Their Eyes Were Wathiching God

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of income
was derived from gambling. Tea Cake met his death when in a rabid rage, he
was shot in self-defense by Janie.
Janie’s first marriage came unexpectedly, she was sixteen years old and
forced by her grandmother to “grow up”. She married Logan Killicks, a
landowner who forced Janie into hard labor, something she not was
accustomed to. This led to her abandoning the marriage and running off to
marry Joe Starks, her second husband.
Joe Starks, was a wealthy man and promised Janie that if she were his
wife she would not be out plowing the fields, but offered her the “key to the
kingdom”. In exchange for that Janie had to succumb to demeaning insults and
to silence. She lived with Joe Starks for twenty years until he died. Nine
months later she married Tea Cake Woods, and moved to the Everglades.
I feel that the theme of this book is attaining self expression, by going
out and finding it for yourself. It was something that ...

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