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"who dat been askin' you for me? Brother Logan Killicks. Hes a good man, too." Pg.13

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This means that Janie doesnt have free will or fate because she is being married away by her nanny

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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." Pg.1

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This means that some people are destined to do nothing but others will work at it to do some

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"The Little Emperor of the cross-roads was leaving Orange County as he had come—with the out-stretched hand of power." Pg.88

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This means that Joe had a lot of power because he was the leader of the largest black community in the area.

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"He had always wanted to be a big voice" Pg. 28

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This means that Joe had always wanted to have power and this is his chance to get that power.

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"A bee for her bloom." Pg. 106

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This means that Janie really hopes that she found her true marriage partner.

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"He set it up and began to show her and she found herself glowing inside. Somebody wanted her to play." Pg. 95

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This means that Tea Cake really loves Janie because he was the first person to let her play checkers.

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"What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls? Can’t she find no dress to put on? ... Where she left dat young lad of a boy she went off here wid? ... What he done wid all her money? ... Why she don’t stay in her class? "  Pg. 2

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This shows that the community has evolved in the time and Janie is an outcast now.

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"Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out." Pg. 16

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This means that even Blacks can see how bad the racism really is.

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"But then she kept on astin me how come mah baby look white. She asted me dat maybe twenty-five or thirty times, lak she got tuh sayin’ dat and couldn’t help herself. So Ah told her, ‘Ah don’t know nothin’ but what Ah’m told tuh do, ‘cause Ah ain’t nothin’ but uh nigger and uh slave." Pg.17

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This shows that Black people are even racist against their own kind just because something may of happened.

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"The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off". Pg. 25

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This shows that Janie was freed from Logan when he died so she just left with her freedom

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"Something like George Washington and Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln, he had de whole United States tuh rule so he freed de Negroes."  Pg. 58

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This means that the Mule got its freedom and it now no longer being mistreated by its old owner.

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"De first street lamp in uh colored town." Pg.45

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This shows that the community was still developing and they were all happy that they got that street lamp.

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"What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls?" Pg. 2

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This shows that they speak in a different way than we do.

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"Dey all useter call me alphabet 'cause so many people had done named me different names." Pg.9

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This shows that they speak in a different way than we do.

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"Her hair was NOT going to show in the store. It didn’t seem sensible at all."  Pg. 55

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This shows that her hair was a sign of being free cause Joe didnt want it out.

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"Why, Tea Cake? Whut good do combin’ mah hair do you? It’s mah comfortable , not yourn." Pg. 106

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This show that Tea Cake really liked her being free because he stroked her freedom hair.

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"She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees" Pg. 11

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This shows that she likes the pear tree cause she is laying below it.

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"He could be a bee to a blossom – a pear tree blossom in the spring." Pg. 106

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This shows that the pear tree blossoming is actually love between them.

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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”  Pg.1

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This shows that the horizon is a goal they want to achieve but cant actually get to it.

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"She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see." Pg. 193

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This shows that Janie met her goals and cross the horizon that was set out for her.

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" She wanted him out of the way of storms, so she had a strong vault built in the cemetery at West Palm Beach." Pg. 189

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This shows that the hurricane terrorized her so much that she didnt even want Tea Cake to be buried in a place that he loved.

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" He worked like a dog for her and nearly killed himself saying her in the storm, then soon as he got a little fever from the water. Pg. 186

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This shows that the hurricane was even worse than the initial storm because it got Tea Cake really sick from the water.

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"Abraham Lincoln, he had de whole United States tuh rule so he freed de Negroes." Pg. 58

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This shows that there is History in the story because Lincoln freed the slaves.

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" Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves." Pg. 192

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This shows that God is a really important part of people's lives in the book and a God is part of Religion.

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"Us got tuh handle 'em slow lak dat? God have mussy! In de Their Eyes Were Watching God 40 171 condition they's in got tuh examine 'em? Whut difference do it make 'bout de color? Dey all needs buryin' in uh hurry." Pg. 170

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This shows that God is an important part of their lives if they think about him in this situation.

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" Convention and he read uh paper on Booker T. Washington and tore him tuh pieces!" "Booker T.? He wuz a great big man" Pg. 142

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This shows that Booker T. Washington is important to them and he is history. Even though most of them are probably illiterate, they still know who he is