Sunday, December 2, 2007

Their eyes were watching God: Event Response

Chapter 6

In chapter 6, Matt Bonner's dog is always being made fun of and mistreated by other people. You can tell that the dog does not like the owner because it runs away to the front of Janies store. The men outside of the store are agrivating the poor mule and Janie sees this. Janie starts mumbling and talking to others about how mean it is to do such a thing. Joe over hears Janie talking so he decides to buy the dog for 5 dollars from the owner. The townspeople think that this deed of Joe is so Noble and Brave that they think its like Lincoln ending slavery.

This event is very important because when the dog dies the people take the loss like a war that has ended. Everyone knows that the dog was in pain and has gone to another place and thats why people refer to this event as they way the refer it. But, the people referring to Joe as being like Lincoln is on another scale. Freeing slaves is much more important than freeing a dog from its misery. Also the townspeople do not see the real Joe when he is slapping women and mistreating women. He is not noble, and hes a horrible person. Although the people cant see this, one person can. This one person is not aloud to talk to other people in the town because they are trashy.

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