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Need five sentences responding to each response to the questions. Two separate responses. Try not to use technical words. 1.Describe Janie's relationship to her Grandmother Nanny. What values or beliefs does her grandmother voice and how are Janie's deviations from those values or beliefs integral to the development of her character over the course of the novel? Janie was raised by her grandmother who was in fact the only maternal relationship she knew. Janie and her grandmother have two different ideas of happiness and success in marriage. While her grandmother wanted her to have financial security and protection from black and white men, Janie wanted the simplicity of mutual love and respect. Janie was still growing, and "becoming" herself, but she never really had a chance to "know herself" before her grandmother married her off to Logan Killocks. She married him out of obedience to her grandmother, knowing deep in her heart that it wouldn't be the kind of connection that was revealed to her under the pear tree. Her relationship with her grandmother was the first of many relationships where Janie rebelled against illusions of the kind of woman others thought she should be, with no thought or consideration for who she was. 3. Describe and analyze Janie's relationship with Tea Cake. To what extent does she achieve a sense of self-hood or self-realization through this relationship? In your view, does the novel depict the emergence of a "liberated" or "empowered" woman? How do you think your opinion on this matter would be different from someone reading the novel in 1937? Tea Cake was the reason Janie struggled for so many years, he stood as the love that encompassed all of the values she had to find out of despair. The realtionship between Janie and Tea Cake was based on mutal respect, equality, intimacy and admiration. Tea Cakes companionship was affirmation that she had found inner strength and a sense of self that allowed her to truly be in control of her pursit of happiness. In my optimistic opinion i would have hoped this writing would have been met with great support for those in support of womans sufferage and the progressive strides feminism was making in the ealry 1940's. Of course the age gaps might have been seen as risque at the time, but i think for those who sought to find similar ideals of equality, and saw the consequences of gender roles, that they would be able to understand that age and the times has no consequence on these matters. Inequality towards women existed then and continues to exist to today, it simply asks for the respect of your fellow human beings to support the righteousness in equality and everyones equal right in their pursuits of happiness.