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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." P.43

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Joe Stark uses his speech to silence Janie. He believes his speech is more valuable than his wife.

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"You gettin' too moufy, Janie". (P.75)

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Joe Stark continues to control how Janie speaks. He tells her she s getting too mouthy with him, as if she can't speak how she wants.

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"Cause you told me Ah wus gointer love him, and, and Ah don't. Maybe if somebody was to tell me how, Ah could do it." (P.23)

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Janie was forced into a relationship she didn't want to be in. She doesn't love Logan Killicks and she says maybe she can learn how.

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"'Ain't got no mayor! Well, who tells y'all what to do?' 'Nobody. Everybody's grown'.". (p.35)

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This shows that in the community of Eatonville, there is nobody to guide them, and you can tell they don't mind it. They say they are grown and don't need to be told how to live.

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"The store itself was a pleasant place if only she didn't have to sell
things." (p.51)

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Since Joe is gone, Janie now runs the store alone and can control who helps her out.

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"'Nigger, whut's yo' baby doin' wid gray eyes and yaller hair?'" (P.17

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This shows racism through words and through the baby's eye and hair color.

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"She slapped the girls face violently, and forced her head back so that her eyes met in struggle." (p.14)

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Nanny slaps Janie to show her who is in authority. Nanny has power over Janie and that is why slapped her.

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"Don't you change too many words wid me dis mawnin... Ah'll take holt uh dat ax and come in dere and kill yuh!" (P. 31)

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Logan is more powerful than Janie. Since he is the man in the marriage, he can tell her when to talk and he believes he has the power to kill her.

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"De mayor of uh town lak dis can't lay round home too much. De place needs buildin' up." (p.43)

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Logan Killicks takes on a position as the mayor and now believes it is his duty as an individual to fix the town up.

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"...'cause you know how Joe worships de works of his own hands, but God in heben knows Ah wouldn't do one thing tuh hurt nobody." (P.82)

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Joe would obsess over his own creations. Janie is a christian and that is why she would not do anything to hurt anyone.

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"Dey laughs too much and dey laughs too loud. Always singin' ol' nigger songs!" (P.141)

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Although Miss Woods is black, he claims black people kaugh too much, too loud, and that African Americans make her tired. She is racist to her own race.

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"They huddled closer and stared at the door. They just didn’t use another part of their bodies, and they didn’t look at anything but the door. The time was past for asking the white folks what to look for through that door. Six eyes were questioning God. " (P.159)

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While they were scared, they looked up to God for safety. The 3 of them questioned God and how he would get them through this experience.

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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." (P.24)

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It was already pre-determined that Nanny was supposed to die at this time in Janie's life and the rest of her life is in her hands.

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"Tea Cake wasn't strange. Seemed as if she had known him all her life." (P.99)

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Although Janie had just met Tea Cake that day, she feels close to him. He was destined that he would come into her life at this time.

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"Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches." (P.8)

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Janie looks back at the history of her life, what she has suffered and completed. But it is now over and can not be changed.

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"Old Nanny sat there rocking Janie like an infant and thinking back and back. Mind-pictures brought feelings, and feelings dragged out dramas from the hollows of her heart. " (P.16)

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Nanny knows her time is coming soon. Memories go through her head of her past with Janie and she begins to feel emotional.

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"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." (P.13)

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Janie's idea of love was killed by being forced to marry Logan. The thought of him made her hunch over and pout.

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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?" (P.2)

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People in Janie's community love to gossip. They would sit on the front porch on rocking chairs and talk about anything. This shows what the community liked to do in their free time.

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" For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, hsi dreams mocked to death by time." (P.1

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"Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches."  (P.8)

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"There was a finished silence after that so that for the first time they could hear the picking up at the pine trees." (P.192

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"She was home by herself one afternoon when she saw a band of Seminoles passing by...They were headed towards the Palm Beach road." (P.154)

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"Others hurried east like the Indians and rabbits and snakes and coons. But the majority sat around laughing and waiting for the sun to get friendly again" (P.156)

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"She had been getting ready for her great journey to the horizons in search of people; it was important to all the world that she should find them and they find her (P.89)

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"What that ole forty year ole 'oman doin' wid her hair swingin' down her back lak some young gal?"