| Term Paper Title | Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie Speaks Her Ideas |
| # of Words | 671 |
| # of Pages (250 words per page double spaced) | 2.68 |
Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie Speaks Her Ideas
In life to discover our self-identity a person must show others what
one thinks or feels and speak his or her mind. Sometimes their opinions may be
silenced or even ignored. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main
character Janie would sometimes speak her ideas and they would often make a
difference. The author, Zora Neale Hurston, gives Janie many chances to speak
and she shows the reader outcomes. When dealing with all of the different
people Jaine faced, she would find a way to speak her ideas, receive a response,
and through this exchange she developed her sense of self-worth.
When Janie found a way to speak her ideas, they would have an impact on
everyone. Though, Janie did not always speak her ideas. She would often do
something that made an impression on someone. The first real action Janie took
was to leave her husband, Logan Killicks. By doing this, she has shown the
community that a person can not always be happy with material things when she
or he is not in love. Janie says, "Ah want things sweet wid mah marriage lak
when you sit under a pear tree and think." She shows her grandma that she is
not happy with her
Janie's next husband, Joe Starks was very nice to her and gave her
everything she wanted. When it came to Janie wanting to talk or speak her mind,
he would not let her, and that made her feel like she was less of a person than
he. Until one day, towards the end of their long marriage, when Jody made a
very mean comment about Janie's body. She came back with, "When you pull down
yo' britches, you look lak de change uh life." After these words came out,
Jody hit her. These harsh words could never be forgiven. At the end of their
marriage, before Jody died she finally told him her feelings. "....And now you
got tuh die tuh find out dat you got tuh pacify somebody besides yo'self if you
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