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Then the
strange white man that was going to talk for her got up there.
He whispered a little with the clerk and then called on Janie
to take the stand and talk. After a few little questions he told
her to tell just how it happened and to speak the truth, the
whole truth and nothing but the truth. So help her God.

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It was after the picnic that the town began to notice things and got
mad. Tea Cake and Mrs. Mayor Starks! All the men that she
could get, and fooling with somebody like Tea Cake! Another
thing, Joe Starks hadn’t been dead but nine months and here
she goes sashaying off to a picnic in pink linen. Done quit
attending church, like she used to. Gone off to Sanford in a car
with Tea Cake and her all dressed in blue! It was a shame.

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“Sometimes God gits familiar wid us womenfolks too and
talks His inside business. He told me how surprised He was
’bout y’all turning out so smart after Him makin’ yuh different;
and how surprised y’all is goin’ tuh be if you ever find
out you don’t know half as much ’bout us as you think you
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do. It’s so easy to make yo’self out God Almighty when you
ain’t got nothin’ tuh strain against but women and chickens.”
“You gettin’ too moufy, Janie,” Starks told her. “Go fetch
me de checker-board and de checkers. Sam Watson, you’se
mah fish.”

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Ah can’t be always guidin’ yo’ feet from harm and danger.
Ah wants to see you married right away.”
“Who Ah’m goin’ tuh marry off-hand lak dat? Ah don’t
know nobody.”
“De Lawd will provide. He know Ah done bore de burden
in de heat uh de day. Somebody done spoke to me ’bout
you long time ago. Ah ain’t said nothin’ ’cause dat wasn’t de
way Ah placed you. Ah wanted yuh to school out and pick
from a higher bush and a sweeter berry. But dat ain’t yo’
idea, Ah see.”
“Nanny, who—who dat been askin’ you for me?”
“Brother Logan Killicks. He’s a good man, too.”

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The concept of freedom directly ties into all of Janie's relationships and all throughout her life. Janie starts out wanting only one thing from life, which is the choice to pick her own future from the endless horizon she sees ahead of her. Each relationship Janie is in though, results in her losing a piece of her freedom, shrinking her horizons. In Self Reliance, Emerson says, "These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity". This relates to Janie in the sense that as she enters new relationships she is the member surrendering her liberty and the shareholder is the person she is with. Janie conforms to their will and ultimately receives poor treatment.

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This freedom feeling was fine. These men didn’t represent a thing
she wanted to know about. She had already experienced them
through Logan and Joe. She felt like slapping some of them for
sitting around grinning at her like a pack of chessy cats, trying
to make out they looked like love.