Monday, February 16, 2009
Their Eyes are Watching God Chapters 19-end
After the storm, when Janie and Tea Cake go back to the Glades, Tea Cake gets extremely sick from the bite he received from the mad dog. Janie notices that he has a gun under his pillow after they get in a fight one night because Tea Cake thinks Janie is sneaking off to see Mrs. Turners relative. Janie decides she should have her rifle hidden just incase the mad dog inside Tea Cake tries to hurt her. She was right, one day the mad dog in Tea Cake did get angry, and he pulled the gun on her. When the gun clicked 2 times, Janie reached for the rifle to try and scare Tea Cake. After the third click, Janie knew the gun was about to go of the next time he pulled the trigger, so she prepared her self. Janie pulled the trigger two seconds before Tea Cake could, and ended up killing him. While she is on trial for Tea Cake's death, she barely says anything. This is because she doesn't really care if she goes to jail or not for his murder, because when he was killed, she was killed also. What she wants is for people to know that she loved Tea Cake with everything she had. She doesn't want people to think less of her or think she maliciously killed him because she didn't love him anymore, because that was not the case at all. At the moment, all of Tea Cake's friends were extremely mad at her, because they just didn't understand what happened. The only way to get to save Tea Cake was to get the mad dog out of him, and once that happened he could go on to heaven and be happy and calm, and that is what happened. She was putting him out of his misery as well as saving her self. When she was on trial, she wasn't exactly trying to tell people what happened to get herself out of going to jail. She just wanted to let people know that she loved him.
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Abby,
I think you really understood the main point of why Janie was silent during the trial. You made a good connection when you said that when Tea Cake was killed, she was killed also. Janie finally ended up with a guy who she wants to spend her life with and who lets her be who she is. Janie's dream came true and when Tea Cake was killed it was like Janie had nothing to live for anymore. I hadn't caught that so that was good point. You also made a good point about how Janie wanted people to understand that she really did love Tea Cake and she had to kill him for herself and for stopping Tea Cakes suffering. Great Job Abbey!
Abbey, this is a long blog, but it's also very good. I agree with you that Janie had to get the mad dog out of Tea Cake. He was going to harm her, and he just was not the same. I also like what you said about how all of Tea Cake's friends disliked her, and how she was trying to prove to them that she did not maliciously kill Tea Cake, but to end his misery and to save her life.
Woot
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