I Meets A Man Wonderful Man Named Joe Starks

I meets a man wonderful man named Joe Starks (Jody) and was immediately attracted to him. He seemed so confident, determined, and free. Jody persuaded me to run away with him, I did and we end up in Eatonville, Florida. While in Eatonville, I began to feel oppressed by Jody. As mayor, Jody believed that I should not socialize with the common people because I had to act and appear as if I was better than them. He attempted to force me to do what he wants, such as keeping me in the shop, and making sure I did not socialize with other people. He believed that I should not want to take part in the men's activities because I was an upper class woman and should look down upon the rest of the people. In Eatonville I felt oppressed, whereas after moving to the Muck, I felt free and natural. But my attachment to this town is so strong that I had to return back.

It was overwhelming peaceful sitting under the pear tree. I experience serenity under the tree and it becomes has become part of him. It is under the tree, that I begins to find my inner peace and happiness with romance. As a sixteen-year-old girl, lying beneath a pear tree in the spring, I watched a bee gathering pollen from a pear blossom. This experience becomes a symbol of the ideal relationship, one in which passion does not result in possession or domination, but rather in an effortless union of individuals. I had experience an awakening under the blooming pear tree in spring, just before my first kiss with Johnny Taylor. The feeling I experienced directly while sitting beneath it was the sense of possibility in life for a connection between the self and the natural world, and the feelings of love. It is for this reason that Janie feels she has finally reached the horizon with Tea Cake. I have achieved harmony with nature that I have seen since the moment under the pear tree.

I have experience many types of love throughout my life. With Nanny, my caring grandmother, I experience a love that is