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No voice is displayed in many different ways through out in __Their Eyes Were Watching God__. The following are a few examples of how having no voice effects Janie and others in the novel.

> "So you don't want to marry off decent like do yuh? You just wants to hug and kiss and feeland feel around with first one man and then another, huh? you wants to make me suck de same sorrow yo' mama did, eh? Mahole head ain't gray enough. Man back ain't bowed enough to suit yuh!"

This is when Nanny is talking to Janie about getting married to Logan Killicks. Janie is very against marrying Logan but has know way of telling Nanny how he really feels about it. Janie has no voice against Nanny and marrying Logan. Nanny wants Janie to have a good life and since Logan has alot of money and is well established and thats why Nanny thinks he is suitable for Janie. Janie was never big on the idea of marrying Logan, He was much older then her and she did not love him. It seems like Nanny puts Janie into a guilt trip about marrying Logan.

> " The vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the pear tree, but Janie didn't know how to tell Nanny that. She merely hunched over and pouted at the floor."

Here Janie is talking about how the thought of Logan ruined her idea of sexuall love and beauty. The pear tree, to janie, was the meaning of beautiful, sexuall love and when she thought of Logan, she thought of something ugly and disgusting. Her whole idea of teh pear tree was basically killed by her marrying Logan. Logan was older and she was not attracted to him in a sexuall way or in anyway for that matter. When Janie first starts talking about the pear tree she learns about the birds and the bees and she decribes it as something beautiful and nice but Logan is the complete opposite of that. Having no voice is shown in this passage by how Janie doesn't know how to tell Nanny how she felt about Logan and the pear tree.

> " Ah ain't gointuh do it no mo', Nanny. Please don't make me marry Mr. Killicks."

Its obvious that janie wants to hint to Nanny that she does not want to marry Logan. This is a form of no voice because it shows how badley Janie did not want to marry Logan but she had to because her Nanny said so. Janie had no way out.