Student Trevor Bell provides us with passage rewrite of Jody's death, a significant plot point in the book in which Janie experiences freedom from Jody's oppressive grip:
A sound'a strife in mah throat, but mah eyes growed real big an ah's looked away so Janie'd know ah weren't fightin wit' her no mo', but with what Ah' feared. Ah' never knew' fear lak dis befoe. Ah's so scared ah couldn't bring mah'self to 'pologize to mah' wife even afta all ah'd done. Ah beat her and control her cause it made me feel lak ah'm important and poweful, but ah' aint no mo, now I gots nothin to show fo' all the work ah done. Ain't no townfolk gon respect da ole dead mayor, and ain't Janie gonna be sad and greivin cause ah'm gon. But law'd ah'm sorry fo' all ah done hurt that dere woman, nd all tha' times ah'd kep her quiet, an ah dea'ly hopes she find da voice o'her own.Afta all mah hurtin Janie she still don let id all knock hur down.nd' ah hopes dat she's goin tuh see she ain't got nothin left, but dat she still somebody widout meh, an' Ah pray she rememba' who she used tah be, and she 'members me as who Ah used tuh be when we first met eachotha'.” But as ah's lettin go, ah seen her lookin at herself in dat dere' mirror, she takin off dat ole rag she laks tuh keep 'round her head, dat she don' miss me none, but ah undastands it, caus' ah been terrible tah her, an alls that ah can want is dat she don let it change who dat girl is.”
"Dis sittin' in de rulin' chair is been hard on Jody," she muttered out loud. And as he left her she called out "Come heah people! Jody is dead. Mah husband is gone from me."
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