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Janie and Tea Cake begin to work in the fields.

Gambling Takes place

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-Janie gets jealous of a girl, Nunkie, for flirting with Tea Cake
-Tea Cake and Nunkie play fight
-Janie tries to beat Tea Cake, they end up getting too passionate ;;;;^)

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-  Everyone talking about Janie and Tea Cake, how Joe has only been dead 9 months and yet Janie is in blue
- Pheoby warns that Tea Cake might just be after her money cause he's younger, but Janie won't listen and says she's gonna marry him and move away

QUOTES:

Color symbolism + Janie rebellion: "Tea Cake love me in blue, so Ah wears it. Jody ain't never in his life picked out no color for me. De world picked out black and white for mournin', Joe didn't. So Ah wasn't wearin' it for him. Ah was wearin' it for de rest of y'all." (108)

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Janie goes to Jacksonville to meet Tea Cake

Tea Cake tells Janie he's going to make breakfast but he ends up disappearing for the whole day

Janie is worried because her $200 is gone

Janie thinks about Annie Tyler who ran off with young men and they took her money

"Janie dozed off to sleep but woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark."

She wakes up and Tea Cake is there

Tea Cake tells her a story about how he threw a huge party with her money and bought a guitar

He also tells her how he is an amazing gambler, but ended up getting minor stab wound from the person he beat.

Tea Cake won all Janie's money back

He then tells her about a job in the Everglades that sets up the next chapter

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Jody slept in a room downstairs

Janie noticed how Joe was getting "baggy"

Jody made new alliances w/people he'd previously scorned (i.e. root-doctors) b/c his health is declining and he's deperate

Janie goes to Phoeby for advice, who says it's too late to get divorced (been together 20 years)

rumor that Janie is trying to poison Jody for revenge

Jody on death bed (kidney failure) + doctor says it's too late

Jody dies

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Mysterious woman (Janie Starks) returns to town- was rumoured that she ran away with a younger man (Tea Cake) who stole her money and had run away with a younger woman.

Phoebe criticises the women's trash-talk and tells Janie about it. Here, Janie explains that Tea Cake was out of the picture for reasons different than the townspeople had speculated; she begins to tell her story to Phoebe as she explains how she was unhappy in the Everglades with Tea Cake.

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Janie Background:

-Raised by grandmother, Nanny.
-Has never met either parent.
-Lives in the backyard of a white family, the Washburns, and believes she is white, until she sees a photo of herself.
-Plays with the Washburn children
-Children at the black school pick on Janie for living in white people's backyard and for her neglectful parents.
-Janie gets teased because Mr. Washburn's dog was sent after her father as a result of him getting her mother pregnant.
-Janie and Nanny get a new place.
-Janie sits under a blossoming pear tree when she is 16, deeply interested in the springtime.
-Nanny doesn't want Janie to be a 'mule', as black women of the world supposedly are- and therefore attempts to marry her off to a middle-aged, wealthy farmer named Logan Killicks, in order to secure her financially before Nanny's death.
-This happens after Nanny finds Janie with a local boy, Johnny Taylor.
-Nanny explains her own hardships: rape at a young age by her mastery after being born into slavery, having to run away from the master's angry wife with her newborn baby, Leafy, and how Leafy (Janie's mom) went out drinking every night before eventually running away after Janie's birth. This is important because Nanny wishes for Janie to fulfil certain obligations since her own daughter could/would/did not.

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- Janie questions the meaning of love and marriage
- She marries Logan Killicks, but is not happy because she doesn't love him and he loves her only out of duty
- Janie talks to her grandmother about Logan, and Nanny tells her to just wait and see, and then she dies

Quotes:

"Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman." (24)

Pear tree symbolism: "Janie asked inside of herself and out. She was back and forth to the pear tree continuously wondering and thinking." (20)

Metaphors regarding questioning things: "There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought  and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought." (23)

"She began to stand around the gate and expect things." (23)

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Logan Killicks stopped talking in rhymes, playing with her hair

Killicks went off to townand Janie met Joe Starks

Killicks makes Janie do manual labor, questions why he has to cut wood

"Jannie hurried out of the front gate and turned south" = maxim

met with Joe Starks w/hired rig

Joe Starks + Janie going to Green Cove Springs to get married

"'Green Cove Springs,' he told the drive. So they were married there before sundown, just like Joe had said. With new clothes of silk and wool" (33)

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Janie and Joe Starks move to Eatonville, an all African American town

Joe becomes the mayor of the town

They own a general store which Janie and Joe work in

Janie becomes upset with the way Joe patronizes her and makes her feel like his little wife

"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."(43)

Ceremony of lighting the street lamp-"De first street lamp in uh colored town."(45)

Janie thinks Joe's authority over her is just temporary until they get the town running

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Setting:
Structure:
Opening quote as a hook
Characterisation:
Style:
More than colloquialism; shows culture through the language used. "She was gone from round dere long before Ah wuz big enough tuh know." (8)

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Chapter 1:
Colloquialism -  "What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls?" (2)

Rhetorical questions - "Did  marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the unmated? Did marriage compel love like the sun the day?" (20)

Chapter 8:
personification of Death
- "Death, that strange being with the huge square toes who lived way in the West. The great one who lived in the straight house like a platform without sides to it, and without at roof. What need has Death for a cover, and what winds can blow against him? He stands in his high house that overlooks the world. Stands watchful and motionless all day with his sword drawn back, waiting for the messenger to bid him come. Been standing there before there was a where or a when or a then" (84)

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-Joe is exhibiting obvious signs of aging
-Joe insults Janie's appearance even though she's much younger than him
-Janie finally stands up to Joe and yells at him in public (at the store), embarassing him beyond belief
-at the end of the chapter, Joe hits Janie
-Joe had an "illusion of irresistable maleness"

Important Quotes:
-"Sometimes she stuck out into the future, imagining her life different from what it was. But mostly she lived between her hat and her heels, with her emotional disturbances like shade patterns in the woods--come and gone with the sun." pg 76
"'Don't stand dere rollin' yo' pop eyes at me wid yo' rump hangin' nearly to yo' knees!"" ~Janie  pg 78
"'Ah ruther be shot with tacks than tuh hear dat 'bout mahself" ~Lige Moss   pg 79
"'Uh woman and uh knife--no kind uh knife, don't b'long tuhgether'"
"Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of him mind long before they darted out of the tunnel of his mouth." pg 77

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Chapter 1: Contrast of Janie's colloquial conversational tone with Janie's formal internal monologue and, plus formal outside narrator voice.

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scrub oaks

"Everyday after that they managed to meet in the scrub oaks across the road and talk..." (29) Janie and Joe Starks

blossoming pear tree

fertile springtime

budding sexuality

mules

"'Whut you need two mules fuh? Lessen you aims to swap off dis one" (27) - Janie to Logan

Journey of self-discovery: "Janie full of that oldest human longing - self revelation." (6)

Beauty and lack of beauty: "But nobody put anything on the seat of Logan's wagon to make it ride glorious on the way to his house." (20) "He don't even never mention nothin' pretty" (23)

GOD

Janie's hair

envied by others

Joe requires her to wear a head-rag b/c makes him jealous to see other men look at her hair

"[Logan] had ceased to wonder at her long black hair and finger it" (26)

"[Joe] didn't look her way not no other way except straight ahead, so Janie ran to the pump and jerked the handle hard while she pumped. It made a loud noise and also made her heavy hair fall down. So he stopped and looked hard and then he asked her for a cool drink of water" (27)

birds

"[Janie] was liable to find a feather from his wings lying in her yard any day now" when personifying death

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Chapter 1: Janie returning to Eatonville, Florida. 1900's, after slavery was abolished.

Chapter 4

social

woman = housewife

"'You ain't got no business cuttin' up no seed p'taters neither. A pretty doll-baby lak you is made to sit on de front porch and rock and fan yo'self and eat p'taters dat other folks plant just special for you" (29) Joe to Janie

"'You don't need mah help out dere, Logan. Youse in yo' place and Ah'm in mine" (31) - Janie

economic

Janie is poor, acknowledges Joe Stark's wealth + luxurious clothes

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Nanny

"Still she hung back. The memory of Nanny was powerful and strong" (29)

Logan Killicks

"'Heah, Ah just as good as take you out de white folks' kitchen and set you down on yo' royal diasticutis and you take and low-rate me! Ah'll take holt uh dat ax and come in dere and kill yuh!'" (31)

Joe Starks

"It was a cityfied, stylish dressed man with his hat set at an angle that didn't belong in these parts. His coat was over his arm, but he didn't need it to represent his clothes. the shirt with the silk sleeveholders was dazzling enough for the world. He whistled, mopped his face and walked like he knew where he was going" (27)

"... talk about when he would be a big ruler of things with her reaping the benefits. Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon. He spoke for change and chance" (29)

"He was very solemn and helped her to the seat beside him. With him on it, it sat like some high, ruling chair" (32)

romantic - "'Janie, if you think Ah aims to tole you off and make a dog outa you, youse wrong. Ah wants to make a wife outa you... De day you puts yo' hand in mine, Ah wouldn't let de sun go down on us single. Ah'm uh man wid principles. You ain't never knowed what it was to be treated lak a lady and Ah wants to be de one tuh show yuh. Call me Jody lak you do sometime" (29)

Pheoby Watson

" 'Pheoby, we been kissin'-friends for twenty years," (7)

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Main points to remember: Mule and relationship with Joe.

- Sam and Lige are teasing Matt Bonner about his mule. This mule is old and on the brink of dying.
- The mule often gets lost and is very thin, eventually the Mayor Joe buys the mule from Matt for a total of five dollars. While Matt is sad at first, he says that it does not matter that he sold him off because he is bound to die anyway and would be of no use.
- The mule is then free to roam the town and Joe lets the mule be. The mule did eventually dies under a tree and there was a funeral held for the mule in which it is taken to a swamp and then left there, Joe says some words about it.
- More over we get a lot of insight into the relationship that Janie has with Joe.
-With the characterization of Joe, the reader can see that he becomes jealous very easily, and expects Janie to be submissive to his every command. Janie does not however, and this eventually leads to Joe hitting her.
-Daisy Blunt, she supposedly has many guys who go after her. And there are these "acts" that they play out to try and see who can provide more for Daisy.

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Janie Starks (previously Crawford, then Killicks)

Pheoby Watson (best friend)

Sam Watson (Pheoby's husband)

Pearl Stone

Mrs. Sumpkins

Lulu Moss

Tea Cake (younger man Janie runs off with)

Logan Killicks (first husband, wealthy, middle-aged farmer)

Joe Starks (second husband)

Nanny (Grandmother)

Washburn family (white)

Johnny Taylor (1st kiss)