Throughout her life Janie demonstrated a courageous personality as she traveled from marriage to marriage without thinking twice. Tea Cake Woods, Janie’s third husband, was a younger man in his thirties. He was a free-spirited, nomadic person, who’s main source of income was derived from gambling. Tea Cake met his death when in a rabid rage, he was shot in self-defense by Janie. Janie’s first marriage came unexpectedly, she was sixteen years old and forced by her grandmother to “grow up”. She married Logan Killicks, a landowner who forced Janie into hard labor, something she not was accustomed to. This led to her abandoning the marriage and running off to marry Joe Starks, her second husband. Joe Starks, was a wealthy man and promised Janie that if she were his wife she would not be out plowing the fields, but offered her the “key to the kingdom”. In exchange for that Janie had to succumb to demeaning insults and to silence. She lived with Joe Starks for twenty years until he died. Nine months later she married Tea Cake Woods, and moved to the
Throughout her life Janie demonstrated a courageous personality as she traveled from marriage to marriage without thinking twice. Tea Cake Woods, Janie’s third husband, was a younger man in his thirties. He was a free-spirited, nomadic person, who’s main source of income was derived from gambling. Tea Cake met his death when in a rabid rage, he was shot in self-defense by Janie. Janie’s first marriage came unexpectedly, she was sixteen years old and forced by her grandmother to “grow up”. She married Logan Killicks, a landowner who forced Janie into hard labor, something she not was accustomed to. This led to her abandoning the marriage and running off to marry Joe Starks, her second husband. Joe Starks, was a wealthy man and promised Janie that if she were his wife she would not be out plowing the fields, but offered her the “key to the kingdom”. In exchange for that Janie had to succumb to demeaning insults and to silence. She lived with Joe Starks for twenty years until he died. Nine months later she married Tea Cake Woods, and moved to the