Monday, March 23, 2015

Turner and Tea Cake

Mrs Turner is very interesting character in this book. She is black herself but she dislikes black people. Therefore, she tends to hang out with light skinned people more like Janie. She likes Janie and she always at her house to talk to her. Janie knows she does not like nigger talks so she does not talk about Tea Cake with her. I think she was brave enough o tell Janie that she should have not married a guy like Tea Cake instead she should have married her brother or  her son who deserved her. Most of the other African Americans in this book does not talk trash about themselves and are living together as family. But Mrs Turner hates other black people and she things they are bunch of monkeys fooling around all the time. I think she is dealing with Internal Racism because she hates black people and she says even when she is dying she does not want a black doctor to come check her! She would rather die. She like white people and that the reason why she likes Janie. Tea Cake hated her too because he heard her trying to hook Janie u with her son. Tea Cake told Janie not to listen to that old women because all she wanted was her money that is in the bank account. Tea Cake also gathered all the black people in the town to fight her for saying that but they actually did not fight her. Overall, Mrs Turners character was little wired in this type of book.

I was shocked too that Tea Cake hit Janie but I am surprised that Janie didn't say anything back to Tea Cake. Janie seemed like she was used to this and she enjoyed it because she didn't stop tea Cake. If I were Janie I would tell him to stop since she has been through this same thing before with Jody. I think Janie should have stopped Tea Cake when he went around telling the whole town what he did to her and she didn't say anything back. Townspeople were surprised too because their wife would yell at them for whole day and would hit them back,which is what I would have done.
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