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"You come heah wid yo' mouf full uh foolishness on uh busy day. Heah you got uh prop tuh lean on all yo' bawn days, and big protection, and everybody got tuh tip dey hat tuh you and call you Mis' Killicks, and you come worryin' me 'bout love."

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The older generations, I have noticed hrough literature, life experiences, and verbal opinions; that the older generations get, the colder they become, as if they have decided that since they couldn't love that now life is aout things... yeah... I'm going to take my 401K and my 9 to 5 job that I hate to heaven, or off myself over and get sent to abyss for. The happy old couples die of happiness and bliss, while spiteful and jealous old warts stay around to callus and create the same infection on others.

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"She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tee 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."

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"Every day after that they managed to meet in the scrub oaks across the road and talk about when he would be a big ruler of things with her reaping the benefits. 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. Still she hung back. The memory of Nanny was still powerful and strong."

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"Janie hurried out of the front gate and turned south. Even if Joe was not there waiting for her, the change was bound to do her good."

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Her running out of Logan was a show of independence and free will, even if she would come to not like her decision later on, it was still her chance to be had and she as an independent individual, took it.

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The tree represents her longing and self appointed meaning in life. The visiting bees would later represent her husbands, whom some of them would come and simply pluck off her blossoms of her life tree and leave her worse off then before, and others would be good for her.

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This quote, I believe, fully articulates the symbolism in the horizon, it's a chance that some people take that sometimes has a big reward on the other end of it. It's an idea that if it can't be better than how it is now, then take a chance at something new.

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"She slapped the girl's face violently, and forced her head back
so that their eyes met in struggle. With her hand uplifted for the
second blow she saw the huge tear that welled up from Janie's
heart and stood in each eye."

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This was one of Janie's first glance at power. Power, over another, which her Grandmother gave power over Janie to Logan.

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"He waited a week exactly to come back for Janie's snub. It was early in the afternoon and she and Hezekiah were alone. She heard somebody humming like they were feeling for pitch and looked towards the door. Tea Cake stood there mimicking the tuning of a guitar."

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This quote shows how fate overules common decisions, she had decided to treat him with distain and cold but as soon as he did show up, she was in his arms because they were fated to be.

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"Yes, she would love Logan after they were married. She could see no way for it to come about, but Nanny and the old folks had said it, so it must be so. Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant. It was just so. Janie felt glad of the thought, for then it wouldn't seem so destructive and mouldy. She wouldn't be lonely anymore."

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No love shows through force, because love is a flowy and choosy mistress that decides who will love who and in what way, it's destined and defined. It's a fated concept, either it works or fails.

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"The morning road air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet. After that she came to where Joe Starks was waiting for her with a hired rig."

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Janie had decided that power over her person belonged to her, so she decided to take it and do what she pleases with it, which ended up tying herself to another man, who would not love her like she would like to be, but that's the beauty of power,it's a decision where it goes, so you can give power in bad ways and good ways.

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"The next morning she awoke hearing a knocking on the front door and found Tea Cake there. 'Hello, Mis' Janie, Ah hope Ah woke you up.' 'You sho did, Tea Cake. Come in and rest yo' hat. Whut you doin' out so soon dis mornin'?' 'Thought Ah'd try tuh git heah soon enough tuh tell yuh mah daytime thoughts. Ah see yuh needs tuh know mah daytime feelings. Ah can't sense yuh intuh it at night.' 'You crazy thing! Is dat whut you come here for at daybreak?' 'Sho is. You needs tellin' and showin', and dat's whut Ah'm doin'. Ah picked some strawberries too, Ah figgered you might like.' 'Tea Cake, Ah 'dare Ah don't know whut tuh make outa you. You'se so crazy. You better lemme fix you some breakfast.' 'Ain't got time. Ah got uh job uh work. Gottuh be back in Orlandah at eight o'clock. See yuh later, tell you straighter.'"

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Love is formed and it's a scary thing to be apart from what or who you love, which is shown by Tea Cake's need to tell Janie that he loves her.

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"Ah ain't never seen mah papa. And Ah didn't know 'im if Ah did. Mah mama neither. She was gone from round dere long before Ah wuz big enough tuh know. Mah grandma raised me. Mah grandma and de white folks she worked wid. She had a house out in de back-yard and dat's where Ah wuz born."

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This section of the book begins Janie's explanation of her life with a little backstory about her parents.

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"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. 'Bout Mr. Washburn and de sheriff puttin' de bloodhounds on de trail tuh ketch mah papa for whut he done tuh mah mama. Dey didn't tell about how he wuz seen tryin' tuh git in touch wid mah mama later on so he could marry her. Naw, dey didn't talk dat part of it atall. Dey made it sound real bad so as tuh crumple mah feathers. None of 'em didn't even remember whut his name wuz, but dey all knowed de bloodhound part by heart."

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History is distorted by who hears it and what they are told. People listen and twist history to make seemingly innocent things seem scandelous and perverted, if given the right opportunity to do so.

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"Seeing the woman as she was made them remember the envy they had stored up from other times. So they chewed up the back parts of their minds and swallowed with relish. They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive. Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song."

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Now, everyone always say that people need a better sense of community, but a feeling of unity only comes from a source, and if your source of wanting a community may not last long, the feeling fades from the people around them, their commuity. Like the porch talkers, they focused around talking about others.

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"The idea was funny to them and they wanted to laugh. They tried hard to hold it in, but enough incredulous laughter burst out of their eyes and leaked from the corners of their mouths to inform anyone of their thoughts. So Joe walked off abruptly. Most of them went along to show him the way and to be there when his bluff was called."

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With how the community of Eatonville almost laughed off their only possible chance of getting land, it's quite funny that they are so respectful to him later, but just the thought of a black town sent them asprawling along the street, laughing and screeching.

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"Dat useter rile Mayrella uh lot. So she would pick at me all de time and put some others up tuh do de same. They'd push me 'way from de ring plays and make out they couldn't play wid nobody dat lived on premises."

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At this point in the story, race was a societal must that you learned from your parents, or from other people and experiences that are around you.

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"She flounced on off and let her wintertime wid me. Ah knowed mah body wasn't healed, but Ah couldn't consider dat. In de black dark Ah wrapped mah baby de best Ah knowed how and made it to de swamp by de river. Ah knowed de place was full uh moccasins and other bitin' snakes, but Ah was more skeered uh whut was behind me. Ah hide in dere day and night and suckled de baby every time she start to cry, for fear somebody might hear her and Ah'd git found. Ah ain't sayin' uh friend or two didn't feel mah care. And den de Good Lawd seen to it dat Ah wasn't taken. Ah don't see how come mah milk didn't 🤬 mah chile, wid me so skeered and worried all de time."

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Now, with how peope during the time as if they were sub human, it's an understatement if our reaction was that that that had made no sense.

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"She must look on herself as the bell-cow, the other women were the gang. So the put on one of her bought dresses and went up the new-cut road all dressed in wine-colored red. Her silken ruffles rustled and muttered about her. The other women had on percale and calico with here and there a headrag among the older ones. Nobody was buying anything that night."

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This willingness in everyday life that Janie shows to her husband, by being the perfct doll that he desired her to be was rediculous, you were better ooff with nasty Logan, with little to no change.

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"The last sentence was half a sob and half a cry. 'Ah guess some low-lifed 🤬 is grinnin' in yo' face and lyin' tuh yuh. God damn yo' hide!'"

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Logan is lashing out at Janie because he doesn't believe that she is self sufficient, like any good spirited woman should treate a great boook  title.

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"So when speakers 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." It was just a handle to wind up the tongue with."

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This quote shows how much people believe in God and religion.

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"There was a finished silence after that so that for the first time they could hear the wind picking at the pine trees. It made Pheoby think of Sam waiting for her and getting fretful. It made Janie think about that room upstairs—her bedroom. Pheoby hugged Janie real hard and cut the darkness in flight."

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With this example, it meant a real silence that let you know what's past the filthy mouth bottle.

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"After that night Jody moved his things and slept in a room downstairs. 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?"

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As shown in this quote, silence and abstaining from talking to someone, may be used to attempt to harm someone else.

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"What dat ole forty year ole 'oman doin' wid her hair swingin' down her back lak some young gal?"

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Her hair is symbolic of her fertility and beauty as a woman.

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"'Whut make her keep her head tied up lak some ole 'oman round de store? Nobody couldn't Bit me tuh tie no rag on mah head if Ah had hair lak dat.'Maybe he make her do it. Maybe he skeered some de rest of us mens might touch it round dat store. It sho is uh hidden mystery tuh me.'"

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Her hair,like herself, to Jody was a possession, something that he worked for and bought, which is a disgusting notion altogether.

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"The vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the pear tree, but Janie didn't know how to tell Nanny that. She merely hunched over and pouted at the floor."

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The pear tree symbolizes love and happiness, something that Janie doesn't have too much of in her story.

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"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—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. She hated the old woman who had twisted her so in the name of love."

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The horizon was the future, the hope for a better tomorrow, and having it used against you makes it seem ominous and cruel.

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"Still a blue sky and fair weather. Beans running fine and prices good, so the Indians could be, must be, wrong. You couldn't have a hurricane when you're making seven and eight dollars a day picking beans. Indians are dumb anyhow, always were. Another night of Stew Beef making dynamic subtleties with his drum and living, sculptural, grotesques in the dance."

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The hurricane is to represent God, and the brutality of nature, because it doesn't care who it is, but rather just happens.

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"The wind came back with triple fury, and put out the light for the last time. They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God."

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The hurricane didn't care who was there, or who wasn't, it justdestroyed and killed aimlessly, like amentally broken bear, it stumbled around and mauled people.