In Their Eyes Were Watching God and/or The Hate U Give, how does gender (society’s vision of what it means to be male and female) and/or race affect characters’ identities, decisions, and/or lives? In the society presented in the novel, what does it mean to be a man? a woman? Do the society's expectations of masculinity and femininity and/or race affect Janie's and Starr's life in any significant ways? Are there any other characters that seem driven by societal expectations of gender or race (say, Joe Starks, for instance)? How do characters deal with stereotypes involving their gender or race?
The main character Starr is an African American, and her race effect her life, identity, and decisions. She pays more attention to how she talks in front of police and white people. Starr speaks in different dialect when she goes to Williamson, so that the people in school would not see her as a dangerous black from the ghetto. She cannot be who she truly is in Williamson. When Starr's childhood friend, Khalil, was killed because the police see all Black people are violent and dangerous. Starr is afraid to speak up for Khalil at first because she know that it is something that might put her life in danger. Starr later decide to speak up against the unfairness of the society and fight for Khalil's justice, because she knows that her silent does not help "Us" revive the justice that "Us" are supposed to get. She participate in police investigation hoping it would bring Khalil justice. She posted pictures and videos of who Khalil truly is in Tumblr, a social media. She goes on an interview on television, and question the police for their assumption. She goes to court cases as the witness and testify for the wrong doing of the police. Starr do her best to fight for Khalil's justice even though she is very scared to do it.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel, The Hate U Give, the main character, Starr, faces several obstacles in life, which have to do with her identity, decisions, and life. Based off of Starr's point of view and what she thinks the reader is able to grasp the idea that these obstacles are a result of her race, which is African American. Starr Carter lives Garden Heights, which is a mostly black and lower class neighborhood, but she goes to school at Williamson Prep, which is in another town and is mostly white. Often times in the book, Starr tells the reader that she likes to act "proper" at school because she doesn't want her friends to see her real self and think she is "ghetto." In this action, the reader can see that Starr is somewhat scared or even ashamed to reveal her true identity because of what her friends would think of her.
ReplyDeleteAfter the shooting of Starr's best friend, Khalil Harris, she makes it a point to make sure that none or her friends or boyfriend find out she was the witness of Khalil's death. Because of this Starr makes decisions that push her friends away and most seriously her boyfriend, Chris. Over and over, the reader sees Chris trying to fix what has "gone wrong" between him and Starr, but Starr tells him "he wouldn't understand," which continually drives a wedge between the two. Starr may think she is protecting her self image and her friends by making in unknown that she was the witness of Khalil's, but she is also pushing herself away from these important people in her life. As a result of these decision, the reader is able to see that Starr is becoming more self-conscious/aware and starts feeling more lonely. Starr tells the reader that recently she has become a lot more aware of racial issues in her community, and along with this, Starr begins to feel like she has a duty to speak out since she was the witness of the shooting. However, Starr is held back from this, once again, because she is afraid of what people will think and she doesn't know if she is brave enough to do it. Throughout the novel the reader is able to see Starr trying to overcome racial obstacles in her life, and also figuring out who she is as a person and what she wants to represent in society.
In The Hate U Give, the main character, Starr, is African American. Starr attends Williamson Prep, which is a predominantly white private school. At this school she tries her best to fit in, and focuses on using intellectual vocabulary instead of slang, so that she doesn’t come off as “ghetto”. Even though her peers may do certain things, she is timid to, in fear that they will judge her just because of her skin color, which does happen.
ReplyDeleteGrowing up, Starr is earned by her father to be cautious, especially around police. “Keep your hands visible. No sudden moves. Only speak when spoken to” (Thomas 95). Even at this year, racial discrimination and acts of violence do still happen. It was eye opening to me that she grew up hearing these rules on how to act, because I was never told anything close. It was one of these ‘safety suggestions’ that Khalil broke, that cost his life. When Khalil turned to ask if Starr was okay, the policeman shot him three times, thinking he was dangerous. If the tables were turned, and Khalil was white, I believe this whole story would’ve never taken place. Although we cannot choose our race, it does impact our lives in some way.
No one is given the ability to choose their race, which race can play an important impact on one’s life. In the novel, The Hate U Give, race plays an important role in the main character, Starr Carter. Starr is an African American whose race heavily affects her identity, decisions, and life. Starr is forced to play two roles pulled between two worlds: Williamson Starr and Garden Heights Starr. Starr is from a poor black community called Garden Heights but attends the primarily white private school, Williamson Prep. At school, she tries to act properly so that her white friends do not think that she is “ghetto” due to her skin color. For example. she does not use slang, instead, Starr uses intellectual vocabulary to make herself sound like her white peers. As much as she tries, Starr is unable to keep herself in her Williamson Starr identity when her peers say racial comments, which ends her friendship with her white friend, Hailey, at the end of the novel. Racism also plays a role in Starr’s romantic life. Starr is dating a white boy named Chris who truly loves her and she loves him for him. Starr is afraid to tell her father about Chris because of the fact that he is white. Anyone should be allowed to love someone else regardless of their gender or race. Furthermore, Chris is unable to understand Starr sometimes because of their racial differences. This also occurs when the police officer shoots and kills Khalil because he assumed that Khalil was reaching for a gun instead of a hairbrush. In this scene, we see how racial discrimination intervenes with violence, which is an important outcome of one’s gender, identity, and race.
ReplyDeleteIn Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main character, Janie, is an African American woman living in Florida in the early 1900’s. After losing both of her parents, she is raised by her grandma who preaches to her ideas of what and where a woman should be, even convincing young Janie to marry a man who does not respect her and whom she does not love. He often forces Janie to do his farm work and once when she refuses he says “You ain’t got no particular place. It’s wherever Ah need yuh” (Hurston 31). Where her husband might expect her to give in, she doesn’t and eventually leaves him for another man named Joe Stark who also diverged from the societal norm. As an African American, it is very unusual for a man like Joe to be as successful and ambitious as he is. When he and Janie move to Eatonville, he quickly takes charge in getting the small town in order by planning to open a store and a post office. Both Janie and Joe deal with their race and gender stereotypes by resisting conformity and normality.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, expectations of race and gender affect the main character, Janie, significantly. In her early childhood, stereotypes of how African Americans are supposed to behave in society were drilled in her brain - what they could achieve, how they could act, what jobs they could hold, etc. Janie always lived a repressed life, under the influence of her grandmother, and such repression was only added to by the simple fact that she was a woman. At the age of only sixteen, Janie is forced into marriage, under the guise that she would eventually learn to love her new husband - something that was expected by most women in marriages. When she leaves him for her second husband, Joe Starks, her life turns into one of a caged bird. Her expectations as a woman and wife hound her. She is not allowed to speak her mind, appear the way she truly wishes to, or take authority. Her husband is weighed down heavily by his own expectations of being a man. This leads to him being aloof, crude, and far too ambitiously cocky. He even goes as far as to insult and beat Janie just to make him appear as more of a man. He would rather make his wife suffer than live with the reality of not being a stereotypical man. Eventually, Janie goes against being a submissive wife by standing up for herself and calling her husband out for his behavior, thus sparking a newfound confidence in her soul.
ReplyDeleteIn reference to Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston, the main character (Janie) is treated with a lack of respect and has a hard time keeping her dignity in tact. Not only are these hardships in relation to the past in which she was raised, and the lack of self fulfillment, but also by stereotypical standards of the time period and the location. In my opinion, the clearest example of this occurs towards the end of the book after Tea Cake's death. Despite any hurt that onlookers may have felt, an extreme prejudice was held against Janie during her court case regarding her act of self- defense. The African American onlookers saw her as a fake martyr, hearing her pleas without giving a second thought to her situation. Characters like Sop De Bottom and such were convinced that Janie was in the wrong, and that the fact she was a woman meant she was given far too much slack. They go so far as to say ".. uh white man and uh n***** woman is de freest thing on Earth" (Hurston 189)l. In their society, it is the man's job to look after the woman, as Tea Cake did. If the woman is in any way ungrateful, or even seems to be, she is worthless to society. This is seen again in the way Joe has her take care of the shop earlier in the novel. He claims that she is not allowed to go out on her own, to be seen in certain crowds or to make certain decisions. Despite this control, she is to be eternally grateful for all of the 'opportunities' her husband provides. Women do not have the right to take care of themselves, but also must not try to take care of themselves. There is a constant creation of double standards for what women of the time period should do and what should be expected of them. This is what caused for Janie to not know what she is to do in order to feel fulfilled, or how she is to find actual happiness. Everyone around her is expecting certain and different things. Her Nanna expects her to settle down, Joe expects her to work hard and never complain, but also not be seen working too hard. Tea Cake wants her to be happy, but he is convinced that he has to take care of her for that to happen. Her race also plays into the dangerous tiptoe she must do to keep everyone happy. They need to know their place, and that is a place that is underneath men. Men are also often affected by the dangerous expectations hovering over them, and this stress of stereotypes trickles down the scale of racial and gender social standards.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, some big reoccurring themes include gender, race, and how society sees the two. In the beginning of the novel, Janie and her grandmother lived in the Washburn's backyard. The Washburn's were a nice white family that lived in West Florida. Janie lived there until she was being teased by the other kids at school for living with white people. After that Janie and her Grandmother got a house with the help of Mrs. Washburn. A little later in the novel, Janie's grandmother convinces Janie that she needs to get married for protection so she marries Logan Killicks. After a year of being married, Janie leaves Logan because he tried to make her help with the farming work. In the society at the time, the men were supposed to do the farming work while the women would work in the kitchen. After Janie leaves Logan, she immediately gets married to Joe Starks. Janie hopes that she will love Joe because he promises to make her happy. Their society's expectation of Femininity affected Janie's life when Joe does not let Janie attend social events because that is not what the mayor's wife is supposed to do. Joe was especially driven by societal expectations of women when he made Janie tie her hair up because she was his and he did not want anyone else looking at it. Janie deals with stereotypes involving her gender by breaking them. She was supposed to be a submissive silent wife, but when she did not like what was happening, she left.
ReplyDeleteWithout the stereotype found in Starr and Khalil’s town,would he have died that night? Police brutality is a huge issue involved in The Hate U Give and ultimately costs Khalil his life. All of the conflicts in the book relates back to social injustices and people not “fitting in” based on something they can’t control. For example, Starr has to pretend to be somebody else at Williamson Prep so she is not stereotyped as the “ghetto girl.” Starr still feels out of place and unwelcome at the party in her own hometown of Garden Heights. While talking to Chris and Maya she has to decide on how she wants to talk, she says “I’m not a ‘sassy black girl.’ I have to watch what I say and how I say it, but I can’t sound ‘white”’ (Thomas 357). People should be looking at the hearts and insides of people, rather than what is on the outside. If the police office didn't judge Khalil and assume things, he could of stayed alive that night. Stereotypes are prevalent through the whole community. For example, Starr’s own friend, Hailey, says “Somebody was going to kill him eventually” (Thomas 341). People saying these things and thinking violence is the answer are the problems inside of Starr’s community. Brave heroes like Starr are needed in places like this to speak out and give Khalil the justice he deserves.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel, The Hate U Give, race plays a significant role in Starr Carter's life, probably more than most. Starr lives two separate lives. Her first world consists of her family, her neighborhood, and most of her childhood. Starr lives in Garden Heights, a poor black community that has been adulterated with drugs and gangs. While her second life is made up by her school, her friends, and her boyfriend. When Starr was younger her parents moved her and her brothers to Williamson Prep, a primarily white private school, in hope that it would keep them safe and better their education. Starr believes the only way to avoid conflict between the two worlds is to keep them separate. At school, Starr doesn't use slang and stays out of trouble. She does anything to avoid people calling her "hood" or "ghetto". Then at home, although this is where Starr can be herself, she has to hide her white boyfriend from her father. Additionally, because she goes to Williamson Prep, people in her neighborhood perceive her as stuck up. Because of Starr's race she is forced to act in opposition to her stereotype at school, while in Garden Heights she has to hide her whole other life. Although race affects every aspect of Starr's life, it surpasses its ability to disunite the night Starr's friend Khalil is killed. That night Khalil and Starr had been driving from a party when they were pulled over by the cop. As the cop went back to his car to run the plates Khalil pulled open the driver side door to see if Starr was okay. Khalil didn't even have enough time to finish his sentence before he was shot. The officer's quick reaction caused a huge division between the Garden Heights community and the police. Many, including Starr, believed that the officer wouldn't have had the same reaction if he had pulled over a white person. Whereas the police community believed the officer was only trying to protect himself. The thing is, would the officer have held off shooting the gun a little bit longer if it was a white person? His quick presumptions based on Khalil's race ended up killing Khalil and everyone knew that. Starr stood up for Khalil. She used her voice to make sure that the world knew that Khalil wasn't killed because he was selling drugs or a possible gang member, he was killed because the officer made a quick assumption based on Khalil's race.
ReplyDeleteIn "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas, multiple characters are driven to make decisions based on what society thinks of their gender or ethnicity. One such character is Starr Carter, the main character in the novel. She has two extremely different lifestyles, and in an effort to fit in she must conform to whatever environment she is in. When Starr is in Garden Heights, her home, she must try to act cool. Even though she has grown up there, she does not go in public much so she is uncomfortable around the "social locals". The main reason Starr has to try to act cool in Garden Heights is because she goes to a prep school, Williamson High, that is about an hour away from her home and made up of a mainly white body of students. The regulars of Garden Heights often ridicule Starr for going to such a "petty" school. At Williamson, Starr is automatically cool because she is black. This stereotyping causes Starr to avoid saying or doing anything she would do in Garden Heights in fear of receiving another, more negative stereotype- the "hood" or "angry" black girl. She weighs through everything she says or does before she carries out her actions. Another character who is influenced by what society thinks of him is Maverick, Starr's father. Maverick is a good man who wants to bring about more equality to society, especially for his home neighborhood of Garden Heights. He knows that Garden Heights is not very welcoming to people who are not from there. Therefore, he is not willing to take his family to a safer neighborhood, despite them witnessing multiple horrible crimes. His fear of not being able to help his peers keeps him from doing what may be necessary for his family for a very long time.
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ReplyDeleteIn the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God race and gender play an important role in determining your place in society. Your race and gender determined what kind of job you got and how you were treated. Due to how society was structured, many negative stereotypes evolved for women and African Americans. The main character Janie is a woman and African American, which puts her in a tough situation. Society during that time expected much less from women and African Americans, which is sad for Janie. Janie always tried to do her best at certain tasks, but she would always be ridiculed by Joe. For example, if Janie would mess up someone's order of tobacco, Joe would belittle her. During that time, men would get harder jobs while women would get simpler tasks like cooking. In Janie’s first marriage, she would offer to help with farming, but Logan would always tell her to stay inside even though she is perfectly capable of helping. This is an example of a stereotype that depicts women as weaker and less intelligent as men. Janie would deal with these stereotypes by simple bottling up her emotions. When she tries to speak her mind, she ends up back to where she started.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel, "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas, Starr Carter faces racial discrimination, and finding she was trapped between two "separate" worlds due to the color of her skin. Throughout the novel, Thomas reveals the racial injustices Starr had faced. An example of such injustice would lead to the murder of Starr's best friend, Khalil, at the hands of a police officer. Would Khalil have been killed had the police officer not held on to stereotypes about black people? Starr vowed to find answers to that burning question in the black community.
ReplyDeleteBecause of the stereotypes placed on black people, they feel they have to stand up against those ideas, or fight even harder to show that not every black person acts the same way. In turn, that resistance to the stereotypes could prove them right or wrong, depending on the overall demeanor of the protesters. In Starr's case, she was willing to take the chance on proving the "black stereotypes" right; in order to take a stand for her community and to make a difference in people of all races around her.
For Starr, going to a white-majority/ black-minority private school was difficult for her. Starr found herself having to play a two-face role: being her true self at home, but having to act more proper and like the others at school. At the end of the novel, Starr emotionally snapped, and her true self unleashed itself on a friend during school. In the novel, some believed all black people fit into one single category; Starr rose above those societal expectations, and broke apart the barriers that stereotypes have built to separate different races and cultures.
In the novel, The Hate U Give, Starr deals with racial issues more than most. She is an African American who goes to a predominantly white school, and she lives in a rough neighborhood. She felt as if she needed to completely change her personality to fit in at Williamson, and created barriers between different friend groups. She didn’t want her white friends to call her “ghetto” or “hood.” This caused problems in her relationships because Chris got upset after she wouldn’t open up to him about her past. Starr saw discrimination even with her closest friends. Hailey made herself the leader of the group, and had made many jokes towards Starr and Maya’s cultures.
ReplyDeleteAnother example of cultural stereotypes is that people can’t be in interracial relationships. Maverick is furious after he finds out that Starr and Chris are together. There was always pressure on them to be with other African Americans.
Khalil’s death was also a major racial issue in the novel. If there wasn’t the stereotype against their neighborhood, Khalil probably wouldn’t have been killed that night. Officer One-Fifteen viewed them as a threat, even though they hadn’t done anything wrong. This same stereotype occurs commonly in today’s society, and it is costing lives.
In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie, an African American female, was greatly affected by society's vision regarding gender and race roles. Her life started off great, actually. She lived with her grandmother in a white family's backyard and got along quite nicely with all of the other white girls. As she got older, others would make fun of her or judge her for always being with the white girls. This is when she realized the harsh truth of the society she was living in.
ReplyDeleteAside from her race giving her difficulty, so did her gender. Her grandmother wanted her to get married as soon as possible so she could "have someone to protect her". Women were not seen as independent people during this time and everyone believed that they needed a man to support and take care of them. Her first two marriages can easily be considered failures. The men treated her like a minority as if she had no use other than cooking and cleaning for them. Joe Starks would make her take care of the store, but then wouldn't give her any recognition or take her to public events as she had wanted because she was "just the mayor's wife".
During this time, there were much higher expectations for men than women. Janie wanted to be able to do things for herself, so in her third and final marriage, she did. She would work with Tea Cake while they were at the Everglades because she got bored of staying in the house and having everything handed to her. After dealing with all of the common stereotypes, Janie rose above society's "way of life" and lived her life on her terms as she had wanted.
In "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas, the main character, Starr Carter, endures racial discrimination and oppression on a daily basis. Due to dangerous conditions in her home neighborhood of Garden Heights, Starr is forced to attend a private school called Williamson Prep where she essentially finds herself living two separate lives. In her home of Garden Heights, Starr has the freedom to express her individuality and remain her self but chooses not to in hopes of avoiding negative remarks about her enrollment in a prep school that consists of a heavily white population. At Williamson Prep, she must hide behind the mask of her true identity and act similar to her peers so that she is not perceived as a stereotypical African American. Starr feels as though she must conform to the traditional school standards to avoid judgment and views implicated by society on how African Americans are supposed to act. In both "lives," Starr never reveals her true identity. Due to continuous societal perceptions of African Americans, they are constantly made out to be people that they are not. In any given situation, it is the individuals of color that have to go the extra mile to be taken seriously or given a voice in the real world. In the novel, Starr and her friend Khalil Harris were pulled over by a white police officer for no logical explanation other than the fact that they were black. After being forcibly removed from the car, Khalil returned to the window to assure that Starr was safe, only to be shot multiple times by the police officer for grabbing a hairbrush. The officer's quick decision between life or death was met with the question that if the driver would have been white, would the officer have considered an alternative outcome to the issue? The decision to fire at Khalil was solely based on the color of his skin. Being not only the only credible witness but a loyal, lifelong friend of Khalil, Starr challenged typical societal views by using her voice to show the world that Khalil Harris was not killed for his practices, he was killed for the color of his skin.
ReplyDeleten Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie (the main character) is both a woman and an African American. This affects her life greatly and really differentiates her life from someone such as a white male. Society likes to depict women as the unable and more like the tools in the kitchen. This is shown with Janie's first two husbands. She is not expected to work but she is expected to be able to cook. Society depicts men as those who fill larger roles such as mayor. Being a man in this society opens you up to more opportunities. It is sad to say and awful for Janie, but the society taking place in the book has way lower expectations for women than men.
ReplyDeleteBeing an African American makes whites look down on you. Janie never really felt all that different when she was a child. She actually for a while, didn’t know she was different. Janie began to know how hard it was when everyone made fun of her dad for being chased by bloodhounds. Some characters in the book handle their situation a little differently. Mrs. Turner, an African American, did everything she possibly could to be less African American and more white. She practically worshiped Janie’s white features. Everyone in the book deals with these social expectations a little differently.
In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main character Janie experiences many different struggles with both her race and gender. Janie being an African American woman during the time was looked down on by many people for not acting like a so called "woman" for her time period. For example, Janie would often be made fun of by other kids for living in a white family's backyard or for her father being chased out by dogs. Janie was also forced into a marriage by her grandmother, Nanny, with a character named Logan Killicks, someone she barely new or loved. Nanny did this because she thought that Janie needed a rich wealthy man to provide and take of her. Janie often would offer to help him out in the fields but he always just told her that her work belonged inside. Janie experienced these gender stereotypes many times in her life and had similar experiences with her second husband Joe Stark. Joe would never include or let Janie attend any social event in town because he believed they were unfit for a woman of her status. It just shows you how something as simple as a dumb stereotype can make your gender be viewed as less capable or your race be known as less dominant. Eventually, Janie ended up dealing with these stereotypes by straying from the norm and doing what she wanted to do.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main character, Janie, faced many issues in society due to her gender and race. Due to her being an African American woman, that affected her life greatly. She grew up in a white family's backyard with her grandmother. She got along with the white family, but was made fun of for that reason as she grew up. Janie's grandmother thought that an African American woman could not live without a man to take care of her, which is why she forced Janie to marry a man named Logan Killicks. Janie hardly knew him and kept telling herself she would grow to love him, but never did. Back then, society believed that it was a man's job to go to work and provide for the family, while the woman stayed at home to cook and clean the house. Every time she tried to go to the fields with Logan, he would tell her no and that she belonged inside.
ReplyDeleteThe society's expectations of a man and a woman do affect Janie and Joe Stark's life. Joe, just like society, believed that a woman's work belonged inside and not out. Joe put her in charge of the store and criticized what she did, such as how she cut tobacco. He never gave her praise. He never took her to public events because someone had to take care of the store, even though no one would come. He believed that the events were not suited for someone like her. Joe didn't teach Janie how to play checkers because he believed that it was too complicated for her to understand. He represented the idea that society wanted men to stay superior to women. This was one of the many stereotypes portrayed throughout the book. Janie was simply looked down upon for the fact that she was a woman. People believed that a woman couldn't be alone and needed a man to take care of them. When her first two marriages failed and her third husband died, she was finally able to be who she wanted to be and was able to do what she wanted to do. She was finally able to be alone and ignore the stereotypes and what society thought.
In “The Hate U Give” Starr is constantly battling with the injustice that she and those close to her have to face due to the stereotypes of black people. Starr has two distinct personalities one for Garden Heights and one for her primarily white school Williamson. Both personalities come naturally to her because she feels that she can’t be herself around her friends from Williamson. She states multiple times that she wouldn’t know what to do if her worlds collided because she wouldn’t know which Starr to be. She acts more polite and quiet at school, never using slang so that she won’t be seen as the crazy black girl.
ReplyDeleteWhen Starr’s friend Khalil is killed she knows that it was because they were black, and Khalil would never get justice for that same reason. Even as she struggles to stay strong for Khalil and the people around her who loved him she continues to keep her worlds separate because of the image she feels she needs to maintain at her school. Eventually she learns to accept that she can’t let stereotypes and fear control her, because by not using her voice to speak out, share her story, and overcome the misconceptions that society has about black people she is continuing to let the world live in ignorance.
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ReplyDeleteIn Their Eyes Were Watching God, both gender and race affect the identity, decisions, and life of Janie Crawford. Growing up alongside the Washburns, a white family, and her grandmother, whom she called Nanny, Janie was introduced to a variety of customs and traditions. By living in close proximity to a white family, and one who treated her quite well at that, Janie was accustomed to a certain way of life, one that would eventually giving cause to be the subject of bullying and extreme prejudice. Janie’s identity was also influenced by her grandmother, who imposed upon her granddaughter ideals and stories to live by. Janie’s dreams were repressed by her grandmother’s beliefs about marriage, and what a woman Janie’s age should be doing with her life. Although greatly loved by her grandmother, Janie would eventually be forced to conform to both society’s guidelines and Nanny’s when she marries Logan Killicks at age 16. Shortly after marrying Mr. Killicks, Janie met Joe Starks, with whom she immediately fell in love. The two ran away together and started a new life in Eatonville. There, Joe was named Mayor thanks to his many brilliant ideas. For a while, Janie was happy. But over time, the harsh realities of what it meant to be a woman and a wife appeared to her through the constant reprimanding and beatings she received from her doting husband.
ReplyDeleteWhen looking at it from Joe’s perspective, the reader can see clearly that he is a man with a need to dominate everything around him, including his wife. Janie, in her second marriage, was only needed as a stepping stone into power by her husband. She is purposeful and unloved. Joe serves as a symbol for the belief that men are superior to women in every aspect of life.
In her third and final marriage Janie finally escapes the norms pressed upon her by her former husbands, grandmother, and society. With Tea Cake, Janie works alongside him in the fields, is introduced to new skills and experiences, and is allowed to grow into her own person. Her marriage to Tea Cake allows Janie’s personality to grow and show her character growth. Janie continues to preserve and remain hopeful even after his death at her hands. Although stifled by external calls for her to conform to societal norms, Janie ultimately broke boundaries and found peace within herself, casting away the typical stereotypes for women at the time.
Throughout the novel The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, many characters struggled with choosing their actions because of their race. One character named Starr Carter faced many challenges in both school life and home life. In Garden Heights, her home, she uses different slang words and acts differently to try and fit in with the people that she is around. The school she goes to, Williamson High, is a predominantly white school, which automatically makes her cool because she is black. To avoid people calling her the “hood black girl,” she avoids saying or doing things that she would normally do in Garden Heights. Another character who deals with this is Khalil Harris. In the first few chapters of the novel, Khalil and Starr were traveling home from a party they both attended until they were pulled over by a cop. He came up to the vehicle and asked a few questions but Khalil was not complying with the officer's demands. He asked Khalil to step out of the vehicle and wait there while he went to look up the license plate in his car. Khalil did not listen and reached through his car window to grab a hairbrush and the officer fired a fatal shot. It is argued throughout the novel that Khalil may not have died if he was a white boy rather than a black boy. The African American community states that the law enforcement agency is biased based on the race of a person. They also said that if a white boy didn’t follow the officer’s commands, the officer would have threatened to shoot and said “Put your hands in the air” rather than instantaneously shooting. The police force countered these statements by saying the officer was trying to protect himself because he didn’t know what Khalil was holding.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, ethnicity plays a large role in how people are perceived. Starr, the main character, goes to Williamson High as a young African American. Williamson High is considered to be an all white school, therefore Starr has to be careful with the things she says around her school mates. Starr is allowed to be herself at Garden Heights where she has many friends. Her best friend, Khalil, is also African American. After a shooting at Garden Heights, Khalil and Starr have a journey that would be Khalil's last. A police officer shoots Khalil when in all reality he did nothing wrong. If Khalil were white maybe the officer would not have shot him. Angie Thomas throughout this book does a fantastic job writing about the first hand struggles that go along with racism.
ReplyDeleteThroughout the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main character Janie experiences many challenges due to the color of her skin and her gender. She grows up being raised by her grandmother and she doesn’t think of herself different from the other children that she goes to school with. Once she starts to get bullied, life becomes hard for her and she realizes that she will have to work harder for what she wants. Once she is old enough to get married, her grandmother already has a guy picked out for her and she says it’s because she doesn’t want her to have to struggle and the guy is a great person. Janie ends this marriage quick after coming to multiple people for advice and receiving the same response, that he is one of the wealthiest in town and that she would love him eventually. Women in this society are expected to cook and clean for their husbands while they go to work in the fields. When Janie runs away to marry Joe Starks, she is used as a stepping stone. She cooks, cleans, sometimes works at the store when needed, but ultimately is beaten when she does wrong. Joe follows society’s standards and treats her like she is an accessory and does not love her. He wants to show superiority to her by bossing her around and doing many things himself. Janie escapes these stereotypes during her third marriage. She is allowed to work in the fields and grow into her own person through learning new things and using them to her advantage.
ReplyDeleteThe presence of race, gender,and society In the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” displays a huge importance and role throughout the novel. In the early 1900s those factors that you classify yourself as, technically determined you fate in the real world. The protagonist, janie is the lowest of the low born to be a black female. Now everyone has taken history class and should be familiar with the social hierarchy of mankind, which pretty much stayed consistent up until the 1960s. All the people she was close to had these expectations of her, janie wanted to go her own way but the views of her society blocked her of her own satisfactory. Janie, caught under a pear tree for lust of a young man named johnny by her Nanny. Janie thought she had her own feelings toward him but Nanny disagreed. Nanny before janie’s time had also had witnessed racism and the role of her gender, for she was once a slave and raped by her master to birth janie’s mother. Janie’s mother also was raped by her school teacher to birth janie. This first shows a significant amount of struggle women has been through just through janie’s family tree. The role of women was always known to take care of the house and kids, while the male contained dominance and provided for the family.Janie’s nanny is doing the only thing she knows best and has the idea that she is helping her granddaughter by introducing a marriage to Logan. Now society has taught everyone that it is best for a young lady to marry an elder rich male. Janie hated this and hated the way logan treated her and make her help on the farm. Race is displayed as blacks on the lower end of the pole. Janie and tea cake realize this after they leave their home eatonville to the everglades. Their new home town would look at them like they were poor and did not amount to the same status as the whites did in the area. The gender of women is displayed as weak. The show of race is the darker the lower you are on the totem pole. Society is the main root that feeds this information to the people living in it.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main character Janie plays the role as a young 16 year old african american female. She was raised by her grandmother who taught her about transferring from a girl to a woman through marriage. In the book, girls are usually married at a young age to then be taken care of by their new husbands. In Eatonville the people didn’t expect much of Janie and only looked at her as the mayor's wife. Jody ,the mayor, used his wife's status to “control” the people. Janie is mostly just an ornaments or a prize for Jody to show who's boss. With it being the early 1900's you were also judged by your race as well as gender. Janie was an african american which put her in a bad situation. It makes it difficult to get a good job and livelihood. Also, people would have low expectations for her because of her race. During this period in time certain people had certain roles in society and everyone was expected to follow those rules.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel, The Hate You Give, race plays a role on characters decisions and identities. The main character, Starr, feels like she has to be a different person based on the people she is around.The expectations that her community has based on race affect how she acts. At her home in Garden Heights Starr acts and talks normal, but when she goes to school she is completely different. Starr goes to school with mostly white people, so she feels she as to talk and act like them so she isn't seen as "ghetto". Race also affects Starr's life when her friend is killed. Starr is in Garden Heights when she gets pulled over with her friend, Khalil, that is also black. The officer ends up shooting Khalil. Throughout the book people believe if Khalil was white he would have not been shot. The officer assumed that because Khalil was black he was dangerous. Everyone in Garden Heights is stereotyped to be in a gang or selling drugs. Starr deals with this by acting different depending on if she is at home or in school. By the end of the story Starr learns that she should act the same no matter what people assume about her because of her race.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel, The Hate You Give Starr is very heavily impacted by race. She attends a school with very few African American people. Because she is from Garden Heights one of her constant worries is not being seen as everyone else. Starr divides herself into two different sides of herself when she is at school she speaks and acts “normally” versus at home where she doesn’t hold herself back. After Kahlil is shot by a white police officer and killed this significantly affects Starr. She starts to eventually realize that she has a voice and she can make a difference for Kahlil and her community. Many people in her community are also affected by race. Starr and her brothers are taught from a young age to be very mindful of cops and always listen to them. They are being taught this because based on where they live and who they are there is a stereotype set on them. In the end, Starr realizes she can’t change where she comes from and begins to speak her mind and true feelings more.
ReplyDeleteIn Their Eyes Were Watching God, society's view on gender and race greatly impact the main character, Janie Crawford. Being an African American woman in the early 1900's, she faced many struggles. Janie was raised by her grandmother and they both lived in the backyard of a white family. When Janie was 16, her grandmother told her she was of the age to get married and had already chosen her husband. Janie did not want to get married but according to society, a girl her age needed to be protected and provided for. Her first husband, Logan, only let her cook and clean all day because that was what was expected of women. When she left Logan for Joe, she soon found she had some of the same issues. Joe used Janie and would show her off. Joe wanted to control everything including the town and his wife, to prove that he had exceed society's expectations of being a man. In Janie's third marriage, she finally evades the stereotypes and standards of women of the time period and really begins to grow and thrive as a character.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel The Hate U Give, Starr Carter tries her hardest to defy the stereotypes that surround her race and the community she lives in. She carefully chooses her words and actions when she’s at Williamson Prep, not wanting to fulfill the typical African American stereotype. She is also extremely careful in the way she deals with law enforcement, knowing the horrifying stories of police brutality without having any idea of the future nightmare that she would endure involving the unfair death of Khalil. A typical girl in Starr’s hometown of Garden Heights goes to parties, does drugs, and gets pregnant at a young age. Starr even speaks of her father’s involvement in the King Lord’s gang and how they refer to females as “queens”. Starr explains that as soon as her father left the gang life, her “royal street status” expired. Starr refuses to fit the stereotypes and stays away from things that could impact her future negatively and cause her potential harm.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel The Hate U Give, Starr, who is the main character is an African American. Throughout the novel she expresses how her race plays a huge part in her everyday life. Starr goes to a private school called Williamson, which is a predominately white school. Starr complains about her struggles about not fitting in, although she tries her hardest to. She does not want to be stereotyped as "ghetto." While at school Starr is always on her best behavior, she never uses slang, or draws confrontation. She also makes sure to not talk about her home life so no one knows that she lives in "the hood." While her classmates are talking about their huge houses and expensive vacations she simply listens and says nothing, and just listens. She does not want to be put in a box, or stereotyped, she wants to blend in with the rest, and be seen as normal.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel, The Hate U give, race plays a large role on how people are identified. The main character, Starr, who is African American, attends Williamson Prep which is primarily a white private school. Starr is cautious about what she says around other classmates because she does not want to come off as "Ghetto." At school she never talks about her life at home because she doesn't want people to know she lives in "the hood." Starr can't be herself around her peers because she is afraid they will judge her because she has a different skin color. Race affects Starrs life again when Khalil is shot three times and killed. Khalil was shot because he was viewed as a threat to the officer even though he didn't do anything wrong. Many people in the novel believe that if Khalil was white he would not have been shot. At the end of the novel Starr learns that even if people judge her she should always be herself.
ReplyDeleteRace is a major factor in "The Hate U Give", one of the major factors in the book is the divide between whites and minorities. We can see this divide between these two groups by looking at the main character and how she was viewed and how she viewed others. In the book we can see that Starr was afraid that people would view Khalil as just another drug dealer due to the place where the shooting happened and the color of the skin. Starr also lived a double life at the begining of the book where she would change here personality and speech depending on who she was with. Starr changed between her two personalities due to the fear that if the two personalities met, people would begin to judge her.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas, race affects the main character Starr Carter in many aspects of her life throughout the novel. One major example of how race affects her identity is in the different ways Starr acts depending on who she is surrounded by. Starr grew up in Garden Heights, a lower class African American community flooded with drugs and gangs. When she is enrolled at Williamson, a primarily white prep school, she chose to form herself into what she calls “Williamson Starr.” For this version of herself, she controls her words trying to sound more intellectual and avoids using any slang words because she is worried her peers will put her into a “Ghetto” stereotype if she acts like herself. She lives in two separate worlds and does not want them to collide. This is a major reason she doesn’t tell any of her Williamson friends or her boyfriend that she was the witness in the news. Her worlds finally collide when she tells her boyfriend Chris about what happened with Natasha and with Khalil and he accepts her for who she is. Race also plays a major role in the events that took place the night of Khalil’s shooting. Because of law enforcement's quick judgements and mistrust of minorities, an innocent boy was killed when they mistook his hairbrush for a gun.
ReplyDeleteIn the book, The Hate U Give, Starr has to deal with many racial differences in her life. When white people turn 12 or 13 their parents usually give them the birds and the bees talk. For many African-American Kids, including Starr, they must have another talk as well. Starr's father had that talk with her, it was about what to do when you get pulled over or confronted by a cop. That conversation she had with her dad was running through her mind when she and Khalil got pulled over by a cop. The cop, officer number 115, asked for the license and registration from him and when he was hesitant, the officer yanked him out of the car. Khalil then leaned over and opened the door to ask Starr if she was okay when the officer went back to his car and the cop shot him three times in the back. Starr goes to a mostly white kids school. She didn't want people talking about her or saying things about her because of her race so, she set up some guidelines for herself. She had school Starr and home Starr. She has a white boyfriend at her school, he had never been over to her house before because she lives in what she calls the “Ghetto”. Once Khalil was murdered she starts to slowly unravel, and eventually, she tells her boyfriend Chris everything. She worries that because he is white that he won't understand, but he does. Starr finally has someone she can talk to about this. She has to appear before a Grand Jury to testify against officer 115 to try to get justice. When they got the results of the jury, Starr said she wasn't surprised that the officer got off because that's how it always works because of their race. When the officer spoke about what happened he said he saw something black and thick in the door, so, he assumed it was a weapon, and shot. It was a hairbrush. Because of the stereotypes about black people the cop shot and killed him, if it had been a white person in the car, that most likely would not have happened.
ReplyDeleteIn "The Hate U Give", the main character Starr Carter is an African-American student at Williamson Prep, a majority white school. When Starr went to school she was hesitant to talk about what her life was like at home because she didn't want to be judged. When she was around her friends she would talk and act differently. Whenever Starr's friends would talk about their big houses she would just sit there and listen. She didn't want anyone knowing she wasn't as wealthy as them. Race again effected Starr's life when Khalil was shot three times. Officer One-Fifteen saw Khalil as a threat yet he hadn't done anything wrong. The same situations happen in todays society.
ReplyDeleteIn “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston, the main character, a young African American female, who goes by the name of Janie faces a great deal of discrimination throughout the novel. The novel takes place during the early 1900’s in the south, where being African American meant that you were not treated with equal respect to whites, and being female meant that you were not as capable as a male, and spent most of your time following the orders of your husband. Janie was first introduced to the harsh relaity of discrimination in her early childhood, when she started school. Many of her African American classmates tended to tease her for “livin’ in de white folks’ back-yard” (Hurstons 9). Janie grew up alongside white children, because her Grandmother, who she was fortunate enough to have looking after her, was a Nanny for a white family. Janie grew up playing and developing with the white children, and took after many of their customs and beliefs, which included calling her own grandmother, Nanny, like they had. This gave Janie a slight advantage in society, compared to some of her classmates, which seemed to make them jealous and resent her. Aside from living with whites, Janie was also made fun of for dressing like them, given that she tended to receive their clothing after the children had outgrown them. Due to her age, as time went on Janie's Grandmother became increasingly worried that she would pass away, which would leave Janie with no one to look after her. Janie's grandmother only wanted the best for her, which is why she rushed her into marrying a man by the name of Logan Killicks, however Janie was not ready for marriage. Janie expresses many times that she does not feel as though she loves Logan, despite his property and income, and as expected by most readers, the marriage does not work out. Things may have worked out slightly different if Janie had been born a boy. Janie may be seen as more independent, and may have avoided being pushed into a marriage she was not ready for. After remarrying, Janie again becomes unhappy with her involvement in society. After being given the responsibility of working the store in the town that her husband, Joe Starks is mayor of, Janie finds herself wishing that she was capable of more than just tending to the store. Joe holds Janie to a very high standard given that she is the major's wife, and does not allow her to participate in certain activities around the town. For example, after Matt Bonner's mule passes away and a funeral is held in his honor, Joe tells Janie that it would be inappropriate for her to attend.
ReplyDeleteRace plays a major role in the novel "The Hate U Give." Starr is an African American student that attends a majority white school, but still lives in the hood. Starr acts differently around the people at her school because she's scared of being judged on account of her skin color and for fear of fitting negative stereotypes. Starr doesn't like to talk about her conditions at home or anything when other people talk about their own, and she changes the way she talks and acts around people at her school. When Khalil is shot, she is scared that people will think he was just another drug dealer because of where he was shot and his skin color. These racial stereotypes drive the way she acts during the book, and, for me, was one of the biggest takeaways from the book.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel, “The Hate U Give” race largely effects Starr Carter’s and others lives in the story. Starr Carter is an African American teen who struggles with the two different people she feels she needs to be. Starr lives in a predominately black community, but goes to school at a preppy, predominantly white school, Williamson Prep. Starr is afraid that she will come off as too ghetto at her school, however, she is also afraid she is acting too preppy when she is home. Starr’s friend, Khalil, also faced an unfourtanent incident that targeteted him because he was black. Khalil was shot and killed by a white cop, even though he was unarmed and not a threat to anyone. When Starr is asked tho speak up and go on trial about Khalil’s death, she finds herself too afraid to speak up. She knows it’s your right thing to do for her friend Khalil, but how will people react. Will they believe her? Or will certain people think that Khalil deserved it because he was selling drugs. Starr eventually speaks out for herself and for justice for Khalil. even though she is a black female, people believe that she deserves the right to speak out, despite the consequences from the cops.
ReplyDeleteA major topic of the novel "The Hate That U Give" is race and stereotypes. Starr being enrolled in almost entire white school while she herself is African American is what drives her to create two separate Starr's. The neat Starr that avoids racial stereotypes at Williamson, and the Garden Heights Starr who uses slang to avoid seeming too smart. After Khalil is killed by officer 115, Starr begins to worry how he will be remembered as she knew the real Khalil but the outside world may only see him as a no good drug dealer all due to his race. This is what causes Starr’s journey to help get justice for Khalil.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel "The Hate U Give" racism is a major focus. Starr Carter battles between the two worlds she lives in with living in Garden Heights presumed as a getto area and attending a prep school with a greater number of white people. She exersises her ethnicity at home but at school she becomes a whole different person to talk to her friends so she is not labeled "ghetto". She has to make sure that the person she becomes depending on where she is or who she is with does not clash. Her preppy personality can not come home with her and her native tongue cannot be known at school. When Khalil is shot everything become that much harder. In the end she notices that her voice matters and she is not ashamed of who she is.
ReplyDeleteBeing a black girl, The Hate U Give the central figure, Starr possesses numerous stereotypes that she breaks around specific groups of people so that she doesn’t appear like a stereotypical black person. For instance, when she is among her friends at school, she has to hold back what she says and how she acts so that she doesn’t provoke any stereotypical assumptions of the other kids in her school. Starrs’s culture has a significant effect on her life because she is sometimes seen as a ghetto kid. Where she lives is also a vital component of the book because her friends won’t hang out at her home because she lives in the hood. Although she has gained white friends, she can’t use slang similar to them because it presents her to seem ghetto while it makes her friends seem cool.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel "Their Eyes Were watching God" Janie Crawford struggles to live the life she has dreamed of because of her gender. Janie was raised by her grandmother. As he grandmother grew old she feared that Janie could not live on her own. She believed that she needed a man to take care of her. Her grandma felt that she could not protect herself because she was a woman. Janie married Logan Killicks to please her grandmother before she passed away. Logan just used her to help with work. He treated her like she was nothing and he just bossed her around. Janie later ran away with a man named Joe Starks. At first she thought she found true love. Then as time went on Joe used her for work and treated her just like how Logan did. When the new store was open Joe did not let Janie speak. He said "she's uh woman and her place is in de home"(Hurston 43). He believes that women belong in the house and that they are not as smart as men. He makes her feel trapped because since she is a woman he believes she can only do work. Joe says she doesn't even know how to think right.
ReplyDeleteAfter Joe passed away she felt free. But now, she had men trying to get her to marry them. Everyone was saying that she needed a husband. They said she needed to get married again. Janie tried very hard, but she could get away from the strict gender roles of society.
In the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God", The main character is depicted as a black, post Antebellum housewife. Janie Stark is raised by her Grandmother, known as Nanny. Her beliefs and practices reveal her deep ties to religion. Being both a slave and a woman, her Nanny's perceived subordination makes life rather difficult for her and her family. This difficulty and stereotype follows Jodie into her first marriage. When her husband, Logan, gets upset when Jodie doesn't help him, he proceeds to tell her that "She ain't got no particular place, it's wherever I need ya."(Hurston 31). There is a clear division between the ideas and responsibilities of man and woman in this novel, making it difficult for Jodie to develop and become the woman she has always depicted herself to be. Another character determined to make a name for himself is Jodie's new husband, Joe Starks. When he receives word of a new town in Western Florida, he sets his sights on improving the town and becoming the mayor of a Southern metropolis.
ReplyDeleteThroughout the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God", both gender and race affect the life decisions of Janie. From the very beginning, her family being black had limited what she could do as she aged. She is put into a marriage with Logan Killicks. She realized this was not what she wanted because she believed that she would learn to love Logan, but that didn't happen. So, when she had the chance to go off with Joe, she took it. She liked being with Joe but slowly it was turning into the same thing again. She is sad when Joe dies but moves on and marries Tea Cake. Tea Cake shows Janie what life could be like if there were no stereotypes. He takes his rich wife out into the fields to pick beans and she loves it. Their first "date" outside of the store was night fishing. The only thing Tea Cake mentions about stereotypes is when he thinks the Janie will not like doing something due to her status or gender. Tea Cake had done everything for her, that is why I believe that when she had to kill Tea Cake it was the ultimate sacrifice. Not only did she have to kill the man who had quite literally shown her the world, she still partly blamed herself for being in the water with the dog. She said at the trail she didn't care about prison she just didn't want there to be any misunderstanding.
ReplyDeleteIn "Their Eyes Were Watching God", race and gender play a very important role in the novel's plot. First, the main character and protagonist, Janie Crawford, begins to find out how to make a life for herself and stand up for herself as an African American woman. She is faced with judgment and hate all because she is an African American woman in the early 1900s. The novel shows men have all the power due to Janie being forced to work and being treated like an animal by her husbands throughout the novel. Janie faces struggles with finding herself and sticking up for herself as a woman. As she begins to search for her identity, Janie decides to not listen to what society wants her to be. For example, as Janie's grandmother sends her off to marry a man named Logan because he is well off and has everything society says a woman should have. Janie decides to stick up for herself when he attempts to force her to do yard work and boss her around. Just because he is a man, she will not let him tell her what to do. Being the independent woman she was at such a young age, she decided to run off with a man named Joe to a black community in Eatonville, Florida because he tells her he would treat her better than she has ever been treated. Janie soon finds out he will not treat her any better than her first husband. He uses his "masculine power" to force Janie to tie up her hair and run a store he has bought. Joe tries to control Janie by forcing her into the woman he wants, not who she is. Joe believes he has to hold Janie to such a high standard because he is the Mayor of the town. Janie moves on to a new man Tea Cake, due to the degrading things Joe makes her do. As she starts her relationship with her new husband, she begins to find out her true identity.
ReplyDeleteIn The Hate U Give gender and race play a big role in how the characters live their lives from their attitudes to their decisions. From the race stand point Starr and Seven are great examples of having to change their attitudes in society from when they go from Garden Heights to Williamson. When they go to school they have to act proper so that they don’t get labeled as a stereotype. Starr even goes as far as to change her slang and what she tells her friends about, like not even telling them about Khalil’s death. Additionally, race and stereotypes affected Khalil the most, he died because an officer felt that he was dangerous and all of society believed he was a thug because of where he came from and what he looked like which ultimately lead to his death. Gender had/has its own set of stereotypes, different things defined what made you a man and woman. Seven had trouble dealing with what made him and man and tried to stick up for everyone and be a tough guy like
ReplyDeletehis dad and when his dad was gone he tried to be the man of the house. He wanted to live up to the expectations of protecting people which many times got him beat up by King. I feel that although it was rarely seen that Starr was given many more rules then Seven although he was older and had more freedom Starr had to have more of an eye on her. Although, I feel that her and the other characters were able to deal with stereotypes by sticking up for themselves and using their voices to fight for justice and not letting people oppress them.
Starr deals with the stereotype of her race by living a double life. When she goes to her predominantly white private school, Williamson, she becomes a preppy girl who speaks without slang and has a squeaky clean personality. When she goes out with her friend Kenya or out in her predominantly black neighborhood, she switches to an opposite side of her self that acts more roughly in order to fit in with the crowd. In order to prove that black people don’t fit the stereotype generated by white people, she acts different at her school. In order to prove she isn’t affected by the stereotype of the people at her school (which in some cases is true), she acts differently in her neighborhood. Because of her race, the world and society around Starr constantly demands that she prove herself to be above these stereotypes, which causes her to lose her true self in the process.
ReplyDeleteIn "The Hate U Give", both race and gender play a key role in the plot. To avoid being labeled as a stereotype, Starr changes the way she talks and acts depending on if she is at school at Williamson Prep, or at home in Garden Heights. Almost all of the men in the novel appear to feel that they have to make sure everything that needs to be done is taken care of. For example, Seven often displayed the need to take the role of his father and protect the family when he is not there. In my opinion, Khalil is the character that was affected most by race and gender. When the police officer pulled him over, it appeared that the officer was not threatened by his actions, but by the fact that he was African American and male. When Khalil reached into his car, the officer assumed that he was grabbing for a weapon. As this situation went on, it came out that it was due to Khalil's race and gender. After the shooting, Starr and her community rallied against the police force in attempt for justice. They feel that they need to speak out and show what has happened and what is right and wrong about the situation. Throughout the story, there are many examples of how race and gender affect the characters. Starr, her family, and her friends are all affected by stereotypes, and most of them attempt to not be labeled by them.
ReplyDeleteIn "Their Eyes Were Watching God" , gender plays a key role in the novel. Janie is told by her grandmother that she must marry at a young age so her husband can take care of her. After 2 insufferable marriages where she does not feel loved, she finally starts thinking for herself and disobeying what her grandmother told her. This is also after she is used to show the wealth of her second husband, Jodie. Race also pops up throughout, it is the reason why Janie and Jodie move to an all African-American town. One of Janie's friends often visits her to complain that the neighborhood is "too black" and how they should separate both blacks and whites.
ReplyDeleteIn “ The Hate U Give”, race is the main conflict of the novel. Starr tries to avoid the stereotype given to her by changing the way she talks, dresses, and acts around different groups of people. At school, she tries her hardest to not be the Starr from the hood, but when at home she can be the Starr people would expect her to be. Her race affects decisions she makes daily. More specifically, when she got pulled over with Khalil, she knew that because of her race she had to take precautions. She was told at a young age the dangers that she would face and how to react and respond.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel, "The Hate U Give", the race and gender of the characters has a lot to do with how situations are handled throughout the book. Being African American Starr struggles with stereotypes everyday like for example at her school when she feels the need to stay quiet so she won't get judged for her so called slang. She is basically forced to live a double life. The idea of stereotypes is shown mainly with Khalil. When he is pulled over and seen as a threat to the officer just because of his skin color. Kahlil just reaching for something in the car caused him to get shot because the officer just assumed he was reaching for a gun. Also Kahlil being a male made him be seen more dangerous than a female would have been.
ReplyDeleteIn Their Eyes Were Watching God, gender and race take a huge part of Janie's Life. For example, when During Janie's second marriage with Joe Starks, she would constantly be put down for her gender, and she was confined to her home to do the 'womanly chores'. Beforehand, Janie was also forced into marrying a landowner and becoming a proper wife to Logan Killicks, where again she would do the housework that society deemed that women should do. Nanny is also incredibly driven by traditional gender roles, as she thought that Janie should be content with just being wed to a landowner. Racism is also very prevalent in the novel, as that is why Janie moves to the town of all African Americans. Race and gender are huge pieces as to why Janie is forced to act the way she does.
ReplyDeleteIn "The Hate U Give" the main character, Starr, struggles during the majority of the novel with her gender and racial differences. She is an African American woman who lives in the hood and has to go to an almost all white school in a nicer part of town. While at the school she has to be the 'whiter' version of herself and talk cleaner so that people don't know she is from the hood and discriminate because of the color of her skin. Her friend Hailey who is not her friend at the end of the novel discriminates against Starr and says racist comments about her eating fried chicken because that is a stereotype that some African Americans have. Society's view of a woman force Starr to act way differently when she is in public and she struggles to speak out at first on her friend Khalil getting killed by the cop. At the end of the novel we can see Starr develop and become a stronger woman and proud African American as she stands up to society and does what she wants. I think that another character in the novel that is driven by societal expectations of gender and race is Hailey. She is a rich white girl who is stuck up and acts as if she is above her friends and can say and do whatever she wants because she is white.
ReplyDeleteThroughout "The Hate U Give", Starr frequently mentions that she doesn't want to act like "the angry black girl" or seem "too ghetto" at school. She stops herself from using too much slang and speaking or acting in other ways she normally would because she doesn't want to be seen as a stereotype. She also doesn't tell her friends that she was the one in the car with Khalil when he was killed because she is afraid that her friends will view her as a thug for hanging out with someone being called a suspected drug dealer on the news. All the stereotypes she's exposed to make her ashamed of who she is and where she comes from. Starr's father, Maverick, has some issues with her dating Chris because he is white. When he finds out, he asks her if she thinks black men aren't good enough for her. This is because he has many bad experiences with racism and is now very cautious of white people.
ReplyDeleteWithin the novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God" Janie, and her ancestors, were raised in the prejudice of Floridian society under suppression, for her and her family are African American. Her grandmother tells Janie stories about her mother and how her grandmother raised her and her mother through the era of slavery. Even in Janie's time, however, African Americans, especially women, are looked down on. They are stereotyped to be to be proper wives to stay at home and do housework while the men (husbands) are away or off doing work. Janie's world is filled with judgement and stereotypes, for many people are biased against others depending on what gossip they hear going around about that particular person. Racism also flowed through the veins of Janie's society. Janie is ridiculed for the way she dresses and who she falls in love with. She was berated for being of African decent while she was still in school. While Janie is searching for her identity, she struggles with oppression of white men and women denying her her rights as an African American and a woman.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurtson, Janie Crawford, the main character, is greatly affected by society’s view on race and gender. As an African American woman in the 1900’s there were a lot of expectations and expected stereotypes surrounding Janie. Even as a young girl she was affected by these stereotypes, she was expected to marry young and she was married off at the age of 16, already her life was being controlled. This was not the only time she is affected by such things. Another time is when Joe Starks, her second husband, leaves Janie in charge of the shop, he informs her that she is not allowed to go out on her own or make certain decisions. This stereotype of Women not being able/trusted to, or even being allowed to take care of themselves, affected Janie greatly. These stereotypes controlled Janie for most of her life, and it wasn’t until she finally got to make her own decisions and return home that she realized how good it was to be her own person.
ReplyDeleteIn Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, gender and race has a major affect on the characters' lives. Janie is constantly looked down on as a lesser being not only because she's a woman, but because she is of mixed race. In the novel, being a man means being in charge and being a leader, and being a woman means listening and submitting to men. Those expectations affect Janie's life because she is unable to achieve the life she wants because she isn't seen as an equal to her partners. Joe Starks is definitely another major character that is driven by those societal expectations. He makes it his goal to be feared and in charge of the people in the town, and he doesn't let anything get in his way, including Janie. Even while she was with Tea Cake, and after, Janie still had to deal with those stereotypes and expectations of a woman at the turn of the century.
ReplyDeleteIn Their Eyes Were Watching God Janie's role she plays in society, up until the end of the book is determined almost completely by society itself. As a woman she must be a housewife, and as an African american she must be lesser than her white counterparts. She cannot complete the goals she desires as she is looked down upon not only because of her race but her gender. By the end of the book she partially achieves happiness as she finds a man who she loves. The happiness is cut short by him becoming ill from rabies and her being forced to kill him in order to save herself.
ReplyDeleteIn the book The Hate U Give, Starr is an African American girl. For the majority of the book, it's obvious to see that her race plays a large part in who she is and how she acts. Starr goes to a private school where most of the kids are white. Starr often feels like she doesn't fit in, even when she tries her very hardest to. She does not want to be treated differently just because of her skin color. Starr acts different at school because she doesn't want the other kids to think less of her. She also doesn't talk about her home life so no one knows where she lives. Another example would be Khalil’s death. In the event that there wasn't the generalization against their neighborhood, Khalil presumably wouldn't have been killed that night. The police officer saw them as a threat, despite the fact that they hadn't done anything to provoke this.
ReplyDeleteIn The Hate U Give, racial diversity makes a significant impact on the way the way Starr acts around not only figures of authority like police, but even her own friends. Because Starr is African American, she feels that it is necessary to alter her personality around her friends at her prep school. This definitely makes a huge impact on her everyday life, as she feels immense pressure to fit in at home and at school, which ends up changing who she is in order to please others. The book goes on to bring up more controversial topics about racial targeting by police officers and the idea that Starr’s friend Khalil would not have been shot by the officer if he was white. As Starr realizes that this is the case, it is hard for her to understand why police officers profile this way and jars her emotionally. To deal with her apparent dealings of inequality Starr finds he voice to speak for her friend Khalil and eventually helps her entire community return to peace with her new found confidence. Although this would have been an awful experience for Starr to see her friend die, I do believe that it changed her and her community for the better as they grew from this tragic accident.
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ReplyDeleteIn the novel, 'Their Eyes Were Watching God', I've definitely noticed the impact Janie's race and gender plays in her treatment. Throughout her entire life, Janie was subject to unfair treatment because of these unfair circumstances, which led to lack of equal treatment and the deprivation of huge aspects of her life. An example of this type of neglect can be viewed in the beginning stages of her journey- when she was taken out of school. Her grandmother acted upon these notions of society and married her away to a man who had no respect for Janie, and these events had to be defeated throughout her lifetime, as she gained more pride and self love. Janie grew to accept her Gender and Race, and this allowed her to eventually become comfortable in a life suitable for her, even against all the prejudice.
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