Post by jmahurien on Sept 18, 2012 1:37:48 GMT -5
1. Janie Starks seems to have her priorities in a relationship mixed up, according to modern beliefs of a relationship should be. All she seems to care about in her and Tea Cake’s relationship is that he doesn’t cheat on her. In her and Logan’s relationship she says she satisfied with her relationship to Nanny because the water buckets are always full. But we can see her priorities start to change as Joe enters the story and actually say nice things about/too her. Her ignorance on what we might imply as love could be the absence of her parents or the fact that We can also tell that most of the people she encounters either genuinely hate her, or are just jealous of the fact that she grew up behind a white persons house. We can see this from the way the ladies at the beginning treat her, how the school students treated her, and how Logan says that she thinks that she’s too good for him. She also seems like an off the top of her head kind of person, no reason no rhyme, just doing whatever she pleases. In her dialogue with Pheoby in Chapter 1, she seems to jump around a lot in her thinking. Also after kissing the boy when she was 16, she automatically decides that she doesn't love him.
2. Hurston knows the lives of the people in Eatonville. She knows the dialect, the way the scenes would be, and overall tone of the town she sets as the setting. So in setting it as her hometown, she can accurately depict what would happen in the situations that she applies.
3. Hurston shows Nanny's appeal of marriage as at first a punishment for Janie kissing the boy. With further dialogue though, it is known that Nanny actually wants the best for Janie. Nanny doesn't want Janie to endure the low life like her, and her mother had to endure. So it is quite a benevolent cause.
4. This could be due to the fact that the African Americans in this story are depicted as uneducated and basically lower than humans. They are seen as lower than humans in the story so far as how white males are constantly taking advantage of them. Nanny and Leafy both raped and Nanny's slaveholder's wife declaring an imminent beating. Although this was true for back then, it most likely wasn't the way African American's wanted to be depicted in their won, but on going, battle for American equality.
5. The fact that Janie is seen as skimpy in the way she dresses, and how she seems to be going from boy to boy, makes Janie seem to be animal like in her easiness to switch from potential mate to potential mate. Also by the way Janie speaks, with an uneducated southern African American dialect, suggests the lack of education.
6. At first, chapter one is quite jubilant. Janie is conversates joyously with her friend Pheoby. Then the next few chapters tones seem to take a dive. These chapters seem to be oppressive and depressive, in their tone.
7. African Americans are seen as oppressed by their mal-nourished intellect. As well, they are oppressed through the dominating whites rape and threaten to abuse them. The tone also seems rather depressive in the fact that so many bad things seem to happen to Janie and her predecessors. First, Janie is crushed, as a child, by learning she is not at all who she thinks she is. Then we learn about the rape of both Nanny and Leafy. As well, Janie is depressed in her marriage the last time she speaks with Nanny, which brings an even more somber tone to Nanny's death.
8. Joe represents a way out of a seemingly oppressive and verbally abusive relationship. Joe represents what she now believes marriage should be, and what she was hoping marriage would be; a relationship with someone who would constantly care for her. It also represents Janie's chance to finally become a woman and make a decision for herself. Between Nanny's basic forcing Janie to marry Logan, and Logan's subtle dictatorship over Janie, Janie hasn't been able to make any decisions for herself.
2. Hurston knows the lives of the people in Eatonville. She knows the dialect, the way the scenes would be, and overall tone of the town she sets as the setting. So in setting it as her hometown, she can accurately depict what would happen in the situations that she applies.
3. Hurston shows Nanny's appeal of marriage as at first a punishment for Janie kissing the boy. With further dialogue though, it is known that Nanny actually wants the best for Janie. Nanny doesn't want Janie to endure the low life like her, and her mother had to endure. So it is quite a benevolent cause.
4. This could be due to the fact that the African Americans in this story are depicted as uneducated and basically lower than humans. They are seen as lower than humans in the story so far as how white males are constantly taking advantage of them. Nanny and Leafy both raped and Nanny's slaveholder's wife declaring an imminent beating. Although this was true for back then, it most likely wasn't the way African American's wanted to be depicted in their won, but on going, battle for American equality.
5. The fact that Janie is seen as skimpy in the way she dresses, and how she seems to be going from boy to boy, makes Janie seem to be animal like in her easiness to switch from potential mate to potential mate. Also by the way Janie speaks, with an uneducated southern African American dialect, suggests the lack of education.
6. At first, chapter one is quite jubilant. Janie is conversates joyously with her friend Pheoby. Then the next few chapters tones seem to take a dive. These chapters seem to be oppressive and depressive, in their tone.
7. African Americans are seen as oppressed by their mal-nourished intellect. As well, they are oppressed through the dominating whites rape and threaten to abuse them. The tone also seems rather depressive in the fact that so many bad things seem to happen to Janie and her predecessors. First, Janie is crushed, as a child, by learning she is not at all who she thinks she is. Then we learn about the rape of both Nanny and Leafy. As well, Janie is depressed in her marriage the last time she speaks with Nanny, which brings an even more somber tone to Nanny's death.
8. Joe represents a way out of a seemingly oppressive and verbally abusive relationship. Joe represents what she now believes marriage should be, and what she was hoping marriage would be; a relationship with someone who would constantly care for her. It also represents Janie's chance to finally become a woman and make a decision for herself. Between Nanny's basic forcing Janie to marry Logan, and Logan's subtle dictatorship over Janie, Janie hasn't been able to make any decisions for herself.
