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"'It's about time. Youse powerful independent around here

sometime considerin'.'"

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Janie is told to use her new independence for her own good.

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"He felt like rushing forth with the meat knife and chopping off the offending hand. That night he ordered Janie to tie up her hair around the store. That was all"

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This is when Joe made Janie begin tying up her hair to only be seen & touched by him.

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

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This is showing her new found freedom from having to keep her hair tied up for only Joe to see.

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it symbolizes janie's unending search to be happy

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it symbolizes the new sexuality that Janie has.

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"Here Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon—for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you—and pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter's neck tight enough to choke her. "

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No matter how hard you try in life to reach things you want, there will always be things that are unattainable.

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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."

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it symbolizes the large force of nature

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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.'"

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This is right after the hurricane, & Tea Cake & Jane want to leave the high ground, but Janie tells him there is really nowhere to go that was not hit.

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"'Going to high ground. Saw-grass bloom. Hurricane coming.'"

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"He couldn't make him look just like any other man to her. He looked like the love thoughts of women. He could be a bee to a blossom—a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps."

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it symbolizes power that Janie has or doesn't have

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"'Yeah, Sam say most of 'em goes to church so they'll be sure to rise in Judgment. Dat's de day dat every secret is s'posed to be made known. They wants to be there and hear it all.'"

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this is Pheoby talking about how the porch people are always up in peoples' business.

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"'Ah'd ruther be dead than for Jody tuh think Ah'd hurt him," she sobbed to Pheoby. "It ain't always been too pleasant, 'cause you know how Joe worships de works of his own hands, but God in heben knows Ah wouldn't do one thing tuh hurt nobody. It's too underhand and mean.'"

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"He gave his powerless laugh again and Tea Cake and the boy joined in with him. Then Tea Cake walked on off and went home to Janie."

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Mr. Turner is not as powerful as Tea Cake is in the town.

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"There was no doubt that the town respected him and even admired him in a way. But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate. So when speak- ers stood up when the occasion demanded and said "Our beloved Mayor," it was one of those statements that everybody says but nobody actually believes like 'God is everywhere.'"

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"But you got to take in considera- tion you ain't no everyday chile like most of 'em. You ain't got no papa, you might jus' as well say no mama, for de good she do yuh. You ain't got nobody but me. And mah head is ole and tilted towards de grave. Neither can you stand alone by yo'self. De thought uh you bein' kicked around from pillar tuh post is uh hurtin' thing."

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"Janie fooled around outside awhile to try and think it wasn't so. If she didn't see the sickness in his face she could imagine it wasn't really happening. Well, she thought, that big old dawg with the hatred in his eyes had killed her after all. She wished she had slipped off that cow-tail and drowned then and there and been done. But to kill her through Tea Cake was too much to bear."

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This is when Janie needs to kill Tea Cake, she loves him too much to see that he is seriously sick.

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"'Janie, how long you been 'lowin' Johnny Taylor to kiss you?'

'Only dis one time, Nanny. Ah don't love him at all. Whut made me do it is—oh, Ah don't know.'"

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"'Over, Janie? I god, Ah ain't even started good. Ah told you in de very first beginnin' dat Ah aimed tuh be uh big voice. You oughta be glad, 'cause dat makes uh big woman outa you.'"

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In this quote, Jody is saying how he always wanted a voice that would be heard, & he's getting upset because Janie is not as happy as he wanted her to be.

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"He didn't really hate Janie, but he wanted her to think so. He had crawled off to lick his wounds. They didn't talk too much around the store either. Anybody that didn't know would have thought that things had blown over, it looked so quiet and peaceful around. But the stillness was the sleep of swords. So new thoughts had to be thought and new words said. She didn't want to live like that. Why must Joe be so mad with her for making him look small when he did it to her all the time? Had been doing it for years. Well, if she must eat out of a long-handled spoon, she must. Jody might get over his mad spell any time at all and begin to act like somebody towards her."

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"You got mo' nerve than me. When somebody talked mah husband intuh comin' down heah tuh open up uh eatin' place Ah never dreamt so many different kins uh black folks could colleck in one place. Did Ah never woulda come. Ah ain't useter 'ssoci- atin' wid black folks. Mah son claims dey draws lightnin'." They laughed a little and after many of these talks Mrs. Turner said, "Yo' husband musta had plenty money when y'all got married."

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In this quote, Mrs. Turner is talking about how the black community is coming together in a way she never thought they would.

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"Us got tuh incorporate, and us got tuh have uh mayor, if things is tuh be done and done right. Ah welcome you all on behalf uh me and mah wife tuh dis store and tuh de other things tub come. Amen."

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"'It’s bad bein’ strange n****** wid white folks. Everybody is against yuh.'

'Dat sho is de truth. De ones de white man know is nice colored folks. De ones he don’t know is bad n******.'"

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This quote shows how white people are against the colored folks.

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"Aw, aw! Ah’m colored!"

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This quote is when Janie first discovers that she has a different skin tone than the other children.

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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."

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In this quote, it is saying that women only retain the memories that they want.

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In this, the quote is referring to him as a very handsome & dreamy man to women.

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"Old Nanny sat there rocking Janie like an infant and thinking back and back. Mind-pictures brought feelings, and feelings dragged out dramas from the hollows of her heart."

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"’Cause I hates de way his (Logan’s) head is so long one way and so flat on de sides and dat pone uh fat back uh his neck.'

'He never made his own head. You talk so silly.'"

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In this quote, Janie is complaining about how Logan looks, and Nanny is telling her that he can not choose how his head is shaped or how he looks.

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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."

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The men on the boats symbolize men on the endless journey of longing for love & happiness

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while waiting for the hurricane, groups of people kept running up the hill, & Janie asked where they were going, & this was the guy's answer.

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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. That was to say, ever since the first tiny bloom had opened."

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Janie has spent all her time thinking about boys

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Nanny is talking to Janie about how she has no one besides her.

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This quote happened right after Janie kissed a boy, & Nanny is convinced that Janie loves him.

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this is Janie talking to Phoeby about Jody & how the only thing he worships is the fate he creates for himself.

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This is a quote from Joe's conversation with the people about how the community needs a mayor.

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Any man that has power over others, will be both respected & hated at all times.

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This quote shows the new appearing silence that has made its way throughout the store.

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Joe is all about how people need to take decide their own fate.

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In this quote, Janie is recalling past memories, or "mind-pictures".