about her. This woman just so happens to be the book’s main character, Janie, who’s supposedly returning from somewhere far away and has left the person who has took her along the way. When her friend, Phoebe, asks her what happened during her trip, Janie elaborates her story, officially marking the story’s starting point.

In essence, Janie had a hard time finding her identity but she never gave up, she was willing to go on and find out who she is. Throughout Janie’s childhood, her marriage to Logan, Joe, and then finally Tea Cake she struggled with finding her true self. Janie has always hoped to have an identity independent of anyone else but never really knew how to achieve this goal until she finally left Tea Cake. Janie to me is a model for women who wish to behold their own freedom, identity, and a sense of self. Overall Janie's true identity is one that many women like myself wish to maintain because of her strong willpower and self confidence that no one in her time period would usually have.

Janie's quest is for self-discovery and self-definition, but she encounters many obstacles while trying to win this quest.

Janie “knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead. So she became a woman”(25) because of everyone back home telling her this dream of hers was impossible, instead of believing it she decided to reach for her horizon and left home. After Janie had the courage to leave Logan, she now saw her future as an open window full of opportunities she just had to take the first step. Although her grandma’s thought of settling in “the memory of Nanny was still powerful and strong” (29) was one thing that would always push her back, she eventually got over it. In fact, all of the men she was attracted to gave her the sense that they had a big future ahead of them, and that’s exactly what she was looking for. When she met Joe she would describe him as if “he spoke for far horizon. He spoke for a change and chance”(29) she thought that being with him would help her turn her dreams into

A crucial part to support the theme is when Janie’s mom starts to act psycho. “Janie, seriously! Your mom is stumbling around your front yard yelling for you. She’s totally drunk, Janie-she’s wailing and she’s in the road” (Mcmann 21). This shows that Janie’s mom is struggling in life. Janie’s

She understood at that moment that she needed to “become a woman” (25). Janie realizes she needs to learn from her mistake and mature with a more intuitive mind. When meeting Joe Starks and imagining the possibilities she would have with him, she left Logan in search for that moment under the pear

Janie transitions through multiple relationships, hoping to end her quest as a satisfied, loved woman. Janie enters her first

When the marriage of Jody and Janie began to fall apart, Janie’s views were changed and she was no longer able to see the positive sides of marriage and love. After leaving her first marriage and running off with Jody to the town of Eatonville, Janie spent a large part of her life serving him. When Jody hit her, Janie had noticed the fierce intentions

Janka was rushed to the hospital inside the camp after she ran out to the open to save her youngest daughter, Zuzana Grunberger, from the bombing. She heard her screams for help coming from behind the factory, she than realized it was her daughter. When Janka arrived her daughter was lying on the floor with a piece of scrap metal from the factory on her foot making her unable to move. Janka was able to prey off the scrap metal so they could take cover. When Janka helped her daughter up she heard a bomb go off near by at a different factory. Her and her daughter started run when another piece of metal fell on top of Janka. Her youngest daughter stopped running for the inside of the factory and ran to Janka. Janka had told her to go take cover

It is often said that absence makes the heart grows fonder or that you never realize what you have until it is gone, and that happened with Janine when she ends up in the new life that she thought she wanted so bad. Her character gives a great message to readers, since Janine thought that being skinny would make her a much happier person, but in the end she ends up gaining the weight back, because while she was skinny, she had a false type of