Janie's own well-being is important to her: Reflections on chapters 1-3 of Their Eyes Were Watching God,
In the beginning of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the author was able to depict to us readers the difference of men from women. As I move along reading the story, I can't help not to think about Adam and Eve. I remember reading over and over again those Bible stories when I was still a kid. As I relate to the story, God created both man and woman equally. Yet, with different traits and characteristics.
On page 17 of Chapter 1, it was mentioned that, "Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget." I was struck with this sentence because it seems like a sort of generalization to all women. It is most likely part of human nature that concludes that all women tend to forget all the things they don't want to remember, but at the same time remember all the things that they want to cherish. For my own interpretation, I guess both males and females tend to act this way. This is a human experience. A person tends to leave something behind in the past when he/she experiences something traumatic and sorrowful. Each and every one of us needs to move on and look forward to a brighter future set for us. We all need to set ourselves to the right track of our lives. This situation affects humankind which pertain to both males and females.
I also figured out that Janie feared that she might not be able to love Logan. She tries to assure herself that love will bloom between them after their marriage. Also, the story tried to define Janie as a woman who is searching for love and a woman who tries to define herself according to her own well-being, not a woman identified and carved by the society that surrounds her.
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Dear Em, There was a lot of
Dear Em,
You put more effort on this post and you answered the questions that we were supposed. I thought it was good.
One quote that I liked that you wrote is:
I agree with you because it is true. Men and women are the same spiritually, but not physically. I think that people base everything on Darwinism. People think that the stronger you are physically, the more power you have. This idea has changed over time because people now use money as the sort of Darwinism, since people are almost equal in the way society views them.
Another quote that you wrote that I liked is:
Not all women are the same, but back then they were all less than men. This made it possible to talk about women in general terms and everyone would be okay with it. I don't think Janie liked the idea at all of being less than the man she married. This is why Janie was so cold to him in his death bed. Janie just acted the way she felt about him. Thank you for writng this post. Hope to see more of your writing some other time because it is good.
Dear Taras, Thank you
Dear Taras,
Thank you for browsing over my post and for giving feedbacks on how to improve more on my writing. I just want to get back to what you mentioned about your response which says, "Janie just acted the way she felt about him." I think you really made up a very good point about that. I remember on one chapter on the book where in Janie tried to confront her husband by questioning him directly that what if she leaves him and never comes back home anymore.She even mentioned to herself that whether Jody shows up or not on their meeting place, it will still be fine on her part because she made up the decision by herself and without anyone else's concern. The fact that she's aware of the consequences of her actions is something that I appreciate about her personality.