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Janie and Joe by Erin McLeroy (Janie ran off with Joe to find something…
Janie and Joe by Erin McLeroy
Janie ran off with Joe to find something new, into the horizon.
"Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon.
He spoke for change and chance
. Still she hung back. The memory of Nanny was still powerful and strong" (Hurston 29).
The Horizon symbolizes something new.
There relationship was endured. It was not stable.
Janie and Joe got married
They did not live Happily Ever After.
Janie was tired of being tied down.
" The morning road air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet" (Hurston 32).
I felt that Janie was still tied down in Janie and Joe's relationship after she left Logan Killicks.
Joe was taking over Janie.
" Thank yuh fu yo' compliment, but mah wife don't know nothin' 'bout no speech-makin'. Ah never married her for nothin' lak dat. She's uh woman and her place is in de home" (Hurston 43).
Joe is symbolizing power.
Joe felt that he could do anything because 1.He had the most prettiest girl in the county. 2. He had money. 3.He was the Mayor.
When Joe was dead, Janie was happy, but suppose to be feeling sad.
Janie wore a veil at Joe's funeral.
The veil she wore symbolized as hiding because she had to show she was sad but felt happy that Joe was gone.
Joe did not like when other men liked Janie's hair, like he was jealous. So he made her wear a head wrap.
The head wrap represented Joe's power
"Her hair was not going to show in the store" (Hurston 55).
Janie's hair symbolized her beauty.
"He felt like rushing forth with the meat knife and chopping off the offending hand. That night he ordered Janie to tie up her hair around the store. That was all. She was there in the store for
him
to look at, not those others. But he never said things like that. It just wasn't him" (Hurston 55).
When Janie ran off with Joe she thought she was getting something new, but in reality it was like the same with Logan but with someone different. Which symbol represents that in the novel?
Awesome job overall, Erin. If you revise this, be more specific about how the symbol of the horizon fits and develop her use of voice in their relationship.
