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"'bout Mr. Killicks too. Some folks never was meant to be loved and he's one of 'em." " Page 24

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Some peoples fate just were not meant to be filled with love.

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"But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate. " Page 48

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This shows that if men try to have power they will be faced with hatred

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"The worst thing Ah ever knowed her to do was taking a few years offa her age and dat ain't never harmed nobody. Y'all makes me tired. De way you talkin' you'd think de folks in dis town didn't do nothin' in de bed 'cept praise de Lawd." Page 3

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The fate of the town was on edge because of something that Janie did and messed everything up. They didnt deserve this.

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"Hambo said, "Yo' wife is uh born orator, Starks. Us never knowed dat befo'. She put jus' de right words tuh our thoughts." Page 58

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This is showing how Janie took control and gave people things that they knew they needed.

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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."  Page 15

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Janie did not love Logan.

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"but Nanny and the old folks had said it, so it must be so. Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant. It was just so. Janie felt glad of the thought, for then it wouldn't seem so destructive and mouldy. She wouldn't be lonely anymore. " Page 21( first page of chapter 3)

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Janie thought that if you get married with anyone the love will just grow from there. Nanny always told her loves comes with Marriage.

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"Time makes everything old so the kissing, young darkness became a monstropolous old thing while Janie talked. "

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Everything will change over time. The history of kissing changed from what Janie knew to what Janie knows now.

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"She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. "

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The history of the town continued to change over night.

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"Janie cries, "Aw, aw! Ah’m colored!"
Page 9 Chapter 2

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Janie finds out that she is black and not white.

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"Us lived dere havin fun till de chillun at school got to teasin me bout livin in de white folks back yard" Page 9 Chapter 2

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Black people were made fun of for living with white people.

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"It's about time. Youse powerful independent around here sometime considerin'."  Page 30

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Joe was telling Janie she needs to use her own power and think for herself.

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"Uh woman by herself is uh pitiful thing," she was told over and again. "Dey needs aid and assistance. God never meant 'em tuh try tuh stand by theirselves. " Page 90

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This is saying that women should never be independent and by themself. Its a shame that they are.

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"God, they call this a town? Why, 'tain't nothing but a raw place in de woods." "It is a whole heap littler than Ah thought." Janie admitted her disappointment " Page 34 FIrst page of chapter 5

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They were asking god why he picked this area for this town.

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" it was one of those statements that everybody says but nobody actually believes like "God is everywhere." It was just a handle to wind up the tongue with. " Page 4

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Nobody actually believed in god himself.

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"She'd laugh quietly at his no-harm posing and pretend she didn't see it. " Page 92

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Janie chose to stay quiet and keep low to not upset Joe.

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"Ah thought so too," Tea Cake said very quietly and dropped his head in his hands. "But Ah done baked yuh uh pan uh beans." "Ah knows dey's good all right but Ah don't choose nothin' now, Ah thank yuh, Janie."  Page 174

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Tea cake was upset and he didnt want to eat so he quietly replied to Janie when she asked why he said he wasnt hungry but he actually was.

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"The men noticed her firm buttocks like she had grape fruits in her hip pockets; the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume; "

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The men looked at her hair and thought it was very nicely swinging.

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"This business of the head-rag irked her endlessly. But Jody was set on it. Her hair was NOT going to show in the store. It didn't seem sensible at all. That was because Joe never told Janie how jealous he was. He never told her how often he had seen the other men figuratively wallowing in it as she went about things in the store. " Page 55

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Joe did not want Janies hair showing when he was with her. He got jealous of other men looking at it. She got upset for not letting her show her hair.

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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 of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her." Page 11

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Janie would often relax under the pear tree and take in her environment.

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"It was a spring afternoon in West Florida. Janie had spent most of the day under a blossoming pear tree in the back-yard. She had been spending every minute that she could steal from her chores under that tree for the last three days." Page 10

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Janie would take breaks from a stressful day to go and sit under the pear tree and think.

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"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. " Page 1

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People would dream of sailing off into the Horizon to make his dreams come true but death mocked them.

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"God ever made, the horizon—for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you " Page 89

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No matter how far you go you will never be able to touch the Horizon.

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"But, Tea Cake, de hurricane wuz down in de 'Glades too. It'll be dead folks tuh be buried down dere too." Page 172

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The hurricane came and people died in it.

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"Doctah, Tea Cake ain't tellin' yuh everything lak he oughta. We wuz caught in dat hurricane out heah, " Page 176

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They were caught in the Hurricane.

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"You know, honey, us colored folks is branches without roots and that makes things come round in queer ways. You in particular. Ah was born back due in slavery so it wasn't for me to fulfill my dreams of whut a woman oughta be and to do. " Page 16

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The black community was not able to do the same things as the whites were able to do.

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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. " Page 28

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When Joe heard about a community of black people he wanted to go straight towards there to be all together with them. Black people wanted to come together.