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The Seminoles tried to warn the people in the Muck of the danger that was coming yet some people such as Tea Cake and Janie decided not to leave because of the value of the crop that they were harvesting still. In the end the crop didn't matter though as the storm resulted in Tea Cakes death and Janie was left alone once again.

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The hurricane might not have directly killed Tea Cake but it forced him into the fight with the dog to save Janie and when he got bite it was the end of him. It was a storm on her as it destroyed her and her love for Tea Cake.

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Janie has seen the dream see has been looking for and she has seen the worst of it all. When she returns to Eatonville and goes to her old home she realizes that she might of had everything that she was looking for.

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To Janie the horizon is new beginings and a new view and when she was almost at the point of happiness and freedom Nanny took the hope and dream away from her.

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Tea Cake could be the warm summer and happiness that Janie had been looking for since she was young. When he came into town it lit up her life in new ways.

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The pear tree represents the warmth and security of home and love. Janie would always it beneath it for happiness and comfort at home.

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Janie's hair stands out quite a bit as she is black and white it makes her hair look very unique. In is without a doubt one of the aspects of her beauty as a character.

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Joe forced Janie to put her hair into a rag to seem less attactive to toehrs and to demorilize her a bit. When he died though she took it off and got rid of them all to be free of him.

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"Doctah, Tea Cake ain't tellin' yuh everything lak he oughta. We wuz caught in dat hurricane out heah, and Tea Cake overstrained hisself swimmin' such uh long time and holdin' me up too, and walkin' all dem miles in de storm and then befo' he could git his rest he had tali come git me out de water agin and fightin' wid dat big ole dawg and de dawg bitin"im in de face and everything. Ah been spectin' him tuh be sick befo' now."

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"So she was home by herself one afternoon when she saw a band of Seminoles passing by...  "Going to high ground. Saw-grass bloom. Hurricane coming." Everybody was talking about it that night. But nobody was worried. The fire dance kept up till nearly dawn. The next day, more Indians moved east, unhurried but steady. Still a blue sky and fair weather. Beans running fine and prices good, so the Indians could be, must be, wrong. You couldn't have a hurricane when you're making seven and eight dollars a day picking beans. Indians are dumb anyhow, always were."

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"Ah done been tuh de horizon and back and now Ah kin set heah in mah house and live by comparisons. Dis house ain't so absent of things lak it used tuh be befo' Tea Cake come along. It's full uh thoughts, 'specially dat bedroom."

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"Here Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon—for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you—and pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter's neck tight enough to choke her."

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"He could be a bee to a blossom—a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung about him. He was a glance from God."

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"She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight."

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"The sounds lulled Janie to soft slumber and she woke up with Tea Cake combing her hair and scratching the dandruff from her scalp. It made her more comfortable and drowsy."

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"Before she slept that night she burnt up every one of her head rags and went about the house next morning with her hair in one thick braid swinging well below her waist. That was the only change people saw in her."

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Joe treated Janie as if she was inferior to him. When the town joined together for the announcement that they were the largest all black town in the US the towns folk asked for Janie to give a speech in which Joe shut it down as he believed she isn't smart enough to.

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Joe didn't speak poems or romance to Janie. Instead he spoke to her with the gifts that he bought her which showed his thoughts of some love for her at some point.

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"Thank yuh fuh yo' compliments, but mah wife don't know nothin' 'bout no speech-makin'. Ah never married her for nothin' lak dat. She's uh woman and her place is in de home." Janie made her face laugh after a short pause, but it wasn't too easy. She had never thought of making a speech, and didn't know if she cared to make one at all. It must have been the way Joe spoke out without giving her a chance to say anything one way or another that took the bloom off of things."

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"On. the train the next day, Joe didn't make many speeches with rhymes to her, but he bought her the best things the butcher had, like apples and a glass lantern full of candies. Mostly he talked about plans for the town when he got there."

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the expression of or the ability to express thoughts and feelings by articulate sounds.

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In the final moments of Nanny's life she spoke to God and said how she did everything that she could for Janie and now it's his job to watch her.

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Nanny knew that she had no luck when it came to her own daughter. She was alone and confused about what to do but when Janie came and Leafy was gone, Nanny was given a second chance to truly have a daughter that she could raise properly.

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"Lawd, you know mah heart. Ah done de best Ah could do. De rest is left to you." She scuffled up from her knees and fell heavily across the bed. A month later she was dead."

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"It sho wasn't mah will for things to happen lak they did. All even hated de way you was born. But, all de same Ah said thank God, Ah got another chance."

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the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.

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Similar to when Janie left Logan, when Joe died she felt nothing except independence. He wasn't there to treat her like an object anymore and she could live freely

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Since Janie grew up in a very excepting household of a white family she never noticed really that she was black because she is a light skin. When there is a family photo though and she is in it she doesn't recognize herself because of that.

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At this point in time minorities were still being discriminated against. The moment that Joe hears about a town forming in Florida full of African Americans though he rushes to it for profit and to make a bigger name for himself.

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"But he was makin' money where he was. But when he heard all about 'em makin' a town all outa colored folks, he knowed dat was de place he wanted to be. He had always wanted to be a big voice, but de white folks had all de sayso where he come from and everywhere else, exceptin' dis place dat colored folks was buildin' theirselves."

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"Ah was wid dem white chillun so much till Ah didn't know Ah wuzn't white till Ah was round six years old... So when we looked at de picture and everybody got pointed out there wasn't nobody left except a real dark little girl with long hair standing by Eleanor. Dat's where Ah wuz s'posed to be, but Ah couldn't recognize dat dark chile as me. So Ah ast, 'where is me? Ah don't see me."

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prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.

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Janie has had a tendency to do irrational acts with men she barely know. Her interest in Tea Cake could have resulted in a larger problem.

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"A day was named for roads and they all agreed to bring axes and things like that and chop out two roads running each way."

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Eatonville was in a poor condition and Joe decided to be the one that would try and make it great so the community set a date and began to work together.

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"What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls? Can't she find no dress to put on? Where's dat blue satin dress she left here in? Where all dat money her husband took and died and left her?—What dat ole forty year ole 'oman doin' wid her hair swingin' down her back lak some young gal?—Where she left dat young lad of a boy she went off here wid?—Thought she was going to marry?"

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a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.

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" Janie was halfway down the palm-lined walk before she had a thought for her safety. Maybe this strange man was up to something! But it was no place to show her fear there in the darkness between the house and the store."

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This is some simple background information about Janie and where she comes from. It mentions how she never knew her parents. she was raised by her grandmother, and how she grew up with white children.

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"Ah ain't never seen mah papa. And Ah didn't know 'im if
Ah did. Mah mama neither. She was gone from round dere long
before Ah wuz big enough tuh know. Mah grandma raised me.
Mah grandma and de white folks she worked wid. She had a
house out in de back-yard and dat's where Ah wuz born.

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the whole series of past events connected with someone or something.

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Having only known each other for a short time at this point Joe and Janie didn't have much time to see the faults in one another. After having enough with Logan, Janie left the house to run off with Joe to Eatonville as husband and wife.

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"From now on until death she was going
to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything. A bee for her bloom. Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to
fit them. "Green Cove Springs," he told the driver. So they were married there before sundown, just like Joe had said."

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From the moment that Janie met Tea Cake she felt a warm openness to him which is typically associated with love. She cared from him and felt as if she knew him already.

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"Tea Cake wasn't strange. Seemed
as if she had known him all her life. Look how she had been able
to talk with him right off? He tipped his hat at the door and was off with the briefest good night.
So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its
amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of
the day."

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an intense feeling of deep affection.

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The town see's that Janie has returned after leaving with Tea Cake and instead of talking to her they begin to gossip with each other about what had happened to Janie in her absence.

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"Janie hurried out of the front gate and turned
south. Even if Joe was not there waiting for her, the change was
bound to do her good. The morning road air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet."

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Now that Nanny is nearing death and Janie is becoming a full woman she now has to take responsibility for her actions and take care of herself.

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"And, Janie, maybe it wasn't much, but Ah done de best Ah
kin by you. Ah raked and scraped and bought dis lil piece uh land
so you wouldn't have to stay in de white folks' yard and tuck yo'
head befo' other chillun at school. Dat was all right when you was
little. But when you got big enough to understand things, Ah
wanted you to look upon yo'self. "

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Janie left Logan as she realized that she didn't need his protection or help anymore. When she ran out of the house she threw off her apron symbolizing the freedom and him not holding her back anymore.

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"'Tain't dat Ah worries over Joe's death, Pheoby. Ah jus'
loves dis freedom."
"Sh-sh-sh! Don't let nobody hear you say dat, Janie. Folks
will say you ain't sorry he's gone."
"Let 'em say whut dey wants tuh, Pheoby. To my thinkin'
mourning oughtn't tuh last no longer'n grief."

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the fact or state of being independent.

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With Joe Starks on his death bed Janie took the time and power that she had over him to make sure that he knew how aggressive and non-caring that he was. He used his power to make others feel less than him and to seem like he was a greater figure

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the development of events beyond a person's control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power.

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"Yeah, Pheoby, Tea Cake is gone. And dat's de only reason
you see me back here—cause Ah ain't got nothing to make me
happy no more where Ah was at. Down in the Everglades there,
down on the muck."

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It was out of Janie's power to try and stop Tea Cakes death. When he drew a gun upon her and begun to open fire she was left with no other option but to kill him.

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"The familiar people and things had failed her
so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way
off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first
dream was dead, so she became a woman."

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Janies one dream was to find happiness and meaning in her life and when that was taken away from her she didn't know what to do at that point. It was her fate to be stuck in a loveless marriage to Logan Killicks an later on, to Joe Starks.

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the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events.

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"Ah know it. And now you got tuh die tuh find out dat you got tuh pacify somebody besides yo'self if you wants any love and any sympathy in dis world. You ain't tried tuh pacify nobody but yo'self. Too busy listening tuh yo' own big voice."
"All dis tearin' down talk!" Jody whispered with sweat globules forming all over his face and arms. "Git outs heah!"