Journal #10

THESIS:

People change intellectually along with their close relationships and experiences in life.

Quotes to back it up:

“That night he ordered Janie to tie up her hair around the store. That was all. She was there in the store for him…” (87)

“All dis bowin’ down, all dis obedience under yo’ voice-dat ain’t whut Ah rushed off down de road tuh find out about you.” (134)

After Joe dies: “The young girl was gone, but a handsome woman had taken her place. She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair.” (135)

“She sent her face to Joe’s funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world.” (137)

• Joe’s death was an event in Janie’s life that influenced her to free herself from the restrictions he put on her. She changed her mind about submission to males after Joe’s death. She decided that she would wear her hair down.
• This shows, through Janie’s relationship with Joe, that Hurston believes that Janie became quiet and submissive because of Joe but then because of the event of his death she changed.

Possible changes:

The word ‘along’ could change to a word that fits better like ‘with’.

I could try to rephrase how I say ‘their close relationships and experiences in life.”

‘close relationships’ does it have to be close relationships?

Find more proof in the text, and re-word until accurate to what Hurston would think.