Monday, December 3, 2007

THird pos: Their Eyes were watching GOD! Z.N.H.

So I guess the people were watiing to see waht GOD was going to do> that exxplains the title of the book. In a really dramatic and the most heart pacing part of the book, Janie and Teacake decide to stay home when everybody else went to hit higher ground. The Seminoles were heading somewhere else adn that should of been a clear indication that a bad storm was coming. Once the storm started it was almost too late. I really got into this part of the book, i couldnt put it down. As Janie and Teacake and choo choo or whatever their friends name was headed for higher ground they were plunged into a storm not worth underestimating. The religious symbolism was great and showed the ture power of nature/GOD over man.


The book proved to be surprising enough. I kept to reading and really never became bored as was the cae with every other book we have reead and analyzed this semester. I cant say i was too surprised with anything because i was expecting the book to have many twists and turns. I dont know if i expected Janie to kill Teacake, but that is what went down. There was irony in this as Teacake died from going mad or getting rabies from being bit by a dog. Janie killed Teacake who was mad from something he had saved her from. I think this was terrible because Jnaie had picked up Teacake's gun under his pillow and she could have unloaded the bullets. She decided to load him with a couple rounds of buck shot instead of being safe, she was sorry. The courts let her go probably because she was half white looking. I was glad they did, but wonder what the they would have down to a darker afrtican american. The author twisted the book here because half way through you ahd a half a mind to think that teacaek was going to take Janie for her money, or that he was going to gamble it away, become a drunk or end up left by Janie. Poor Janie... she had such a hard life---symbolic of the hardships african american women faced? Im glad the book didnt end on Janie going to Jail.

2 comments:

Alyssa Thomas said...

I too was very surprised by the ending. I had no idea that the book would develop into Janie killing Teacake - she had a very good reason to do so. I am glad she wasn't punished for what she did. SHe didn't do it for the sake of killing him, she did it because he supposedly had rabies.

Jared Adams said...

Yeah I didn't really understand why they decided to stay in the house. I mean they said why they made the decision, but who in their right minds would chance it when every one else left?