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AbbyTEWWG Abagail Krucek   Towards the end of __Their Eyes Were Watching God__ by Zora Neale Hurston I started to wonder that if Janie was all about true love why did she stop with Tea Cake and went back home instead of moving on to a new town to find true love again? I think this is because Tea Cake treated Janie different than her first two husbands. He treated Janie like a woman and not a slave. In chapter ten Tea Cake and Janie first meet and Tea Cake decides to teach Janie how to play checkers. While they are playing Tea Cake goes to jump Janie's king she worked hard to get and she starts yelling at him and then they have a conversation. In this conversation Janie tells Tea Cake about Jody telling her she would never learn the game of checkers because it was too heavy for her brain (page 96). Jody would never take the time to teach Janie but Tea Cake did and he treated her like any other person he would play with and didn't think she was to dumb like Jody did. Jody always wanted Janie to stay at how or he made her come to work Janie had no choice of what she wanted to do. In chapter 14 Tea Cake comes home from work early and he tells Janie that he came home to see her and made sure the booger man didn’t take her off as he was gone and he asks Janie if she will come work with him picking beans (page 132-133). The next morning Janie went and pick beans with Tea Cake and he didn’t make Janie do anything she didn’t want to do. She went along with everything out of her own free will. Janie moved to Jacksonville with Tea Cake and then to the Everglades and she wasn’t forced to. During the hurricane Janie could have left but she stayed with Tea Cake because she loved him and she didn’t want to be anywhere he wasn’t. I think Janie didn’t want to move on to someone else because she didn’t want to forget Tea Cake and lose him forever even though there would always be a place in her heart for him. No matter where she would go I think she  AK   will always remember Tea Cake and all the great times they had together. She went back to a place she felt was home and had people who she new and cared about her. Eatonville was really the only place she really new people besides the muck and the muck is where the murder of her husband happened.   Janie changes from the beginning to the end of __Their Eyes Were Watching God__ because her point on love changes. Janie is sitting under a tree watching nature and it says, "She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace," (page 11) this is what she thinks love is. Janie thinks that marriage is sex. Janie and Nanny have a conversation together talking about how Janie wants to love Logan sometimes and she wants to want him and Janie thinks that if someone would tell her how to love she would love Logan (page 23). I think at this point Janie kind of realizes that love isn't something that just gets handed to you it's just something that happens. Janie slowly changed her idea of love at first she thought it was sex and then she realized it wasn't when she married Logan. She kept looking for love in all the wrong places. Janie thought she could find love if she goes off with Joe Starks who she thinks will treat her better. He ends up telling her what to do all the time and he hits her. When Tea Cake comes around Janie has a great time playing checkers with him and she loves being around him. When Tea Cake and Janie move away to Jacksonville and Tea Cake goes out and he doesn’t come back for a while Janie worries. I think this is the point where Janie thinks marriage and love is different from the beginning of the book. She doesn’t want to be without Tea Cake and when he's away she worries. She realizes  AK   that love is when you care about someone very deeply and don’t want to be without you love them. Janie thinks that when the dog bites Tea Cake and he gets rabies the dog has killed her too (page 178) and this shows that she doesn’t want to live without him and she loves him. I think Janie realizes what love is when she is holding on to the cows tail and the dog is about to attack her and Tea Cake jumps in the water stabs the dog and gets bite by the dog (page 166) this shows her that when you are in love you will do anything for the other person even risk your own life. Janie wanted to protect Tea Cake so she grabbed a piece of a roof to help shield him from the hurricanes weather conditions because she cares about him and loves him. Janie will do anything for Tea Cake and this is why her point on love changes. When she was married to Logan all she did was make food and she wasn’t happy with him. When Janie was married to Jody Starks all she did was cook and work in the store and she wasn’t in the best of mood when she was around him because she wasn’t allowed to have her own opinion. With Tea Cake Janie had a great time she loved to be around him and doesn’t want to be without him.   This novel says that people in general will do anything to protect and support their loved ones. Tea Cake stabbed a dog and got bit by it to save Janie and the dog was rabid (page 178) but he didn’t care as long as Janie was safe. In the beginning of the novel Nanny tells Janie that she is going to getting married off to Logan Killicks to protect her (page 15) because Nanny was going to die soon. Nanny didn’t want Janie to marry Logan but she felt it was best thing to do because Janie kissed Johnny Taylor and all Nanny wanted was for Janie to have a good life were she would be taken care of. Tea Cake takes money from Janie but earns it all back and gets  AK   stabbed twice (page 127) and he did this so Janie and him would have money to buy the things they needed to survive. Janie and Tea Cake moved down to the Everglades and Tea Cake worked every day to earn money because he wanted to support Janie and he didn’t want her to use any of her money. This reminds me of how my parents are always telling what I shouldn’t do like not to do drugs because they want to protect me. A person I used to by friends with smokes and sells drugs and he stole things for stores and when my parents found out they told me they didn’t want me to talk to him or hang out with him. They want me to have the best life I can and not to get messed up in anything to do with drugs and crimes. When I would do certain things like jump down flights of steps in my house or hold on to two chairs and swing between them my parents would tell me stories of why I shouldn’t do that. My dad supports my family and spends tons of time away from my family because of his job so he can make money to pay the bills and buy food. My dad used to be in the navy and would go out to sea for months at a time just to make the money to help support my family and protect us. My dad risked his life going out to sea to protect and support my family. My parents bring me to the doctors and make sure I am okay when I don’t feel good or for regular checkups. My parents care about my well being and they don’t want me to get hurt. What this also reminds me of is how the military personal go overseas to protect the United States and especially their families. They risk their lives every day and many die protecting our country. Some people commit suicide because of what they have seen oversea while protecting their family and others. This shows people will do anything to protect and support their families.    AK  <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> The novel __Their Eyes Were Watching God__ is a timeless novel because of the theme. I think the theme is love can survive anything. In chapter 18 a storm came and Tea Cake asks Janie that if she died would she be mad at him and she said that she wouldn’t be mad because she had been with him two years and if you can see the light at day break you don’t care if you die at dusk (page 159) and this shows that Janie didn’t care if she died because she was with Tea Cake and that even in the hard times Janie still loved Tea Cake. Janie could have left before the storm came but she stayed with Tea Cake because she loved him. In chapter 13 Tea Cake takes $200 from Janie and goes and spends it on a guitar, beer, and food and came home with $12. He told Janie he would get every cent back and he came back home with two cuts and $322 (page 127) and she didn’t care about the money at that point she was worried about Tea Cake and his cuts. Even though he took the money from Janie she didn’t care as long as they were together and he was okay. Yes Janie was happy she got all the money back but she cared about Tea Cake more. She still loves Tea Cake even though he spends her money and from then on in he used his money to pay for everything and she wasn’t allowed to use any of hers. This novel is a great piece of literature because it makes you feel things as you read it. There where parts I was angry like when Joe says Janie has to wear her hair up and when he hits her but something that really made me feel was when Tea Cake is holding a gun to Janie and he shoots her but nothing comes out of the gun and then when he shoots the third time she also shoots the gun and Janie kills Tea Cake and his bullet goes over her head (page 184). I cried when I was reading this part because Janie had to kill someone she loved too much and couldn’t stand to be without. How can you shoot someone you love? I would never be able to   <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> AK   <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> do that and the fact that Janie shoots Tea Cake is so sad because all he wanted to do was be with her the rest of his life and he didn’t want anyone else to have her to their selves. This novel made you feel what the character felt. When Janie shot Tea Cake she wrapped her arms around his dead body and she felt remorseful she did it and she was sad and crying. At this part my eyes started to water and I cried. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">