TEWWG Chapter 3-4

The main thing that stuck out to me in this chapter was the line, "From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything." This quote really stuck out for me, I read it and started thinking about it. What I got out of this line was that she's sick of things going badly for her. She just wants to turn her life around and until she dies she wants to be happy. The problem I see is that no one has happiness forever...I have a feeling that as time goes on she's going to start to have more and more problems. If you go back to the first two chapters when she walked into town and everyone judged her...I think that is where this quote is coming from. She has all these problems and she wants to forget them and 'have springtime sprinkled on everything.'

TEWWG Chapter 1-2

When Janie first got to the town people weren't too nice to her. The women sat on the porch and judged her as she walked by. No one except for Pheobe went over and said hi or asked her anything. The rest of them just sat and made jokes about her. I really liked it when Pheobe put them in their place. She basically told them to shut up and stop judging without asking. After Pheobe goes and talks to Janie you find out the full story. Going back to when Janie was a kid you can see that she had a pretty nice upbringing. Although, she was mixed race she still got along with the white kids. In fact she would play with all the white kids and didn't think anything of it. Janie didn't actually know she was black until she was 6 years old when she was shown a picture. The black kids made fun of Janie a lot because they said she lived in the white people's back yard. I couldn't really find any similarities between her childhood and adulthood experiences. She was treated the exact same when she was a kid and she was treated as an outcast as an adult.

Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey was the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. The organization's goal was to unite the native people of Africa in order to fight back against crimes aimed at them. Garvey stated that the only way you're to overcome a common enemy is to work together. People in the Rastafari Movement saw Garvey as a prophet. Marcus Garvey always strived to help people and obviously he did when putting together the UNIA. Obviously Marcus Garvey recieved a lot of criticism, as do all civil rights activists. Garvey's criticism was different, though...a fellow civil rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois called Marcus Garvey a traitor. Although, they're not entirely sure why Du Bois thought this there were some ideas that came up. One in particular confused me a little bit, the theory was that Du Bois was prejudice towards Garvey because Garvey was a carribean native and was darker skinned then Du Bois. Garvey was quoted once saying, "Du Bois is purely and simply a white man's nigger." Marcus Garvey questioned Du Bois' motives on the books he wrote and thought Du Bois sent people in to try and destroy Garvey's organizations. Even with the criticism Garvey recieved he still was an amazing man and he helped many people in the different struggling nations.