Their Eyes Were Watching God Janie's Dream

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, we follow our protagonist, Janie, through a journey of self-discovery. We watch Janie from when she was a child to her adulthood, slowly watching her ideals change while other dreams of hers unfortunately die. This is shown when Jane first formulates her idea of love, marriage, and intimacy by comparing it to a pear tree; erotic, beautiful, and full of life. After Janie gets married to her first spouse, Logan Killicks, she doesn’t see her love fantasy happening, but she waits because her Nanny tells her that love comes after marriage. Janie, thinking that Nanny is wise beyond her years, decides to wait.

And how Nea deals with this events. This story is written with the immature and unreliable 12-year old perspective. These two sisters have grown together all through their life’s, creating a strong bound, and the fact that her family and a “old guy” is taking away her sister is something she can’t stand. In the end Nea believes that she is saving Sourdi from Mr.Chhay and her mother. However what Nea does not understand in all her youth and idealism , is that sourdi does not want to be saved: She willfully accepts her fate and her marriage to Mr.Chhay because she finds financial stability and a secure future.

As we know, when Janie had to marry Logan she gets her dreams of a beautiful and happy marriage crushed. All the dreams she had for a happily ever after was washed away with marrying him “She knew now that marriage did not make love. / Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.” And earlier we see that she felt he was “was desecrating the pear tree” but did not know how to tell her Nanny, so she just “hunched over and pouted at the floor”. So as tie goes on things go as expected and she meets someone named Jody Startks. And even though he did not meet the standard of her pear tree, he seemed like a better option than what was in her life at the moment.

Ishiguro models the social dynamic of Hailsham off the network of any ordinary boarding school. Clone students make friends, fall in love, gossip, spread rumors, and get jealous like students in a normal high school do. Kathy is even able to understand and feel maternal love she has not experienced. She admits that she has an unorthodox interpretation of her favorite song “Never Let me Go” and believes describe the emotions of a woman who really wants a baby but cannot finally holding a baby of her own. Kathy accurately describes her mixed feelings of motherhood as “so happy…so afraid…that the baby will…be taken away from her” (70).

It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.” Mrs. Mallard is praying for a long life because this independence she’s feeling feels so good. She later on in the story passes away from a broken heart because her

After a short time, he asks for her hand in marriage and they devise a plan to tell his mother about their meeting for Rebecca, the woman who had been wanting to kill herself, did not believe Mrs. Scatchard would be pleased with the truth about their meeting. Although they devised this plan very thoroughly Rebecca had not taken into account the possibility that she had resembled the dream woman. She, however, did not know anything about this for she was not told about the situation nor would she be for the rest of the tale. Sadly Mrs. Scatchard insults Rebecca by bringing her resemblance to the dream woman up to Issac. Issac does not end his courtship of Rebecca instead he weds her.

They fight back to Juliet’s emotions and anger by threatening to disown her if she didn’t go through with the wedding. Capulet tells her that she will have to “Graze where [she] will, [she] shall not house with [him],” (3.5.198) and “... hang, beg, die in the streets,” (3.5.202). Juliet is only thirteen years old in this play so it’d be very hard for her to hear that. It’d be hard for anyone to hear their father say that to them no matter what their age is. But because Juliet doesn’t have much for close family or friends besides her parents, nurse, and Romeo, it’d be tragic to her to be told to die in the streets.

Meeting Homer Barron was her biggest change from her old self, because her father did not allow her be in any relationships, but she went out in public with Homer “driving in the yellow-wheeled buggy and the matched team of bays from the livery stable” (454). Consequently, this was only because she was living in her own reality and believed that Homer would be the one to marry her. Homer was “not a marrying man” (454) and would not marry Emily, but she refused to accept the denial of marriage from him, so she killed him to keep him with her forever. She stayed within her house to keep herself in the Old South. When she told the men to see Colonel Sartoris, she was not aware that “Colonel Sartoris had been dead for almost ten years” (452) at that point.

She realizes that despite her thinking she married someone she was in love with she was never truly herself. She had to change in order for Joe to love, or even have affection for her and that wasn’t even enough for him in the marriage. He only wanted power and that was his town as mayor and power over Janie as a person. The death of Joe and end of that marriage left Janie free to find herself as a person something that for twenty years she was not allowed to do. In the process of finding her voice and who she is as a woman Janie meets Tea Cake who is the complete opposite of Joe.

It is a novel about a neighborhood carpool, four families, and an affair that threatens to tear the community apart. Frances Bloom is a carpool mother that often finds hersel the unwiting witness to her neighbors' deepest secrets. She knows that Mrs Horton has gone missing and that her cousin wants a new child but has not yet mustered the courage to tell her husband. After the shock of seeing Anne Porter making love to a man that was definitely not Mr. Porter, Frances resolves to stick to her lane. But that is easier said then done particularly when Mr. Porter throws out his wife barely a week after.

As Siddhartha grew older he found a very beautiful girl that was a princess he wanted to get married, but she had to compete for him because many other girls wanted him to. After the competition was over the girl had won, they happily got married. Not to long after the competition, he got married at sixteen years old. Afew years went on and Siddhartha and his wife had a baby sun. Siddhartha promised when he turned one he will leave and won 't return until his journey had ended .

In the novel, Their eyes were watching God written by Zora Neale Hurston, the character who I believe sacrificed the most would be, Janie. At the age of sixteen, She was forced into marriage, which had caused her to give up her innocence. Throughout the novel, she is viewed as a strong, powerful, and a hopeful woman, who is degraded and belittled by men. In the end, Janie married Tea Cake who showed her the way life should of been and learned what it was like being loved by a man who had not taken her for granted. At the age of sixteen, She unwillingly married Logan Killicks and had a hard time transitioning into the wife that Logan wanted.