Walkers Discoveries Of Zora and Herself

Walker, the narrator of the story, is a fan of Zora Neale Hurston. She knows a lot about her and decides to visit Eatonville; the town Zora grew up in. She meets locals who new about Zora personally. This causes Walker to find out more about Zora then she previously did, such as how she died, which at first she had not known, then she was told she was told Zora died of malnutrition, which causes Walker to become upset. Especially since she was a famous writer, who becomes hungry despite of her life accomplishments and work. She is then told Zora died of a stroke, which made more sense to Walker, since dying out of old age is natural. Walker also finds out Zora began to become bigger as she grew older, which shocks Zora since she has only seen Zora skinny in pictures. She also interprets that Zora didn't get along with her family and a lot of the public for the reason her opinions and views on certain subjects. She also found out for this reason she was forgotten and not even known by the community much. I believe this reveals to Walker that her culture of her race is not as full of pride or as great as she thought since not much African Americans even now about one of their most famous writers. This affects her as an individual for it shows her most favorite author of whom she saw and an idol and as someone she thought her self as, and to know she was not as great and known as she thought to be, which shocks her as well to letting her down.

Janie's Troubles

Janie is sad for the reason she hasn't found out how to love in her life yet. She has tried to find love through marriage with Logan Killicks, which had feld her for the reason she feld dominated. She then tries to find it throught the marriage of another man, a younger man; Joe Starks. She hopes she can love him since she is convinced that he will treat her as a respectable women, and not dominate her as her previous husband did. This is all shown to fail for when Joe becomes mayor of Eatonville, which allows him to experience power and domination a whole lot more then she dislikes.

An Answered Year For Janie

Janie began telling her life story in the beginning of the book. This brings up the many questions she had while growing up. One of them concerning love, and the other one is what does life going to bring her. So far, Janie has had her first kiss, marriage, and affair. She has gone away with Joe Starks, and has dived into a new adventure in her life  that she hopes answers her questions of life and love.

I believe the following year will answer questions for Janie. She has started a new chapter in her life for the sole purpose of figuring out what life holds for her, and I think it will pay off. I think she will find out what it means to love, and what her role is in life. I also believe it will bring new questions. I believe this because this is only the beginning of her story. She still has 20 years left to tell. So to have everything answered and solved before most of her story is finished wouldn't make sense.