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job of depicting one such character. Carl Tiflin, father of Jody Tiflin, constantly tries to get his son to grow up and be a man. He therefore shuns any weakness that the boy shows and disciplines him at every corner of his life. He cannot stand to see his son grow up to be a pampered, soft-hearten, child. This is why Carl tries to show his son discipline, so he can raise Jody to withstand the torrential winds of the “real world.” Jody tries to be a normal, playful 10-year-old, but his father does

Throughout their twenty-year marriage, three events symbolized the rift between Jody and Janie; The first was his refusing to allow Janie to speak at the towns opening ceremony,

191). Jody and Tea Cake may have called Janie an “ole’ woman”, but she never got so old as to look the part. Janie, being roughly 12 years younger than Jody (Hurston, 28), still looked young and spry well into their marriage. The unchanging color of her dark hair made Jody feel uneasy about his own age, and “he began to talk of her age all the time, as if he didn’t want her to stay

Janie got married to Jody right after she ran away from Logan Killicks. Janie was immediately attracted to Jody because of his confidence and wealth, and at the time, was everything Janie wanted in a man. Soon after Jody became the mayor of Eatonville he becomes focused on gaining more power and ignored Janie's needs and wants. Jody, like Logan, expects Janie to act like a proper wife of that time. Janie eventually just puts

powerful motif. It has a potent effect on almost every character that Hurston introduces” (para. 4). Emily Kendall basically states that everyone that was introduces in the novel, had an impact with Janie. The statement is true because Logan Killicks, Jody Starks, and Tea Cake fell in love with Janie. Janie was three-fourths white and one-fourth black. Her mixed heritage separated Janie from the other black females. As Hurston said in the book, when first describing Janie, Janie had “pugnacious breasts

simulate the change of the setting from calm and warm to story and cold. Earlier in the story, Jody is once again sleeping, but this time on the river on page 6. “There were no black boles of live oaks, no glossy green of magnolia leaves, no pattern of gold lace where the sun had sifted through the branches of the wild cherry.” The sensory details of the fading reality epitomize the dreamland that Jody is drifting off to. In addition to the sensory details, the asyndeton contributes to the relatable

blew like a flash, whipped open the shutters, and tore off the sash. In The Yearling, winds of this caliber are described by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The Yearling is a tale of a young boy named Jody living in central Florida as the only surviving child of his parents. His parents are convinced, by Jody, to let him keep a fawn to a doe his father had recently harvested. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings deserved a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Yearling in 1939 because of her poetic depiction and description

symbolism. Another way to prove the theme in the story is symbolism. On page 398, Penny said, “You’ve done come back different.You’ve done takened a punishment.You ain’t a yearlin’ no longer Jody.” Also, on page 400, it said a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever. In the two quotes Jody is being descried as a yearling. It also describes him growing up by saying he is not a yearling and the boy and the yearling were gone forever. One way to prove the theme

boy named Jody Tiflin who adventures through is life. Jody is grateful to have a pony that becomes very important to him in the novel. However he begins to lose that pony, and go through some tough situations. The main character Jody changes and grows from childhood to adolescence, by being responsible for the pony, going through the death with Gabilan, and also trying to believe in Billy through Nellie’s birth. Jody becomes smarter and stronger through the novel as well. To begin with, Jody grows and

abundance of land, Nanny feels that Janie will inherit the land after Logan becomes of old age and dies. Although the two were well off financially, the romance between Logan and Janie remains non-existent since the beginning of the arranged marriage. When Jody and Janie meet, it is evident that there is