Biff and Happy

I think that Biff and Happy are both really odd characters. Both don't really know what they are doing in life and where they are heading. Biff is kind of a lazy person and doesn't have a steady job that he maintains. Biff is made fun of for not having a good job and not being able to maintain one. Happy on the other hand has a good job that he is working towards to becoming the top dog of. Right now he isn't, but he is sticking with his job to become bigger and better. Happy is a lot better than Biff with working and keeping a job. Even though Happy is more independent than Biff they are still both similar in one way. They are both not very reliable or happy. They are not happy because both of them don't have a love in their life or if they get one they cant maintain one. Biff and Happy are very lonely so they move out together and are going to live together. I still don't think that will solve their happiness. Overall I still don't think Biff and Happy or reliable or Happy characters. 

The End

Janie talks non-stop throughout the novel, but at the end when Tea Cake dies she doesn't say much at all. The trial goes on about if Janie killed Tea Cake. Janie doesn't say much I think for one main reason. Throughout the novel Janie is defending herself about if she really loved jody when he died. People doubted that she really loved him so she had to speak up and out to defend herself. Janie also was searching for the love she always dreamed for and she couldn't find it. Because she couldn't ever find the love she really wanted she was always speaking out about it and complaining about the husband she was with and how he didn't treat her the way she wanted to be treated. Finally she found Tea Cake and he treated her the way she always wanted to be treated. She actually loved Tea Cake unlike any of her other husbands. When Tea Cake died she finally didn't have to speak up on how much she loved Tea Cake and she didn't have to prove anything to anyone because inside herself she new she really loved him and she didn't care what anyone else thought about her. This is why I feel Janie didn't speak up at the end of the novel during the trial. 

Chapter 18

In chapter 18 a hurricane starts to brew up. People in the the town don't think much of it, so they all just go on with their nightly things. Janie is at home while Tea Cake is gambling, but then the weather starts to get bad so Tea Cake goes home to Janie to make sure she is alright. The weather gets really bad and the title is used in a sentence. They say that "Their Eyes are Watching God." When they say this they are talking about how they are waiting for the wrath of God to come and do what he is going to do. 

Working with Tea Cake

When Janie and Tea Cake arrive in the Everglades everything is a lot different than before with her other husbands. She works at home all by herself at first and doesn't hate it, but also doesn't love it. One day Tea Cake comes home from work and asks her to work with him on the muck because he misses her everyday he leaves her. Janie agrees to work with him, but only because he doesn't force her. He doesn't come home and say Janie your going to work on the muck with me. He comes home and asks her and she has the decision to. This is different from both of her other husbands. Both Jody and Logan made her work without even asking. This is why Janie is so quick to work beside Tea Cake on the muck. 

The angels

In chapter 9 this parable relates to Janie because of Jody. Jody started out being a good man and husband to Janie. After being together for awhile Jody begins to gradually change over time. Everybody in town finds Jody to be the good person for doing all the good deeds and Janie to not be that good. This turns out to not be the case, Janie is really the good person and this frustrates her. When Jody dies Janie is finally looked as the good rich person instead of Jody. Some townspeople do think that Janie isn't sad that Jody has died, which is true but they think that is really disrespectful. I believe this is how the parable relates to Janie. 

The Mule!

In Their Eyes Were Watching God there is a mule that is kept by a man named Matt Bonner. Matt Bonner's mule is overworked and underfed. The people on the porch always make fun of it because it is bad tempered due to how it is treated. When the mule runs away it gets teased by all of the shop owners and Janie sees this going on. She tells them to stop and Jody over hears her so he buys the mule to make Janie feel better. Janie like this mule I believe because she can relate to it. Janie relates to the mule because just like the mule she feels she is being overworked by her husband Jody. She also doesn't feel respect by Jody because he keeps ordering her do things that she doesn't want to do, just like Matt Bonner's mule. She feels as they both feel each others pain, which is why I feel Janie really likes the mule. 

Jody's New Personality

In chapter five we are able to learn more about the town with all blacks in it. The town is named Eatonville and only consists of fifty acres of land. When Jody and Janie arrive, they ask to see the mayor of the town. There is no mayor of the town so Jody decides to become the mayor because he bought and extra 200 acres for the town. Jody starts improving the town by buying new improvements like buying a street lamp for the town. While being the mayor and having more money than anyone else in the town, Jody starts to let his real personality come out. He becomes very controlling with the town and Janie. For example, he chases a guy out of town just for trying to steal some of his ribbon cane. Jody also has the biggest house out of everyone else in the town making him look better than everyone else and making the rest of the townspeople look like his servants. He also becomes so controlling over Janie that he doesn't allow her to wear her hair down. She is forced to where her beautiful hair up in a bun while she works in the stores. Jody changes everything he said to Janie before when he tells her that every women deserves to just sit on the porch while the man works. But he has Janie working in the town stores with her hair tied up in a bun.  

The last paragraph

The last paragraph in chapter four says they sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge in the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged. When you first read this you obviously notice that they are talking about how they were sitting on the porch watching the sunset. While watching the sunset it starts to disappear into the night. They use a metaphor in saying that the sun is disappearing to where the night arises. I honestly don't know if there is any other meaning than that, but I think its a pretty powerful metaphor.