# data[].attributes.body
"They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment." pg:1

# data[].attributes.body
" "Lawd, you know mah heart. Ah done de best Ah could do. De rest is left to you." She scuffled up from her knees and fell heavily across the bed. A month later she was dead." pg: 24

# data[].attributes.body
This shows that it was fate for nanny to die knowing that it was coming soon due to her condition.

# data[].attributes.body
"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:31

# data[].attributes.body
Shows how Joe knew he was going to be somebody in the future and make a name for himself.

# data[].attributes.body
This shows the community in Eatonville was very judgemental.

# data[].attributes.body
""Den they’d tell me not to be takin’ on over mah looks ‘cause they mama told ‘em ‘bout de hound dawgs huntin’ mah papa all night long." pg:9

# data[].attributes.body
"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

# data[].attributes.body
This shows how Janie has some authority.

# data[].attributes.body
"Betcha he off wid some gal so young she ain’t even got no hairs – Why she don’t stay in her class? – " pg:2

# data[].attributes.body
This shows how she has the power to do whatever she wants.

# data[].attributes.body
"Ah’m older than Tea Cake, yes. But he done showed me where it’s de thought dat makes de difference in ages. If people thinks de same they can make it all right." pg:113

# data[].attributes.body
This says that it doesn't matter the age of two people as long as Janie loves Tea Cake and he loves her their is nothing wrong with it.

# data[].attributes.body
" Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant." pg:21

# data[].attributes.body
This is saying that back than many people were forced into loving the person they are married with.

# data[].attributes.body
""Still and all, she’s her own woman. She oughta know by now whut she wants tuh do." pg: 111

# data[].attributes.body
This is saying that Janie can stand up for herself and make decisions on her own.

# data[].attributes.body
""What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls? Can’t she find no dress to put on? – Where’s dat blue satin dress she left here in? pg: 2

# data[].attributes.body
"The people felt uncomfortable but safe because there were the seawalls to chain the senseless monster in his bed." pg: 158

# data[].attributes.body
"She had been summoned to behold a revelation." pg: 11

# data[].attributes.body
This shows how the white people treated African Americans as monsters.

# data[].attributes.body
This is saying that Janie has seen a vision of what she wants to do in the future.

# data[].attributes.body
"While Tea Cake was standing and looking he saw two men coming towards him with rifles on their shoulders. Two white men, so he thought about what Janie had gold him and flexed his knees to run." pg:169

# data[].attributes.body
"They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God." pg: 160

# data[].attributes.body
"… for the first time, she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of the tunnel of his mouth. " pg:77

# data[].attributes.body
This shows how she grew stronger as a person from being silent.

# data[].attributes.body
"… the cruel deceit of Janie! making all that show of humbleness and scorning him all the time! Laughing at him, and now putting the town up to do the same. " pg:80

# data[].attributes.body
This shows the power of her voice by laughing at him making him feel worse.

# data[].attributes.body
"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." pg: 11

# data[].attributes.body
This is saying that the pear tree is a nice and peaceful place for Janie.

# data[].attributes.body
"The vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the pear tree but Janie didn’t know how to tell Nanny that." pg: 13

# data[].attributes.body
“She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder, so much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.”pg:6

# data[].attributes.body
She always was chasing the horizon

# data[].attributes.body
"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

# data[].attributes.body
"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

# data[].attributes.body
This shows Janie remembering her past.

# data[].attributes.body
"Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches." pg: 8

# data[].attributes.body
Looking back at Janie's past experiences.

# data[].attributes.body
"Her hair was NOT going to show in the store." pg:55

# data[].attributes.body
She didn't want people to see her hair since she didn't want Joe to see it.

# data[].attributes.body
"Its negro hair, but it's got a kind of white flavor." pg: 67-68

# data[].attributes.body
Janie's hair is fancy since she has a lot of money.

# data[].attributes.body
"The monstropolous beast had left his bed" pg: 161

# data[].attributes.body
The hurricane started coming towards them.

# data[].attributes.body
"Hurrying, dragging, falling, crying, calling out names hopefully and hopelessly." pg:164

# data[].attributes.body
Everybody was unprepared for the hurricane devastating everybody.

# data[].attributes.body
This shows how the pear tree shaped Janie's future.

# data[].attributes.body
This shows in this era you always had to be ready to be harassed or judge on your skin.

# data[].attributes.body
This is saying the horizon is the dream you're always trying to chase but can never reach

# data[].attributes.body
This shows that Janie is an independent woman wearing whatever she wants.

# data[].attributes.body
this shows how Janie in a time of need was asking god for help.

# data[].attributes.body
This shows how the community is very racist against colored people.