GBozsum+TEWWG+Essay

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===**I have many thoughts and questions about the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. One question I have is why did Janie let herself be made so unhappy with her husbands? Janie seems to be a very strong woman who does what she wants, and doesn't care what others think about her.**=== ===** Her first husband, Logan Killicks, thinks she is spoiled and tries to make her do hard physical work. For example he said to Janie, "Mah fust wife never bothered me 'bout choppin' no wood nohow. She'd grab dat ax and sling chips lak uh man. You done been spoilt rotten pg.26" Janie put up with him for much longer than I'd expect her to before leaving him.**=== ===** Janie then married Jody Starks. He was at first very sweet, but that shortly wore off. He then became a control freak, abusive, and treated her more like a maid than a wife. For example, he wouldn’t allow her to wear her beautiful hair down. She was very unhappy with him and he eventually died of kidney failure. For someone who seems like a strong, independent woman I thought she would've left him, not wait years unhappily, until he dies to finally be happy.**=== ===** She married her third husband, Teacakes, and he made her truly happy for a long time. They were perfect for each other and he always made her laugh and smile. Many people in town thought he was using her for her wealth, but she didn’t believe it. He cared so much about her, that he saved her from a rabid dog that ended up attacking him and giving him rabies. She finally had a good man that treated her how she deserved.**=== ===** I think that the main character, Janie, changes a lot throughout the story. At the beginning of the story Janie wants to be married so she can be in love. She said, "Ah want things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think pg 24." Her grandmother marries her off to Logan Killicks, an older man, who Janie expects will be able to take care of her and she will love him. She realizes that love isn't in marriage and that he couldn't buy her love.**=== ===** She then marries a man named Jody Starks, who is really sweet to her for a while, and she finally believes she's found love. He turns out to not be everything she was expecting. When he finally dies her, and Jody both were somewhat relieved to no longer be together. For example, as Jody was dying Janie said to him, "Ah knowed you wasn't gointuh lissen tuh me. You changes everything nut nothin' don't change you-not even death. But Ah ain't goin' outa here and Ah ain't gointuh hush. Naw, you gointuh listen tuh me one time befo' you die. Have yo' way all yo' life, trample and mash down and then die ruther than tuh let yo' self heah 'bout it. Listen, Jody, you ain't de Jody ah run off down de road wid. You'se whut's left after he died. Ah run off tuh keep house wid you in uh wonderful way. But you wasn't wid me de way I was. Naw! Mah own mind had tuh be squeezed and crowded out tuh make room for yours in me pg 86." What her and Jody had wasn't love, it was nothing more than a marriage.**=== ===** Her third marriage is when I believe she finally realizes what love is, with Teacakes. She is so happy with him and this is when I finally believe she is in love because she loves him for him, not that he can take care of her or be a great husband.**=== ===** I think that this book says that people in general will do anything for those they love. Janie's grandmother makes her marry her first husband, Logan Killicks. She does this out of love, because she doesn't want anything bad to happen to Janie once she dies.**=== ===** Teacakes also does something out of love for Janie. When Janie is being attacked by the dog, he fights the dog off of her and it then attacks him instead. He gets rabies and eventually is killed because of it, out of love for Janie.**=== ===** I once watched an episode of CSI that was somewhat similar to this. This woman killed her husband's boss because her husband was going to be fired from his job. This is a little extreme, but she was still doing it for her husband, because she loves him.**===

** Janie's second husband seems kind of sexist. Jody expected her to wear what he wanted, and do what he wanted her to do. He thought of himself as superior to her, because he is a man.**
===** For example, he often yelled and cursed at her for simple mistakes in the store, like not being able to find any pigs feet for a customer. He also required her to wear her hair up when she was working. Janie had beautiful hair that she should've been allowed to wear however she wanted.**===