What did Janie learn from her marriages?
What did Janie learn from her marriages?
She learned from her marriage to Logan Killicks that she could not learn to love someone. After her marriage to Jody Starks, Janie realized that equality is important within a marriage. Janie learned through her three marriages even though she had bad experiences with love; there was a thing as true love.
What was Janie’s idea of love before she was married?
What was Janie’s idea of love before she was married? Her grandmother made her marry him. Nanny was concerned that Janie be taken care of before she (Nanny) died.
What discovery did Janie make about herself?
What “discovery” did Janie make about herself when she was very young? Janie discovers that she isn’t white like all the other children that she had been spending time with. With that discovery she also realized the reason she was being treated differently.
How does Janie feel about her husband?
How does Janie feel about her husband? She doesn’t like the the shape of his head or the fact that he has a big belly. She also hates stirring up his smell when in bed. She feels disappointed.
What was Janie’s idea of love before marriage?
How does Janie define love?
By the end of the book, Janie would describe love as joy, peace and happiness with another person. She would describe the relationship she had with Tea Cake as love. Love is placing the need of someone else before your own. Janie did not have that with Logan Killicks nor Joe Starks.
How did Joe Starks die?
In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Joe Starks dies from kidney failure and old age. Essentially, his elderliness probably caused his kidneys to stop working properly. Joe dies while continuing to harangue Janie for her alleged faults.
How did Joe treat Janie?
10) How does Joe Starks treat Janie? Joe Starks treats Janie well in some ways: He builds her a big house and gives her nice clothes, and she gets the respect due to the wife of the mayor. However, Joe is also very domineering and jealous. He makes Janie cover her hair so other men can’t see it.
What does Joe Starks symbolize?
Joe Stark symbolizes freedom and carefree living. When Janie first meets Joe she thinks that marrying him would result in her having a very easy and layed back life because he makes her believe that he would do all the work while she relaxes on the porch.
How did Joe meet Janie?
Joe Starks walks into Janie’s life at an opportune time. She is regretting her marriage to Logan Killicks and hankering to explore the world outside her gate. Janie is immediately attracted to Joe and makes a show of pumping water to offer him a cool drink. Soon, Janie runs away with him, and they head to Eatonville.
Who was Janie’s third husband?
Tea Cake
What does Janie say to Joe on his deathbed?
The author means that Joe could die any day, and probably soon. Why does Janie visit Jody on his deathbed? What does she say? She tells Joe that she was happy when they married, but Joe became more greedy and controlling, and she resented him for the way he treated her.
Why did Joe Starks marry Janie?
Janie marries Joe because he is different from Logan, and seems to be able to make her happy. She thinks that he will provide her with a happy life. She was miserable with Logan because he treated her like a servant. Joe buys her presents, she is very impressed with his attitude and ambition.
What is tea cake’s real name?
Vergible Woods
Why did Janie hate her grandmother?
She realizes, somewhat to our surprise, that she hates her grandmother for raising her according to a flawed belief system that values materialism and social status. Janie understands that while people are what matter to her, she had been raised to value things.
What does Janie’s hair symbolize?
Janie’s hair is a symbol of her power and unconventional identity; it represents her strength and individuality in three ways. First, it represents her independence and defiance of petty community standards. Turner worships Janie because of her straight hair and other Caucasian characteristics.
What does hair symbolize?
Hair symbolizes physical strength and virility; the virtues and properties of a person are said to be concentrated in his hair and nails. It is a symbol of instinct, of female seduction and physical attraction. Hair flowing depicts freedom and looseness; the unwilling removal of hair may be a castration symbol.
What was Janie’s nickname when she was 10?
Ah’m colored!” Janie is often called Alphabet in the Washburn household, a nickname she gained because so many people call her different things. Even as a child, Janie’s beauty is apparent and envied.
What does the horizon symbolize?
The horizon is a symbol of Janie’s lifelong search for happiness. At the end of the story, Pheoby is anxious to seek her own horizon with her husband, as a result of hearing Janie’s story.
What does beyond the horizon mean?
Farther than the possible limit of sight; beyond what one is able to foresee, know, or anticipate.
What do overalls symbolize?
In To Kill a Mockingbird, one object author Harper Lee uses to symbolize Scout Finch is her overalls. But Scout’s overalls do more than symbolize her tomboyish behavior; they symbolize her rebelliousness, especially her rebellion against society.
Who does Janie kiss over the fence?
Johnny Taylor
What does watching the blossoming pear make Janie realize?
What does the blossoming pear make Janie realize? She saw the blossoming pear and realized the connection to marriage, and felt she had been summoned to behold a revelation. She felt “a pain remorseless sweet” and she got up from where she was and went to the front garden.
What does Janie want nanny?
4. What does Janie want Nanny to do? She wants Nanny to tell her how to love Logan.
Why did Janie kill tea cake?
Janie kills Tea Cake to save her own life. Tea Cake gets sicker and more violent and starts imagining that Janie is cheating on him, so he sleeps with a pistol. Janie loads a rifle to protect herself in case Tea Cake becomes violent. Finally, out of his mind, Tea Cake shoots at Janie, and she kills him in self-defense.
What was tea cakes first symptom?
Back on the muck, Tea Cake checks up on his old friends and is relieved to learn that only one of them died in the storm. He soon finds work, and after three weeks, he and Janie take time off to enjoy rifle shooting. Some time later, Tea Cake begins to show signs of an infection where the dog bit him on the cheek.
Why is Janie still wearing her overalls at the end of Chapter 19?
Janie arranges an elaborate funeral for Tea Cake, whom she has come to idealize as the “son of the Evening Sun.” She is so distraught that she doesn’t care about her appearance; rather than wearing black for mourning, she wears her overalls.
Why does tea cake take $200 from Janie?
He has a total of $322, and he tells Janie to take her $200 back. He vows that they’ll live off his earnings and not depend on her cash or the money she’s saved up in her bank account. Tea Cake assures his wife that they’ll go try their luck farming in the Everglades once he recovers.
What is the age difference between Tea Cake and Janie?
They argue for a little while about their age difference. Tea Cake is around 25 and Janie is around 40. She thinks that she is too old for him, but he doesn’t care.
Do Tea Cake and Janie have strong relationships?
Janie has no problem speaking up to Tea Cake because she is in a relationship where she wants her feelings to be known and addressed. Janie’s feelings of love and marriage are a continuing theme in the novel. Chapter 13 contains good material that shows that Janie and Tea Cake’s love and marriage are real and strong.
What secret does Janie keep from tea cake?
The secret money that Janie keeps from Tea Cake is representative of her fears that what people think is true. That she is too old for Tea Cake and he will leave her for another woman. Although, her true fear is that she is making a mistake. Before being with Tea Cake, Janie was only living her life for other people.