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    role in what kind of person one becomes. Environment seems like the factor that most often and influentially affects a person’s development. The people one meets and the experiences one has seem very important in what makes a person who he or she is. Janie develops as a woman with the three marriages she has. In each marriage she learns valuable lessons‚ has progressively better relationships‚ and realizes how a person is to live his or her life. In Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ by Zora Neale Hurston

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    demand manual labor from Janie and stops treating her with respect: "If Ah kin haul de wood heah and chop it fuh yuh‚ look lak you oughta be able tuh tote it inside. Mah fust wife never bothered me ‘bout choppin’ no wood nohow. She’d grab dat ax and sling chips lak uh man. You done been spoilt rotten" (Hurston 26). Although he does not know Janie’s character and her home life‚ he automatically assumes that she is spoiled and would not be useful.

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    By definition being a slave means being owned by someone else. According to an essay “Giving as Governance? Philanthrocapitalism and Modern-Day Slavery Abolitionism” written by Janie A. Chuang‚ she includes the harsh circumstances from which slaves have to suffer from. She addresses what the international community agreed on for a legal definition of trafficking‚ which states “The recruitment‚ transportation‚ transfer‚ harboring or receipt of persons‚ by means of the threat. . .” (P.1522). She also

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    time-critical questions in a matter of seconds. Read the books on your Bookshelf from cover to cover or simply flip to the page you need. Try it today for free. C IN A NUTSHELL Peter Prinz and Tony Crawford Beijing • Cambridge • Farnham • Köln • Sebastopol • Tokyo C in a Nutshell by Peter Prinz and Tony Crawford Copyright © 2006 O’Reilly Media‚ Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Published by O’Reilly Media‚ Inc.‚ 1005 Gravenstein Highway North‚ Sebastopol‚ CA 95472. O’Reilly

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    Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie Speaks Her Ideas In life to discover our self-identity a person must show others what one thinks or feels and speak his or her mind. Sometimes their opinions may be silenced or even ignored. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ the main character Janie would sometimes speak her ideas and they would often make a difference. The author‚ Zora Neale Hurston‚ gives Janie many chances to speak and she shows the reader outcomes. When dealing with all

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    small town‚ Michigan‚ Janie has this wild ability. If she passes one dreaming‚ she is immediately sucked in and cannot escape unless the dream ends. Throughout the trilogy of Don’t Close Your Eyes‚ Janie struggles with the curse she is blessed with‚ while she faces normal teenage girl problems. One of the issues she encounters amongst the trilogy is falling in love with Cabel. Cabel is Janie’s love interest throughout this novel and he helps her with her dream problem. Helping Janie may include her being

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    Janie went through three relationships to achieve her dream of being in love. Over the course of those relationships‚ Janie discovers a sense of her identity. The novel is framed and begins with Janie all alone telling her story to her friend Phoeby. At the beginning of her life she was unsure of who she was and what she wanted but at the end of the novel Janie’s is a proud independent woman. Throughout the novel‚ Janie was submissive but her optimism of eventually having a good relationship and

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    In the novel‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ Zora Neale Hurston exposes the story of the love life of Janie. The relationship between Janie and her third husband‚ Tea Cake‚ was above and beyond the most positive of the three relationships with men she had and summoned forth her best assets. The relationships she had with these three men permitted her to be subjected to her first true love‚ expand her knowledge of working and taking care of herself‚ and discover a new culture/society. Janie’s relationship

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    Throughout the book Janie struggles to find the true definition of love and how to make herself happy with her relationships. She goes through several different ideas of love before finding that it is mutual compassion‚ understanding‚ and respect that makes her the most happy. Near the beginning of the book‚ Janie develops an idealistic view of love whilst lying underneath a pear tree. She is young and naïve‚ enthralled with the beauty of spring. She comes to the conclusion that marriage is the

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    Janie and Jody‚ Conflict and Freedom: Their Eyes Were Watching God In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God written by Zora Neale Hurston‚ the protagonist‚ Janie‚ and her husband for a respectable portion of her life‚ Jody Starks‚ seek courtship for entirely different reasons. Janie pursues sexual and emotional fulfillment as she journeys to the horizon and to a place of limitless possibility‚ while the male domineering Jody Starks seeks only after power‚ control‚ and a good place in society

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