The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

When Joe became self-reliant he knew what he had to do, which make enough money for school each year. He even met back up with his dad to help him build the new house. After Thula passed away; Joe was welcomed back into the home, where Joyce and Joe would “play house”. Harry, Joyce and the kids would cheer Washington’s team when they raced.

The story ‘The Cradle Will Fall’ is a very intense story with lots of twist and turns.

she gives birth to her stillborn child, she gives life to a starving man by breast-feeding

He had never known love before. He had never known how much it could fill him.” (GS71) Despite he parents taking out an injunction against Joseph, that wouldn’t stop his love for her. Although, Madeleine became pregnant.

In the second chapter, Scott during his first day learns he’s going to have a baby brother. While this can go along with the first day being important, this is still an important event on

Joseph – helps the protagonist. He is Mike’s classmate and is his best friend. He and Mike team up to take on Andy

He starts by taking advantage of Norma as the movie continues. Again, Joe starts being somewhat noble by trying to tell Norma that he does not need to move into the house but stay at his apartment. But, this changes when Norma tells him that everything has been paid for. He quickly drops the argument and starts to live there. He also lets her buy him fancy suits and gifts without much if any argument.

She’s at a car repair shop getting her car fixed. Instead of her needing extra sanitizer to kill germs, she needed an extra set of hands to help her with the baby while she pays the man for his services. She then tells the mechanic “Here can you hold him” and just hands the baby to him. He takes the baby and play with him as he kicks his little legs. Even though she didn’t know him nor trust him, she did at that moment because she needed help with the baby and wasn’t really worrying about putting sanitizer on the man half of body because she was in a rush and ready to go. Dirty hands and all, she had respect for him to help her out. She had to respect and trust him in that moment because she needed

Joe was on his way to Eatonville to make a better life for himself, he asked Janie where her parents were and Janie explained that she is married and her husband was out getting a mule for her to plow. Joe expresses that that is not a way for her to be treated and asks her to leave Logan and marry him.

mom (Ruth) keep the baby. Further on we are at the scene of the birth, in which Pilate is in

Joe Starks is an admirable person. He promises Janie beautiful material things and happiness unlike Logan who only tried to control her and offered her no love. Janie is overwhelmed by this proposal and believes that Joe may be the bee that has come to fertilize her and make her happy, but she is proven wrong. After she runs away from Logan, Joe and Janie travel to a new town that is only occupied by African Americans. There, Joe becomes mayor and is well respected by all. He gains wealth and gives Janie the material things that he promised her, but forces her to work in his local store all day long. He does not allow her to attend parties or have any fun and makes negative comments about her constantly. He says,

The siblings’ daily life continues in such a manner until the girls’ cousin, Charles, comes into town, for unknown reasons. Charles is the son of Uncle Julian’s brother, to whom Uncle Julian had not spoken to in many years and views as a sort of “scoundrel.” It later becomes clear that Charles is hoping to marry Constance, for the large amount of gold that is rumored to be hidden on the family property. However, throughout this journey, he is not greeted with the warmest of welcomes, especially not from Merricat. Charles attempts to brings the property back to daily order and the “notion of progress,” both of which have all been but lost from the family since the homicide. His most pressing desire is to have Merricat act her adult age, and

Janie’s relationship with her second husband, Joe Starks, is perhaps the most damaging. In the beginning of their marriage, Janie is proud and admiring of the successful, strong man she marries and runs off with. At first, it seems as though Janie has executed a successful breakaway from her unfulfilling life with Logan Killicks, and transitioned to an exciting, happy life with Joe Starks. Unfortunately, Janie and Joe’s marriage retracts from the infatuated love it once was, into a

In this chapter, we learn that Sethe was already pregnant with Denver when she ran away from Sweet Home. By the time when Sethe collapsed her feet in the woods, a white girl Amy Denver had found Sethe. Due to Sethe’s fear about Sweet Home, she told Amy Denver a false name- “Lu”, because if she were caught, she would be returned to Sweet Home, and she would continue experiencing her previous painful daily life again. Amy Denver helps Sethe by massaged her feet and release her pain. Later, Sethe gave birth to her baby successfully with Amy’s help and Sethe also naming the child after Amy Denver.

With Beloved’s arrival and back into Seth’s life, Sethe also feels the need of going back into the memory of Baby Suggs, her mother in law. Baby Suggs held religious gatherings at a place called the clearing, where she taught her followers to love their voices, bodies and minds. However, after Sethe’s act of infanticide, Baby Suggs stops preaching and retreats to a sick bed to die. Accompanied by Denver and Beloved, Sethe feels the need to go to the clearing where Baby Suggs used to preach. “Baby Suggs’ long distance love was equal to any skin- close love she had known. The desire, let alone the gesture, to meet her needs was good enough to lift her spirits to the place where she could take the next step (pg 112).” In this section the memory of Baby Suggs also comes onto the surface, making Sethe want to remember her death by the presence of Beloved.