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" How Come?"
" 'Cause Ah hates de way his head is so long one way and so flat on de sides and date pone uh fat back uh his neck"
" He never made his own head. You talk so silly" (pg 24)

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no matter how much Janie dislike the way Logan looked at how he treated her. He was made to be as he was and he even hated the way he looked himself.

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" There was no doubt that the town respected him and even admired him in a way. But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate. " (pg 48)

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" Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able to find out. Maybe its some place way off in de ocean where the balck man is in power, but we dont know nothin but what we see... De nigger woman is the mule uh de world as far as ah can see." (14)

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Throughout the novel the history of this time was based upon slavery and how women were seen as by the men. This gave all power to the black men over omen in which nanny only ever knew that they had been.

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"She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman." (24)

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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." (14)

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Janie's idea of love was not how her first marriage became to be which made her believe that love was not possible for her in this case. She had no idea how to explain her ideals of love with nanny when nanny wouldn't open her mind to Janie.

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" He don't even never mention nothin' pretty. She began to cry
I want sweet things wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. Ah.." (24)

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" Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with he things suffered,things enjoyed,things done and undone. Dawn ad doom was in the branches." (8)

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Janie's memories and history of how she first began to think of life and love is relevant to how she believes she is living her life as an adult. Looking back at her dreams she noticed that they were more idealistic than how she turned out.

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" she knew things that nobody had ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. She often spoke to falling seds and said,
ah hope you fall on soft ground
because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. (25)

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"Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly." (1)

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many times women choose what they ave been through by forgetting the mistakes and hard times. This creates the thought of how they begin to live their own blissful dream life

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After the fact that Janie was taken off her throne Logan began to show his true colors in which Janie no longer began to feel loved she felt only loneliness within her waiting idea of love.

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Janie became aware that the power of love and her thoughts didn't combine and her power of desire to find love was lost for she believes that finding love was impossible

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No matter how high above others you may seem to be and no matter how many people admire one, there will always be haters

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"Whut Ah seen just now is plenty for me, honey, Ah don’t want no trashy nigger, no breath-and-britches, lak Johnny Taylor usin’ yo’ body to wipe his foots on." (13)

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Nanny views Johnny Taylor as someone who isn't good enough for Janie. His class in the community may not fit for Janie but that doesn't reflect off of his class.

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"If you don’t want him [Logan], you sho oughta. Heah you is wid de onliest organ in town, amongst colored folks, in yo’ parlor. Got a house bought and paid for and sixty acres uh land right on de big road and…Lawd have mussy! Dat’s de very prong all us black women gits hung on. Dis love! Dat’s just whut’s got us uh pullin’ and haulin’ and sweatin’ and doin’ from can’t see in de mornin’ till can’t see at night." (23)

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Nanny despises of the middle class people of the community and doesn't wish Janie to grow upon the way they view her and other black folks. She wants Janie's happiness to only come from love from within not materialistically.

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Janie had her own idea of how her life was supposed to be and no one had taught her how love is and how you potentially have it. Besides the fact that nanny had pushes that she must wait.

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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."  (9)

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Janie had grown up in a society were her color of skin would show how others would treat her. these kids bullied her because of the fact that she was black and how her mom and dad were gone and not in her life anymore. they cant justify their reasoning because they don't have any idea of how her life truly is.

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"Ah thought you would ‘preciate good treatement. Thought Ah’d take and make somethin’ outa yuh. You think youse white folks by de way you act." (8)

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Logan viewed the fact that Janie had grew up around white folk that she would appreciate the fact that he would do something pleasant for her since she was black.

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"Humph! don’t ‘spect all dat tuh keep up. He ain’t kissin’ yo’ mouf when he carry on over yuh lak dat. He’s kissin’ yo’ foot and ‘tain’t in uh man tuh kiss foot long. Mouf kissin’ is on uh equal and dat’s natural but when dey got to bow down tuh love, dey soon straightens up." (23)

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Nanny is warning Janie that her independence of Logan & the fact that he is kissing up to her in the beginning is all for show. He won't last long with the standards of women he has.

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"Ah’d ruther be dead than for Jody tuh think Ah’d hurt him," she sobbed to Pheoby. "It ain’t always been too pleasant, ‘cause you know how Joe worships de works of his own hands, but God in heben knows Ah wouldn’t do one thing tuh hurt nobody. It’s too underhand and mean." ( 82)

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Although Joe had been her worst marriage in her life, she couldn't be that low of a person to want someone hurt.

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But oh God, don’t let Tea Cake be off somewhere hurt and Ah not know nothing about it. (120)

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Although she has her doubts about tea cake and the money taken, she has no ill-mind to have known that he would be hurt

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"Yeah, Sam say most of ‘em goes to church so they’ll be sure to rise in Judgment. Dat’s de day dat every secret is s’posed to be made known. They wants to be there and hear it all." (6)

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when the people of the porches go to church they experience a gathering of everyone and how they all like to percieve other people's lives. They only go to hear the gossip not the real reason to attend church.

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"Ah don’t mean to bother wid tellin’ ‘em nothin’, Pheoby. ‘Tain’t worth the trouble. You can tell ‘em what I say if you wants to. Dat’s just de same as me ‘cause mah tongue is in mah friend’s mouf." (6)

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Janie explains to Phoeby that there is not point to repeat as Janie tells her becuase it is no different then making up another story when they just are there to create gossip.

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"This business of the head-rag irked her endlessly. But Jody was set on it. Her hair was NOT going to show in the store. It didn’t seem sensible at all. That was because Joe never told Janie how jealous he was. He never told her how often he had seen the other men figuratively wallowing in it as she went about things in the store. " (55

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Janie's beauty s now marked against her,for her husband is jealous of the male suitors that find her hair attractive having him force her to hid it in a head rag.

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

"It’s mine too. Ah ain’t been sleepin’ so good for more’n uh week cause Ah been wishin’ so bad tuh git mah hands in yo’ hair. It’s so pretty. It feels jus’ lak underneath uh dove’s wing next to mah face." (103)

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Joe had always been the one to force Janie to hid hr beautiful hair and now she is free to do as she pleases and now tea cake has been playing with her hair as he is falling fo Janie because her hair.

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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! " (11)

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Janie ideals for love and how marriage is supposed to take into her life was represented by the symbol in a pear tree and how it is blossoming. The feelings she gained under a pear tree was how she wished marriage to be.

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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. He spoke for change and chance." (29)

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she was doubting the fact of going with Joe because he was seeming sketchy while trying to woo her from Logan. He was luring her in with a change from how she was being treated so badly by him

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"Janie had spent most of the day under a blossoming pear tree in the back-yard. She had been spending every minute that she could steal from her chores under that tree for the last three days. That was to say, ever since the first tiny bloom had opened. It had called her to come and gaze on a mystery."

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When Janie was little she created her own consciousness of being an way of love. While spending a lot of time under the pear tree she found it the way in which she had always wanted to find love like how she felt with the pear tree.

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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." (1)

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NO matter how far or how hard it is to get, the men will send someone or something to get it for them. they will receive, earn,or just try forever. women get the exact opposite treatment in this novel.

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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"(160)

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Only when deathly measures are put in hand is hen a man is humbled to their own decisions and mistakes.

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""De lake is comin’!" and the pursuing waters growled and shouted ahead, "Yes, Ah’m comin’!", and those who could fled on. " (162

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The lake summarizes and personfesses to sinners that will be taken over for everything they have done. The man is finally afraid for their own life after everything they have done