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"Aw, aw! Ah'm colored!"

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Janie didn't really realize that she was black until it was pointed out in class. She thought she was just the same as everyone else.

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"Her disfavorite topic was Negroes."

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"He could be the bee to a blossom--a pear tree blossom in Spring"

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It was destined that these two would meet. Tea Cake's path crossed with Janie's so

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"There was no doubt that the town respected him and even admired him in a way."

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The towns respect for Joe comes directly from his position. As the town mayor he has the power to do what he wants. It gets him the respect he wants.

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"In the cool of the afternoon the fiend from hell specially sent to lovers arrived at Janie's ear."

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For almost all of her life she was abused in some type of way. She didn't trust love at first because of it.

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"He drifted off into sleep and Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love.

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She has experienced love in a way she hasn't before thanks to Tea Cake.

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"He mostly talked about his plans for the town when he got there."

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Joe wanted to build a bigger and better community in Eatonville. He believed he was the only one that could make that happen.

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Even though Ms. Turner was black herself, she disliked the darker people. It was thought that since she and Janie were lighter that they were better then them. That the darker ones were holding them back from living a nicer life.

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"She would have the rest of her life to do as she pleased."

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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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Burning her head rags was a symbol that she was finally free from Joe's hold.

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Joe could no longer control her life and for the first time in her life she was about to live for herself.

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"She had found a jewel down inside herself and she had wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it around"

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She had a new found confidence that stemmed from her independence. Finally being her own person made her feel better and she wanted to show off.

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

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God changed the world everyday so nothing would stay the same.

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"No matter what Jody did she said nothing"

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There was so much that Janie went through and eventually she found that staying silent would be easier than speaking. There was nothing she could say.

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"Joe spoke out without giving her a chance to say anything one way or another that took the bloom off of things."

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With Joe around, Janie didn't really have a voice. He spoke for her.

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"Oh to be a pear tree---any tree in bloom!"

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Janie's life is like the pear tree and she is just starting to bloom into a young adult.

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"He could be a bee to blossom---a pear tree blossom in spring

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It is thought that Tea Cake is the one that will make Janie's life much better. He will help her blossom like spring does for a pear tree.

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"She had been getting ready for her great journey to the horizons in search of people;"

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On her journey to reach the horizon she would find many people that would make her life the way she wanted

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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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Nanny did not let Janie experience walking to the horizon to met new people. The horizon was in a way brought to her and used for others advantages instead of Janie's

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"Still a blue sky and fair weather."

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No one believed that there was a hurricane coming since the weather was still nice. The hurricane in this way could be life and how everything may look all nice but things could take a turn for the worst whenever.

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"You couldn't have a hurricane when you're making seven and eight dollars a day picking beans."

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People don't want to believe that there is a hurricane since things are going so well in the Everglades.

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"Nobody couldn't git me tuh tie no rag on mah head if Ah had hair lak dat."

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Janie's hair is seen as very beautiful and Joe doesn't want people getting any ideas. As a result he has her cover up a part of her that makes her special.