Janie Essay

Throughout the whole book Janie was with black people that treated her wrong and did her bad. They always had Janie doing what they wanted her to do she could never do what she wanted she might have thought she was but she wasn’t doing it. Everyone she was with all had a special reason for her to be around. All of them always thought they knew what was best for her. They never once stopped and tried letting her decide the things she wanted to do. The whites are not the ones holding the black folks

Janie was only six when she watched The Wizard of Oz for the first time, instantly she was hooked, she was blown away from movie being both ebony and ivory and in color, she was amazed at the vibrant colors of the emerald kingdom (I mean come on, there was a pink horse), and those shoes, oh those shoes, they were the very best part. Two days later Janie and her mom were walking down downtown to get groceries as they passed a small boutique Janie glanced in and saw the most beautiful elegant pair

Throughout the novel, Janie waits for men to rescue her from her life rather than her taking action to have a better life and claiming her independence. Janie’s reliance on men is shown following Jody's death when she realizes "that she had a host of thoughts she had never expressed to him, and numerous emotions she had never let Jody know about. ”() Due to the fact that Janie allowed Jody's oppression suppress these "thoughts" and "emotions", and the fact that she only accepted them after his passing

the community and Janie are having fun. One scene that I thought of particularly, is when it was night time at the Muck and the Everglades were filled with wild energy and while the bars explodes with music and partying. Then Tea Cake’s house becomes a center of the community, a place where people can hang out and hear Tea Cake play his music. At first, Janie stays at home and cook’s meals, soon after Tea Cake gets lonely and begins cutting from work to see Janie at the house. Janie then decides to

Even when Joe is sick and dying, he still has power and control over Janie. He doesn’t want her to take care of him. Instead he consults with a doctor. He refuses to see Janie and prohibits her from coming into his room, in which he moved into after the fight they had. Maybe he is treating her this way because he wants her to feel guilty for defending herself in front of the townspeople. On his deathbed, Janie stands up for herself again. That was the second and last time she has ever done that in

completely disconnected culture, Janie experiences in her Southern life stifling, patriarchal pressures similar to those which Edna felt some thirty years earlier in Victorian-era New Orleans. While still in her teenage years, Janie is forced into a loveless marriage in the name of protecting her in ways she would not be able to independently. Like Edna who stays with Mr. Pontellier despite her hesitations about their relationship and her insincere reasons for marrying him, Janie lingers with her husband

whether it be good or bad. Janie’s first husband was Logan Killicks, and their marriage was arranged by Nanny because she thought that just because he was rich and respected, they should be married and not because they loved each other. Nanny told Janie that eventually she would grow to love Logan but as time passed she never did. She learns that marriage is a commitment that two people who love each other should make. Her second marriage was

The purpose of our project in the form of a drawing is to represent the life of Janie Mae Crawford. The image of the world shaped like a heart has both a light side and a dark side. In general, the world is in the shape of a heart to show how Janie views her world: completely involved in the concept of love. Janie, constantly encompassed within goals of finding and understanding love, views the world as a giant melting pot of love, and all she has to do is travel the planet to find it. The light

Joe has been controlling Janie for the entirety of their marriage. One of the ways he did this was by not allowing her to show her hair because he was possessive and afraid of other men looking at her. After Joe’s death, Janie is finally able to let down her hair. Taking down her hair symbolizes that she is free from her relationship with Joe and his controlling ways. The “glory” she notices shows that she is still confident in herself as a woman and in her new freedom. Since she was not allowed

The author used many literary devices throughout the book. The setting of the book takes place in the Connecticut, when Janie and the Johnsons lived in a town, the cafeteria where she sees her face in the milk carton, Reeve’s house backyard where Janie and Reeve spent a romantic time, and New Jersey because that’s where the springs live and she had to go and lived with them. Jannie protagonist of the story she has red hair and freckles. She has lactose intolerance and in the beginning of the book