TEWWG Thesis 1

The way that men and women go about achieving there goals in this book is vastly different, thus making the two sexes distinct.

TEWWG ER 2

In chapter 10 Janie was surprised that Tea Cake wanted her to play checkers. In the passage it describes her looking him over then her getting the chills through her body. This is a new moment for Janie for she has not been able to experience freedom until the death of her late husband. With this newfound freedom she is able to experience it with another man too. Also in the American society the game of checkers is thought of to be a game play be old wise men thus making it manly. And for a woman to play the game it seems to break the barriers of the society. The fact that a man actually wants her to play and is willing to spend the time teaching her is extraordinary to her too. For this book is set in a time where meal dominance is popular in the American society.

TEWWG ER 1

Janie first dream was to fall in love when she got married for she felt love for her husband would automatically come from the marriage. But this was not true for she came to the realization that she does not like her husband and she left him. And she pursues her dream of marring Jody. This is the time that Janie becomes a woman for she is starting to pursue her dreams now. And this references back in the first chapter of the book when it states the different ways man and women pressure their dreams. With the aggressiveness of her perusal of her dreams by leaving her husband it is a coming of age event in her life.