Discuss Janie's feelings for Johnny Taylor and the contrasting marriage to Logan Killicks. How does each relationship affect Janie. What do the relationships reveal to the reader about Janie?
Janie's feelings for Johnny Taylor and contrasting marriage to Logan Killicks was that Janie had felt curious about love when she kissed Johnny Taylor. That it didn't mean anything. But her feelings for her marriage towards Logan Killicks was that it wasn't true love even though he did everything for her and was kind to her. She felt it wasn't a real marriage. Janie had waited to see if and when she was going to love him. Each relationship affected Janie by first trying to experience love and see how it feels, but when she married Logan Killicks she didn't feel love towards him. The relationship reveals to the reader about Janie was she had tried to experience love but in the end had not gone the way she had planned.
Janie's relationship with Logan Killicks isn't a good one, because Janie doesn't actually have love for him. On the other hand, her relationship with Johnny is built off of love at first sight. It shows that Janie wants to be with someone whom she truly loves. She's also a very picky women because she doesn't like Mr.Willick for his appearance. ~Christian Rodriguez 3rd period
Janie, as a teenager, is curious about her development through the pubescent stage of her life. She has new interests and emotions, like her wanting to kiss Johnny Taylor. Though she feels nothing when this happens, Nanny sees it, and automatically assumes that it is no good for Janie. Nanny arranges for her to marry Logan Killicks, thinking that she will be provided for long after she has passed. Janie goes along with the marriage, but never stops thinking that she will never have feelings for Logan, no matter how wealthy he is. After a three months, Nanny Passes, and Janie still feels nothing for him, a year, still nothing. She then meets a man named Joe Stark, and falls for him, and after two weeks, they want to get married.
Janie feels nothing for either of the first two men, because she doesn't neccesarily make the choices for herself. When she finally finds a man who she wants to be with, she decides to make her own choice and leave Logan. She finally realizes that she can control her own life and make her own decisioins.
Janie never had feelings for Logan Killicks, and never actually loved him. The only reason they got married was because of Janie's grandmother, she thought that was the best thing for Janie. The love never grew between them. Janie meets Johnny Taylor and thinks he's perfect. Everyday they meet up without anyone knowing. A week later Janie leaves Logan and marries Johnny. They both have plans together and Janie truly has love and feelings towards him
Janie's feeling for Johnny Taylor it isn't love she wants to know how to kiss and what is the feeling for that. Then Janie's grandmother wanted her to get married to Logan Killicks, but Janie at first didn't want to marry him. But as she thinks about the marriage with Logan she tries to understand that maybe marriage is love. Janie just wants to find love so she goes marry to Logan Killicks. This relationship reveals that Janie just want to feel loved by someone and tht she will be able to love that man.
Janies feelings between Johnny Taylor and Logan Killicks is very different because when Janie kisses Logan she starts having feelings for him but when they were going to get married and also when Logan starts bossing her around that she is spoiled she just doesnt love him at all. That is when she meets Johnny Taylor and he has all these plans for there new life and it shows that Janie really loves him. When Taylor starts doing all these improvements to this new town he becomes mayor and he starts floating away from the town. When Taylor starts acting like royalty Janie starts to be quiet and starts to just stay behide Taylor. In conclusion, when Janie was with Logan she was not happy but when she went with Taylor she started to be happy and she is great with her life.
contrasting the logan killicks marriage and johnny taylor janie didnt love johnny taylor. She was expirimenting with johnny for the idea of love. She was simply having fun when it came to johnny. Logan was not attractive by apperance, but he did eveything for janie. Janie married him thinking she would expirience love afterwards. Janie's relationships so far in the novel have shown how shallow she is, and how she wants love to be perfect.
Janie's feelings towards Logan Killicks aren't true or anything. But when they kiss she might start to think she getting feelings for him but she isn't sure about it. Janie's Grandma thought it be best for Janie to marry Logan, even though Janie didn't want to. And for her feelings towards Johnny Taylor is more like just to expirement and wanting to know what its like to be "in love" with someone. So Janie might not be in love with neither guys, just expirementing her feelings.
Janie's relation with Johnny Taylor was based on her curiosity about love. While her relation to Logan Killicks was marriage but it was with unreal love. With each relationship Janie begins to lose belief in the thought that marriage is true love and that true love is real. Through this it is revealed that Janie is still a child, blinded by her belief in true love. So easily confused and manipulated by a silver tongue.
Janie's relationship with Johnny Taylor was filled with an innocent curiosity for love. Constantly through the beginning we find Janie and Johnny kissing one another and at one point her grandmother catches her. She begins to tell her that, "Brother Logan Killicks. He's a good man too." Nanny WANTS Janie to marry Killicks but from here we learn about Janie's view on Killick, she says "He look like some ole skullhead in de grave yard." So although she PREFERS Johnny over Logan, Janie isn't really in love with either. Most likely, shes experimenting, not in harmful intentions but she doesn't know what she wants; she's still clueless.
Janie's relationship with Johnny Taylor is inquisitiveness she tried to learn about love with a kiss but really did not find it there. With Logan Killicks there was marriage something that would show us that two people love each other but in her case she did not love him even though he had money and he would try to win her over she didn't seem to care. Each relationship affects Janie because she tried feeling love with Johnny but didn't get anything and with Logan she had marriage but she was sure she didn't feel love towards him. This tells the reader that Janie isn't in love with neither she's just trying to find out what love really is by experimenting with Johnny Taylor and with a forced marriage by Nanny with Logan Killicks.
Janie's feelings towards Johnny Taylor was only curiousity she wasn't in love with him, she only kissed him to now how it felt. Janie's marriage with Logan Killicks wasn't love, she only married him because of his grandmother. In that case the only reason she married him was because she was listening to the others instead on what she really felt. Janie is experimenting and figuring out what she really wants. Janie in this situation is still too young, because she doesn't now what she really wants and she let her garndma decide for her instead of doing what she felt is correct. Ailyn Flores
Janie's feeling for Johnny Taylor are just curiosity. Janie was curious about how a kiss felt. Janie's nanny wanted her to marry someone "decent" like Logan Killicks. Of course Janie didn't love Logan. Nanny thought that Janie only wanted a "one-nightstand" because she didn't want to marry Logan. Both Relationships reveal to the reader that Janie had tried at love but it didn't go as she had planned.
Janie didn't have strong feelings for the two. She kissed Johnny Taylor out of curiosity til she was caught by her grandma. Her grandma tells her that she wants her to marry Logan Killicks since he is already well off and is the man she'd like to see Janie with. So Janie marries him just as her grandmother wanted, and thought that she would love him after marriage, since that is what marriage is "supposed to do." However, she gets no feelings for him, although he treats her well. Janie was just curious with Johnny where as with Logan, she experimented trying to find real love. Being young, she doesn't know what she wants or what love is, which still left unanswered questions after being with the two men.
Janie's feeling toward Johnny Taylor was plain curiosity she felt, wanting to know what love was. While marring Logan killicks Jane did not feel affection toward him. She mainly was forced to marry to please her grandmothers wishes. Janie's past relationships reveal that she wanted to learn what it was like to kiss a man as well as what love was really was. When in reality she didnt love any of the two rather she married because her grandmother had ask her. Elizabeth rodriguez
Janie's feelings towards johnny weren't considered 'love' she was just tgrying to learn how to kiss and how it felt and had sexual desires. this incident prompts her grandmother nanny to force Janie to marry the more socially respectable Logan Killicks. Even thugh she was married to logan killicks she never felt anything for him she always tried to feel something but it wasn't even a marriage he spoiled her at the beginning but then started to ask her to help him with the farm work and Janie feels used and unloved. these relationships affeect Janie about thinking she won't find love and she feels lonely and unloved. the relationships reveal that the character just wants to feel loved and find true love and for a man to make her happy and make her feel like she was in heaven.
Jannie had no feelings towards both men. Jannie kissed Johnny Taylor out of curiosity to experiment what a kiss felt like. Jannie's grandmother "Nanny" found out about Jannie kissing John and talked to her about marries someone who would treat her right, Logan Killicks. Jannie marries Logan for the sake of her grandmother's wish. Jannie feels uncomfortable in this situation because she doesn't have friction towards Logan. These relationships affect Jannie in a undefenite way. The situation reveals that Jannie is a person who'd try anything, even if it isn't going to end well.
The difference between Janie's feelings for Johnny Taylor and her arranged husband Logan Killicks is that she actually felt something real for Taylor. But for Killicks felt nothing and thought that her love will grow for Killicks after she got married to him. This affects Janie because she learns that you don't learn to love someone you should fall in love with someone, which she didn't. This tells me, the reader that Janie is a person who believes in love. And is someone who doesn't want to bossed around by a man she doesn't truly love.
There is not much of a difference between the feelings Janie had for Johnny Taylor and her marriage with Logan Killicks, because no emotion was there. Janie only kissed Johnny to experience it. She did not mean anything by and did not want anything more than to see what it was like to kiss. When Nanny (Janie's grandmother) caught her kissing she started to question Janie. She wanted to know if Janie felt like a woman, then these question led to the fact the Nanny thought she should get married, then Logan Killicks came into the conversation. Janie married him because that is what her grandmother wanted her to do. She thought that the love would come after the marriage, but it never showed up. During their marriage Janie was pretty quiet and she just took things without saying anything. That all changed when she met Joe Starks and she then had the confidence to stand up to Logan and leave him. Janie is not that good with relationships because she is too quiet, and has no input. Even when she may have something to say, she doe not really say anything about it, she kind of just lets it go.
Janie's curiosity about relationships was sparked while she was watching a Pear tree; "She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom..." (Pg. 11) She relates this to how marriage is suppose to be, which leads to her inevitable experimentation with the kiss from Johnny Taylor. This excites her grandmother, who influences Janie to marry Logan Killicks, Janie decides that with marriage, her hopes of finding love will soon follow. However, it never does, in the case of both Johnny Taylor and Logan Killicks, Janie was looking to experience love, however she found it with neither. These relationships will leave Janie in a search of love, which hints; it may be her primary goal throughout the novel. -Lorenzo Lambert
Janie's feelings for Johnny Taylor and the contrasting marriage to Logan Killicks is that Janie genuinely has feelings for Johnny where as for Logan she does not. Janie only agrees to marry Logan because she doesn't want to disappoint Nanny. She is also convinced to marry Logan when she is told that she will learn to love him, but this later causes a problem for Janie when she soon goes back to Nanny and asks her how she can learn to love Logan. What this revels about Janie's character is that she believes you have to fall in love it is not just something you can feel for anyone ~Jeanette Martinez
Janie's first trial of love was Johnny Taylor. He was like her first expiriment but she admits that she doesn't like him (even though she does) after her grandma disagrees of seeing them kissing. Nanny(her grandma) later recommends Janie gets married to this wealthy man called Logan Killicks. Janie refuses to marry him because she does not love him but I willing to marry him to satisfy her Nanny. Janie thought that she would love him as soon as they got married but it never happened. This tells the reader that Janie is still young and confused about love and what she wants. -Julia Martinez
True love is what makes a relationship, and Janie's relationship isn't based off love. But Janie feels different towards Johnny, true love is what attatches them together. Janie shows to the reader that she is trying to find the true love of her life. -Sergio Gonzalez 5th period
A curiosity for the feeling of love is what Janie Mae Crawford felt at the age of 16 which caused her to let Johnny Taylor kiss her over the gatepost at her Nanny's house. That kiss from Johnny was the closest thing to love that Janie has ever felt in her life because as she grew older her Nanny did as well, and her Nanny knew that she was only going to be able to take care of Janie for a limited amount of time. As a result, Nanny forced Janie to marry Logan Killicks because she felt that he was wealthy/stable enough to take care of Janie and told her that the love between them will grow over time. For example in chapter 4 the narrator says, "Long before the year was up, Janie noticed that her husband had stopped talking in rhymes to her"(pg.26) But Nanny was wrong, Janie was beginning to feel even more miserable with her marriage than she did before and this lets the reader know that the love between Logan and Janie was never there in the first place. Through the reading you can notice that Janie differs from other African American females by the way she wants to be treated by Logan, during the novels time period, black women were hard workers while Janie was not, she liked to take things easy.
Janie's feelings towards both of the gentleman are questionable. Janie kissed Johnny out of curiosity until she was caught. She didn't have any feelings for him, she was just curious on how it felt. Her grandmother becomes upset because she wants Janie to marry Logan Killicks because he is a well-off, educated man. Janie doesn't seek to upset her grandmother, so she goes ahead and marries Logan. She waits for her love of him to come over time. As time progresses she feels no change in her feelings towards him, and begins to question if she had done the right thing. She begins to search for the true love of her life, so she can end up being with someone who she has deep feelings for her.
Janie's first experience of love is with Johnny Taylor, she says that she doesn`t like him after her grandmother catches them kissing. Her grandmother (or nanny) tells her to marry Logan Killicks because he is a wealthy and stable man suitable for Janie. As naive as Janie is, she wont marry Killick because she doesn`t love him, yet she is willing to for the well-being of her grandmother. She couldn't marry Logan, even if she tried it would not work, love at a very young state is unstable and indecisive to long standing choices. Both relationships show how sheltered Janie was to love, and how she is confused and young-minded to the thought of it.
Jaine has no interest with the the Johnny and Logan. She doesnt really love both of them. With Johnny everything was based of curiosity. Even though they kissed the love was there. With logan on the other hand there is no love between him and Janie. Logan found out when jaine refused his marriage purposel because she didnt love him. With jaine charater the reader knows that she doesn't know the true meaning of love and the people she dated she never loved.
Janie's feelings for Johnny Taylor were simply spontaneous and of the moment. She was an inquisitive 16 year old girl, enchanted by the ideals of love and what it may entail. For Janie, Johnny Taylor provided a firsthand insight into the realm of love that Janie was unaccustomed to and direly curious about. Janie's marriage to Logan Killicks was merely an act of conforming to her grandmothers wishes. Feeling absolutely no emotions towards Logan Killicks, Janie believed that over time her feelings would develop, but they did not. Both relationships affect Janie by diminishing her naivety and allowing for her to realize that love is never what you expect it is going to be. These relationships reveal that Janie optimistic and always has an assumption of how certain situations should be. -Dayjah Harris
Leonard A. Lafoe Janie feels as if Johnny actually loves her. When she was with Logan, there wasn't any real connection between them. Logan wanted Janie to help take care of his land, and she was unwilling because she felt as if she wasn't appreciated. When she is with Johnny, however, there is a connection and she feels as if she's appreciated. The only downside to her relationship with Johnny is that she feels pressure from other members of the community because she is the mayor's wife. This show's that Janie wants to feel important, but she doesn't want to feel pressured by other people.
Janie kissed Johnny because she felt curious about love. Her feelings for her marriage towards Logan she felt that it wasn't true love even though he did many things for her she didn't believe is was a real marriage, because of how they got married she was forced to marry him because her grandmother felt like it was best for her to marry Logan. Janie didn't love him but she waited to see if and when she would love him. In each relationship you can see that Janie is still trying to find love and experience love. It seems like Janie is just trying to find her self through finding her true love.
When Janie first met Johnny Taylor she was inspired by his story about building up a town where colored and white people lived. She noticed that he wasn't like most colored men where she lived and felt a connection between them. She didn't think twice about leaving her husband and running away with him. Other than her relationship with Johnny Taylor she was pressured into marrying Logan Killicks at the age of sixteen. That marriage bored her because all she did was cook and clean and she didn't have any feelings for Logan Killicks. Janie was raised in a white family and has different values than the colored people. She is very picky about her relationships with men and doesn't have any idea what love really is. -Dominique Briddell
Due to the curiousity of knowing how love feels at age 16 Janie comes across Johnny Taylor and is tempted to kiss him, without having any feelings for him; she kisses him. Janie's grandmother known as "Nanny" catches both Janie and Johnny Taylor kissing, as upset as Nanny is Janie assures her that, that kiss meant nothing. Nanny is forced to tell Janie that she wants her married right away with Logan Killicks because he offers good wealth and protection so that when she dies, she will die in peace because Janie will be left in good hands. Since Janie holds in her thoughts that she will fall in love with Logan Killicks within time, Janie marries him. As time married with Logan Killicks passes by she realizes that her feelings for him have not changed one single bit. Both relationships affect Janie's way of thinking about love in a confusing way because all that she thought about love for her turned out the complete opposite. This shows the fact that at 16 years old Janie was still too immature and young-minded at the sense of love.
Janie didn’t have any feelings towards both gentlemen. Janie kissed Johnny Taylor due to her curiosity of what would it made her feel. Logan Killicks didn’t really mean anything to her even though they made have married Janie knew she didn’t have any feelings for him as she did for Johnny. Even though Janie didn’t have any feeling towards Logan she decides to marry him as a desired of her grandmother “Nanny”. Janie doesn’t know what she wants or the true meaning of love, which still leaves her confused of what she really feels for these two men. -Karen Flores.
At first Janie has warm and happy feelings over having kissed Johnny Taylor, but as her grandmother, Nanny, tells her that she is now undeniably a woman, Janie's feelings quickly change. Nanny tells Janie that she is to marry Logan Killicks because he is what's best for her, and Johnny is not. Janie is first against the idea as she feels she is too young for marriage and doesn't have feelings for Logan, regardless. Janie later marries Logan (following Nanny's wishes) expecting to eventually love him, but she never does. Janie's relationship with Johnny is a brief introduction to her growing up and "becoming a woman". Janie's marriage with Logan helps her to realize that she is unhappy and makes her seek change. Janie's past two relationships reveal further that she is still developing as a person.
Janie's feelings for Johnny Taylor are feelings of curiosity and innocence. She barely discovered the concept of love and marriage. On the other hand, she has no interest in Logan Kellicks. She even describes him as being old. Janie herself is barely sixteen. She doesn't want to admit that she is becoming a woman.
Her relationship with Johnny opens a door for Janie. She's eager. Her relationship with Logan shuts that very door.
Janie sort of played out Johnny to come off as somewhat of a toy although she did find him physically attractive. She didn't mean for it to be anything serious with Johnny. The marriage with Logan Killicks had the effect on Janie by making her feel self consious about making her own decisions. I wouldn't say marrying Logan even made her happy due to the decision to not even being made my Janie herself but from her grandmother. It reveals that Janie needed a bit of maturing up to do and so she does realizing Johnny was no good for her.
I consider Janie's feelings for Johnny Taylor were true feelings because she herself went out there to meet him when they kissed, so at that point it was what she wanted till later she says she didn't know why she kissed him. Whereas the marriage with Logan Killicks was forced on to her by her "Nanny". Her Nanny who has gone through bad experiences with her own daughter,whom is Janie's mother, contributes to why she wants Janie to marry Logan Killics. " 'Tain't Logan Killics Ah want you to have, baby, it's protection." So Janie is forced into a relationship she doesn't want. These relationships reveal that Janie isn't independent in the sense that her Nanny is still making decisions for her. Janie isn't really looking for a relationship, matter a fact she doesn't know what she wants. -Adeola Akomolafe 1st period.
There isn't many differences of how Janie feels about Johnny and Logan Killicks. When Janie kissed Johnny, it was only because she was curious about love. Her marriage with Logan Killicks doesn't have any true feelings. Since it was a rearranged marriage, she believed that love will eventually grow. Janie doesn't have feelings for any of them because she wants able to make her own choices. Each relationship affects Janie because she is trying to experience with love. The relationship reveals to the reader that Janie can make her own decisions about what she wants. Savannah Ortivez
In chapter 2, Janie had a location which acted as her escape from her life- the pear tree. Janie had been laying under the tree catching a glimpse of "a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom."(pg. 51) Janie had thought to have seen a revelation meaning that marriage was love. Later she believes the same account happens to her when Johnny Taylor appeared through the "pollinated air." Janie was told by Nanny then that she had become a woman. Yet Janie had a hard time coming to terms with it as it was something innocuous to her. Nanny then tells her she is to be married immediately which is something she doesn't want. Janie finds out that marriage is in fact far from love. This reveals to the reader that Janie desires true love and longs for a happy life with someone.
Janie's feelings toward Johnny are different from Logan Killicks because when she was pressured to marry Logan she only cooked from him and did all the house work but the love wasn't there that she wanted, it wasn't the marriage she wanted. But when it came to Johnny she was curios about what love really is since her marriage was planned and forced her to marry Logan for his wealth, it wasn't the same. This reveals how she's not independent and relies on her nannie's say more than what she wants but at the same time she doesn't even know what love is or what she wants.
Johnny was the first man Janie had liked. At 16, she began developing her own ideas of love and the marriage. That day she was wondering around observing the beauty of marriage and trying to figure out why she wasn't married and it just so happened that Johnny was coming up the road. His physical appearance was suiting for Janie and she chose to like him. At that moment, Janie was independent enough to choose a man she saw fitting to like. Nanny on the other hand, viewed it as a direct trait of her mother and did what she believed would keep her out of the misfortune Janie's mother endured. Nanny's intrusion of Janie's young life to a forced marriage ruined Janie's sense of the happiness marriage was suppose to make a woman. Janie didn't love Logan or even find him the least bit attractive. Nanny's marriage of Janie off to Logan messed up Janie's mentality that woman were not to marry for love, but wealth and financial stability. The second Janie was interested in marriage and the happiness it should bring, she was dragged into an unhealthy relationship with no feelings of love or freedom. Janie was revealed as a woman who would rather pick out her own husband and marry for love, than have someone else pick out her husband and marry for wealth. This develops her as a character who's stuck looking for love as raw as she can find it, and not caring if she comes back broke because she was after something she believed she wanted. -Tameka Smith 2nd period
Although Janie & Johnny have kissed multiple times I don't consider her feelings for him to be true because she later says that she doesn't know why she did it. She didn't mean for anything serious to come out of it, she was just being curious. Janie has no feelings for Logan but she is forced to marry him because of her Nanny, she believes that he is a good young man and that he has a lot to offer to her. Janie being young and naïve marries him believing that she may develop feelings for him later on. Both relationships affect Janie negatively and give her a sense of insecurity as she doesn't really know or grasp what the concept of love should be, leaving the reader to think that she is too young and immature to begin any sort of relationship.
Janie's feelings for Johnny Taylor and the marriage to Logan Killicks effect the relationships not only to Janie but also to the reader. When Janie kissed Johnny she didn't really meant it emotionally. It was more a physical curious way that Janie wanted to experiment. She then regretted the kiss to Johnny because she got caught by her Nanny. All she wants is love and she can't find any true love for anybody. The "marriage" to Logan Killicks with Janie is not true love either. Janie doesn't feel true love about Logan even though he is a nice young gentlemen. But, even that doesn't make Janie happy. Janie had reveal to the reader that she wants love but can never find the right person to share it with. - Bobbi Cordle 2nd period
There were absoulutely no feelings Janie had for Johnny Taylor. It was an action filled with nothing but curiousity. And that in itself is already contrasting the marriage with Logan Killicks. As a matter of a fact the whole marriage with Logan is based off the idea the Janie is now a woman or atleast should act like a woman. Also in the very short relationship with Johnny, thanks to "Nanny", Janie gets a insight to how her future is going to be even though she dislikes the concept of marrying Logan. Of course this relationship does not have as much affect on Jaine as her relationship with Logan. Instead of just showing her, her relationship with Logan really puts the seriousness of the rest of her life on her lap where she can not just see but touch and smell this reality and she becomes a woman then. Janie's incounter with the boy Johnny shows the reader that she is a sweet, innocent and curious girl. In chapter 2 Janie says "Nanny, Ah just-Ah didn't mean nothin' bad," with Nanny's reply of "Dat's what makes me skeered. You dont mean no harm." from this very specific exchange of dialogue we truely see, through the character Nanny, just how innocent and curisous she is. Altough, in the relationship with Logan we see a different side of Janie, a more mature(a womanly figure) but with the same characteristic of curiousity.
While sitting under the blossoming pear tree, Janie, who was only 16, witnesses the perfect union of nature. She wishes for this love in her own life but is unsure how to do so. So it is relevant to say that her feelings towards Johnny Taylor are real, although it might just be a “crush” that she has, Janie reveals that as a young lady she is looking for the true meaning of love and the kiss that she and Johnny share is real and her only wanting to experience first-hand what love might feel like. Janie is clearly taken by surprise when Nanny, who wants her in a secure situation, tells her that she will be marrying Logan Killicks. Janie is unhappy because there is neither love nor chemistry between the two. Even though Nanny tells her their love for each other will eventually come, it illustrates that Janie knows that she does not or never will feel any love towards Logan that she believes a married couple should have.
Janie's feeling towards both men are different but the same. When Janie kissed Johnny Taylor she did it only because she was curiosity. But with Logan Killicks she just doesn't like him. When it comes to relationships, Janie isn't too fond of them. This tells the reader that Janie how to have a relationship, and she doesn't know what love is. Janie is just 16 years old, meaning she still has a child's mindset. She isn't ready for marriage.
Jaine, like every other teenage girl, wants to find love, be in love. In her yearning for love she uses Johnny Taylor to try and figure it all out, expirence it. It was all innocent and harmless to her, she didn't mean anything by kissing Johnny Taylor. She was affected by this when Nanny forces her to get married to Logan Killicks because she doesn't want her with Johnny (to portect her). Janie was scared and felt unready for marrige, and she wanted to be in love with a man before she married. She hoped love would come later but it never did. She didn't love Logan so she was unhappy. She wanted love, that money, and portection couldn't buy. Janie was not materialistic which was different from the women in her time. Most women would have been over joyed if they were married off to Logan, but not Jaine, and when she chooses to run away from him, it shows that she values herself and what she wants more than what Nanny, or society may have wanted for her. Janie is a strong, independent, picky, and admirable woman.
Janie is battling with her conscious about her emotions, they are indecisive when it comes to love. Janie kisses a guy Johnny Taylor unaware that her grandmother saw the whole scene which causes her distress. Janie was disquisitive about kissing so she simply kissed Johnny. The arrangement of her marrying Logan Killicks was not what Janie wanted. Her grandmother wanted her to marry him and the contrasting part about her feelings toward Logan was more of a forceful love that her grandmother put upon her. Each relationship affects Janie by helping her realize the maturity of love and how she is not ready to be committed. The relationships reveal to the reader that Janie is still not aware to choose her own faith and that she makes others happy instead of herself, which is caused by her grandmother.
Janie's feelings for Johnny Taylor are real.she feels as if he is the one she is truly in love with even though she only has a crush on him. Janie had spent days under a blossoming pear tree where she witnessed a tiny bloom and she sat there thinking to herself about love and the struggles of life. Janie did not like Logan Killicks. Her grandma wanted her to marry Logan, She felt as if he was desecrating the pear tree and she did not know how to tell her grandma that. After her grandma slapped her she stood and wept internally for both of them. what these relationships show about janie is that she is young and in love with both boys but it is difficult for her to speak out because of what her grandmother wants for her. she only wants to feel what love is but isn't ready for love and marriage. Samantha Garcia 3rd
Threw this chapters we can conclude that Jaine is a very emotinally confused person. Janie kisses Johnny Taylor to expirence and come up with a conclusion for her thoughts. While in her marriage Janie is not sure if she will ever love Logan Killicks. That is what she tells her grandma when she goes and visites. Janie realizes she is never going to love Logan, she's not emotianally nor physicaly attractes to him.
Janies relation with Johnny Taylor was based on how she was curious about love. She felt like even though she was married to Logan it was still not real love. Janie begins to believe that marriage doesn't make love real. Theres no such thing as true love. You can see here that Janie is still a child blinded by what she believes might be "true love", but she is just to young to understand what that is.
Janie didn't have real feelings towards any of them. She kissed Johnny Taylor out of curiosity. She just wanted to know what love was since her marriage with Logan Killicks wasn't real love. It was forced because nanny told her to get a descent man. She explains to her how later on she will eventually have feelings for him but she's upset because she knows she will never feel anything for him. This reveals to the reader that all Janie wants is to love and feel loved and finding the right man but she can't and she is just curious and doesn't get anything out of it.
Janie has been raised within the confides of her grandmothers rules and that her dying wish is for her to be married and well established. As she grows older in age,she starts to ponder the question of love. Janie begins to struggle with herself as she searches for the meaning of love. Johnny Taylor offers a chance for Janie to figure out what love is as they engage in a kiss.However her grandmother discovers her and claims she is a women acting in adult ways. Janie gets pressured into marrying Logan Killicks, her grandmother believes he would be a good husband because of his stature in wealth. Janie is very hesitant because she wants to fall in love with someone rather than it being arranged. She desperately tries to fall in love with Logan and struggles to do so, due to the fact that he is very mean to her in many ways, she is unable to. The reader can observe that Janies idea of love is not playing out in her actual life as planned.
Janie's love for Johnny Taylor was true. She loved him since the first time she saw him and they kissed. She feels as if he is really her true love. Logan Killicks on the other hand, was just a man that was arranged for her by her grandmother. She doesn't really love him. She is only hoping that feelings towards him will grow and she will truly fall in love with him.
Janie for sure didn't love Johnny, she says so herself, she probably had no feelings for him at all. She only used him for a kiss, for that one night, she unconsciously gained her womanhood. Her intentions were not to get married by this action of affection. Her feelings for Logan were also none. She wanted to love him and want him the way he wanted her but she didn't. She felt like if someone told her how she could try to want him back. Logan treated her like a wife in the begging of their marriage but sixth months later he started to treat her differently. There began to be conflict between them and she wanted to leave him. These relationships reveal that Janie is young and doesn't want to settle down. Janie does not know how to genuinely love a man without using him for her selfish needs, but she would like to learn how.
Janie was curios about love and Johnny gives shows a way to find out about it. Her granny sees but she wants her to get a good man someone other then him. She gets pressured into marrying logan because to everyone he is a decent man. She is treated badly by him and cant fall in love with him.
Janie had felt curious about love when she kissed Johnny Taylor. She felt that it didn’t mean anything, but the way she felt toward her marriage with Logan Killicks was that it wasn't true love even though he did everything for her and was kind to her. Janie waited to see if she would fall in love with him. Each relationship affected Janie by first trying to experience love and see how it feels, but when she married Logan Killicks she didn't feel love towards him. She got love but love that was not planned on having meaning the type of love she didn’t have in mind.
I think that Janie did have some kind of feelings for Johnny, but definitely not love. She pretty much admits that she pretty much only kissed him because of her teenage hormones. She was more in love with the idea of kissing someone other than kissing him. She didn't love Logan either, however, it was completely different with Logan because with Johnny, she felt like it was her choice to kiss him. Nanny arranged her marriage with Logan, which made it ever harder to develop any feelings for him. She felt she was forced to be with him and forced to love him, which she was. Even though she didn't love either one, it was even harder to love Logan because she didn't have a choice.
Janie kisses Johnny as an experiment, in search for love. Afterward, she doesn't feel anything for him, but even though the kiss didn't affect her in that way, it does when Nanny forces her to marry another man, Logan Killicks. Nanny feels the need to protect Janie. To Nanny and the rest of society, being with someone who could financially support and protect her was better than love. Although Janie tries to understand and later on feel something for Killicks, she can't. Janie prefers love over money and protection and the set up marriage with Killicks is in the way of that.
Janie's feelings for Johnny were probably nothing more then the feelings of friendship misinterpreted as something more meaningful. The only reason she kissed him was out of curiosity instead of the feelings of love and affection. She was told that people that are married always love each other. so she thought that as soon as she married Logan she would love him instead of loving him first then marrying him. These relationships show that she is unwilling to work towards loving Logan and was always willing to find a way out instead of working it out.
Jane didnt have any feelings for Johnny she just wanted to kiss smeone she even says so herself. She also doesnt have any feelings for Logan because it is a fixed marriage, she doesnt know the guy. Because of the fixef marriage she has to act as if she loves Logan even if she doesnt. She didnt have any feelings for Johnny she only kissed him just to know how it would feel. These events let us know that Jane is still young and she still wants to experience more things
Jaine's feelings toward Johnny Taylor and Logan Killicks was not true love. Although Jaine kissed Johnny Taylor she did it not for love, but for teenage curiosity. Janie's grandmother forced her to marry Logan Killicks because he would take care of her. Even though Logan treats Jaine right by not laying a hand on her and taking care of her Jaine does not feel love. Johnny Taylor affected Jaine by making her want to try new things even if her grandmother doesn't agree. Logan Killicks affected Jaine by showing her what love is not suppose to feel like thus she leaves him for Joe Starks. These two relationships show that Jaine wants to find true love, but doesn't know how true love feels like. Matthew Foley 3rd.
Janie's feelings for Johnny Taylor and for Logan Killicks are the same because she doesn't have strong feelings for either. Johnny Taylor is a boy she kissed when she was 16. Janie was under a pear tree when she kissed Johnny because she was curious. Her feelings weren't strong but she felt a physical attraction towards him. When her grandmother Nanny finds out she insists that Janie marries Logan Killicks. Logan Killicks is a wealthy farmer that Nanny feels can provide Janie with what she needs. Janie is eventually forced to marry him but she knows that her feelings for him will never grow.
Janie's relationship with Johnny was just out of curiosity for love. She feels that marriage isnt true love. But seeks the feeling of true love. Yet she has no idea what true love is.-Nathan Aguilar
Janie's relationship with Johnny was just out of curiosity for love. She feels that marriage isnt true love. But seeks the feeling of true love. Yet she has no idea what true love is.-Nathan Aguilar
Janie really doesn't have feelings for Johnny Taylor. It was an adolescent "in the moment" action that happned due to Janie's curiosity. As for Logan Killicks Janie still did not feel anything. If anything Janie feels disgust when looking at him because she finds him unattractive. When Janie marries Logan she does not know what love is. Janie has no concept of love because she never got to experience it but she finally experiences feelings for Joe Starks. The fact Janie runs away with him is only proving the adolescence still inside. These relationships reveal that Janie is still young and wants to experience more in life. She doesn't want to be stuck in a fixed marriage. Janie wants romance and feelings like every teenage girl does. If anything it tells us that Janie's character is outgoing, full of life, and seeking adventure.
When Janie kissed Johnny Taylor, she was "beglamored" by the golden dust of pollen. The kiss is described as a laceration upon Janie. The relationship between Janie and Johnny is the one that opens her world to sexual experiences. She becomes a woman according to her grandmother. After that, all of Janie's grandmother's efforts go towards finding her a good, educating husband. In comes Logan Killick, a well educated man who wants to marry Janie. Two months after they get married, Janie goes to her grandmother asking her how to love her husband. Janie doesn't love Logan as she feels she should, since they're man and wife. these relationships show how Janie is naive to the customs of love and marriage. She feels she is supposed to love her husband because married people always love each other. This naivety and illusion is shattered when she realizes she doesn't love Logan and runs away with Joe Starks.
Janie kissed Johnny Taylor in the moment, not because she loved him and cared for it, but it just happened. Same with Logan Killicks. Janie didn't choose to kiss Johnny or to marry Logan but they just kind of happened. She hoped love for Logan would happen after some time of being married but nothing ever happened and she feels her dreams are crushed because she doesn't love Logan, even though she wants to love him. She still hopes love will come to her after some time but after Nanny dies some time later, she gives up trying to love Logan. This reveals Janie as a young woman who still has yet to experience the world for her very own. She can't be forced to experience it but to be left to herself to find out and find what love is, which is what happens when Joe Starks comes along.
Janie's relationship with Johnny Taylor is not love. Janie was just curious, when she kissed him she felt nothing. Janie's marriage with Logan Killicks wasnt love. She only married him because of her grandmother. Janie was just trying to see what love is, she was experimenting. This shows the reader how she is just not ready for love.
Janie is a 16 year old girl, who doesn't have the maturity level to understand what love is, how it feels,or even know how to get it yet; all she thinks she knows is that she will "blossom" into a women once she finds love. The relationship between Johnny and Janie was pure out of curiosity not love. After the kiss, Janie admits that she never had feelings for him; she did liked Johnny but deep down only used him to experience what love felt like. Janie saw their relationship as innocent and harmless. What this showed the reader, is that Janie likes more the idea of love rather than who she loves. On the other hand, the relationship between Janie and Logan is different because its forced, pressured and arranged by her grandmother, Nanny. From the start, Janie did not have any feelings for Logan, especially didn't have any desires to marry him. (or anybody really yet). The only reason she married Logan was to fulfill her Nanny's wish to be protected after she died, he was wealthy, and Logan loved her witch made her believe that soon she will start developing feelings for him to. But by forcing love, she only ended hating him and soon after leaving him for another guy. What this shows, is that all Janie wants is to find love, and know what it is to feel loved by finding the right man. Marrying and kissing someone did not complete Janie because in the end, she still felt empty and lonely inside. These experiences affected Janie by her finally choosing for herself and running off with another guy for her own needs. - Jacqui Benavides <3
Janie is in a journey to find love. She starts by kissing Johnny Taylor and Janie thinks there is something special between them. In the other hand Janie is in a forced marriage with Logan Killicks. The reason why Janie is with Logan is because her grandma recommende for her to marry a wealth man. Grandma also does not approve of Janies relation with Johnny. What the reader can say about Janie is that she doesn't have her mind straight and that her family can make her change her decissions. - Ismael Sosa
Janie feels more "love",or "emotions"when shes with Johnny Taylor because they just met and the kiss they had, just happened.Johnny Taylor tells Janie and shows her how a young lady like her should be treated, Janie doesn't react with any kind of ideas or thoughts.Logan Killicks ,Husband of Janie is some sort of roommate that Janie was forced to marry.Logan demands and orders Janie to do work around the because he thinks everything was given to her and was raised as a spoiled child. The big difference between these men is their feelings and character when with Janie. She then realizes marriage does not make love because of how she felt for Joe and not Logan. I can truly see shes changing for the better of herself and no one else ,she does not need to be forced but to find out on her own.
The feelings Janie has for Johnny Taylor and Logan Killicks are not that different. Janie kissed Johnny Taylor at the gate because she just did. She even explained it to her Nanny when she asked her if she loved Johnny, and Jaine responded, "Only dis one time, Nanny. Ah don't love him at all. Whut made me do it is-oh, Ah don't know." (pg. 39) But Janie also felt that the same with Mr. Killicks; she didn't love him but more so felt upset and followed her grandmother;s that she could allow her self to marry him. She felt no love for Logan Killicks, any more than that attachment she felt to Johnny. Janie said she wasn't a real woman yet. Jamie figured she would learn to love him since that is what husbands and wives do by her definition, but after they got married, she didn't grow to love him. Logan seemed to want to make things for them work out well by chopping the wood and keeping water in the buckets, and by promising to never lay his hands on her in malice. Janie was still a kid, she didn't understand a thing about love or even seemed prepared to take on that burden as a young lady, showing that love is not something that can be forced or experimented on to get results.
Janie does not feel love for Johnny, she's just curious of how to kiss and how that would feel. The marriage with Logan Killicks is not true love either, no matter how much Logan tries to make Janie happy he's not being successful at it. Janie does not feel secure about the marriage. The two relationships affect her because it's making her show that Janie does not know what love is. Janie is not happy with any guy, it is comprehensive since she is a teenager. Janie wants love to be the way she thinks it is, not the way it should be.
Janie hasn't experiment what being in love actually feels like.The feelings she had for Johnny Taylor and Logan Killicks was very similar. Janie didnt have a reason to kiss Johnny, but she just did. She even tells her Nanny how she feels and that she doesnt love him. Janie married Logan Killicks mainly because she followed her grandmothers advice but not because she loved him. She maybe thought that she would fall in love with him later on but she didnt at all. Janie has showed the reader that she doesnt know what being in love is thinking to feel another way about it.
Janie is curious about lovewhen kissing Johnny Taylor. Janie was just 16 and the kiss was just in the moment.Janie only married Logan because her grandmother wanted her to. Janie didn't love Logan she did it to make her grandmother happy. With this Janie is young and want to expierement with guys and love. This shows Janie isn't ready for love.
Janie seems to be the passenger of her life while her grandmother and family are the ones who control it. What I mean by this is that Janie's grandmother forced Janie into marrying Logan Killicks due to the fact that Mr. Killicks is a wealthy man and will take care of Janie. Janie of course marries Logan and desires that she will eventually fall in love will Logan but of course love fails and Janie just can't love Logan, even though she wishes to do so. Johnny Taylor on the other hand was somewhat close to "love" fpr Janie. The kiss between Johnny and Janie actually men't something to Janie yet it wasn't really love for what she felt for him, it was more of a "wow I kissed guy" type of thing (experimenting).
Janie feelings for Johnny Taylor and Logan Killicks are very similiar. She is experimenting with love at first, she kisses Johnny Taylor because she wants to know the way it feels. Janie even tells her Grandma that she doesnt love him. Janie married Logan Killicks because her Grandma told her it would be good to marry a wealthy African American. She doesn't love him though, she states in the novel that she doesn't love him and she doesn't want to be with him for that reason. These realationships makes Janie realize that she is still to young and immature to know what love is. She was forced in this relationship and wants to find one were she actually loves a man. The reader can acknowledge that Janie isn't ready for marriage or love but is seeking to find out what it is. -Fernie Dominguez
There wasn't a very big difference between the feelings Janie had involving Johnny Taylor and Logan killicks. Janie didn't have feelings for Johnny Taylor. Janie told her nanny that when she was sitting on her lap. "Janie, how long you been 'lowin' Johnny Taylor to kiss you?" (pg.20) " only dis one time, nanny. ah don't love him at all. whut made me do it is- oh I don't know." In these quotes from the novel one can see that Janie has no feelings for Johnny Taylor. Janie didn't want to marry Logan Killicks either. " ah aint gointuh do it no mo, nanny. please don't make me marry Mr. Killicks" (pg.20) Janie didn't love Logan killicks either or even like him at that. Janie didn't think she was even ready to become a woman yet the text states " Naw, nanny, naw ah aint no real oman yet."(pg17) Janie as a young 16 year old wasn't ready to be a woman yet.
Janie is a 16 year old girl, who doesn't have the maturity level to understand what love is, how it feels,or even know how to get it yet. All she thinks she knows is that she will finally transform into a women once she finds real love. She was forced in this relationship and wants to find one were she actually loves a man. The relationship between Johnny and Janie was pure out of interest and not love. Janie gets pressured into marrying Logan Killicks, her grandmother believes he would be a good husband because of his stature in wealth. *Jesus Gutierrez*
Janie's feelings for Johnny Taylor are really vague because she just kissed him because she was caught up in the moment. In the other hand her feelings for Logan are not deep because she just married him because her granmda told her to. Janie does not really love him even thought she kinda wants to for her grandma but she just can't since she is kinda forced to do chores that should be done by Logan. Each relationship affect her by making her see that she is not ready for marriage and needs more experince with love. These relationships show that Janie is not ready for marriage since she is so young and has not experinced a "true" relationship with anyone but Logan which was forced on her.
Janie is a very young girl who isn't mature enough to understand the deep meaning of love. When she kissed Johnny Taylor she didn't really had feelings for him, all she wanted is the physical connection, the kisses and hugs from him. He was only a boy who only liked him for his looks and physical affections. On the other hand, her husband, Logan Killian, is a man of dedication, hard work, and well set for his life, well taken care off. A man who makes a very good husband based on her Nanny's perspective. However, Janie doesn't like him at all, she feels no affection towards him. The only reason she married him is because first, her Nanny recommended him and she thinks Janie would find love later on in the marriage. But she doesn't obtain the affection she truly desires even though her Nanny insists it will come soon. her Nanny says she is spoiled and doesn't see the things that should make her love Logan. This shows how her perspective is different from her grandmother because they each grew up in a different environment. Her grandma grew up in the slave era where a man with land, who works hard and provides "protection" was a good husband but for Janie who grew up in a friendlier environment (compared to her grandma's) wants a man who's good looking an displays physical but as well as emotional connections later on. She is still a young girl who doesn't truly understand the meaning of love and is ignorant of the real world. - Adan Rivas
Janie is a young girl that doesn't know what love really is. She try to be with johnny Taylor as of curiosity to see what love really is. She says that she didn’t really loved johnny but she liked him. Later her Nanny recommends Janie to marry a wealthy man called Logan Killicks. Janie marry him to please her Nanny, but in the other hand she does not love him and doesn’t want to marry him. Janie thought with time after married him she would feel something for him but it did not worked. This shows the reader that Janie is still young and that she's not capable to be in a relationship and neither in marriage. -Jennifer Arreola
Janie does not love either man. She does have an overwhelming attraction to Johnny Taylor that blinds her to see his raggedy self and obligation to her grandmother to marry the suitable Logan Killicks. Her infatuation with Johnny Taylor makes it easy to kiss him, but she will not take him as a husband. Janie felt she has no choice but to marry Logan. He owns his own land and is able to provide stability and protection for her. She had hoped that with marriage she would come to love Logan, but it did not happen. Janie is a young girl who is unsure of doing what she is told is right or whether following what she wants for herself is.
Janie is a young girl who's curious about what love really is and what does it mean in a non-harmful way, Janie's "affection" towards Johnny for example is nothing more than a curious experimental way for Janie to think that being kissed was a form of being loved, Logan on the other hand is more of chosen person by Janie's grandma whos wants her to marry logan. Janie believes Logan "looks like some ole skullhead in de grave yard".which means he's not all that attractive but, as Janie begins to think about marrying logan she wonders if true love is marriage. both of these relationships are more questions to janie on what love really is and don't affect her negatively but raise more questions about love. both relationship's reveal how clueless she is about love and how she isnt prepared for having a relationship until she know what true love is. Jaime Balderrama
Janie is a 16 year old girl who is trying to feel what love is by kissing Johnny Taylor, as the reader you can tell she is caught up in the fantasies about being in love. She has no feelings for Johnny Taylor but kisses him just to experience it. On the other hand while Nanny, her grandmother sees what she has done, gets angry because that's not the future she has planned for her grandchild to go through. Nanny convinces Janie to marry Logan, because Nanny knows she is getting old and closer to death she wants any open door of good support for Janie to take. The feelings of the relationship is sagacity because love is not really being revealed, Janie never loves Johnny nor Logan. She is going about with the choices and ideas her grandmother is making to make her future " bright ". As being the reader you can see that Janie does what other people influence and tell her to do, rather than making her own choices for her own future.
Janie is a vulnerable young girl that has her first kiss with Johnny Taylor. Her grandmother sees this and defines her as a ''Woman" and says she has to get married. Janie listens to whatever her grandmother says, and gets an arranged marriage to Logan Killicks. Logan is an unlovable husband, and too old for Janie. Johnny doesn't approve of this at all and says he looks like a "skull head in a grave yard". This confuses her relationships and makes her over think a lot of things about Logan and Johnny, she is only 16 and can't manage to be in a marriage at all.
Janie's feelings for Johnny Taylor were an, " In the moment" kind of emotion. Janie was under the peach tree and in a lust about life in the moment. So any man could of walked down that street and recieved a kiss. Now Logan Killicks was a land owning man and treated Janie with love and respect always. The contrast here is Johnny Taylor was a man walking down the street, while Logan Killicks was her husband and she did not love him or look at him in the way that she looked at Johnny Taylor that evening. Each realationship affects Janie in the same way she ends up not feeling "love". She is always left wondering if the situation she is in is love. As a reader Janie's realationships have revealed to me that she is just a lost girl serching for what love is and what it feels like and looks like and suppose to be like.
Janie at the age she is in does not fully understand what love is. She compares love to the bee and the blossom. She thinks that love should feel like that type of attraction. Janie thinks she's in love with Jonny, but because of the moment that he first kissed her. Janie's Nanny suggests that Janie marry Mr. Killicks, so that he may take care of her, and so that when Janie's grandma passes, she can know that's Janie is being taken care of, and not walked all over by some man. Even after Janie is married to Mr. Killicks she questions the marriage, because she does not love. She expects that after being married she would be able to love her partner, but in the outcome she feels nothing for Mr. Logan Killicks. -Emily Sierra
Janie's feelings toward Johnny Taylor and Logan Killicks are very different. In the story Janie is 16 years old and curious about love feels like, that is why she kisses Johnny Taylor. Janie's grandmother tells her that she needs to think about her future and what would be best for her. This is where Logan Killicks comes in. Janie marries him because he is wealthy, but she does not love him and she does not want to be with him just for his money. This affects Janie by making her realize that she needs to do what makes her happy and a experience a true relationship on her own. -Rebeka Servin
Janie's feeling to Johnny Taylor versus Logan Killicks are very different from each other. As a teen, Janie has interest in her true feelings of what she warmly feels towards Johnny and kisses him, but it was caused by curiosity, thought she has a stronger feeling to him than Logan. Janie doesn't feel the same affection for Logan as she does for Johnny, although she felt good and secure with Logan because she didn't feel lonely. Logan was a wealthy and stable man, thought their relationship felt to be detaching as time went by despite him having done many good things to her. Her grandmother had forced her to marry, but like many people, being forced to love somebody doesn't come natural or develops well. Her experience affected Janie on the way she thinks about knowing what she really feels and wants. Janie had chosen to back off from Logan, and wants to do what she feels, and not what Nanny had done to her, this shows how she is can make her own decisions as she has grown into womenhood.
There is a huge difference between faking and truly feeling this often confusing emotion, love. Janies first trial of love was Johnny Taylor. Unfortunately she says she doesn’t like him, even though it’s a lie, after her Nanny thinks otherwise considering she sees them kiss. Nanny later throws the idea of Janie marring a rich fellow named Logan Killicks because she knows shes getting old and wont be there for ever. She refuses to marry but changes her mind in order to satify her grandmother. This is where Janie decides to try to fake her love till she felt it but never does feel it. As a reader this says she still has a lot to learn about love and her emotions.
Janie had a battle for love with herself. What she felt with Logan Killicks in her marriage wasn’t real, although she faked loving him, she also tried to truly love him; but that feeling couldn’t be forced on her because she wasn’t in love. Even though Logan did tremendous things to keep her happy and up on cloud nine, love cannot be bought. Janie’s first glance at Johnny was a hidden love at first sight. Her desire to want to kiss him, even though nothing was felt when they kissed, Nancy saw that love could blossom; when in fact, Janie just experimented with the idea of love, not true love with Johnny Taylor. As she does this we see that Janie is just a hopeless romantic that wants to love and be loved.
When Janie kissed Johnny Taylor, is was just an act of experimentation. Partly because she is innocent and young. We can't say that she has those same feelings for Logan Killicks. Going back in that time period after the Civil War, african americans were still not given full freedom like white people had; women especially. Janie knows that Logan Killicks is looking to marry her strictly for business. And because of that, she does not get emotionally attached to Logan Killicks as she might or might not have with Johnny Taylor. She is not exactly upset about Logan Killicks not having any feelings about her because she knows that this is just the way it is around that time, it was not anything that she can go "Rosa Parks" on. This tells me mainly that even though slavery was illegal at that time, there was still some things that had to be illegal concerning african american women marrying to provide labor, not to the white man, but to the black.
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Janie kissing Johnny let to her experience with men. what she didnt know was that her grandmother Nanny was watching. Nanny then explained to Janie that she had to become a woman. Nanny then explained to her about a man who was wealthy and could provide a good life for her. Janie didnt comprehend because she did't want to marry that man Logan Killicks. Janie experimenting led her feeling to arouse and find true love but with Johnny and Logan love was not there. With Love being a huge effect on a womans life teaches and expands her true personality and longing for true love.
Because Janie kissed Johnney, this gave her expierence with men. Her Nanny saw them doing their stuff and explained to Janie to become a women and grow up because it was very important. Logan made her feel so happy and just made her feel loved. She was excited about kissing him even though she didnt feel anything special. she just wanted to expierment with what she thought was love.
The difference between Janies feelings for Johnny Taylor and her feelings for Logan Killicks was that when Janie kissed Johnny, she was experimenting like any other teenager would. But after granny found out, Jannie was nearly forced into marrying Logan on behalf of grannies request. Being put into a FORCED relationship, Janie comes clean and admits to "wanting to want him sometimes". This shows the reader that even after this predicament, she's still willing to TRY and love Logan even though she isn't 100% sure of how she's supposed to love a man she hardly knows, let alone, is interested in or attracted to.
Janie didn't love johnny or logan. Her relationship with Johnny was just an experiment out of curiosity like any teen would probably have so she kissed him. Once her grandma found out she got mad her grandma already had someone in mind fir wgich was logan. Her marriage with Logan was not out of love or because she wanted to it was just because her grandma made her because he is a educated man. So both relationships were out of love. So I think it changes her longing for true love that she has never felt.
The contrast between Janie's feelings for Johnny Taylor and her marriage to Logan Killicks is that Johnny was merely an experiment for Janie while marrying Logan was out of force for her Nanny. Janie didn't necessarily have feelings for Johnny because she didn't know how to comprehend what "feelings" were being that he was the first guy she tried anything with. Janie married Logan because she didn't want to disappoint her Nanny's request and found herself forcing love with him when she was really hurting herself in the long run. I believe that if Nanny hadn't caught Janie kissing Johnny, then she would have pursued her curiosity with Johnny and have learned a healthier way of being in a relationship. - Brionna Greene
Janie's feelings for Johnny Taylor and contrasting marriage to Logan Killicks was that Janie had felt curious about love when she kissed Johnny Taylor. That it didn't mean anything. But her feelings for her marriage towards Logan Killicks was that it wasn't true love even though he did everything for her and was kind to her. She felt it wasn't a real marriage. Janie had waited to see if and when she was going to love him. Each relationship affected Janie by first trying to experience love and see how it feels, but when she married Logan Killicks she didn't feel love towards him. The relationship reveals to the reader about Janie was she had tried to experience love but in the end had not gone the way she had planned.
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Janie's relationship with Logan Killicks isn't a good one, because Janie doesn't actually have love for him. On the other hand, her relationship with Johnny is built off of love at first sight. It shows that Janie wants to be with someone whom she truly loves. She's also a very picky women because she doesn't like Mr.Willick for his appearance. ~Christian Rodriguez 3rd period
ReplyDeleteJanie, as a teenager, is curious about her development through the pubescent stage of her life. She has new interests and emotions, like her wanting to kiss Johnny Taylor. Though she feels nothing when this happens, Nanny sees it, and automatically assumes that it is no good for Janie. Nanny arranges for her to marry Logan Killicks, thinking that she will be provided for long after she has passed. Janie goes along with the marriage, but never stops thinking that she will never have feelings for Logan, no matter how wealthy he is. After a three months, Nanny Passes, and Janie still feels nothing for him, a year, still nothing. She then meets a man named Joe Stark, and falls for him, and after two weeks, they want to get married.
ReplyDeleteJanie feels nothing for either of the first two men, because she doesn't neccesarily make the choices for herself. When she finally finds a man who she wants to be with, she decides to make her own choice and leave Logan. She finally realizes that she can control her own life and make her own decisioins.
-John Albano 5th Period
Janie never had feelings for Logan Killicks, and never actually loved him. The only reason they got married was because of Janie's grandmother, she thought that was the best thing for Janie. The love never grew between them. Janie meets Johnny Taylor and thinks he's perfect. Everyday they meet up without anyone knowing. A week later Janie leaves Logan and marries Johnny. They both have plans together and Janie truly has love and feelings towards him
ReplyDelete-Vianca Ruiz
Janie's feeling for Johnny Taylor it isn't love she wants to know how to kiss and what is the feeling for that. Then Janie's grandmother wanted her to get married to Logan Killicks, but Janie at first didn't want to marry him. But as she thinks about the marriage with Logan she tries to understand that maybe marriage is love. Janie just wants to find love so she goes marry to Logan Killicks. This relationship reveals that Janie just want to feel loved by someone and tht she will be able to love that man.
ReplyDelete-Daniela Galindo
Janies feelings between Johnny Taylor and Logan Killicks is very different because when Janie kisses Logan she starts having feelings for him but when they were going to get married and also when Logan starts bossing her around that she is spoiled she just doesnt love him at all. That is when she meets Johnny Taylor and he has all these plans for there new life and it shows that Janie really loves him. When Taylor starts doing all these improvements to this new town he becomes mayor and he starts floating away from the town. When Taylor starts acting like royalty Janie starts to be quiet and starts to just stay behide Taylor. In conclusion, when Janie was with Logan she was not happy but when she went with Taylor she started to be happy and she is great with her life.
ReplyDeletecontrasting the logan killicks marriage and johnny taylor janie didnt love johnny taylor. She was expirimenting with johnny for the idea of love. She was simply having fun when it came to johnny. Logan was not attractive by apperance, but he did eveything for janie. Janie married him thinking she would expirience love afterwards. Janie's relationships so far in the novel have shown how shallow she is, and how she wants love to be perfect.
ReplyDeleteJanie's feelings towards Logan Killicks aren't true or anything. But when they kiss she might start to think she getting feelings for him but she isn't sure about it. Janie's Grandma thought it be best for Janie to marry Logan, even though Janie didn't want to. And for her feelings towards Johnny Taylor is more like just to expirement and wanting to know what its like to be "in love" with someone. So Janie might not be in love with neither guys, just expirementing her feelings.
ReplyDelete-Alondra Rodriguez
Janie's relation with Johnny Taylor was based on her curiosity about love. While her relation to Logan Killicks was marriage but it was with unreal love. With each relationship Janie begins to lose belief in the thought that marriage is true love and that true love is real. Through this it is revealed that Janie is still a child, blinded by her belief in true love. So easily confused and manipulated by a silver tongue.
ReplyDeleteJanie's relationship with Johnny Taylor was filled with an innocent curiosity for love. Constantly through the beginning we find Janie and Johnny kissing one another and at one point her grandmother catches her. She begins to tell her that, "Brother Logan Killicks. He's a good man too." Nanny WANTS Janie to marry Killicks but from here we learn about Janie's view on Killick, she says "He look like some ole skullhead in de grave yard." So although she PREFERS Johnny over Logan, Janie isn't really in love with either. Most likely, shes experimenting, not in harmful intentions but she doesn't know what she wants; she's still clueless.
ReplyDelete- Jordan Ocampo 8th Period
Janie's relationship with Johnny Taylor is inquisitiveness she tried to learn about love with a kiss but really did not find it there. With Logan Killicks there was marriage something that would show us that two people love each other but in her case she did not love him even though he had money and he would try to win her over she didn't seem to care. Each relationship affects Janie because she tried feeling love with Johnny but didn't get anything and with Logan she had marriage but she was sure she didn't feel love towards him. This tells the reader that Janie isn't in love with neither she's just trying to find out what love really is by experimenting with Johnny Taylor and with a forced marriage by Nanny with Logan Killicks.
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DeleteJanie's feelings towards Johnny Taylor was only curiousity she wasn't in love with him, she only kissed him to now how it felt. Janie's marriage with Logan Killicks wasn't love, she only married him because of his grandmother. In that case the only reason she married him was because she was listening to the others instead on what she really felt. Janie is experimenting and figuring out what she really wants. Janie in this situation is still too young, because she doesn't now what she really wants and she let her garndma decide for her instead of doing what she felt is correct.
ReplyDeleteAilyn Flores
Janie's feeling for Johnny Taylor are just curiosity. Janie was curious about how a kiss felt. Janie's nanny wanted her to marry someone "decent" like Logan Killicks. Of course Janie didn't love Logan. Nanny thought that Janie only wanted a "one-nightstand" because she didn't want to marry Logan. Both Relationships reveal to the reader that Janie had tried at love but it didn't go as she had planned.
ReplyDelete-Sonia Villegas
Janie didn't have strong feelings for the two. She kissed Johnny Taylor out of curiosity til she was caught by her grandma. Her grandma tells her that she wants her to marry Logan Killicks since he is already well off and is the man she'd like to see Janie with. So Janie marries him just as her grandmother wanted, and thought that she would love him after marriage, since that is what marriage is "supposed to do." However, she gets no feelings for him, although he treats her well. Janie was just curious with Johnny where as with Logan, she experimented trying to find real love. Being young, she doesn't know what she wants or what love is, which still left unanswered questions after being with the two men.
ReplyDeleteJanie's feeling toward Johnny Taylor was plain curiosity she felt, wanting to know what love was. While marring Logan killicks Jane did not feel affection toward him. She mainly was forced to marry to please her grandmothers wishes. Janie's past relationships reveal that she wanted to learn what it was like to kiss a man as well as what love was really was. When in reality she didnt love any of the two rather she married because her grandmother had ask her.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth rodriguez
Janie's feelings towards johnny weren't considered 'love' she was just tgrying to learn how to kiss and how it felt and had sexual desires. this incident prompts her grandmother nanny to force Janie to marry the more socially respectable Logan Killicks. Even thugh she was married to logan killicks she never felt anything for him she always tried to feel something but it wasn't even a marriage he spoiled her at the beginning but then started to ask her to help him with the farm work and Janie feels used and unloved. these relationships affeect Janie about thinking she won't find love and she feels lonely and unloved. the relationships reveal that the character just wants to feel loved and find true love and for a man to make her happy and make her feel like she was in heaven.
ReplyDeleteLeslie Y. Hernandez
Jannie had no feelings towards both men. Jannie kissed Johnny Taylor out of curiosity to experiment what a kiss felt like. Jannie's grandmother "Nanny" found out about Jannie kissing John and talked to her about marries someone who would treat her right, Logan Killicks. Jannie marries Logan for the sake of her grandmother's wish. Jannie feels uncomfortable in this situation because she doesn't have friction towards Logan. These relationships affect Jannie in a undefenite way. The situation reveals that Jannie is a person who'd try anything, even if it isn't going to end well.
ReplyDeleteThe difference between Janie's feelings for Johnny Taylor and her arranged husband Logan Killicks is that she actually felt something real for Taylor. But for Killicks felt nothing and thought that her love will grow for Killicks after she got married to him. This affects Janie because she learns that you don't learn to love someone you should fall in love with someone, which she didn't. This tells me, the reader that Janie is a person who believes in love. And is someone who doesn't want to bossed around by a man she doesn't truly love.
ReplyDeleteThere is not much of a difference between the feelings Janie had for Johnny Taylor and her marriage with Logan Killicks, because no emotion was there. Janie only kissed Johnny to experience it. She did not mean anything by and did not want anything more than to see what it was like to kiss. When Nanny (Janie's grandmother) caught her kissing she started to question Janie. She wanted to know if Janie felt like a woman, then these question led to the fact the Nanny thought she should get married, then Logan Killicks came into the conversation. Janie married him because that is what her grandmother wanted her to do. She thought that the love would come after the marriage, but it never showed up. During their marriage Janie was pretty quiet and she just took things without saying anything. That all changed when she met Joe Starks and she then had the confidence to stand up to Logan and leave him. Janie is not that good with relationships because she is too quiet, and has no input. Even when she may have something to say, she doe not really say anything about it, she kind of just lets it go.
ReplyDeleteJanie's curiosity about relationships was sparked while she was watching a Pear tree; "She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom..." (Pg. 11) She relates this to how marriage is suppose to be, which leads to her inevitable experimentation with the kiss from Johnny Taylor. This excites her grandmother, who influences Janie to marry Logan Killicks, Janie decides that with marriage, her hopes of finding love will soon follow. However, it never does, in the case of both Johnny Taylor and Logan Killicks, Janie was looking to experience love, however she found it with neither. These relationships will leave Janie in a search of love, which hints; it may be her primary goal throughout the novel.
ReplyDelete-Lorenzo Lambert
Janie's feelings for Johnny Taylor and the contrasting marriage to Logan Killicks is that Janie genuinely has feelings for Johnny where as for Logan she does not. Janie only agrees to marry Logan because she doesn't want to disappoint Nanny. She is also convinced to marry Logan when she is told that she will learn to love him, but this later causes a problem for Janie when she soon goes back to Nanny and asks her how she can learn to love Logan. What this revels about Janie's character is that she believes you have to fall in love it is not just something you can feel for anyone
ReplyDelete~Jeanette Martinez
Janie's first trial of love was Johnny Taylor. He was like her first expiriment but she admits that she doesn't like him (even though she does) after her grandma disagrees of seeing them kissing. Nanny(her grandma) later recommends Janie gets married to this wealthy man called Logan Killicks. Janie refuses to marry him because she does not love him but I willing to marry him to satisfy her Nanny. Janie thought that she would love him as soon as they got married but it never happened. This tells the reader that Janie is still young and confused about love and what she wants.
ReplyDelete-Julia Martinez
True love is what makes a relationship, and Janie's relationship isn't based off love. But Janie feels different towards Johnny, true love is what attatches them together. Janie shows to the reader that she is trying to find the true love of her life.
ReplyDelete-Sergio Gonzalez 5th period
A curiosity for the feeling of love is what Janie Mae Crawford felt at the age of 16 which caused her to let Johnny Taylor kiss her over the gatepost at her Nanny's house. That kiss from Johnny was the closest thing to love that Janie has ever felt in her life because as she grew older her Nanny did as well, and her Nanny knew that she was only going to be able to take care of Janie for a limited amount of time. As a result, Nanny forced Janie to marry Logan Killicks because she felt that he was wealthy/stable enough to take care of Janie and told her that the love between them will grow over time. For example in chapter 4 the narrator says, "Long before the year was up, Janie noticed that her husband had stopped talking in rhymes to her"(pg.26) But Nanny was wrong, Janie was beginning to feel even more miserable with her marriage than she did before and this lets the reader know that the love between Logan and Janie was never there in the first place. Through the reading you can notice that Janie differs from other African American females by the way she wants to be treated by Logan, during the novels time period, black women were hard workers while Janie was not, she liked to take things easy.
ReplyDelete-Devante Titus
Janie's feelings towards both of the gentleman are questionable. Janie kissed Johnny out of curiosity until she was caught. She didn't have any feelings for him, she was just curious on how it felt. Her grandmother becomes upset because she wants Janie to marry Logan Killicks because he is a well-off, educated man. Janie doesn't seek to upset her grandmother, so she goes ahead and marries Logan. She waits for her love of him to come over time. As time progresses she feels no change in her feelings towards him, and begins to question if she had done the right thing. She begins to search for the true love of her life, so she can end up being with someone who she has deep feelings for her.
ReplyDeleteDerek Fuller
Janie's first experience of love is with Johnny Taylor, she says that she doesn`t like him after her grandmother catches them kissing. Her grandmother (or nanny) tells her to marry Logan Killicks because he is a wealthy and stable man suitable for Janie. As naive as Janie is, she wont marry Killick because she doesn`t love him, yet she is willing to for the well-being of her grandmother. She couldn't marry Logan, even if she tried it would not work, love at a very young state is unstable and indecisive to long standing choices. Both relationships show how sheltered Janie was to love, and how she is confused and young-minded to the thought of it.
ReplyDeleteJaine has no interest with the the Johnny and Logan. She doesnt really love both of them. With Johnny everything was based of curiosity. Even though they kissed the love was there. With logan on the other hand there is no love between him and Janie. Logan found out when jaine refused his marriage purposel because she didnt love him. With jaine charater the reader knows that she doesn't know the true meaning of love and the people she dated she never loved.
ReplyDeleteJanie's feelings for Johnny Taylor were simply spontaneous and of the moment. She was an inquisitive 16 year old girl, enchanted by the ideals of love and what it may entail. For Janie, Johnny Taylor provided a firsthand insight into the realm of love that Janie was unaccustomed to and direly curious about. Janie's marriage to Logan Killicks was merely an act of conforming to her grandmothers wishes. Feeling absolutely no emotions towards Logan Killicks, Janie believed that over time her feelings would develop, but they did not. Both relationships affect Janie by diminishing her naivety and allowing for her to realize that love is never what you expect it is going to be. These relationships reveal that Janie optimistic and always has an assumption of how certain situations should be.
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ReplyDeleteJanie feels as if Johnny actually loves her. When she was with Logan, there wasn't any real connection between them. Logan wanted Janie to help take care of his land, and she was unwilling because she felt as if she wasn't appreciated. When she is with Johnny, however, there is a connection and she feels as if she's appreciated. The only downside to her relationship with Johnny is that she feels pressure from other members of the community because she is the mayor's wife. This show's that Janie wants to feel important, but she doesn't want to feel pressured by other people.
Janie kissed Johnny because she felt curious about love. Her feelings for her marriage towards Logan she felt that it wasn't true love even though he did many things for her she didn't believe is was a real marriage, because of how they got married she was forced to marry him because her grandmother felt like it was best for her to marry Logan. Janie didn't love him but she waited to see if and when she would love him. In each relationship you can see that Janie is still trying to find love and experience love. It seems like Janie is just trying to find her self through finding her true love.
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ReplyDeleteWhen Janie first met Johnny Taylor she was inspired by his story about building up a town where colored and white people lived. She noticed that he wasn't like most colored men where she lived and felt a connection between them. She didn't think twice about leaving her husband and running away with him. Other than her relationship with Johnny Taylor she was pressured into marrying Logan Killicks at the age of sixteen. That marriage bored her because all she did was cook and clean and she didn't have any feelings for Logan Killicks.
ReplyDeleteJanie was raised in a white family and has different values than the colored people. She is very picky about her relationships with men and doesn't have any idea what love really is.
-Dominique Briddell
Due to the curiousity of knowing how love feels at age 16 Janie comes across Johnny Taylor and is tempted to kiss him, without having any feelings for him; she kisses him. Janie's grandmother known as "Nanny" catches both Janie and Johnny Taylor kissing, as upset as Nanny is Janie assures her that, that kiss meant nothing. Nanny is forced to tell Janie that she wants her married right away with Logan Killicks because he offers good wealth and protection so that when she dies, she will die in peace because Janie will be left in good hands. Since Janie holds in her thoughts that she will fall in love with Logan Killicks within time, Janie marries him. As time married with Logan Killicks passes by she realizes that her feelings for him have not changed one single bit. Both relationships affect Janie's way of thinking about love in a confusing way because all that she thought about love for her turned out the complete opposite. This shows the fact that at 16 years old Janie was still too immature and young-minded at the sense of love.
ReplyDeleteJanie didn’t have any feelings towards both gentlemen. Janie kissed Johnny Taylor due to her curiosity of what would it made her feel. Logan Killicks didn’t really mean anything to her even though they made have married Janie knew she didn’t have any feelings for him as she did for Johnny. Even though Janie didn’t have any feeling towards Logan she decides to marry him as a desired of her grandmother “Nanny”. Janie doesn’t know what she wants or the true meaning of love, which still leaves her confused of what she really feels for these two men.
ReplyDelete-Karen Flores.
At first Janie has warm and happy feelings over having kissed Johnny Taylor, but as her grandmother, Nanny, tells her that she is now undeniably a woman, Janie's feelings quickly change. Nanny tells Janie that she is to marry Logan Killicks because he is what's best for her, and Johnny is not. Janie is first against the idea as she feels she is too young for marriage and doesn't have feelings for Logan, regardless. Janie later marries Logan (following Nanny's wishes) expecting to eventually love him, but she never does. Janie's relationship with Johnny is a brief introduction to her growing up and "becoming a woman". Janie's marriage with Logan helps her to realize that she is unhappy and makes her seek change. Janie's past two relationships reveal further that she is still developing as a person.
ReplyDeleteJanie's feelings for Johnny Taylor are feelings of curiosity and innocence. She barely discovered the concept of love and marriage. On the other hand, she has no interest in Logan Kellicks. She even describes him as being old. Janie herself is barely sixteen. She doesn't want to admit that she is becoming a woman.
ReplyDeleteHer relationship with Johnny opens a door for Janie. She's eager. Her relationship with Logan shuts that very door.
~ Miranda Anaya
Janie sort of played out Johnny to come off as somewhat of a toy although she did find him physically attractive. She didn't mean for it to be anything serious with Johnny. The marriage with Logan Killicks had the effect on Janie by making her feel self consious about making her own decisions. I wouldn't say marrying Logan even made her happy due to the decision to not even being made my Janie herself but from her grandmother. It reveals that Janie needed a bit of maturing up to do and so she does realizing Johnny was no good for her.
ReplyDeleteI consider Janie's feelings for Johnny Taylor were true feelings because she herself went out there to meet him when they kissed, so at that point it was what she wanted till later she says she didn't know why she kissed him. Whereas the marriage with Logan Killicks was forced on to her by her "Nanny". Her Nanny who has gone through bad experiences with her own daughter,whom is Janie's mother, contributes to why she wants Janie to marry Logan Killics. " 'Tain't Logan Killics Ah want you to have, baby, it's protection." So Janie is forced into a relationship she doesn't want. These relationships reveal that Janie isn't independent in the sense that her Nanny is still making decisions for her. Janie isn't really looking for a relationship, matter a fact she doesn't know what she wants.
ReplyDelete-Adeola Akomolafe 1st period.
There isn't many differences of how Janie feels about Johnny and Logan Killicks. When Janie kissed Johnny, it was only because she was curious about love. Her marriage with Logan Killicks doesn't have any true feelings. Since it was a rearranged marriage, she believed that love will eventually grow. Janie doesn't have feelings for any of them because she wants able to make her own choices. Each relationship affects Janie because she is trying to experience with love. The relationship reveals to the reader that Janie can make her own decisions about what she wants.
ReplyDeleteSavannah Ortivez
In chapter 2, Janie had a location which acted as her escape from her life- the pear tree. Janie had been laying under the tree catching a glimpse of "a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom."(pg. 51) Janie had thought to have seen a revelation meaning that marriage was love. Later she believes the same account happens to her when Johnny Taylor appeared through the "pollinated air." Janie was told by Nanny then that she had become a woman. Yet Janie had a hard time coming to terms with it as it was something innocuous to her. Nanny then tells her she is to be married immediately which is something she doesn't want. Janie finds out that marriage is in fact far from love. This reveals to the reader that Janie desires true love and longs for a happy life with someone.
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ReplyDeleteJanie's feelings toward Johnny are different from Logan Killicks because when she was pressured to marry Logan she only cooked from him and did all the house work but the love wasn't there that she wanted, it wasn't the marriage she wanted. But when it came to Johnny she was curios about what love really is since her marriage was planned and forced her to marry Logan for his wealth, it wasn't the same. This reveals how she's not independent and relies on her nannie's say more than what she wants but at the same time she doesn't even know what love is or what she wants.
ReplyDeleteJohnny was the first man Janie had liked. At 16, she began developing her own ideas of love and the marriage. That day she was wondering around observing the beauty of marriage and trying to figure out why she wasn't married and it just so happened that Johnny was coming up the road. His physical appearance was suiting for Janie and she chose to like him. At that moment, Janie was independent enough to choose a man she saw fitting to like. Nanny on the other hand, viewed it as a direct trait of her mother and did what she believed would keep her out of the misfortune Janie's mother endured. Nanny's intrusion of Janie's young life to a forced marriage ruined Janie's sense of the happiness marriage was suppose to make a woman. Janie didn't love Logan or even find him the least bit attractive. Nanny's marriage of Janie off to Logan messed up Janie's mentality that woman were not to marry for love, but wealth and financial stability. The second Janie was interested in marriage and the happiness it should bring, she was dragged into an unhealthy relationship with no feelings of love or freedom. Janie was revealed as a woman who would rather pick out her own husband and marry for love, than have someone else pick out her husband and marry for wealth. This develops her as a character who's stuck looking for love as raw as she can find it, and not caring if she comes back broke because she was after something she believed she wanted.
ReplyDelete-Tameka Smith 2nd period
Although Janie & Johnny have kissed multiple times I don't consider her feelings for him to be true because she later says that she doesn't know why she did it. She didn't mean for anything serious to come out of it, she was just being curious. Janie has no feelings for Logan but she is forced to marry him because of her Nanny, she believes that he is a good young man and that he has a lot to offer to her. Janie being young and naïve marries him believing that she may develop feelings for him later on. Both relationships affect Janie negatively and give her a sense of insecurity as she doesn't really know or grasp what the concept of love should be, leaving the reader to think that she is too young and immature to begin any sort of relationship.
ReplyDeleteJanie's feelings for Johnny Taylor and the marriage to Logan Killicks effect the relationships not only to Janie but also to the reader. When Janie kissed Johnny she didn't really meant it emotionally. It was more a physical curious way that Janie wanted to experiment. She then regretted the kiss to Johnny because she got caught by her Nanny. All she wants is love and she can't find any true love for anybody. The "marriage" to Logan Killicks with Janie is not true love either. Janie doesn't feel true love about Logan even though he is a nice young gentlemen. But, even that doesn't make Janie happy. Janie had reveal to the reader that she wants love but can never find the right person to share it with. - Bobbi Cordle 2nd period
ReplyDeleteThere were absoulutely no feelings Janie had for Johnny Taylor. It was an action filled with nothing but curiousity. And that in itself is already contrasting the marriage with Logan Killicks. As a matter of a fact the whole marriage with Logan is based off the idea the Janie is now a woman or atleast should act like a woman. Also in the very short relationship with Johnny, thanks to "Nanny", Janie gets a insight to how her future is going to be even though she dislikes the concept of marrying Logan. Of course this relationship does not have as much affect on Jaine as her relationship with Logan. Instead of just showing her, her relationship with Logan really puts the seriousness of the rest of her life on her lap where she can not just see but touch and smell this reality and she becomes a woman then. Janie's incounter with the boy Johnny shows the reader that she is a sweet, innocent and curious girl. In chapter 2 Janie says "Nanny, Ah just-Ah didn't mean nothin' bad," with Nanny's reply of "Dat's what makes me skeered. You dont mean no harm." from this very specific exchange of dialogue we truely see, through the character Nanny, just how innocent and curisous she is. Altough, in the relationship with Logan we see a different side of Janie, a more mature(a womanly figure) but with the same characteristic of curiousity.
ReplyDeleteWhile sitting under the blossoming pear tree, Janie, who was only 16, witnesses the perfect union of nature. She wishes for this love in her own life but is unsure how to do so. So it is relevant to say that her feelings towards Johnny Taylor are real, although it might just be a “crush” that she has, Janie reveals that as a young lady she is looking for the true meaning of love and the kiss that she and Johnny share is real and her only wanting to experience first-hand what love might feel like. Janie is clearly taken by surprise when Nanny, who wants her in a secure situation, tells her that she will be marrying Logan Killicks. Janie is unhappy because there is neither love nor chemistry between the two. Even though Nanny tells her their love for each other will eventually come, it illustrates that Janie knows that she does not or never will feel any love towards Logan that she believes a married couple should have.
ReplyDelete-Illiana Placencia
Janie's feeling towards both men are different but the same. When Janie kissed Johnny Taylor she did it only because she was curiosity. But with Logan Killicks she just doesn't like him. When it comes to relationships, Janie isn't too fond of them. This tells the reader that Janie how to have a relationship, and she doesn't know what love is. Janie is just 16 years old, meaning she still has a child's mindset. She isn't ready for marriage.
ReplyDeleteJaine, like every other teenage girl, wants to find love, be in love. In her yearning for love she uses Johnny Taylor to try and figure it all out, expirence it. It was all innocent and harmless to her, she didn't mean anything by kissing Johnny Taylor. She was affected by this when Nanny forces her to get married to Logan Killicks because she doesn't want her with Johnny (to portect her). Janie was scared and felt unready for marrige, and she wanted to be in love with a man before she married. She hoped love would come later but it never did. She didn't love Logan so she was unhappy. She wanted love, that money, and portection couldn't buy. Janie was not materialistic which was different from the women in her time. Most women would have been over joyed if they were married off to Logan, but not Jaine, and when she chooses to run away from him, it shows that she values herself and what she wants more than what Nanny, or society may have wanted for her. Janie is a strong, independent, picky, and admirable woman.
ReplyDeleteJanie is battling with her conscious about her emotions, they are indecisive when it comes to love. Janie kisses a guy Johnny Taylor unaware that her grandmother saw the whole scene which causes her distress. Janie was disquisitive about kissing so she simply kissed Johnny. The arrangement of her marrying Logan Killicks was not what Janie wanted. Her grandmother wanted her to marry him and the contrasting part about her feelings toward Logan was more of a forceful love that her grandmother put upon her. Each relationship affects Janie by helping her realize the maturity of love and how she is not ready to be committed. The relationships reveal to the reader that Janie is still not aware to choose her own faith and that she makes others happy instead of herself, which is caused by her grandmother.
ReplyDelete-Ann Coltrane 8th
Janie's feelings for Johnny Taylor are real.she feels as if he is the one she is truly in love with even though she only has a crush on him. Janie had spent days under a blossoming pear tree where she witnessed a tiny bloom and she sat there thinking to herself about love and the struggles of life. Janie did not like Logan Killicks. Her grandma wanted her to marry Logan, She felt as if he was desecrating the pear tree and she did not know how to tell her grandma that. After her grandma slapped her she stood and wept internally for both of them. what these relationships show about janie is that she is young and in love with both boys but it is difficult for her to speak out because of what her grandmother wants for her. she only wants to feel what love is but isn't ready for love and marriage.
ReplyDeleteSamantha Garcia 3rd
Threw this chapters we can conclude that Jaine is a very emotinally confused person. Janie kisses Johnny Taylor to expirence and come up with a conclusion for her thoughts. While in her marriage Janie is not sure if she will ever love Logan Killicks. That is what she tells her grandma when she goes and visites. Janie realizes she is never going to love Logan, she's not emotianally nor physicaly attractes to him.
ReplyDeleteJanies relation with Johnny Taylor was based on how she was curious about love. She felt like even though she was married to Logan it was still not real love. Janie begins to believe that marriage doesn't make love real. Theres no such thing as true love. You can see here that Janie is still a child blinded by what she believes might be "true love", but she is just to young to understand what that is.
ReplyDeleteJanie didn't have real feelings towards any of them. She kissed Johnny Taylor out of curiosity. She just wanted to know what love was since her marriage with Logan Killicks wasn't real love. It was forced because nanny told her to get a descent man. She explains to her how later on she will eventually have feelings for him but she's upset because she knows she will never feel anything for him. This reveals to the reader that all Janie wants is to love and feel loved and finding the right man but she can't and she is just curious and doesn't get anything out of it.
ReplyDeleteJanie has been raised within the confides of her grandmothers rules and that her dying wish is for her to be married and well established. As she grows older in age,she starts to ponder the question of love. Janie begins to struggle with herself as she searches for the meaning of love. Johnny Taylor offers a chance for Janie to figure out what love is as they engage in a kiss.However her grandmother discovers her and claims she is a women acting in adult ways. Janie gets pressured into marrying Logan Killicks, her grandmother believes he would be a good husband because of his stature in wealth. Janie is very hesitant because she wants to fall in love with someone rather than it being arranged. She desperately tries to fall in love with Logan and struggles to do so, due to the fact that he is very mean to her in many ways, she is unable to. The reader can observe that Janies idea of love is not playing out in her actual life as planned.
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ReplyDeleteJanie's love for Johnny Taylor was true. She loved him since the first time she saw him and they kissed. She feels as if he is really her true love. Logan Killicks on the other hand, was just a man that was arranged for her by her grandmother. She doesn't really love him. She is only hoping that feelings towards him will grow and she will truly fall in love with him.
ReplyDeleteJanie for sure didn't love Johnny, she says so herself, she probably had no feelings for him at all. She only used him for a kiss, for that one night, she unconsciously gained her womanhood. Her intentions were not to get married by this action of affection. Her feelings for Logan were also none. She wanted to love him and want him the way he wanted her but she didn't. She felt like if someone told her how she could try to want him back. Logan treated her like a wife in the begging of their marriage but sixth months later he started to treat her differently. There began to be conflict between them and she wanted to leave him. These relationships reveal that Janie is young and doesn't want to settle down. Janie does not know how to genuinely love a man without using him for her selfish needs, but she would like to learn how.
ReplyDeleteJanie was curios about love and Johnny gives shows a way to find out about it. Her granny sees but she wants her to get a good man someone other then him. She gets pressured into marrying logan because to everyone he is a decent man. She is treated badly by him and cant fall in love with him.
ReplyDeleteJanie had felt curious about love when she kissed Johnny Taylor. She felt that it didn’t mean anything, but the way she felt toward her marriage with Logan Killicks was that it wasn't true love even though he did everything for her and was kind to her. Janie waited to see if she would fall in love with him. Each relationship affected Janie by first trying to experience love and see how it feels, but when she married Logan Killicks she didn't feel love towards him. She got love but love that was not planned on having meaning the type of love she didn’t have in mind.
ReplyDeleteI think that Janie did have some kind of feelings for Johnny, but definitely not love. She pretty much admits that she pretty much only kissed him because of her teenage hormones. She was more in love with the idea of kissing someone other than kissing him. She didn't love Logan either, however, it was completely different with Logan because with Johnny, she felt like it was her choice to kiss him. Nanny arranged her marriage with Logan, which made it ever harder to develop any feelings for him. She felt she was forced to be with him and forced to love him, which she was. Even though she didn't love either one, it was even harder to love Logan because she didn't have a choice.
ReplyDeleteJanie kisses Johnny as an experiment, in search for love. Afterward, she doesn't feel anything for him, but even though the kiss didn't affect her in that way, it does when Nanny forces her to marry another man, Logan Killicks. Nanny feels the need to protect Janie. To Nanny and the rest of society, being with someone who could financially support and protect her was better than love. Although Janie tries to understand and later on feel something for Killicks, she can't. Janie prefers love over money and protection and the set up marriage with Killicks is in the way of that.
ReplyDeleteJanie's feelings for Johnny were probably nothing more then the feelings of friendship misinterpreted as something more meaningful. The only reason she kissed him was out of curiosity instead of the feelings of love and affection. She was told that people that are married always love each other. so she thought that as soon as she married Logan she would love him instead of loving him first then marrying him. These relationships show that she is unwilling to work towards loving Logan and was always willing to find a way out instead of working it out.
ReplyDeleteJane didnt have any feelings for Johnny she just wanted to kiss smeone she even says so herself. She also doesnt have any feelings for Logan because it is a fixed marriage, she doesnt know the guy. Because of the fixef marriage she has to act as if she loves Logan even if she doesnt. She didnt have any feelings for Johnny she only kissed him just to know how it would feel. These events let us know that Jane is still young and she still wants to experience more things
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ReplyDeleteJaine's feelings toward Johnny Taylor and Logan Killicks was not true love. Although Jaine kissed Johnny Taylor she did it not for love, but for teenage curiosity. Janie's grandmother forced her to marry Logan Killicks because he would take care of her. Even though Logan treats Jaine right by not laying a hand on her and taking care of her Jaine does not feel love. Johnny Taylor affected Jaine by making her want to try new things even if her grandmother doesn't agree. Logan Killicks affected Jaine by showing her what love is not suppose to feel like thus she leaves him for Joe Starks. These two relationships show that Jaine wants to find true love, but doesn't know how true love feels like.
ReplyDeleteMatthew Foley 3rd.
Janie's feelings for Johnny Taylor and for Logan Killicks are the same because she doesn't have strong feelings for either. Johnny Taylor is a boy she kissed when she was 16. Janie was under a pear tree when she kissed Johnny because she was curious. Her feelings weren't strong but she felt a physical attraction towards him. When her grandmother Nanny finds out she insists that Janie marries Logan Killicks. Logan Killicks is a wealthy farmer that Nanny feels can provide Janie with what she needs. Janie is eventually forced to marry him but she knows that her feelings for him will never grow.
ReplyDeleteJanie's relationship with Johnny was just out of curiosity for love. She feels that marriage isnt true love. But seeks the feeling of true love. Yet she has no idea what true love is.-Nathan Aguilar
DeleteJanie's relationship with Johnny was just out of curiosity for love. She feels that marriage isnt true love. But seeks the feeling of true love. Yet she has no idea what true love is.-Nathan Aguilar
DeleteJanie really doesn't have feelings for Johnny Taylor. It was an adolescent "in the moment" action that happned due to Janie's curiosity. As for Logan Killicks Janie still did not feel anything. If anything Janie feels disgust when looking at him because she finds him unattractive. When Janie marries Logan she does not know what love is. Janie has no concept of love because she never got to experience it but she finally experiences feelings for Joe Starks. The fact Janie runs away with him is only proving the adolescence still inside. These relationships reveal that Janie is still young and wants to experience more in life. She doesn't want to be stuck in a fixed marriage. Janie wants romance and feelings like every teenage girl does. If anything it tells us that Janie's character is outgoing, full of life, and seeking adventure.
ReplyDeleteWhen Janie kissed Johnny Taylor, she was "beglamored" by the golden dust of pollen. The kiss is described as a laceration upon Janie. The relationship between Janie and Johnny is the one that opens her world to sexual experiences. She becomes a woman according to her grandmother. After that, all of Janie's grandmother's efforts go towards finding her a good, educating husband. In comes Logan Killick, a well educated man who wants to marry Janie. Two months after they get married, Janie goes to her grandmother asking her how to love her husband. Janie doesn't love Logan as she feels she should, since they're man and wife. these relationships show how Janie is naive to the customs of love and marriage. She feels she is supposed to love her husband because married people always love each other. This naivety and illusion is shattered when she realizes she doesn't love Logan and runs away with Joe Starks.
ReplyDeleteJanie kissed Johnny Taylor in the moment, not because she loved him and cared for it, but it just happened. Same with Logan Killicks. Janie didn't choose to kiss Johnny or to marry Logan but they just kind of happened. She hoped love for Logan would happen after some time of being married but nothing ever happened and she feels her dreams are crushed because she doesn't love Logan, even though she wants to love him. She still hopes love will come to her after some time but after Nanny dies some time later, she gives up trying to love Logan. This reveals Janie as a young woman who still has yet to experience the world for her very own. She can't be forced to experience it but to be left to herself to find out and find what love is, which is what happens when Joe Starks comes along.
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Janie's relationship with Johnny Taylor is not love. Janie was just curious, when she kissed him she felt nothing. Janie's marriage with Logan Killicks wasnt love. She only married him because of her grandmother. Janie was just trying to see what love is, she was experimenting. This shows the reader how she is just not ready for love.
ReplyDelete-Kimberly Gibson-
Janie is a 16 year old girl, who doesn't have the maturity level to understand what love is, how it feels,or even know how to get it yet; all she thinks she knows is that she will "blossom" into a women once she finds love. The relationship between Johnny and Janie was pure out of curiosity not love. After the kiss, Janie admits that she never had feelings for him; she did liked Johnny but deep down only used him to experience what love felt like. Janie saw their relationship as innocent and harmless. What this showed the reader, is that Janie likes more the idea of love rather than who she loves. On the other hand, the relationship between Janie and Logan is different because its forced, pressured and arranged by her grandmother, Nanny. From the start, Janie did not have any feelings for Logan, especially didn't have any desires to marry him. (or anybody really yet). The only reason she married Logan was to fulfill her Nanny's wish to be protected after she died, he was wealthy, and Logan loved her witch made her believe that soon she will start developing feelings for him to. But by forcing love, she only ended hating him and soon after leaving him for another guy. What this shows, is that all Janie wants is to find love, and know what it is to feel loved by finding the right man. Marrying and kissing someone did not complete Janie because in the end, she still felt empty and lonely inside. These experiences affected Janie by her finally choosing for herself and running off with another guy for her own needs.
ReplyDelete- Jacqui Benavides <3
Janie is in a journey to find love. She starts by kissing Johnny Taylor and Janie thinks there is something special between them. In the other hand Janie is in a forced marriage with Logan Killicks. The reason why Janie is with Logan is because her grandma recommende for her to marry a wealth man. Grandma also does not approve of Janies relation with Johnny. What the reader can say about Janie is that she doesn't have her mind straight and that her family can make her change her decissions.
ReplyDelete- Ismael Sosa
Janie feels more "love",or "emotions"when shes with Johnny Taylor because they just met and the kiss they had, just happened.Johnny Taylor tells Janie and shows her how a young lady like her should be treated, Janie doesn't react with any kind of ideas or thoughts.Logan Killicks ,Husband of Janie is some sort of roommate that Janie was forced to marry.Logan demands and orders Janie to do work around the because he thinks everything was given to her and was raised as a spoiled child. The big difference between these men is their feelings and character when with Janie. She then realizes marriage does not make love because of how she felt for Joe and not Logan. I can truly see shes changing for the better of herself and no one else ,she does not need to be forced but to find out on her own.
ReplyDeleteThe feelings Janie has for Johnny Taylor and Logan Killicks are not that different. Janie kissed Johnny Taylor at the gate because she just did. She even explained it to her Nanny when she asked her if she loved Johnny, and Jaine responded, "Only dis one time, Nanny. Ah don't love him at all. Whut made me do it is-oh, Ah don't know." (pg. 39) But Janie also felt that the same with Mr. Killicks; she didn't love him but more so felt upset and followed her grandmother;s that she could allow her self to marry him. She felt no love for Logan Killicks, any more than that attachment she felt to Johnny. Janie said she wasn't a real woman yet. Jamie figured she would learn to love him since that is what husbands and wives do by her definition, but after they got married, she didn't grow to love him. Logan seemed to want to make things for them work out well by chopping the wood and keeping water in the buckets, and by promising to never lay his hands on her in malice. Janie was still a kid, she didn't understand a thing about love or even seemed prepared to take on that burden as a young lady, showing that love is not something that can be forced or experimented on to get results.
ReplyDeleteJanie does not feel love for Johnny, she's just curious of how to kiss and how that would feel. The marriage with Logan Killicks is not true love either, no matter how much Logan tries to make Janie happy he's not being successful at it. Janie does not feel secure about the marriage. The two relationships affect her because it's making her show that Janie does not know what love is. Janie is not happy with any guy, it is comprehensive since she is a teenager. Janie wants love to be the way she thinks it is, not the way it should be.
ReplyDelete-Hillary Ramirez
Janie hasn't experiment what being in love actually feels like.The feelings she had for Johnny Taylor and Logan Killicks was very similar. Janie didnt have a reason to kiss Johnny, but she just did. She even tells her Nanny how she feels and that she doesnt love him. Janie married Logan Killicks mainly because she followed her grandmothers advice but not because she loved him. She maybe thought that she would fall in love with him later on but she didnt at all. Janie has showed the reader that she doesnt know what being in love is thinking to feel another way about it.
ReplyDeleteJanie is curious about lovewhen kissing Johnny Taylor. Janie was just 16 and the kiss was just in the moment.Janie only married Logan because her grandmother wanted her to. Janie didn't love Logan she did it to make her grandmother happy. With this Janie is young and want to expierement with guys and love. This shows Janie isn't ready for love.
ReplyDeleteJanie seems to be the passenger of her life while her grandmother and family are the ones who control it. What I mean by this is that Janie's grandmother forced Janie into marrying Logan Killicks due to the fact that Mr. Killicks is a wealthy man and will take care of Janie. Janie of course marries Logan and desires that she will eventually fall in love will Logan but of course love fails and Janie just can't love Logan, even though she wishes to do so. Johnny Taylor on the other hand was somewhat close to "love" fpr Janie. The kiss between Johnny and Janie actually men't something to Janie yet it wasn't really love for what she felt for him, it was more of a "wow I kissed guy" type of thing (experimenting).
ReplyDeleteJanie feelings for Johnny Taylor and Logan Killicks are very similiar. She is experimenting with love at first, she kisses Johnny Taylor because she wants to know the way it feels. Janie even tells her Grandma that she doesnt love him. Janie married Logan Killicks because her Grandma told her it would be good to marry a wealthy African American. She doesn't love him though, she states in the novel that she doesn't love him and she doesn't want to be with him for that reason. These realationships makes Janie realize that she is still to young and immature to know what love is. She was forced in this relationship and wants to find one were she actually loves a man. The reader can acknowledge that Janie isn't ready for marriage or love but is seeking to find out what it is.
ReplyDelete-Fernie Dominguez
There wasn't a very big difference between the feelings Janie had involving Johnny Taylor and Logan killicks. Janie didn't have feelings for Johnny Taylor. Janie told her nanny that when she was sitting on her lap. "Janie, how long you been 'lowin' Johnny Taylor to kiss you?" (pg.20) " only dis one time, nanny. ah don't love him at all. whut made me do it is- oh I don't know." In these quotes from the novel one can see that Janie has no feelings for Johnny Taylor. Janie didn't want to marry Logan Killicks either. " ah aint gointuh do it no mo, nanny. please don't make me marry Mr. Killicks" (pg.20) Janie didn't love Logan killicks either or even like him at that. Janie didn't think she was even ready to become a woman yet the text states " Naw, nanny, naw ah aint no real oman yet."(pg17) Janie as a young 16 year old wasn't ready to be a woman yet.
ReplyDelete~Brieanna Gordon~
Janie is a 16 year old girl, who doesn't have the maturity level to understand what love is, how it feels,or even know how to get it yet. All she thinks she knows is that she will finally transform into a women once she finds real love. She was forced in this relationship and wants to find one were she actually loves a man. The relationship between Johnny and Janie was pure out of interest and not love. Janie gets pressured into marrying Logan Killicks, her grandmother believes he would be a good husband because of his stature in wealth.
ReplyDelete*Jesus Gutierrez*
Janie's feelings for Johnny Taylor are really vague because she just kissed him because she was caught up in the moment. In the other hand her feelings for Logan are not deep because she just married him because her granmda told her to. Janie does not really love him even thought she kinda wants to for her grandma but she just can't since she is kinda forced to do chores that should be done by Logan.
ReplyDeleteEach relationship affect her by making her see that she is not ready for marriage and needs more experince with love. These relationships show that Janie is not ready for marriage since she is so young and has not experinced a "true" relationship with anyone but Logan which was forced on her.
Aaron Martinez
Janie is a very young girl who isn't mature enough to understand the deep meaning of love. When she kissed Johnny Taylor she didn't really had feelings for him, all she wanted is the physical connection, the kisses and hugs from him. He was only a boy who only liked him for his looks and physical affections. On the other hand, her husband, Logan Killian, is a man of dedication, hard work, and well set for his life, well taken care off. A man who makes a very good husband based on her Nanny's perspective. However, Janie doesn't like him at all, she feels no affection towards him. The only reason she married him is because first, her Nanny recommended him and she thinks Janie would find love later on in the marriage. But she doesn't obtain the affection she truly desires even though her Nanny insists it will come soon. her Nanny says she is spoiled and doesn't see the things that should make her love Logan. This shows how her perspective is different from her grandmother because they each grew up in a different environment. Her grandma grew up in the slave era where a man with land, who works hard and provides "protection" was a good husband but for Janie who grew up in a friendlier environment (compared to her grandma's) wants a man who's good looking an displays physical but as well as emotional connections later on. She is still a young girl who doesn't truly understand the meaning of love and is ignorant of the real world.
ReplyDelete- Adan Rivas
Janie is a young girl that doesn't know what love really is. She try to be with johnny Taylor as of curiosity to see what love really is. She says that she didn’t really loved johnny but she liked him. Later her Nanny recommends Janie to marry a wealthy man called Logan Killicks. Janie marry him to please her Nanny, but in the other hand she does not love him and doesn’t want to marry him. Janie thought with time after married him she would feel something for him but it did not worked. This shows the reader that Janie is still young and that she's not capable to be in a relationship and neither in marriage.
ReplyDelete-Jennifer Arreola
Janie does not love either man. She does have an overwhelming attraction to Johnny Taylor that blinds her to see his raggedy self and obligation to her grandmother to marry the suitable Logan Killicks. Her infatuation with Johnny Taylor makes it easy to kiss him, but she will not take him as a husband. Janie felt she has no choice but to marry Logan. He owns his own land and is able to provide stability and protection for her. She had hoped that with marriage she would come to love Logan, but it did not happen. Janie is a young girl who is unsure of doing what she is told is right or whether following what she wants for herself is.
ReplyDelete-Celeste Molina
Janie is a young girl who's curious about what love really is and what does it mean in a non-harmful way, Janie's "affection" towards Johnny for example is nothing more than a curious experimental way for Janie to think that being kissed was a form of being loved, Logan on the other hand is more of chosen person by Janie's grandma whos wants her to marry logan. Janie believes Logan "looks like some ole skullhead in de grave yard".which means he's not all that attractive but, as Janie begins to think about marrying logan she wonders if true love is marriage. both of these relationships are more questions to janie on what love really is and don't affect her negatively but raise more questions about love.
ReplyDeleteboth relationship's reveal how clueless she is about love and how she isnt prepared for having a relationship until she know what true love is.
Jaime Balderrama
Janie is a 16 year old girl who is trying to feel what love is by kissing Johnny Taylor, as the reader you can tell she is caught up in the fantasies about being in love. She has no feelings for Johnny Taylor but kisses him just to experience it. On the other hand while Nanny, her grandmother sees what she has done, gets angry because that's not the future she has planned for her grandchild to go through. Nanny convinces Janie to marry Logan, because Nanny knows she is getting old and closer to death she wants any open door of good support for Janie to take. The feelings of the relationship is sagacity because love is not really being revealed, Janie never loves Johnny nor Logan. She is going about with the choices and ideas her grandmother is making to make her future " bright ". As being the reader you can see that Janie does what other people influence and tell her to do, rather than making her own choices for her own future.
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ReplyDeleteJanie is a vulnerable young girl that has her first kiss with Johnny Taylor. Her grandmother sees this and defines her as a ''Woman" and says she has to get married. Janie listens to whatever her grandmother says, and gets an arranged marriage to Logan Killicks. Logan is an unlovable husband, and too old for Janie. Johnny doesn't approve of this at all and says he looks like a "skull head in a grave yard". This confuses her relationships and makes her over think a lot of things about Logan and Johnny, she is only 16 and can't manage to be in a marriage at all.
ReplyDeleteJanie's feelings for Johnny Taylor were an, " In the moment" kind of emotion. Janie was under the peach tree and in a lust about life in the moment. So any man could of walked down that street and recieved a kiss. Now Logan Killicks was a land owning man and treated Janie with love and respect always. The contrast here is Johnny Taylor was a man walking down the street, while Logan Killicks was her husband and she did not love him or look at him in the way that she looked at Johnny Taylor that evening. Each realationship affects Janie in the same way she ends up not feeling "love". She is always left wondering if the situation she is in is love. As a reader Janie's realationships have revealed to me that she is just a lost girl serching for what love is and what it feels like and looks like and suppose to be like.
ReplyDeleteJanie at the age she is in does not fully understand what love is. She compares love to the bee and the blossom. She thinks that love should feel like that type of attraction. Janie thinks she's in love with Jonny, but because of the moment that he first kissed her. Janie's Nanny suggests that Janie marry Mr. Killicks, so that he may take care of her, and so that when Janie's grandma passes, she can know that's Janie is being taken care of, and not walked all over by some man. Even after Janie is married to Mr. Killicks she questions the marriage, because she does not love. She expects that after being married she would be able to love her partner, but in the outcome she feels nothing for Mr. Logan Killicks.
ReplyDelete-Emily Sierra
Janie's feelings toward Johnny Taylor and Logan Killicks are very different. In the story Janie is 16 years old and curious about love feels like, that is why she kisses Johnny Taylor. Janie's grandmother tells her that she needs to think about her future and what would be best for her. This is where Logan Killicks comes in. Janie marries him because he is wealthy, but she does not love him and she does not want to be with him just for his money.
ReplyDeleteThis affects Janie by making her realize that she needs to do what makes her happy and a experience a true relationship on her own.
-Rebeka Servin
Janie's feeling to Johnny Taylor versus Logan Killicks are very different from each other. As a teen, Janie has interest in her true feelings of what she warmly feels towards Johnny and kisses him, but it was caused by curiosity, thought she has a stronger feeling to him than Logan. Janie doesn't feel the same affection for Logan as she does for Johnny, although she felt good and secure with Logan because she didn't feel lonely. Logan was a wealthy and stable man, thought their relationship felt to be detaching as time went by despite him having done many good things to her. Her grandmother had forced her to marry, but like many people, being forced to love somebody doesn't come natural or develops well. Her experience affected Janie on the way she thinks about knowing what she really feels and wants. Janie had chosen to back off from Logan, and wants to do what she feels, and not what Nanny had done to her, this shows how she is can make her own decisions as she has grown into womenhood.
ReplyDeleteThere is a huge difference between faking and truly feeling this often confusing emotion, love. Janies first trial of love was Johnny Taylor. Unfortunately she says she doesn’t like him, even though it’s a lie, after her Nanny thinks otherwise considering she sees them kiss. Nanny later throws the idea of Janie marring a rich fellow named Logan Killicks because she knows shes getting old and wont be there for ever. She refuses to marry but changes her mind in order to satify her grandmother. This is where Janie decides to try to fake her love till she felt it but never does feel it. As a reader this says she still has a lot to learn about love and her emotions.
ReplyDeleteJanie had a battle for love with herself. What she felt with Logan Killicks in her marriage wasn’t real, although she faked loving him, she also tried to truly love him; but that feeling couldn’t be forced on her because she wasn’t in love. Even though Logan did tremendous things to keep her happy and up on cloud nine, love cannot be bought. Janie’s first glance at Johnny was a hidden love at first sight. Her desire to want to kiss him, even though nothing was felt when they kissed, Nancy saw that love could blossom; when in fact, Janie just experimented with the idea of love, not true love with Johnny Taylor. As she does this we see that Janie is just a hopeless romantic that wants to love and be loved.
ReplyDeleteWhen Janie kissed Johnny Taylor, is was just an act of experimentation. Partly because she is innocent and young. We can't say that she has those same feelings for Logan Killicks. Going back in that time period after the Civil War, african americans were still not given full freedom like white people had; women especially. Janie knows that Logan Killicks is looking to marry her strictly for business. And because of that, she does not get emotionally attached to Logan Killicks as she might or might not have with Johnny Taylor. She is not exactly upset about Logan Killicks not having any feelings about her because she knows that this is just the way it is around that time, it was not anything that she can go "Rosa Parks" on. This tells me mainly that even though slavery was illegal at that time, there was still some things that had to be illegal concerning african american women marrying to provide labor, not to the white man, but to the black.
ReplyDelete-Chris Gomez, 5th period
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ReplyDeleteJanie kissing Johnny let to her experience with men. what she didnt know was that her grandmother Nanny was watching. Nanny then explained to Janie that she had to become a woman. Nanny then explained to her about a man who was wealthy and could provide a good life for her. Janie didnt comprehend because she did't want to marry that man Logan Killicks. Janie experimenting led her feeling to arouse and find true love but with Johnny and Logan love was not there. With Love being a huge effect on a womans life teaches and expands her true personality and longing for true love.
ReplyDeleteBecause Janie kissed Johnney, this gave her expierence with men. Her Nanny saw them doing their stuff and explained to Janie to become a women and grow up because it was very important. Logan made her feel so happy and just made her feel loved. She was excited about kissing him even though she didnt feel anything special. she just wanted to expierment with what she thought was love.
ReplyDeleteThe difference between Janies feelings for Johnny Taylor and her feelings for Logan Killicks was that when Janie kissed Johnny, she was experimenting like any other teenager would. But after granny found out, Jannie was nearly forced into marrying Logan on behalf of grannies request. Being put into a FORCED relationship, Janie comes clean and admits to "wanting to want him sometimes". This shows the reader that even after this predicament, she's still willing to TRY and love Logan even though she isn't 100% sure of how she's supposed to love a man she hardly knows, let alone, is interested in or attracted to.
ReplyDelete-Alexandra Faith Yrigoyen
Janie didn't love johnny or logan. Her relationship with Johnny was just an experiment out of curiosity like any teen would probably have so she kissed him. Once her grandma found out she got mad her grandma already had someone in mind fir wgich was logan. Her marriage with Logan was not out of love or because she wanted to it was just because her grandma made her because he is a educated man. So both relationships were out of love. So I think it changes her longing for true love that she has never felt.
ReplyDeleteThe contrast between Janie's feelings for Johnny Taylor and her marriage to Logan Killicks is that Johnny was merely an experiment for Janie while marrying Logan was out of force for her Nanny. Janie didn't necessarily have feelings for Johnny because she didn't know how to comprehend what "feelings" were being that he was the first guy she tried anything with. Janie married Logan because she didn't want to disappoint her Nanny's request and found herself forcing love with him when she was really hurting herself in the long run. I believe that if Nanny hadn't caught Janie kissing Johnny, then she would have pursued her curiosity with Johnny and have learned a healthier way of being in a relationship.
ReplyDelete- Brionna Greene