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Joe and Janie - Coggle Diagram
Joe and Janie
Abusive
"Joe Starks didn't know the words for all this, but he knew the feeling. So he struck Janie with all this might and drover her from the store." (Hurston 80)
This relationship is abusive mentally and physically. He always tried to make her feel less than and also hit her.
The idea of voice relates to Janie and Joe's relationship because Joe took that from Janie. Janie's voice was taken by Joe throughout the novel. He took her only rights and didn't give her a say in anything. Voice relates their relationship by Janie's feeling being trapped and taken from her.
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An Escape
Joe was and escape to Janie because she was in a marriage that she did not want to be in and he offered he love and prosperity.
"She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair. The weight, the length, the glory was there." (Hurston 87). "'Tain't dat Ah worries over Joe's death, Pheoby. Ah jus' loves dis freedom." (Hurston 93 *Does this textual evidence fit here? - Mrs. Willis
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Growth
"She went over to the dresser and looked hard at her skin and features. The young girl was gone, but a handsome woman had taken her place." (Hurston 87).
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These show the signs of her process through the grieving after her relationship with Joe. 1- depression 2- acceptance 3-find the people you love 4- go back to your normal life.
Restricting
Joe and Janie's relationship is restraining because he is forcefully requiring her to tie her hair back and not talk to the men who enter the store. Shortly after he passed she decided to burn all of her head rags
"Janie loved the conversation and sometimes she thought up good stories on the mule, but Joe had forbidden her to indulge." (Hurston 53). "That night he ordered Janie to tie her hair around the store... she was there in the store for him to look at, not those stories." (Hurston 55).
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