Janie from Their Eyes Were Watching God, Gatsby from The Great Gatsby,

Janie from Their Eyes Were Watching God, Gatsby from The Great Gatsby, June from The Joy Luck Club, and Edna from The wake In most of the worlds greatest literature, there have been introduced countless courageous characters and triumphant victories. These characters have the power to father strength from distress and grow courageous by reflection. Such characters as Janie from Their Eyes Were Watching God, Gatsby from The Great Gatsby, June from The Joy Luck Club, and Edna from The Awakening. Throughout each of these magnificent stories comes an example of bravery and courage. Although in round cases, the characters may not generally be perceived by the public to be courageous at all, they demonstrate extreme strength in overcoming adver gety. In Zora Neale Hurstons Their Eyes Were Watching God, the character of Janie is a prime example of overcoming adversity. She is faced with racism early in life, and then forced to marry at a young age. In her lifelong search for true love, Janie goes through three marriages, several moves, and an incredible journey of self-discovery. On Janies quest for unconditional, true, and fulfilling love, she gains her own interdependence and own(prenominal) freedom, which makes her a true heroine in this novel. Because Janie strives for her own independence, others tend to judge her simply because she is daring enough to achieve her own autonomy. Ah wants things sweet wed mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. Ah (Eyes 23) Throughout the novel, she searches for the love that she has always desired, one that is represented to her early in life by the marriage betwixt a bee and a blossom on the pear tree that stood in her grandmothers backyard. She was stretched o... ... because reality cannot keep up with ideals, but also because the ideals are in any(prenominal) case usually too fantastic to be realised. The heroic presentation of Gatsby, therefore, should not be taken at face value, for we canno t overlook the fact that Gatsby is naive, meshuggeneh and over sentimental. It is this which makes him attempt the impossible, to repeat the past. There is something pitiful and absurd about the way he refuses to grow up, but also brave and courageous. The way Gatsby refuses to founder his ideals is admirable, although many saw it as foolish. Jay Gatsby died because of these ideals, and can almost be seen as a martyr for his own beliefs and idea of perfection, or the American Dream. Gatsbys good friend, neighbor, and the vote counter of this novel thinks very highly of the complicated Gatsby. Your worth the whole rotten bunch of them put together,