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Almost all of the characters in this book believe in God because they mention him when they talk. For example, here Nanny has the belief that God will help her to do what is right for Janie and her future. So Nanny chooses to make Janie marry Logan Killicks for Janie’s good and protection.

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“De Lawd will provide. He know Ah done bore de burden in de heat uh de day.” (pg.13)

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Janie believes in God and she believes that he has a plan for each person. She believes that you as an individual have to find yourself through God’s path for you.

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“Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.” (pg.192)

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Janie receives glimpses of this horizon during her journey through life. She first has her dreams, but hen those get crushed by the reality of her marriage with Logan Killicks. She then finds Joe Starks who shows her more of that horizon which is filled with happiness that eventually dies out. Then she finds her ultimate horizon with Tea Cake but that is soon taken away from her because of his death.

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“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.” (pg.1)

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The horizon represents Janie’s dreams and what she thinks could be possible in her future and life in general. These dreams create disappointment along the way as she realizes her dreams aren’t true or aren’t like she would have thought. Joe provides Janie a vision of what her life could be like; a glimpse of the horizon.

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“Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon.” (pg.29)

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When Tea Cake gets rabies from the dog that bit him in the hurricane, he is a totally different person. A person that Janie is scared of doesn’t fully trust. This leads to his death and also the end of their beautiful love that they had shared.

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“Tea Cake was lying with his eyes closed and Janie hoped he was asleep. He wasn’t. A great fear took hold of him.” (pg.178)

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This hurricane was a symbol of the power of nature. It is supposed to be meaner to crush any other person or being that has power. In the hurricane Janie and Tea Cake question if God is even real because if he was, then they would be saved from the hurricane and not have to take the damage that follows.

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“The wind came back with triple fury, and put out the light for the last time. They sat in company with the others in other shanties...they seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.” (pg.160)

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When Janie comes back to Eatonville after Tea Cake’s death, the “porch sitters” sit and gossip about her and about what has happened to her. Her community is not necessarily against her but they sit and judge her like she is no longer apart of or welcome to the community.

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“They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgement.” (pg.1)

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This pear tree represents the feelings and the possibilities of love and desire for Janie’s life and future. When she is under the tree she thinks about these things, like, love, future, and the connection of her and the world itself.

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“She was stretched on her back, beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath pod the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her.” (pg.11)

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Janie was not allowed to show her hair because Joe didn’t want anyone else to see it but him. Joe finds Janie’s beauty as a cause for concern. So in a way Janies beauty works against her because she is no longer allowed to have the freedom to show her hair. Joe wants to make sure the other men don’t try anything with her.

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“The business of the head-rag irked her endlessly. But Jody was set on it. Her hair was NOT going to show in the store.” (pg.55)

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Janie didn’t know she was black until 6 years old. Janie doesn’t define herself as black or ny her race. She defines herself by the people or community she has grown up with. Whic are the kids at the Washburns place who are all white.

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A sense of community is shown because a group of people are coming together to witness a commencement of the towns first street lamp.

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"By five o' clock the town was full of every kind of a vehicle and swarming with people. They wanted to see that lamp lit at dusk." (pg.45)

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This is Janie's first sexual experience so it is a step toward Janie becoming a women. They were under the blooming pear tree when they kissed. It means that her womanhood is blossoming and growing.

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"...Nanny had called her to come inside the house because she had spied Janie letting Johnny Taylor kiss her over the gatepost." (pg.10)

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Joe doesn't want anyone looking at Janie's hair because he wants to be the only one to enjoy it. So he tells her to put her hair up and hidden.

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"...caught Walter standing behind Janie and brushing the back of his hand back and forth across the loose end of he braid ever so lightly so as to enjoy the feel of it..." (pg.55)

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’”Aw, aw! Ah’m colored!’" (pg.9)

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The lady is being very racist towards Nanny because she is black and her baby, Leafy, looks of white race.

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

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At this moment in the book, Janie is independent because she is not married but she starts to imagine things like marriage and love as a child.

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"In the air of the room were flies tumbling and singing, marrying and giving in marriage." (pg.11)

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She was now independent because she has no one in the realm of love.

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"So the beginning of this was a woman and she had come back from burying the dead." (pg.1)

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This shows that Janie is compassionate towards Tea Cake by making sure he is alright and she cares for him. This is a sign of love.

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"Tea Cake began to cry and Janie hovered him in her arms like a child. She sat on the side of the bed and sort of rocked him back to peace." (pg.180)

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Janie is admiring Tea Cake while he is sleeping which shows the sense of love she has towards him.

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"He drifted off into sleep and Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love." (pg.128)

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Joe Starks is putting Janie in her place showing the power he has over her.

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"You gettin' too moufy, Janie," Starks told her." (pg.75

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Joe is showing power over his wife, Janie, by not allowing her to speak.

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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 debated whether or not to leave Logan and run away with Joe Starks. This decision will decide her later fate.

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"Janie debated the matter that night in bed" (pg.30)

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Nanny forces Janie to marry Logan so that is her fate.

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“'Tain't Logan Killicks Ah wants you to have, baby, it's protection." (pg.15)