MOVEMENT AND PROGRESS

By: Jessica Greenwood

Their Eyes Were Watching God

By: Zora Neale Hurston

Janie Crawford Feminism is clear in this

novel and is shown through the main heroine, Janie. In Their Eyes Were Watching God Janie is used to represent aspects of feminism. Here she takes the initiative to free herself from each of her three overbearing relationships. Each with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks, and Tea Cake.

Logan Killicks Instead of being

treated as a companion , Janie was used to increase his profits. Logan also expressed his real use for Janie later in the novel. Janie refused to work, saying it wasn’t her "place" to do so. Here he told her "You ain't got no particular place. It's wherever Ah need yuh" (31). After hearing of this she knew she had to escape.

Joe Starks Janie ran away with Joe

Starks, who promised her a different lifestyle. He stated, "Janie, if you think Ah aims to tole you off and make a dog outa you, youse wrong. Ah wants to make a wife outa you" (29). In the 1930s it was uncommon for a women to leave or even disobey her husband. Janie stood up to Logan regardless of the violence he threatened her with.

Tea Cake Tea Cake taught

Janie to play checkers on the first day they met. As Janie learned the rules of the game, "she found herself glowing inside. Somebody wanted her to play. Somebody thought it natural for her to play" (95-96) She married him.

THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

By : Mark Twain

Huck Finn Huck struggles along his

journey and encounters race along with identity. He makes a moral choice based on his own judgment of Jim's friendship and human worth. His decision goes against his society and all that he has been taught. In the novel Huck rips up a note that he had wrote to Miss Watson. Even though religion is very important, in his eyes , going to hell was worth it because he helped Jim escape.

Black BoyBy: Richard Wright

Richard Wright Black Boy is a novel based on racism.

Wright grew up in the deep South; the Jim Crow South of the early twentieth century. He was raised knowing of of two races, black and white. He never understood the relationship between the two. He always tried to and this got him into trouble several times. Richard was taught determination by his mother. The rebellious nature in Richard Wright was a main reason why he was able to overcome his background and become a successful writer. Since he was independent, smart, and had sense of perseverance , he was able to get through life.

Movement The book ends with Wright

fleeing the South and going North. "With ever watchful eyes and bearing scars, I headed North, full of a hazy notion that life could be lived with dignity, and that the personalities of others should not be violated, that men should be able to confront other men without fear or shame, and that if men were lucky in their living on earth they might win some redeeming meaning for their having struggled and suffered here beneath the stars."

THE COLOR PURPLEBy: Alice Walker

Celie The book begins with

Celie being a victim. She’s repeatedly raped by her father, her children are taken away from her, and she’s sold into marriage to a man who does not recognize her as a wife. It seems that the only person who loves her is her sister Nettie. God is used as her escape and she confides in him.

In Memphis, Celie starts a new business sewing pants. With the help of Shug she becomes very successful, and she also learns how to love. Men have beaten Celie throughout her life, and women are the only people that she is able to feel love for.

Nettie Nettie is educated and

independent . Nettie is the woman that she is as a result of Celie’s sacrifices. She is an eager learner and is always interested in sharing her knowledge with her sister. She attempted to teach Celie how to read and write. This is how they communicated. They sent letters to one another throughout the novel.

THE CRUCIBLEBy: Arthur Miller

John Proctor As the trials began, Proctor realized that he could

stop Abigail’s rampage through Salem but only if he confessed to his adultery. This would ruin his good name. For this Proctor was against revealing the truth. He eventually made an attempt, through Mary Warren’s testimony, to name Abigail as a fraud without revealing the crucial information. When this attempt failed, he finally bursts out with his confession, calling Abigail a “whore” and proclaiming his guilt publicly.

'Because it is my name!, Because I cannot have another in my life. How may I live without my name, leave me my name! ( page 138).'

Movement and Progress