Hadiyah's Blog

Sethe’s split-second decision to collect her children and go to the woodshed with the intent of killing them was looked down upon by the community as well as Paul D. At first, when reading the shocking scene, I thought “how could someone kill their own children?”, but the scene ended up giving me a lot of sympathy for Sethe. Because we’ve already gotten to know Sethe & what she’s been through, her actions make a lot of sense. It makes sense that she didn’t want her kids to be taken away from her and become slaves at Sweet Home. That’s exactly why she escaped. She didn’t escape because she hated it there, but because she couldn’t bear the thought of her kids suffering. The thought of “while the boys is small” is what pushed her to want to escape. Even then, her escape wasn’t easy, being pregnant with Denver & by herself, but what kept her going was bring milk to her child. Sethe is driven by motherly love. She didn’t kill her kids just because, but because she loved them and be...

In Richard Wright’s critique of Zora Neale Hurston’s  Their Eyes Were Watching God , he says that her book has no meaning. I think he’s just saying that without having carefully read the book. I think the main message is that a woman is allowed to follow her dreams and do whatever she wants. I think the book’s main message’s purpose is to empower women, shown by Phoebe’s reaction to Janie’s story at the end.  Janie’s first two marriages were terrible. In her first marriage with Logan, she married him for security. It didn’t matter if she found him attractive (which she didn’t) or if she loved or even liked him (she really didn’t). Here she wasn’t allowed to pursue her dream of love. She was forced to work and there was no romance in their marriage, and these made her really upset. Her second marriage was with Jody, who she did find attractive and at first, liked. She later hated him because of how controlling he was of her. He told her how to act, what to wear, what to do...