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regardless of all nanny's setbacks she still puts her trust in god

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even though Janie dislikes Logan cause his looks nanny points out to Janie that Logan can't help how he looks

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At a street lamp lighting ceremony, Tony Taylor asks Janie to say a few words; however, Joe won't let her speak. This quote reveals how Starks feels about women in general and Janie in particular.

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At 16, Janie had never given much thought to the concept of love and marriage. However, after witnessing a bee pollinating a pear blossom, she suddenly feels awakened to the possibility. After this experience, Janie becomes obsessed with finding love. She compares each new man in her life to this pear blossom experience.

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When the porch sitters criticize Mrs. Robbins, Janie defends her and, by extension, all women. This is a rare example of Janie standing up for her beliefs during her life with Joe.

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When Janie is 17, her grandmother arranges for her to marry Logan Killicks, an older man in the community. Janie is repulsed by Logan, but is assured by her grandmother that she will learn to love him once they're married. As time passes, Janie realizes that her grandmother is wrong, and that her dream of romance and pear blossom love is nothing more than a fantasy.

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the sitters were known to be racist

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This compares Janie to the blooming pear tree and how its blooming while she's growing up too

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Janie's comparison between Tea Cake and the bee shows how she thinks back to the memory of her sexual awakening with Johnny Taylor

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to Janie the horizon symbolizes the realm of the possible, that which she can dream about

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The hurricane was so devastating that it took bodies with it and threw them everywhere. Any where you looked there would be a dead body laying around

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The hurricane was rolling on and it was reaching its peak strength. It was destroying almost everything in its path and even killing people in its wake, leaving great damage

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This symbolizes Janie's newfound freedom after Jody's death

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Janie says that she has lived her dream by finally finding love in her life and she is satisfied to be at home again

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description of Janie's hair

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Janie breaks out of the traditional role of the silent, obedient woman and speaks her mind to the men

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It is known that at the time whites were superior to blacks, also women were often seen as less of human being than a man. Here Nanny explains to Janie how black women are at even more of a disadvantage. They are the inferior race and they are women. The quote represents how the attitude at the time to this inferiority was acceptance.

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"Sometimes God gits familiar wid us womenfolks too and talks His inside business. He told me how surprised He was 'bout y'all turning out so smart after Him makin' yuh different; and how surprised y'all is goin' tuh be if you ever find out you don't know half as much bout us as you think you do."

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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." (pg. 1

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"tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair" (pg. 86)

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"the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume" (pg. 2)

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"Ah done been done tuh de horizon and back and now Ah kin set heah in mah house and live by comparisons" (pg. 191)

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"She had glossy leave and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her" (pg. 11)

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"The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles an hour wind has loosened his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran forward until he met the quarters; uprooted them like grass and rushed on after his supposed-to-be conquerors, rolling the dikes, rolling the houses, rolling the people in the houses along with other timbers." (pg. 161-162)

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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."

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"It was inevitable that she should accept any inconsistency and cruelty from her deity as all good worshippers do from theirs. All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood."

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"Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see…De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see." (2.44)

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"Nature is de first of everything. Ever since self was self, nature been keepin' folks off of red-hot stoves. Dat caution you talkin' 'bout ain't nothin' but uh humbug."

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"Corpses were not just found in wrecked houses. They were under houses, tangled in shrubbery,floating in water, hanging in trees, drifting under wreckage" (pg. 170)

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"These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment."

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"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. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung about him. He was a glance from God. "

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

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"Lawd, you know mah heart. Ah done de best Ah could do. De rest is left to you." (pg.30)

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" You don't know half as much 'bout us as you think you do"

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"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. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage!"

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

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"Thank yuh for yo' compliments, but my wife don't know nothin' 'bout no speech-makin'. "