Different Kinds of Joy Essay

The hobby of rapture is a reoccurring theme in numerous novels. In the novel, Their snappers Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, what brings happiness differs to each character. To the master(prenominal) character Janie, happiness is anchor in delight, still to her grandmother she-goat, happiness is shew in security. At first, Janie does what Nanny wills her to. At the age of 16, Janie marries into security. She is safe, but unhappy. Still yearning for whap, Janie runs away with Mr. Starks. With Starks, Janie is once again safe, but unhappy. Starks so passes away, and Janie finds her true love, afternoon tea Cake.Through teatime Cake Janie re-realizes her dream of love and abandons Nannys dream of security, she descends into the muck with tea leaf Cake, learning to love sprightliness too. To find happiness, Janie has to step down from her pedestal and into the muck. Hurston efficiently uses this rear(a) metaphor to convey that happiness comes from mutual love, and that this foot be found anywhere, even from the muck of society. Nannys ideals in life and Janies ar different. To take a stand on high body politic (p16) is the ideal for Nanny. Nanny wants Janie to marry into security.With security, Janie could be safe from the abuse that her grandmother and mother had experienced. At first, this is what Janie does even though it is not what she wants. She wants to be in love, to be a pear treeany tree in bloom With kissing bees and singing of the beginning of the world (p11). When Janie finds this, she realizes what Nannys dream had done to her. She realizes that her dreams had been pinched it in to into such a teentsy bit of a thing that she could tie her grandmothers cervix uteri tight enough to choke her (p89). With this realization, Janies dream rekindles.She realizes that mutual love, him lov subject her, and her wants (wanting) to want him, is all she needs to find love in life and herself. Janies search for love ends with Tea Cake. Janie and Tea Cake are at opposite ends of the social spectrum when they meet. Janie is known as Mrs. Mayor Starks, time Tea Cake is known as a interpreter. Even though Tea Cake can offer her no security, he can offer her love and acceptance. When first meeting, Tea Cake asks Janie to play checkers. Janie found (finds) herself glowing inside. Somebody wanted (wants) her to play.Somebody thought (finds) it natural for her to play (p96). Tea Cake sees Janie as woman, not a trophy wife. And because of this, Janie sees Tea Cake as a lover, not a lowlife. at one time Janie is able to love Tea Cake, she learns to love the muck as well. Janie recovers, if people think de same they can make it all right. So in the beginnin revolutionary thoughts had tuh be thought, and new words said (p115). Janie has to experience new things with Tea Cake, like the muck, in order to love and understand him even more. Once she accepts the muck, she becomes a start out of it. Sometimes Janie would th ink of the old days in the big white house and the store and laugh to herself (p134).This is because like Tea Cake, the muck accepts her. Only here, she could listen and laugh and even talk sometimes herself if she wanted to (p134). Being in the muck is like being in love, except with place, and eventually with life. Even though the muck has no wealthiness and is the lowest aspect in society, it doesnt matter to Janie. In the muck, Janie is ridiculous but she is accepted. Janie is loved, and Janie is happy. Janie has a dream of love and happiness, but her grandmother withal has a dream of security.At first Nannys dreams overpowered her own, ahead(p) Janie into a secure but loveless marriage. Janie then becomes Mrs. Mayor Starks, which Nanny would have loved, but joy still eludes her. To find this joy, Janie has to find love. consequently Tea Cake appears in her life, becoming her one and only. He gives her what she wants, a mutual love. Janie then moves to the muck with Tea Cak e and learns to work. She is no eight-day Mrs. Mayor Starks, she is Janie. In the muck, she learns that love is trust and acceptance. She learns to find love in everything, even herself. Janie is now truly happy. Even in the lowest part of society.