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“What she doin coming back here in dem overalls?”
Janie is introduced into the book as women coming back looking beat up and down.

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“Ah still got nine hundred dollars in de bank. Tea cake got me into wearing ‘em”
We learn about a character Tea cake who had an affect k beer so much that she changed the style of clothing that she wears

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"Tain't Logan Killick ah wants you to have baby. It's protection."
Nanny wants Janie to marry Logan for protection and and not love to make sure that Janie is safe.

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" Ah was born back due in slavery so it wasn't for me to fulfill my dreams of what a woman ought be and to do."
We learn the backstory of Nanny and how she was raped and we also learn the backstory of Janie's mom and how she was also raped so this flash black shows why nanny chose to marry off Janie

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"Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think ..."
Janie doesn't like the way her marriage is going and wants her marriage to be different and sweet.

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This picture represents the wood that Logan wishes Janie would help cut.

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“Mah fust wife never bothered me ‘bout choppin’ no wood nohow.” Logan complains about Janie not helping out like his last wife who always helped him.

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Joe says, “A pretty doll-baby lak you is made to sit on de front porch…” when he is trying to convince Janie to run away with him.

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“Ah wants to make a wife outa you.” Joe is flirting with Janie and trying to steal her from Logan.

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This picture represents Janie running away because she wants to marry Joe instead.

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“S’posin’ Ah wuz to run off and leave yuh sometime.” Janie threatens to leave Logan because she doesn’t love him.

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Janie and Joe got married as soon as she left Logan.

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“So they were married there before sundown, just like Joe had said.” The morning after Logan and Janie’s argument, Janie and Joe ran away and got married.

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The town that Joe and Janie now lived in was very small.

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“It is a whole heap littler than Ah thought.” The town that they moved to is very little and barely even a town.

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By buying the store, the post office, and calling a town meeting, Joe showed his power and his ability to lead.

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Joe buys 200 acres of land and opens up a store

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Joe buys 200 acres of land and opens up a store

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"A man dat ups and buys two hundred acres uh land at one whack and pays cash for it." This show of wealth shows the townspeople that Joe is powerful.

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Joe is now Mayor of Eatonville which gives him, and Janie, more power and wealth.

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"Brothers and sisters, since us can't never expect tuh better our choice, Ah move data we make Brother Starks our Mayor until we kin see further." After showing they saw Joe's abilities to take charge, the townspeople decide that he's the only one fit to lead.

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Joe made Janie tie her hair up in head rags to keep the other men from seeing her hair. 

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"Maybe he make her do it. Maybe he skeered some de rest of us mens might touch it round dat store. It sho is uh hidden mystery tuh me." This is the first sign of conflict between Janie and Joe. It shows his insecurity and how he's controlling Janie.

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Joe and Janie argue a lot, although most of the time Janie stays quiet.

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"Wid you heah, Ah oughtn't tuh hafta do all dat lookin' and searchin'. Ah done told you time and time agin tuh stick all dem paperws on dat nail! All you got tuh do is mind me. How come you can't do lak Ah tell yuh?" This is one of the several time Joe and Janie argue. There is an apparent distance growing between them and they are falling out of love.

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Janie now understands that she is just a tool in Joe’s path for success over the small town. Janie knows that there more out there, but is trapped by Joe. 

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“She was a rut in the road. Plenty of life beneath the face but it was kept beaten down by the wheels.”

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 Joe confronts Janie and complains that she is getting old and slow. Up to this point in the story Janie has kept quiet, and snaps back for the first time. 

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"I god amighty! A woman stay round uh store till she get old as Methusalem and still can't cut a little thing like a plug of tobacco!"

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Janie argues with Joe about old age, and Joe is perplexed that she talked back. This provoked him to strike her without thinking, making them split even further

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Joe assaults Janie and they stop sleeping together

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Joe assaults Janie and they stop sleeping together

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"Joe Starks didn't know the words for all this, but he knew the feeling. So he struck Janie with all his might and drove her from the store."

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Joe’s body was beginning to weaken from the inside, but he was too stubborn to ever see a doctor for his health.

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“Then too she noticed how baggy Joe was getting all over. Like bags hanging from an ironing board…. But even these things wrre running down like candle grease as time moved on”.

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Joe is informed that he is going to die, because had had been refusing to see any treatment before it had been too late, making his death certain.

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Doctor Informs Joe that he has Kidney Failure

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Doctor Informs Joe that he has Kidney Failure

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“When a man’s kidneys stop working altogether, there is no way for him to live. He needed medical attention two years ago. Two late now.”

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Joe and Janie argue yet again about each other’s problems, and with Joe’s final words, he breathes his last breath and dies in front of her.

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“All dis obedience under yo’ voice—dat ain’t whut Ah rushed off down de road tuh find out about you.”…”Janie gave them on peace on his breast, then she studied his dead face for a long time.”

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Janie pretends to be sad by masking her face so the citizens of Eatonville wouldn’t get suspicious, but she truly feels free now that he is gone.

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“Janie starched and ironed her face and came set in the funeral behind her veil. It was like a wall of stone and steel.”

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Since Joe is death, all the men in and out of Eatonville are trying to get with her because of her looks, name, and wealth.

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"When Janie emerged into her mourning white, she had hosts of admirers in and out of town. Everything open and frank"

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“Tea Cake meets Janie”
A man buys cigarettes in the store and flirts with Janie. The man offers to play checkers and teach Janie. She finds out his name is Vergible Woods also known as Tea Cake. The two then joke and laugh until everyone heads home. Yea Cake closes the store with Janie and leaves.

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“Tea Cake hasn’t came back in a week”
Janie starts to believe Tea Cake was taking advantage of her wealth. They play checkers again once he arrives and takes her home. Tea Cake takes her fishing late at night but is forced to sneak. Hezekiah then talks low on Tea Cake to Janie but she doesn't care. Janie says that she has feeling for him but only as a good friend, while Tea Cake has more stronger feelings towards Janie. She starts to feel as if she was taken advantage of by Tea Cake since he had been gone for 3 days. He returns back to the city and wants their relationship to be public and they have a picnic.

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“Janie starts to change the way she lives”
The people in the town don’t like the fact that Janie is dating a poor, young man. Sam Watson tried to get Phoeby to convince Janie to not end up like Ms.Tyler who got cheated on by younger man. Janie explains to Phoeby that she likes the way Tea Cake treats her. Pheoby tries to tell Janie that Tea Cake might be using her and that she stopped mourning about Joe really fast. Janie plans on selling the store, move out of the city and get married with Tea Cake.

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Janie and Tea cake get married right after Janie’s gets off the train. Chapter 13

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Tea cake and Janie get married, making this Janie’s 3rd marriage.

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Tea Cake spots the money while Janie was tying his Tie and takes it out of curiosity. Chapter 13

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Tea cake takes the money Janie has been keeping and spends it on a party he throws for his co-workers

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“Dey cut me, dat’s all. Don’t cry. Get me out dis coat quick as yuh can.” Chapter 13

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Tea Cake goes gambling to reimburse Janie for the money the money he spent

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“Oh down in de Everglades round Clewiston and Belle Glade where dey raise all dat cane and string-beans and tomatuhs….. We must go dere” Chapter 13

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Tea Cake suggests that once he’s over his wound, they should go to the Everglades so they can make more money.

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“To Janie’s strange eyes, everything in the Everglades was big and new. Big lake Okechobee, big beans, big cane, big weeds, big everything.” Chapter 14

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Janie and Tea Cake arrive in the Everglades where Janie see’s many new and big things.

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“Two weeks from now, it’ll be so many folks heah dey won’t be looking fuh rooms, dey’ll be jus’ lookin fuh somewhere tuh sleep” Chapter 14

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As the season quickly approaches Janie and Tea Cake enjoy their time together and prepare for the season.

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“She gets to the point where she can shoot a hawk out of a pine tree and not tear it up” Chapter 14

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Tea Cake takes Janie out to teach her how to shoot.

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“You betta come git a job uh work out dere lak de rest uh de women-so Ah won’t be losin’ time comin’ home” Chapter 14

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Tea Cake starts to ditch work to see Janie because he gets lonely.

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“So the very next morning Janie got ready time pick Beans along with Tea Cake. There was a suppressed murmur when she picked up a basket.” Chapter 14

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The morning after Tea Cake and Janie have their talk, Janie decides to start joining Tea Cake picking beans.

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“She’d hit Tea Cake playfully and the minute he so much as tapped her with his finger she’d fall against him or on the ground and have to be picked up”  Chapter 15

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Nunkie (a worker) flirts with Tea Cake in the fields and Janie gets jealous.

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“She grabbed mah workin’ tickets outs mah shirt pocket and ah run tuh get ‘em back” Chapter 15

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Nunkie and Tea Cakes disappear, but Janie finds them wrestling after Nunkie took Tea Cakes work tickets.

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“Naw, never did, and you know it too. Ah didn’t want her.” Chapter 15

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After Janie asks if Tea cake still loves Nunkie, and Tea Cake says he never did.

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"The season Closed and people went away like they had come-in droves. Tea Cake and Janie decided to stay since they want to make another season on the muck."

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As the season end Tea Cake and Janie decided to stay and enjoy the brake in the town. This was a good time for her to discover the town.

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"Janie came to know Mrs. Turner now. She had been seen her several time during the season, but neither ever spoke." (Chapter 16)

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Janie during her season break she meet with Mrs. Turner and they begin to make a talk and make friend.

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"Ah jus' couldn't see myself married to no black man. It's too many black folks already. We oughta lighten up de race." (Chapter 16) 

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She talks all the time about the evils of Black people. She loves whiteness and argues that Black people are lazy and foolish and that they should try to “lighten up de race.”

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"Coodemay tried to shove Sop out of the chair and Sop resisted. A whole lot of shoving and scrambling and coffee got split on Sop" Chapter 17

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Coodemay and Sop have a fight. Because Coodemay and Sop both get drunk and making a ruckus. And they end up fighting each other in Mrs. Turner restaurant.

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" My Uncle come for me. He say hurricane warning out in Palm Beach" Chapter 18 

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When Tea Cake and Janie was in the town, one of his Bahaman boys was stopped by Tea Cake. His name was Lias. He warned Tea Cake that his uncle tell him that the hurricane was coming to their place.

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Water everywhere. Stray fish swimming in the yard. Three inches more and water would be in the house. (Chapter 18)

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Janie and Tea Cake began to leave the house to evacuate but it little late.(I mean very late.). The hurricane was coming near them. When they can feel it they began to run. It was too late.

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"They fought and somehow he managed to bite Tea Cake high up on his cheek-bone once. Then Tea Cake finished him and sent him to the bottom to stay there." C18) 

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When Tea Cake found a high place, Janie still stuck under water. Tea Cake come down to help her. But unlucky for him he fought with the dog and he got bite by the dog. After that he was killed the dog.

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"Come on less go bury some uh dese heah dead folks" White man with a gun Chapter 19

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Tea cake was approached by white men with rifles after the hurricane. They forced him to bury the dead. The white bodies were put into coffins and the black bodies are just placed in the wholes.

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"Janie, I'm pretty sure that was a mad dawg bit yo' husband." Doctor Chapter 19

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After Tea Cake came home from working he mentioned he had a head ache and he later developed a fever. After they went to the doctor he determined he has rabies from a dog bite he got from a dog bite during the hurricane. He was likely to die and suffer while doing so.

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"Guess you tired uh waitin' on me and doing fuh me." Tea Cake Chapter 19

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Tea Cake stars to accuse Janie of sneaking away and getting tired of him. In realty she is going to see if any medicine came in for him. See his mental health detreating she keeps his true diagnosis a secrets.

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Janie saw then that he had the gun in his hand that was hanging to his side. Chapter 19

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Janie finds a revolver under Tea Cake pillow while he is in the out house. It is loaded with 3 out of the 6 bullets. Janie moves the chamber to make the first 3 shots blanks. When Tea Cake returns he starts getting made at Janie and pulls the revolver. Janie grabs the rile and points it back at him to try and scare him into stopping, but after 3 clicks of Tea Cake's revolver Janie is forced to pull the trigger and kill Tea Cake before he can kill her.

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"...they wanted their hostile attitude forgotten." Chapter 20

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During Tea Cake's funereal the men of the town realized the way they treated Janie was very disrespectful. To atone they ran Mrs.Tunner's brother out of town why beating him till he left.

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She had given everything away... except a package of garden seed that Tea Cake had bought to plant- Chapter 20

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With Tea Cake's funeral over, Janie has nothing left and nothing to do in this town. With a bag of seeds being the only thing left she had of Tea Cake she returns home.

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Lay in bed after talking to Pheoby, Janie things about the horrible day she killed Tea Cake. Thinking of it hurts her, but it makes her realize how much of an effect Tea Cake left on her and how grateful she is for him.