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"So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time. But when the pollen again gilded the sun and sifted down on the world she began to stand around the gate and expect things".-Pg. 25

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"She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman".-Pg. 25

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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. He spoke for change and chance".-Pg. 29

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"These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human".-Pg. 1

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"It woke up old Okechobee and the monster began to roll in his bed. Began to roll and complain like a peevish world on a grumble".-Pg. 158

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"Long before the year was up, Janie noticed that her husband had stopped talking in rhymes to her. He had ceased to wonder at her long black hair and finger it".-Pg. 26

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"It's uh known fact, Pheoby, you got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo' papa and yo' mama and nobody else can't tell yuh and show yuh. 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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You must believe in God and trust in yourself in order to do things.

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"De Lawd will provide. He know Ah done bore de burden in de heat uh de day. Somebody done spoke to me 'bout you long time ago".-Pg. 13

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"And every day had a store in it, except Sundays. The store itself was a pleasant place if only she didn't have to sell things. When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice".-Pg. 51

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Janie enjoys the people who visit the store in Eatonville which bring her company.

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"Before she slept that night she burnt up every one of her head rags and went about the house the next morning with her hair in on thick braid swinging well below here waist".-Pg. 89

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"Since Tea Cake and Janie had friended with the Bahaman workers in the 'Glades, they, the 'Saws,' had been gradually drawn into the American crowd. They quit hiding out to hold their dances when they found that their American friends didn't laugh at them as they feared".-Pg. 154

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"Whut Ah seen just now is plenty for me, honey, Ah don't want no trashy nigger, no breath-and-britches, lak Johnny Taylor usin' yo' body to wipe his foots on".-Pg. 13

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Nanny loves Janie and she want her to be safe and well respected

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"He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall".-Pg. 193

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"Mah grandma raised me. Mah grandma and de white folks she worked wid. She had a house out in de back-yard and dat's where Ah wuz born".-Pg. 8

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Janie grew up in a poor area with the white folks. Her being around white children as a child may have affected her personality and look on life as she got older.

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"Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly".-Pg. 1

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"Towards the morning she muttered, 'Lawd, you know mah heart. Ah done de best Ah could do. De rest is left to you'". -Pg. 24

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Nanny believes that in order to succeed you need to work hard but at the same time rely on God to do the rest.

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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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Nanny believes that God will provide Janie with a lover when she needs it.

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Janie sees her future with Joe as very fortunate but it isn't what she is looking for, true love.

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This is a sign that the lake may flood the place where Tea Cake and Janie are staying.

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Janie realizes that what Nanny has been telling her the whole time is false. Marriage does not create love. Because of this, Janie goes back to being an independent woman.

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Janie waited throughout her marriage with Logan Killicks for her life to be like the pear tree.

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During the day, the blacks lacked confidence during the day which is then brought back to them at night when the white man leaves.

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Logan Killicks no longer treats Janie as nicely as he did when he first met her. This is a sign that Logan doesn't truly love her.

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After Joe's death Janie has that freedom to wear her hair down. She is no longer i that controlling relationship.

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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".-Pg. 55

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"The wind came back with triple fury, and put out the light for the last time. They sat in the company with others in other shanties, their eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His".-Pg. 160

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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".-Pg. 1

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"Dat's de way it looks. Still and all, she's her own woman. She oughta know by now what she wants tuh do".-Pg. 111

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"Oh to be a pear tree--any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world! She was sixteen. She had glossy leaves and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her".-Pg.11

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"On the train the next day, Joe didn't make many speeches with rhymes to her, but he bought her the best things the butcher had"-Pg. 34

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"So when we looked at the picture and everybody got pointed out there wasn't nobody left except a real dark little girl with long hair standing by Eleanor. Dat's where Ah wuz s'posed to be, but Ah couldn't recognize dat dark chile as me"-Pg.9

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Janie first realizes that she is colored and how being colored will affect her life from that point on.

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Janie's beauty is shown especially through her hair so Joe orders her to hide it because he is jealous and it is concerning.

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Men and women live their lives differently from each other. Men see their goals as unattainable, but women live to fulfill their dream.

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Only when faced with a natural disaster such as the hurricane do men realize that they are so small compared to God.

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Janie is compared to a pear tree. She is waiting for someone to enter her life and hopefully be married.

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Women live by their dreams. They take their past experiences into account.

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Tea Cake was Janie's true love. Janie will forever be with Tea Cake no matter what happens.

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Joe believes that your fate is in your own hands and you shouldn't rely on God.

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When Janie first met Joe, he talked to her. After being together for a while, Joe is silent and doesn't talk to her as much as he used to.

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Pheoby doesn't understand why Janie left Joe Starks. The only thing Pheoby can think of is that Janie wants to be independent.

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Their new home in the everglades was different from their old home. They were drawn into a new type of community where they loved to dance.