Janie's Marriages In Their Eyes Were Watching God Through each endeavor, Janie learns the truths of life, love and the path to finding her identity. Although repressed due to her race and gender, Janie has a strong will to live her life the way she wants. But throughout her life, she meets many people who try to change her way of being and her beliefs. With each marriage she undertakes, she finds a new fulfillment and is on a never-ending quest to find her identity and true love. Logan Killicks, Joe Starks, and Tea Cake each help Janie become a woman and find her identity. At sixteen, Janie is a beautiful young girl who is about to enter womanhood and experience the real world. Cheerful and uncaring, she is thrown into an arranged marriage with Logan Killicks. He is apparently neither romantic nor attractive. Logan is a widower and successful farmer who desires a wife who doesn't have her own opinions. He is determined to follow his own ways and is troubled by Janie, who forms her own opinions and refuses to work. He is incapable of sexually pleasing or satisfying Janie and therefore does not truly connect with her in the way that husband and wife should. Janie's wild and youthful spirit is trapped within her and she plays the role of a silent and obedient wife. But her true identity cannot be held back because she has ambitions and she wants to see the world and find love. There was a lack of trust and communication between Logan and Janie. Due to Janie's negative feelings towards Logan, she feels that this marriage is not what she wants. The pear tree and the bees looked natural...... middle of paper ...... and she feels she is lucky to have it. Joe Starks, Janie's second husband, appears to be her singing bee when they first meet, but she realizes that is not the case. When Joe becomes what he strived to be, he tried to control Janie and turn her into what he expected and thought she would be. Only Tea Cake, Janie's last husband, truly cared about the person she really was and treated her as his equal. He encouraged her to speak up and share her opinion with him so they could understand each other better. During these marriages, Janie grows and when she returns to her hometown, she has become a mature and independent woman who still has the warm memories of love and laughter with Tea Cake. , Lora Neale. Their eyes looked at God. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1990.

Essay / Janie's Marriages In Their Eyes Were Watching God Through each endeavor, Janie learns the truths of life, love and the path to finding her identity. Although repressed due to her race and gender, Janie has a strong will to live her life the way she wants. But throughout her life, she meets many people who try to change her way of being and her beliefs. With each marriage she undertakes, she finds a new fulfillment and is on a never-ending quest to find her identity and true love. Logan Killicks, Joe Starks, and Tea Cake each help Janie become a woman and find her identity. At sixteen, Janie is a beautiful young girl who is about to enter womanhood and experience the real world. Cheerful and uncaring, she is thrown into an arranged marriage with Logan Killicks. He is apparently neither romantic nor attractive. Logan is a widower and successful farmer who desires a wife who doesn't have her own opinions. He is determined to follow his own ways and is troubled by Janie, who forms her own opinions and refuses to work. He is incapable of sexually pleasing or satisfying Janie and therefore does not truly connect with her in the way that husband and wife should. Janie's wild and youthful spirit is trapped within her and she plays the role of a silent and obedient wife. But her true identity cannot be held back because she has ambitions and she wants to see the world and find love. There was a lack of trust and communication between Logan and Janie. Due to Janie's negative feelings towards Logan, she feels that this marriage is not what she wants. The pear tree and the bees looked natural...... middle of paper ...... and she feels she is lucky to have it. Joe Starks, Janie's second husband, appears to be her singing bee when they first meet, but she realizes that is not the case. When Joe becomes what he strived to be, he tried to control Janie and turn her into what he expected and thought she would be. Only Tea Cake, Janie's last husband, truly cared about the person she really was and treated her as his equal. He encouraged her to speak up and share her opinion with him so they could understand each other better. During these marriages, Janie grows and when she returns to her hometown, she has become a mature and independent woman who still has the warm memories of love and laughter with Tea Cake. , Lora Neale. Their eyes looked at God. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1990.

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