The tentative theme for my pastiche is: "In order to find happiness, one must understand what one want in life; otherwise, one risks the having other people dictate how one lives one's life."
I do understand there are some flaws in this theme, and I hope to refine it by the time the pastiche comes around. In order to find happiness seems a little vague, and what wants in one's life is too.
Quotes:
1. "She was borned in slavery time when folks, dat is black folks, didn't sit down anytime dey felt lak it. So sittin' on porches lak de white madam looked lak uh mighty fine thing tuh her. Dat's whut she wanted for me -- don't keer whut it cost. Git up on uh high chair and site dere. She didn't have time tuh think whut tuh do after you go up on de stool uh do nothin'. De object wuz tuh git dere. So Ah got up on de high stool lak she told me, but Pheoby, Ah done nearly languished tuh death up dere. Ah felt like de world wuz cryin' extry and Ah ain't read de common news yet."
Janie is explaining to Pheoby why she doesn't what to like the way her Granny wanted too. She explains that she had experienced "sittin' on porches" but found that it wasn't what she wanted. Whereas everyone wants material things, she wants love.
2. "'Cause you told me Ah mus gointer love him, and, and Ah don't. Maybe if somebody was to tell me how, Ah could do it." (23)
Janie, still naive, believes that she should love and stay Logan because that's what society expects in marriage. However, she says later, that Logan isn't the type of person that can be loved.
3. "She had been getting ready for her great journey to the horizons in search of people; it was important to all the world that she should find them and they find her. But she had been whipped like a cur dog, and run off down a back road after things." (89)
Janie goes through a lot of introspection after Jody's death and realizes that she had grand ideas and dreams, but the pressure of Granny and society to conform and marry for money made her abandon these dreams.
4. "Whut yuh needs is uh man datuh done lived uhround and know all about tuh sort of manage yo' things fuh yuh and ginerally do round." (91)
Ike Green articulates what the suitors around Janie think, that she needs them to manage her affairs and a man to tell her what to do. Continuing this thought is the next quote.
5. "These men didn't represent a thing she wanted to know about. She had already experienced them through Logan and Joe."
However, Janie realizes that these men did not love her as a person, but rather to add to their wealth. In contrast, she loves Tea Cake because he allows her to be what she wants to be, rather than what he wants her to be.
I do understand there are some flaws in this theme, and I hope to refine it by the time the pastiche comes around. In order to find happiness seems a little vague, and what wants in one's life is too.
Quotes:
1. "She was borned in slavery time when folks, dat is black folks, didn't sit down anytime dey felt lak it. So sittin' on porches lak de white madam looked lak uh mighty fine thing tuh her. Dat's whut she wanted for me -- don't keer whut it cost. Git up on uh high chair and site dere. She didn't have time tuh think whut tuh do after you go up on de stool uh do nothin'. De object wuz tuh git dere. So Ah got up on de high stool lak she told me, but Pheoby, Ah done nearly languished tuh death up dere. Ah felt like de world wuz cryin' extry and Ah ain't read de common news yet."
Janie is explaining to Pheoby why she doesn't what to like the way her Granny wanted too. She explains that she had experienced "sittin' on porches" but found that it wasn't what she wanted. Whereas everyone wants material things, she wants love.
2. "'Cause you told me Ah mus gointer love him, and, and Ah don't. Maybe if somebody was to tell me how, Ah could do it." (23)
Janie, still naive, believes that she should love and stay Logan because that's what society expects in marriage. However, she says later, that Logan isn't the type of person that can be loved.
3. "She had been getting ready for her great journey to the horizons in search of people; it was important to all the world that she should find them and they find her. But she had been whipped like a cur dog, and run off down a back road after things." (89)
Janie goes through a lot of introspection after Jody's death and realizes that she had grand ideas and dreams, but the pressure of Granny and society to conform and marry for money made her abandon these dreams.
4. "Whut yuh needs is uh man datuh done lived uhround and know all about tuh sort of manage yo' things fuh yuh and ginerally do round." (91)
Ike Green articulates what the suitors around Janie think, that she needs them to manage her affairs and a man to tell her what to do. Continuing this thought is the next quote.
5. "These men didn't represent a thing she wanted to know about. She had already experienced them through Logan and Joe."
However, Janie realizes that these men did not love her as a person, but rather to add to their wealth. In contrast, she loves Tea Cake because he allows her to be what she wants to be, rather than what he wants her to be.
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