In other words, relationships are what humans derive strength and experience from, which they use to. African-American critics read a book that they felt satisfied the "white man's" stereotype of African-American culture.
Bond analyzes the language spoken throughout Their Eyes Were Watching God as appropriate and crucial to understanding Afro- American literature. Not only does Hurston demonstrate black oral tradition, but she also utilizes southern dialect to critique a male dominated society. Hurston uses literary references, such as the pear tree to scrutinize her awakening self-love.
These illustrations that occur in notable. Throughout the novel, Hurston uses powerful metaphors. Through each endeavor, Janie learns the truths of life, love, and the path to finding her identity. Though suppressed because of her race and gender, Janie has a strong will to live her life the way she wills. But throughout her life, she encounters many people who attempt to change the way that she is and her beliefs.
Jody only cares that Janie submits to his authority: He knows that Janie is the most beautiful woman around, and therefore another symbol of his power. As a result, neither Janie nor Jody desires to break up the marriage or to let outsiders see what the marriage lacks. After her marriage to Jody ended, Janie was in no hurry to remarry.
She describes how marriage can bring out faults in people. However, her pessimism about marriage slowly begins to change after meeting Tea Cake. In the end, Tea Cake wins her over and she agrees to marry him. Here, Janie explains why the age difference between herself and Tea Cake is not a significant issue.
While she is almost forty and he is about twenty-five, she asserts that the main challenge that the age difference created was in how they communicated, perhaps because of her many prior years spent in two loveless marriages.
The main character of the book, Janie, is married three times. Her husbands are very different from one another which is also reflected in the relationship between her and her husbands in each marriage. Nevertheless, all three marriages show certain similarities which correspond to common gender roles of this time.
The following essay thus will explore and analyze these marriages. Afterwards it will compare them with regard to three common gender roles of that time, and it will show that all three marriages are more or less built upon these common gender-specific ideas. At the beginning of their relationship Logan treats his new wife very well. He does not use physical violence against Janie and he tries to make her life as pleasant as possible. He says he never mean to lay weight uh his hand on me in malice.
He chops all de wood he think A wants and den he totes it inside de kitchen for me. Keeps both water buckets full. One reason for this is that Logan completely lacks sexual attraction for her and she even is disgusted when she thinks of having sex with him. Lester For years, she follows his orders, silences herself, and sticks around after he hits her. When she finally gives voice to her thoughts and tells Jody what she thinks of him, he dies, as if brought down by the force of her rage.
Years of mistreatment give Janie the power to fell men with her words. They also give her an outsized appreciation for her freedom. Because she knows what it means to be ground down by a man, Janie appreciates her single life far more than she could have had she never experienced real unhappiness. With Tea Cake, Janie enjoys a fulfilling relationship characterized by intellectual, emotional, and physical compatibility.
Tea Cake is not just a good match for Janie. He is also proof of the self-knowledge that can result from difficult and demeaning circumstances. Only because Janie suffered through two bad marriages can she know that Tea Cake is the right man for her. Despite the happiness Janie feels with Tea Cake, Hurston makes it clear that she has not found an ideal man.
Tea Cake disappears.
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