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"Sun-up" is a metaphor for hope, while "pollen and blooming trees" represent sex and the subsequent possibility of new life.

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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

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They forget aspects of their lives that contradict their dreams such that they believe that their dreams are reality.

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For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation

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And it leaves young Janie feeling "limp and languid," as a woman might after orgasming.

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She had been summoned to behold a revelation. Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid.

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The pear blossoms and bee have an undeniably sexual overtone here, but it’s not sex for the sake of sex

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branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.

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Only when faced with a natural disaster in the magnitude of a hurricane does man feel humbled at his smallness in the face of God. The characters here realize that their free will

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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.

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They knew it was comming.

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The wind came back with triple fury and put out the light for the last time.

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They made fun of each other hair.

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''He look like some ole skullhead in de grave yard."

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They colored had nappy hair.

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Dere wuz uh knotty head gal name Mayrella dat useter git mad every time she look at me.

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his evocative description introduces the idea of language,

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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.

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Since many of the people of Eatonville are laborers during the day, they are rendered powerless and voiceless

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The sun was gone…It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins.

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Death is also related to judgment—but who are the dead bodies judging, themselves or other

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he had come back from the sodden and the bloated; the sudden dead, their eyes flung wide open in judgment. (1.3)

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It is significant that Janie’s story begins with death because her life revolves around metaphoric deaths and rebirths.

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So the beginning of this was a woman and she had come back from burying the dead.

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Slavery, obviously, is confining. It kept Nanny from fulfilling her dreams and taking action

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Ah was born back due in slavery so it wasn’t for me to fulfill my dreams of whut a woman oughta be and to do.

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"The porch wants to confine Janie to a rigid and easily-definable category – through gender, social class, and age."

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What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls? Can’t she find no dress to put on? – Where’s dat blue satin dress she left here in?

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Because Janie’s father is a white rapist and her mother the product of a white slave owner and a black slave woman,

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Dey didn’t tell about how he wuz seen tryin tuh git in touch wid mah mama later on so he could marry her

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The sun was gone…It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long.

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The narrator cites the black people of Eatonville’s lack of confidence during the day

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There is a lot of jealously

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" Betcha he off wid some gal so young she ain’t even got no hairs"

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They were pretty dirty

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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."

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Alot of slaves ran away for their freedom

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Freedom found me wid a baby daughter in mah arms,

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The slaves were striped of their freedom

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"Ah was born back due in slavery so it wasn’t for me to fulfill my dreams of whut a woman oughta be and to do."

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She wanted to fall in love but nanny was making her get married so her life will be ok.

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"Cause you told me Ah wuz gointer love him, and, and Ah don’t. Maybe if somebody was to tell me how, Ah could do it."

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She didnt love logan.

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"The vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating"

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They needed someone with the power to take care of everything

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"Somebody got to think for women and chillun and chickens and cows. I god, they sho don’t think none theirselves."

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He yells to show his power and to make people listen.

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"Ah aimed tuh be uh big voice. You oughta be glad, ‘cause dat makes uh big woman outa you." (5.126)

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The fate law of fate that powerful men draw hate

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"But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate. "(5.130)

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the fate is he didnt pick how was made.

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