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The Hurricane was a outbreak of destruction ruining everything which could be perceived as a metaphor for Janie and Tea Cake.

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Janie got everything she wanted until Tea Cake died. Now she has to start over again.

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Janie feels Tea Cake has the potential to be the love of her life and fill the make the Pear Tree thrive.

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Joe didn't want her to show her hair because it showed that she possessed a little bit of white in her.

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The silence was completely still and not a single sound could mask it.

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Nature is the best thing God has made but also the loneliest thing he has made.

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During this time blacks still didn't have much power, making the white's have all the power

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Janie feels Joe is a strong independent guy but is cautious about marrying Janie.

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The Black community was constantly looked down upon between the white community.

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The calm before the storm caused many people to not retreat from the Hurricane.

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The Horizon represents everything you want to achieve because once you achieve it, you will want more.

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The pear tree represents her hope of love but when she meets Logan, she feels her hope fading.

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Janie's hair is long black hair that symbolizes her strong desire and personality.

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Joe doesn't let her speak even though she has a decent education he treats her as a possession.

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Everyday is a new beginning.

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Even some of the black people didn't like their own race and didn't mind the white folks.

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"You couldn't have a hurricane when you're making seven and eight dollars a day picking beans." Pg.155

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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" Pg. 89

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"The vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the pear tree, but Janie didn't know how to tell Nanny that." Pg 14

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"Nobody couldn't Bit me tuh tie no rag on mah head if Ah had hair lak dat." Pg.49

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"Thank yuh fuh yo' compliments, but mah wife don't know nothin' 'bout no speech-makin'." Pg 43

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"She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up." Pg.25

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"You'se different from me. Ah can't stand black niggers. Ah don't blame de white folks from hatin"em 'cause Ah can't stand 'em mahself"  Pg. 141

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"Freedom found me wid a baby daughter in mah arms, so Ah said Ah'd take a broom and a cook-pot and throw up a highway through de wilderness for her" Pg.16

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"You got uh town so you freed uh mule. You have tuh have power tuh free things and dat makes you lak uh king uh something." Pg.58

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"A big burst of thunder and lightning that trampled over the roof of the house." Pg. 159

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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." Pg. 191

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"He could be a bee to a blossom—a pear tree blossom in the spring." Pg.106

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"Her hair is not what you might call straight. It's negro hair, but it's got a kind of white flavor." Pg.69

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

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"It's de strongest thing dat God ever made, now. Fact is it's de onliest thing God ever made." Pg. 65

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"Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out." Pg. 14

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"It's about time. Youse powerful independent around here sometime considerin'." Pg. 30

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"No nigger woman ain't never been treated no better." Pg. 186

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This shows that even back then when there was limited education, people still knew the basic historical events.

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Nanny being independent led her to take car of Janie.

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The townspeople felt that Joe Stark was a savior of the town.

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History changes as the black's stop having the be weighed down by the white folks.

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"Something like George Washington and Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln, he had de whole United States tuh rule so he freed de Negroes." Pg.58

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"The time was past for asking the white folks what to look for through that door." Pg. 159

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Anyone that obtains too much power will end up losing.

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"But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate." Pg. 48

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The white men are in power, but people still believe someone blacks are in power.

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"Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see." Pg 14

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Ones luck is determined by their fate and good fortune

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"Well, you know dey say luck is uh fortune." Pg.173

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Janie always wondered what her fate would end up being in the future

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"Sometimes she stuck out into the future, imagining her life different from what it was." Pg.76

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Nanny doesn't feel she could love her if she went through her pain.

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Love is constantly changing, bu there will always be love.

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"Ah
couldn't love yuh no more if Ah had uh felt yo' birth pains mahself" Pg. 15

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"Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore." Pg. 191