Recreating Image!!!

We watched "Their Eyes were watching God" yesterday in class. It showed how Jannie recreated her image and not the image that society gave her. Her husband Mayor Starks was a man who was paternalistic and order his wife to cover up everything even her hair. Jannie didn't enjoy not showing her beauty so she lashed out a few time in front of the townsman. She experience domestic abuse and left the house. Her husband ended up dying and she ended up with the whole own of Eatonville.  She later met Tea Cakes and fell in love. Townsmen were skeptical on her leaving town with a younger boy and condemned but she left anyway. Jannie said " Our love is like the sea it is a moving thang and its different at every shore", which explained their love. I believe this story shows that African American can change what society protrays about Black women but its up to us to change that. This story shows that women are strong and often when Black women  find out about "living" Black women may feel liberated. Maybe black women need to stray away from what society wants us to be and feel free to live life loving every moment of it after they become liberated whether its your husband, father, mother, grandparents or whatever. Black women need to create a positive image.