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"They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God" (pg 160)

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"She knew now that marriage did not make love" (pg 25)

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Janie married Logan and wished for love, but after she talked to Nanny and waited to love Logan, she found out that love isn't always there.

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"He had that bow-down command in his face, and every step he took made the whole thing more tangible" (pg 47)

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Joe was controlling and craved power over everything in his life so he took control of Janie and the town

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"They bowed down to him rather, because he all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down" (pg 50)

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The whole town respected him and gave him power to control them so he only had so much power because they gave it to him

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"Some say West Maitland and some say Eatonville. Dat's cause Cap'n Eaton give us some land alone wid Mr. Laurence" (pg 36)

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Eatonville was started by Cap'n Eaton and Mr. Laurence but Joe came in and fixed it up

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"These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long" (pg 1)

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The town Janie came back to gossips and basically excluded Janie from their community

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"Ah wuz fumblin' around and God opened de door" (pg 159)

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Fate or God lead Janie to where she is now

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"She was born in slavery time when folks, dat is black folks, didn't sit down anytime dey felt lak it" (pg 114)

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Janie's grandmother was a slave and they couldn't do how they pleased so her grandmother strived to give Janie that

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"It was after the picnic that the town began to notice things and got mad" (pg 110)

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The town that Janie lived it saw Janie doing well after Joe died so they got jealous and gossiped about her

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"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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Mrs. Turner is very racist toward her own kind and discriminates against them

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"'Nigger, whut's yo' baby doin' wid gray eyes and yaller hair?' She begin to slap mah jaws ever which a'way" (pg 17)

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Nanny used to be a slave on a plantation where the owners beat them and did not see them as equal

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"She hated the old woman who had twisted her so in the name of love" (89)

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Nanny loved Janie and wanted to protect her but in doing so she hurt Janie

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"She sent her face to Joe's funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world" (pg 88)

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After Joe died, Janie was free to do as she pleased and she enjoyed being independent

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"This freedom feeling was fine" (pg 90)

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Janie didn't want to be married and loved being free and on her own for awhile

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"When God made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over" (pg 90)

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Janie believed that everyone was made with a spark and she tried to show hers

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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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Janie thinks that each day is different from the last and that God makes it so

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"She had learned how to talk some and leave some" (pg 76)

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While she was married to Joe, she learned how to be silent because he wouldn't let her speak

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"Before she slept that night she burnt up ever one of her head rags and went about the house next morning with her hair in one thick braid swinging well below her waist" (pg 89)

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Janie's hair represents her freedom and after Joe died, she no longer had to be tied down or hide her hair anymore

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"Time came when she fought back with her tongue as best she could, but it didn't do her any good" (pg 71)

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Janie could never stand up for herself and just learned how to be silent in her life and in her marriage

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"Her hair was NOT going to show in the store" (pg 55)

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Joe felt like Janie's hair was something only he could look at and owned possession over so he made her cover it so men couldn't look at it

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"Oh to be a pear tree- any tree in bloom!" (pg 11)

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The pear tree represents Janie's spirit and love so when she was 16 she wanted love and was youthful

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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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When Tea Cake came around, Janie felt like she could love again so she felt like the pear tree blooming was her love

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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" (pg 89)

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The Horizon represents dreams and hope which for Janie gets destroyed by Nanny early on in the book

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The hurricane brought death and the phrase "watching God" so it represents death and destruction

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"As soon as Tea Cake went out pushing wind in front of him, he saw that the wind and water had given life to lots of things that folks think of as dead and given death to so much that had been living things" (pg 161)

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When the hurricane came, there was death and chaos and became a turning point in Janie's life

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"She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net" (pg 193

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Janie took the horizon which represents dreams and hope so Janie has new dreams and hope

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"Chink up your cracks, shiver in your wet beds and wait on the mercy of the Lord" (pg 158)

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For the characters, they leave their lives up to the hands of God and fate