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"She was back and forth to the pear tree continuously wondering and thinking."

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"Aw, aw! Ah'm colored!"

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This symbolizes that the pear tree was her get away place

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This quote shows Janie thought she was exactly the same as everyone else until she saw a picture and realized she was colored

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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."

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This is speaking about how the white man are in power and that they have no clue if there is somewhere where black people are in power

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

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No matter how successful and loved you are, someone out there will hate you.

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"Only dis one time, Nanny. Ah don't love him at all. Whut

made me do it is—oh, Ah don't know."

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This quote is Janie speaking about nanny catching her kissing Johnny Taylor and shows Janie is taking interest in boys even though she does not love Johnny Tayor

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"But anyhow Janie went on inside to wait for love to begin."

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This quote is about Janie walking into the house she got with Logan Killicks, who she did not love, as she believed love came with marriage but never did come to love Logan

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"'Nigger, whut's yo' baby doin' wid gray eyes and yaller

hair?"

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This quote has to do with History because it is talking about nanny having Janies mother and the daughter was a product of nanny and the white slave owner

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"Her hair is not what you might call straight."

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This quote is explaining how her hair is curly, but in another way

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"Tea Cake, where you git uh comb from tuh be combin' mah

hair wid?"

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This response from Janie shows that she is comfortable with Tea Cake touching her hair

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"Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit

under a pear tree and think. Ah . . . "

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This is reminiscing on the times Janie was sitting under the pear tree as a kid.

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"Ah don't know nothin' but what Ah'm told tuh do, 'cause Ah ain't nothin' but uh nigger and uh slave."

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This is the type of stuff slaves would have to say, to hope their owners would show mercy to them

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But when he heard all about 'em makin' a town all outa colored folks, he knowed dat was de place he wanted to be.

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Joe Starks heard of the town all the colored folk were making for themselves and that is the community he wanted to live in

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"Ah reckon if colored folks got they

own town they kin have post offices and whatsoever they please,

regardless."

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If colored folks have all their own necessities (post offices, food markets etc) then they can live without leaving their own communites

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"So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up."

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This quote is showing what the slave owners made the slaves do just because they felt superior because of their skin color

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"S'posin' Ah wuz to run off and leave yuh sometime."

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Janie was telling Logan she could be her own person and leave him at anytime

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"Uh woman by herself is uh pitiful thing," she was told over

and again. "Dey needs aid and assistance."

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This quote has some of the criticisms that Janie laughed at because she was an independent woman who did a lot of things on her own

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"She slapped the girl's face violently, and forced her head back

so that their eyes met in struggle."

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Nanny slapped Janie for keeping her mouth shut when most everybody gets slapped for mouthing back

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"Ah don't know nothin' but what Ah'm told tuh do, 'cause Ah ain't nothin' but uh nigger and uh slave."

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Nanny said this to the slave owners wife, which mad her even more mad and threaten to kill her.

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"For no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you"

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You can build up yourself to the highest point in the world, but youre still within the world, within the horizon

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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."

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Janie had made memories everywhere, she can compare about how her house used to be nothing and about how it is now filled with memories

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"God never meant 'em tuh try tuh stand by theirselves."

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These are one of the criticisms Janie had laughed at because some people lived their life believing this quote. Men controlled women or kept them in the house because they believed this was true

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"Going to high ground. Saw-grass bloom. Hurricane coming."

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The seminoles were leaving because they knew a hurricane was coming, meanwhile most people stayed in their homes