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As Janie explores her newfound freedom and independence, she begins to open up to feelings she’s never had before, like her newfound love for Tea Cake. After being smothered by Joe’s authority for 20 years, Janie and the townspeople all got used to the same way of life. When Joe died, Janie began to be true to herself and independent which sparks an external conflict in the town. Hurston describes the feelings of the town towards Janie’s new behavior by saying, “It was after the picnic that the town began to notice things and got mad”. People thought that Janie should still be grieving and honoring her late husband by remarrying to someone that can add to her standings and is “worth her time”.

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Janie shows us that love and loss leads to finding your true identity and personal freedom. 

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Janie shows us that love and loss leads to finding your true identity and personal freedom. 

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Members of the Community will always judge what you do and who you do it with. It is our job to do things with people that we love so much that we don't care about what they say.

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Members of the Community will always judge what you do and who you do it with. It is our job to do things with people that we love so much that we don't care about what they say.

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When Janie falls in love with Tea Cake, Hurston describes her feelings towards him as "a self-crushing love" (Hurston 128). 

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When Janie falls in love with Tea Cake, Hurston describes her feelings towards him as "a self-crushing love" (Hurston 128). 

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Janie "called in her soul"(193) to feel truly and wholly. Hurston uses this phrase to show how janie's internal conflict with her free soul has started to heal and demonstrates the theme that to find your voice and identity it takes time, loss, and personal experience.

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Hurston uses the phrase "self-crushing love" (128) when Janie seems to find what she's longed for but the loss of her old self and some of her soul has left her weary of Tea Cake. Her internal conflict shows as she desperately wants the type of love being offered to her but is afraid of it as all. The theme of loving and wanting love but all the while having lost herself is shown here.

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Hurston describes Janie's feelings for Jody and Tea Cake, "'Cause Tea Cake ain't no Jody Starks,'" it expresses Janie's hatred for Jody, and love for Tea Cake. Which reveals the theme that love leads to loss and hatred, and loss and hatred leads back to love.

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Their Eyes Were Watching God has a theme of growth into independence and freedom and how certain experiences allow you to realize the things that are important to you

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Their Eyes Were Watching God has a theme of growth into independence and freedom and how certain experiences allow you to realize the things that are important to you

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The love she feels for Tea Cake is shwon when she looses him, compared to how she reacted when Jody died.

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Love and loss leads to discovering one's true identity, as shown when Janie lets "one thick braid swing below her waist" after Jody died. This demonstrates how loosing someone made her realize that she was being held prisoner and was now free.

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Hurston describes Janie's struggles through love and loss. This can be prevalent when Hurston describes, "she had to hug hum tight for soon he would be gone, and she had to tell him for the last time." This conflict between Janie and Tea Cake shows the loss Janie had to face just to survive.

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Hurston describes Janie in a conversation with Phoeby, where Janie says that some day soon she will leave with Tea Cake, it shows how in love and how much she trust Tea Cake. We know that her dream was to fall in love and be loved, and in order to do that she decided to leave with Tea Cake, and that Tea Cake was going to make her dream come true.

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As Janie had lost close one to her it made her stronger and she began to find happiness and independence. 

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As Janie had lost close one to her it made her stronger and she began to find happiness and independence. 

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At the beginning, Janie is naive and wants someone to guide her down the right path, but towards the end she has matured enough to find her way in the world, which shows her level of independence.

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Finding your voice and identity leads to attracting what you want. For example, once she experiences Joe's "love" Janie knows she wants real love and to truly live. "She went over to the dresser and tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her hair" (87). She finds her voice and attracts her lover Tea Cake.

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The members of Eatonville have continued to judge Janie and other members who don't follow certain norms. It shows how humans first reaction to situations they don't understand is to judge and push them away. Hurston characterizes gossipers as a unit together, it shows how a community can team together to hate something.

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The care with which Janie buries Tea Cake is an indication of the grief she feels over the loss, ending the suspicion of Tea Cake's friends. Hurston uses the funeral to show that love is felt clearly in loss.

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"Jody Stark hadn't been dead but nine month and here goes sashaying off to a picnic in pink linen." This shows that's hard for Janie being a women because everyone is used to judging her for getting with Tea Cake so quick when they don't know the full story on Joe Starks.

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Janie finds her identity through her struggles.

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Janie just wants to feel respected by Jody but he is never willing to grant her that. When she finds Tea Cake she believes he finally will, but she feels betrayed after he leaves with her money. Tea Cake returns and Janie makes it very clear to him that she is his equal and will partake in everything he does, making this a pivotal moment in Janie's individuality.

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Janie's story teaches that chasing your dreams is a long struggle. While chasing your dreams you may go through conflict, but it is how you deal with conflict that decides if you accomplish your dreams. We see her go through struggle with Joe and Logan, but without those experiences she would have never met Tea Cake. Janie would have never discovered the simple loved that she truly wanted. Janie says "You have to go there to know there." You can't let anyone tell you they life that you want to live. You may never know you where to take or life and when you were living your best life. A great man and one of my personal heroes named Michael Scott said "I wish there was a way to know that you were living in the good old days before you leave them.''

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Janie starts her journey finding her first love with Johnny Taylor and is then forced to marry Logan. Logan treats her poorly and she experiences loss for the first time. She perseveres throughout the pain and finds new love with Joe and they run off together and love is immersed in the relationship. Joe suppresses her thoughts and actions and she can't speak up at all. Once Joe dies she suffers the loss but finds love once again showing she is determined and persistent to find true love in the end.