Journal #5

The motivation that Janie feels is experience of embracing new concepts. She has a desire to experience life and all the things that she hasn't been able to becauase something/someone was preventing her. She wants to experience what love actually is herself and not what other people tell her it is. She is driven to experience new things and Tea Cake tries to help her fulfill her desires. The major change that is seen in Janie is that she thinks for herself. In chapter 12, Janie stops listening to all the advice that the men give her in chapter 11, and begins to follow her heart in the situation she has with Tea Cake. This motivation of Janie is also a big change from earlier in the book where all her opinions were being ruled/decided by her grandmother as well as the other people that Janie cares about. This big change of Janie following her own opinions instead of taking in the perspectives of other people is a sign that Janie is aging.