I agree that I think it is silly that she needs to prove her love for Teacake instead of trying to save her own life. Considering that Teacake was a bit abusive to her, why would she want everyone to know that she was in love with him? I would think that she would want to save herself because she was who survived, not Teacake
In Janie’s past relationships, all the abuses were verbal. In Teacake’s case, because he was so crazy, he actually risked Janie’s life. Teacake would have killed Janie if he had the chance to which is scary
Initially Teacake had all of the power in the relationship. He had hit her and as a bit abusive to her to control her. Now, because Teacake is sick, he is not so controlling and Janie has all the power to take control of her life and have no men controlling her life
I think that it is very disturbing and sad that only the white people get coffins and the black people were tossed in a pit. It just shows how prevalent racism is in the book. They have no regards that these people are all human. They only care about the color of their skin
This is a major point in the story. This is where Teacake gets bitten and it will cost him his life. Later Janie had so much love for Teacake, that she wanted to be killed by the dog instead of Teacake getting bitten and going crazy
Teacake is just very insecure in general. Whenever there was mentioned another lover for Janie he felt insecure. Whenever their life is in danger, he feels insecure that Janie regretted her decision. He always feels as if Janie wants to leave him
This is definitely foreshadowing something. I agree! With the fleeting animals, it is obvious that something is going to happen later. I have a feeling that there is going to be some sort of natural disaster and death
Teacakes intention was to show Mrs. Turner that he was controlling and that he had full control over Janie in able to show that he is not going to be defeated by Mrs. Turner’s brother. In turn, he looks foolish in the end and he just looks like an abusive husband
This kind of comes as a surprise. I knew that TeaCake was a red flag, but I didn’t think that he would ever hit Janie. This just shows how insecure Teacake was.
Janie says that everyone should trust God and the plan he has for everyone as well as to live life for themselves rather than trying to fit in, be accepted by others, or live a life someone else wants for them rather than the way they want to live their life.
Here Janie states that although she is on trial for murder, the real trial she is fighting is for the love between her and Tea Cake. She is trying to show that they would never kill each other unless it came to desperate measures of life or death.
This shows that Janie does not feel like she has to dress like grief in order to be grieving and that she really cares about Tea Cake. Where as for her other husbands, Janie dressed in grief so that no one else questioned why she was not grieving.
This shows that Janie feels that she has to act differently being in public verses being at her house with Tea Cake. Even though this is a trial and should be completely honest, Janie is still changing the way she would respond to the questions and tell the story so that the jury listens to what she has to say.
This is an interesting point. Janie does seem to ignore many of the signs of previous situations just like Tea Cake is ignoring the warnings of the storm coming. Both of them ignore the warnings because they think their life is good at the time and do not want to leave even if it will ultimately be better in the long run.
I agree that I think it is silly that she needs to prove her love for Teacake instead of trying to save her own life. Considering that Teacake was a bit abusive to her, why would she want everyone to know that she was in love with him? I would think that she would want to save herself because she was who survived, not Teacake
In Janie’s past relationships, all the abuses were verbal. In Teacake’s case, because he was so crazy, he actually risked Janie’s life. Teacake would have killed Janie if he had the chance to which is scary
Initially Teacake had all of the power in the relationship. He had hit her and as a bit abusive to her to control her. Now, because Teacake is sick, he is not so controlling and Janie has all the power to take control of her life and have no men controlling her life
I think that it is very disturbing and sad that only the white people get coffins and the black people were tossed in a pit. It just shows how prevalent racism is in the book. They have no regards that these people are all human. They only care about the color of their skin
This is a major point in the story. This is where Teacake gets bitten and it will cost him his life. Later Janie had so much love for Teacake, that she wanted to be killed by the dog instead of Teacake getting bitten and going crazy
Teacake is just very insecure in general. Whenever there was mentioned another lover for Janie he felt insecure. Whenever their life is in danger, he feels insecure that Janie regretted her decision. He always feels as if Janie wants to leave him
yes I agree. This is a very bad decision
This is definitely foreshadowing something. I agree! With the fleeting animals, it is obvious that something is going to happen later. I have a feeling that there is going to be some sort of natural disaster and death
Teacakes intention was to show Mrs. Turner that he was controlling and that he had full control over Janie in able to show that he is not going to be defeated by Mrs. Turner’s brother. In turn, he looks foolish in the end and he just looks like an abusive husband
I agree! I think that it is crazy that he knows that it’s not Janie’s fault. He just needed an excuse to control her and take advantage of her
I wonder why Janie never stood up for herself? She stood up for herself against Jody starks so I wonder why she is just taking the abuse from Teacake
This kind of comes as a surprise. I knew that TeaCake was a red flag, but I didn’t think that he would ever hit Janie. This just shows how insecure Teacake was.
Janie says that everyone should trust God and the plan he has for everyone as well as to live life for themselves rather than trying to fit in, be accepted by others, or live a life someone else wants for them rather than the way they want to live their life.
Here Janie states that although she is on trial for murder, the real trial she is fighting is for the love between her and Tea Cake. She is trying to show that they would never kill each other unless it came to desperate measures of life or death.
This shows that Janie does not feel like she has to dress like grief in order to be grieving and that she really cares about Tea Cake. Where as for her other husbands, Janie dressed in grief so that no one else questioned why she was not grieving.
This shows that Janie feels that she has to act differently being in public verses being at her house with Tea Cake. Even though this is a trial and should be completely honest, Janie is still changing the way she would respond to the questions and tell the story so that the jury listens to what she has to say.
This is an interesting point. Janie does seem to ignore many of the signs of previous situations just like Tea Cake is ignoring the warnings of the storm coming. Both of them ignore the warnings because they think their life is good at the time and do not want to leave even if it will ultimately be better in the long run.
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