Prologue Janie Johnson is a girl from Connecticut who found out that she was not really who she thought she was. Janie and her family have a discussion and figure out that The Johnsons’ child, Hannah, kidnapped Janie and brought her to her parents in Connecticut. Janie does some research and figures out that she is actually Jennie Spring, and her real family lives in New Jersey. She ends up finding her family, and they develop a close relationship. Janie’s siblings take her return pretty hard, but they grow to love her and her “parents”, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. Janie’s large, new family gets involved with the police, and they figure out that Hannah is “dead”.
Janie’s father just had a heart attack and she must help her mother pay the bills. Janie, Reeve, and Brian look through Janie’s father’s file cabinet, and find something very interesting. They find a find a file labeled H.J, and Janie knows
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Reeve and Brian are not sure Janie should go find Hannah, but Janie disagrees. She has wanted to find Hannah since this whole mess started. They all have so much fun visiting Stephen for the first time in forever. Janie gets very stressed out about meeting Hannah, so they all have a group discussion. Janie starts to realize that she does not want to see Hannah, and she just wants to be done with the whole kidnapping. She gives Hannah one last check, and she writes a note telling Hannah to never contact her …show more content…
When Janie saw that her father had been paying Hannah’s bills she was in shock and confused. She realized that Hannah is not important in her life, and that she should move on. For all this time, she was the girl who got kidnapped. She will still have those bad memories of confusion and hatred towards her kidnapper, but she just let it go. She wanted the past to stay in the past, and she wanted to move on with her
After moving to Eatonville and marrying Joe, Janie discovers that people are not always who they seem to be. While Joe at first seemed to be easy-going and friendly, she wa...
..., she found her identity. It did not come easy for Janie. It took her years to find out who she really was.
But Janie is young and her will has not yet been broken. She has enough strength to say "No" and to leave him by running away with Joe. At this point, Janie has found a part of her voice, which is her not willing to be like a slave in her husband's hands. After Janie marries Joe, I think that she discovers that he is not the person she thought he was.
By doing this, she has shown the community that a person can not always be happy with material things when she or he is not in love. Janie says, "Ah want things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think." She shows her grandma that she is not happy with her Janie's next husband, Joe Starks was very nice to her and gave her everything she wanted. When it came to Janie wanting to talk or speak her mind, he would not let her, and that made her feel like she was less of a person than he.
Janie’s character undergoes a major change after Joe’s death. She has freedom. While the town goes to watch a ball game Janie meets Tea Cake. Tea Cake teaches Janie how to play checkers, hunt, and fish. That made Janie happy. “Somebody wanted her to play. Somebody thought it natural for her to play. That was even nice. She looked him over and got little thrills from every one of his good points” (Hurston 96). Tea Cake gave her the comfort of feeling wanted. Janie realizes Tea Cake’s difference from her prior relationships because he wants her to become happy and cares about what she likes to do. Janie tells Pheoby about moving away with Tea Cake and Pheoby tells her that people disapprove of the way she behaves right after the death of her husband. Janie says she controls her life and it has become time for her to live it her way. “Dis ain’t no business proposition, and no race after property and titles. Dis is uh love game. Ah done lived Grandma’s way, now Ah means tuh live mine” (Hurston 114). Janie becomes stronger as she dates Tea Cake because she no longer does for everyone else. Janie and Tea Cake decided to move to the Everglades, the muck. One afternoon, a hurricane came. The hurricane symbolizes disaster and another change in Janie’s life. “Capricious but impersonal, it is a concrete example of the destructive power found in nature. Janie, Tea Cake, and their friends can only look on in terror as the hurricane destroys the
Instead, Janie becomes the center of attention and her hopes become the main focus. By doing this, the focus of the story changes making Janie the only focus and the inclusion of the other characters never reaches closure, making their expectati... ... middle of paper ... ... an Diego, 1 Apr. 2005. Web.
Janie sets out on a quest to make sense of inner questions. She does not sit back and
of the book, Janie resents her grandmother for “living” her life for her and planning her future. To find out what will happen in a persons future, they need to live their life on their own an...
She managed to leave her Nanny’s grasp and use the opportunity to seek out her dreams, but at the same time, she had to suffer through her relationships with Logan Killicks and get emotionally and physically abused by Joe Starks. Janie achieved her dream of love by being with and loving Tea Cake, although at the end she had to kill him (since he was trying to kill her). Although she is alone yet again at the end of the novel, Janie’s journey was a triumphant one since at the end, she managed to achieve her dream of falling in love. Janie’s journey in Their Eyes Were Watching God teaches that the journey of life is a series of ups and downs and one’s resilience through
Janie was raised by her grandmother whom she called Nanny; she never meets her mother or father. Janie and Nanny lived in the back of the Washburn’s house, which was a white...
Janie’s first marriage was to Logan Killicks, an accomplished middle aged farmer. Her grandmother wanted Janie to be financially set and be protected, so she pretty much forced Janie into marrying Logan. With her grandmothers rough past of being a slave and all she did not wa...
The beginning of Janie’s marriage to Joe shows promise and adventure, something that young Janie is quickly attracted to. She longs to get out of her loveless marriage to Logan Killicks and Joe’s big dreams captivate Janie. Once again she hopes to find the true love she’s always dreamed of. Joe and Janie’s life is first blissful. He gives her whatever she wants and after he becomes the mayor of a small African American town called Eatonville, they are the most respected couple in town. Joe uses his newfound power to control Janie. When she is asked to make a speech at a town event, she can’t even get out a word before Joe denies her the privilege. He starts making her work in the store he opens and punishes her for any mistakes she makes. He enjoys the power and respect her gets when o...
As the novel begins, Janie walks into her former hometown quietly and bravely. She is not the same woman who left; she is not afraid of judgment or envy. Full of “self-revelation”, she begins telling her tale to her best friend, Phoeby, by looking back at her former self with the kind of wistfulness everyone expresses when they remember a time of childlike naïveté. She tries to express her wonderment and innocence by describing a blossoming peach tree that she loved, and in doing so also reveals her blossoming sexuality. To deter Janie from any trouble she might find herself in, she was made to marry an older man named Logan Killicks at the age of 16. In her naïveté, she expected to feel love eventually for this man. Instead, however, his love for her fades and she beco...
Janie’s first attempt at love does not turn out quite like she hopes. Her grandmother forces her into marrying Logan Killicks. As the year passes, Janie grows unhappy and miserable. By pure fate, Janie meets Joe Starks and immediately lusts after him. With the knowledge of being wrong and expecting to be ridiculed, she leaves Logan and runs off with Joe to start a new marriage. This is the first time that Janie does what she wants in her search of happiness: “Even if Joe was not waiting for her, the change was bound to do her good…From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything” (32). Janie’s new outlook on life, although somewhat shadowed by blind love, will keep her satisfied momentarily, but soon she will return to the loneliness she is running from.
her and didn't want anyone else to see in her what he saw. He gave Janie