Their Eyes Were Watching God: An Epic Search

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realized this, and when she saw that Janie was old enough for
love she had her married. This guaranteed that Janie would not continue a
loss of identity.
Even as a young girl, living in the materialistic world of her
Nanny and her first husband, Logan Killicks, Janie chooses to listen to
"the words of the trees and the wind" (23-24). This is the first evidence
of her searching beyond her boring life. This then leads to her everyday
life left empty, because she is always looking farther than where she is at
the time. So day by day she gets more worked up into leaving Logan, and
searching for love. When she leaves Logan to run off with Joe, she thinks
to herself, "Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new
words would have to be made and said to fit them" (31).
Joe aims to be a big voice and that is why he comes to Eatonville,
Florida. He feels that he will have a better chance at being a big voice in
an all black town than in a white man's town. The problem is that ...

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