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"Tea Cake made her shoot at little things just to give her good aim. Pistol and shot gun and rifle. It got so the others stood around and watched them . . . She got to the place she could shoot a hawk out of a pine tree and not tear him up. Shoot his head off. She got to be a better shot than Tea Cake"
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Zora is trying to show how women can do whatever men do and  succeed. Janie was happy that Tea Cake is letting her participate in things that her old husband did't let her do.

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"To Janie’s strange eyes, everything in the Everglades was big and new. Big Lake Okeechobee, big beans, big cane, big weeds, big everything   . . . Ground so rich that everything went wild. Volunteer cane just taking the place. Dirt roads so rich and black that a half mile of it would have fertilized a Kansas wheat field. Wild cane on either side of the road hiding the rest of the world. People wild too"
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This reminds me of Nick from the Great Gatsby when he went to live in West Egg and went to one of Gatsby's house. He thought it was interesting like Janie thought nature.

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"He drifted off into sleep and Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place"
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Janie has very strong feelings toward Tea Cake. I think this means that Janie is scared to fall for him.

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"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. So in the beginnin’ new thoughts had tuh be thought and new words said. After Ah got used tuh dat, we gits ‘long jus’ fine. He done taught me de maiden language all over." (12)
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Why does age play a big part in this novel? How does Tea Cake make her feel?

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"Still and all, she’s her own woman. She oughta know by now whut she wants tuh do." (12)
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The women in the books we have read so far are not as confident as Janie. In the The Crucible Abigail is a coward who falsely accuses Elizabeth for her own reasons. Daisy, from The Great Gatsby, does not know what she wants and is very indecisive.

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"Janie awoke next morning by feeling Tea Cake almost kissing her breath away. Holding her and caressing her as if he feared she might escape his grasp and fly away. Then he must dress hurriedly and get to his job on time. He wouldn’t let her get him any breakfast at all. He wanted her to get her rest. He made her stay where she was. In her heart she wanted to get his breakfast for him. But she stayed in bed long after he was gone"
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Tea cake is sweet with her and makes her feel appreciated. Janie knows that he truly cares about her. She is not used to being pampered by the men she's with.

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"Women folks is easy taken advantage of. You know what tuh let none uh dese stray niggers dat’s settin’ round heah git de inside track on yuh. They’s jes lak uh pack uh hawgs, when dey see uh full trough. What yuh needs is uh man dat yuh done lived uh round and know all about tuh sort of manage yo’ things fuh yuh and generally do round"
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I think the narrator is trying to show how men think Janie is helpless without a man but in reality she is smarter than she looks.

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"She hated her grandmother and had hidden it from herself all these years under a cloak of pity. She had been getting ready for her great journey to the horizons in search of people; it was important to all the world that she should find them and they find her. But she had been whipped like a cur dog, and run off down a back road after things. It was all according to the way you see things. Some people could look at a mud-puddle and see an ocean with ships. But Nanny belonged to that other kind that loved to deal in scraps. Here Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon-
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Parents or guardians sometimes tell you what to do and guide you to a different direction that they want you. Some people end up chasing their parents dream that they aren't happy with but because of pressure they go along with it. In the Great Gatsby Gatsby is not happy with his life as poor farmers so he goes out of his way to change it.

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"Janie found out very soon that her widowhood and property was a great challenge in South Florida. Before Jody had been dead a month, she noticed how often men who had never been intimates of Joe, drove considerable distances to ask after her welfare and offer their services as advisor"
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The men are trying to take advantage of Janie because she has property and is single. She knew that she had to be careful now that she is a widow. They think that she can easily be taken advantage of.