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I loved it. I will not mention that nonsense about how wonderful the use of dialect is - dialect is what it is. What I loved about it was that Janie was real. Real women are not always militantly sassy, and sometimes they have doubts. Sometimes it takes them some time to realize what they like and what they don't like, and sometimes they choose to stay with men they're not so into for various reasons. And sometimes they do so consciously. And sometimes they are confident, skillful and unabashed,
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It is clear why this is a classic. It shares the story of Janie, her three husbands, and her growing comfort with herself. When it was recommended to me, there was a great emphasis on the focus on African American culture in a specific time period. It is unique for use of dialect and its limited connection to the white society around it. But what really spoke to me was the feminist undertones of the book. Janie stood up for herself in the ways that she could, leaving her first husband, carving o
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