Summary Of Lacy Williams

Although Janie does not say it, she clearly wants something more affection. She is looking for a deeper kind of fulfillment. She somehow wants more passion and emotional connection. “When Janie had finished indoors she sat down in the barn with the potatoes. But springtime reached her in there so she moved everything to a place in the yard where she could see the road” (Hurston 27). Janie was longing for some kind of miracle to get her out of Logan’s house to a place where she would feel loved. All

One thing I liked about William’s journal is that he gives a sense of what happened with the natives. Also the changes he’s made that will give American today, a new aspect of what happened years

Janie went on a long journey to obtain womanhood. Janie grew up living with her grandma, who always wanted her to get married at a young age. Janie eventually did marry Logan Killicks when she was 18 years old. However, she hated living with him. He was described as a shallow, unlovable human being. This was when Janie became a woman because she realized that marriage does not assure love. Janie then married Jody Starks. At first, he seemed like a good person because he offered her a new life, but over time grew worse. Jody would constantly restrict what Janie could do, and would beat her for simple errors. It was not until late in their marriage that Janie finally spoke out to Jody of the way he treated her. Jody would soon die, and Janie

But anyhow Janie went on inside to wait for love to begin. The new moon had been up and down three times before she got worried in mind” (22). In a conversation with her grandmother she tells her that she wants to want Logan but she can’t,“ ‘Cause Ah hates de way his head is so long one way and so flat on the sides and dat pone uh fat back uh his neck/ His belly is too big too, now, and his toe-nails look lak mule foot. And ’tain’t nothin’ in de way of him washin’ his feet every night before he come tuh bed’ ” (24). She wants her marriage to work, but she cannot to stand him.

Growing up as a child, Janie did not have a mother or father figure in her life. "'Tain't Logan Killicks Ah wants you to have, baby, it's protection” (Hurston 28). Her grandmother, Nanny, wanted her to live a better life than her mother. Janie believed that Logan was not the person she wanted to be with, but wanted to please her grandmother’s wishes. Janie had learned that even though she did not love him now, later on in life true love would find her. Once Janie and Logan were married, months had gone by and she was afraid that she would never fall in love with him. She had decided to give her grandmother a visit to confess how her love for him is still not there. Despite the fact that Janie was just trying to find a way out, her grandmother sent her off to give love time to unfold.

Nevertheless, Janie is not afraid to follow her instincts, even when this means leaving her first husband to marry her second - without a divorce. "Janie hurried out of the front gate and turned south. Even if Joe was not there waiting for her, the change was bound to do her good" (Their Eyes 31). The gossip that spreads throughout her small town when she leaves with a younger man - after the death of her second husband leaves her a widow - does not slow her down in the least.

At first, Janie thought that loving someone meant you were married to them. Janie believed that she would love Logan because they were married as that was what Nanny had told her. In the few days before she would be with Killicks, Janie thought “Yes, she would love Logan after they were married… Husbands and wives always loved each other” (Hurston 21). Since Nanny had always told her that a marriage would make her happy, that’s what Janie thought. She had no feelings towards Logan, yet she held on to the hope that they appear once they were husband and wife.

Marriage is a lifetime bond that cannot be broken. In the story, Janie was married three times each that had a problem. The first marriage which was Logan Kellicks. Even though she did marry him the reason why this was a failed marriage is she was not

Janie realizes on her own that she doesn’t care about security at the end of the chapter right before she meets Joe she acknowledges that “being married” didn’t mean “being in love” describing it as, “She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman” (Hurston 25), her dreams being dead, is her innocent naïve way of thinking about marriage being torn down for what it was which was you marry someone you love, instead of marrying someone and then falling in love with that person. Her naïve way of thinking was replaced with reality making her less naïve, or a “woman”.

In her first relationship, Janie doesn't love Logan even though he wasn't a terrible husband. He brought her fire wood and rarely beat her. But the main issue was that

Considering Janie was only a young girl when she was married to Logan, her thoughts on love were mainly based on other people’s opinions. Janie was forced to grow up at only the age of sixteen, however, she remained very naïve about love until she was much older. She assumed that any advice given to her had to be the truth because of her own inexperience with love. When Janie was married to Jody, she spoke mainly of his dominance over her and rarely mentioned having any feeling of affection for him at all. Jody was her way of escaping a very unpleasant marriage with Logan, and it was only until she met Tea Cake that she began to fully understand what it means to be in love with someone.

Her first relationship is with Logan, an old man she reluctantly married because of her grandma’s last wishes. Even though he pampers her and showers her praises, she lives a sad and lonely life. She doesn’t love him, even though she tries, “...You told me Ah mus gointer love him, and, and Ah don’t. Maybe if somebody was to tell me how, Ah could do it”(23). So, the first chance she gets, she runs off with Jody, the second man she marries. This shows that Janie’s and Logan’s relationship was not what she wanted.

Willow Davenport and her family have always loved the wild west. They love it so much, they sing and dance in their own Western themed show. Always on the hunt to expand their holdings, they are elated when the ranch next door goes on sale. They jump on the chance to buy it.

But Janie's is not a case of "first comes love and then comes marriage." Instead, she has to marry (twice) before she finds her Mr. Right.

Before Janie was able to evolve she was confined for years, her first compressed relationship was with her first husband Logan Killicks. Janie’s sense of confinement begins when she is just a teenager and is forced into a marriage with a man whom she does not love. As Janie was forced to grow up she realized a painful truth about love and the people around her. As she reflected on her marriage to Logan she realized, “The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the and locked up the road toward playing off. She knew now that marriage does not make love. Janie’s first dream is dead, so she became a woman” (25). Janie felt as if the people who she was surrounded by had lied to her about love. This realization caused her to grow