Janie (Bobby Light)

Janie fully acquires her voice by finding out more about herself and reflecting on her past to make sure she doesn’t make the same mistake in the future. She is shaping her life by making sure it turns out for the better for her. She learns about how her past husbands treated her badly together and with other people. When it happened Janie just kind of froze up and didn’t want to date anyone, but when she got with tea cake she gains her real freedom. She slowly gains her freedom when her old husband died but when tea cake came around that’s really when her life turned around for her. When Janie acquires her own voice by finding out more about herself she could shape a better future. Janie's tell her story to Pheoby in a flashback doesn’t undermine her ability to tell her directly because if she remembers her past well enough to tell it to her in a flashback it shouldn’t be hard for her to tell it directly to her.