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is Janie fulfilled? (a hero story)

is Janie fulfilled? (a hero story) . By Michelle Barahona & Seo Hyeon Park. What is a heroine?.  A person who is admired for having done something very brave or having achieved something great –Cambridge Dictionary

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is Janie fulfilled? (a hero story)

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  1. is Janie fulfilled?(a hero story) By Michelle Barahona & SeoHyeon Park

  2. What is a heroine? •  A person who is admired for having done something very brave or having achieved something great –Cambridge Dictionary • The chief female character in a story, play, movie, etc. -merriam-webster • According to Campbell, the hero is someone who has given his[her] life over to someone or something bigger than himself [herself].

  3. The hero journey defined The hero's journey is about growth and passage. The journey requires a separation from the comfortable, known world, and an initiation into a new level of awareness, skill, and responsibility, and then a return home.

  4. Did Janie complete her journey? • Each stage of the journey must be passed successfully if the character is to become a hero. To turn back at any stage is to reject the need to grow and mature. • Is Janie fulfilled as a heroine or not? • Unfulfilled vs. Fulfilled

  5. Unfulfilled quest • She still hushed: • “She didn’t plead to anybody. She just sat there and told and when she was through she hushed.” (187) • She still depends on men (husband): • “Tea Cake with the sun for a shawl. Of course he wasn’t dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking.” (193)

  6. Fulfilled quest • A teaching Moment: • “It’s uh know fact, pheoby, you got tuhgo there tuhknow there. Yo’ papa and yo’ mama and nobody else can’t tell yuh and show yuh. Two things everyboody’s got tuh do fuhtheyselves. They got toh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuhtheyselves” (192) • Shawn Miller • “Janie heroically defies the roles imposed upon her, and eventually finds the love she had first envisioned under the pear tree when she marries Tea Cake Woods. Their marriage, unlike her first two, is egalitarian and liberating. She thus completes her journey from object to subject.”

  7. So..Is Janie a Heroine or not? • Where are we left with Janie as a heroine?

  8. bibliography UFULFILLED • Bloom, Harold. Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God Bloom’s modern critical interpretations. Infobase Publishing, 2008 FULFILLED • Campbell, Joseph. The hero with a thousand faces. Vol. 17. New World Library, 2008. • Ubelhor, Anthony. The Hero's Journey Defined. Fairy Tales, Myths, and Other Archetypal Stories: University of Kentucky, n.d. • Miller, Shawn E. "Some Other Way To Try": From Defiance To Creative Submission In "Their Eyes Were Watching God." Southern Literary Journal 37.1 (2004): 74-95. Academic Search Premier. Web. 27 Nov. 2013.

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