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"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 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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This encounter Janie had, sets up her belief on what love is and gives her a false sense of how simple/ easy love is to find

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"Janie noticed that her husband had stopped talking in rhymes to her. He had ceased to wonder at her long black hair and finger it. Six months back he had told her, "If Ah kin haul de wood heah and chop it fuh yuh, look lak you oughta be able tuh tote it inside. Mah fust wife never bothered me ‘bout choppin’ no wood nohow. She’d grab dat ax and sling chips lak uh man. You done been spoilt rotten."

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"Janie noticed that her husband had stopped talking in rhymes to her. He had ceased to wonder at her long black hair and finger it. Six months back he had told her, "If Ah kin haul de wood heah and chop it fuh yuh, look lak you oughta be able tuh tote it inside. Mah fust wife never bothered me ‘bout choppin’ no wood nohow. She’d grab dat ax and sling chips lak uh man. You done been spoilt rotten."

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Janie's ideals for what finding love looked like was worsened by the fact that her already ugly husband was now drifting away from how he initially treated her and turning her into a mule.

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"Ah jus’ know dat God snatched me out de fire through you. And Ah loves yuh and feel glad."

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"Ah jus’ know dat God snatched me out de fire through you. And Ah loves yuh and feel glad."

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Janie felt that god had given her a second chance at love with Tea Cake. She know knew what true love was.

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Her prayer is an attempt to use her free will to beg for his safe return, rather than just sit back and see what the future has in store for her.

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Her prayer is an attempt to use her free will to beg for his safe return, rather than just sit back and see what the future has in store for her.

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Janie believes that praying and having faith in god will grant him to bless her with her hopes and dreams.

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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."

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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."

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Logan believed Janie would appreciate what he was doing for her. He justified his frustration by saying that she treats him like a white person would.

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"Ah can’t stand black niggers. Ah don’t blame de white folks from hatin’ ‘em ‘cause Ah can’t stand ‘em mahself."

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"Ah can’t stand black niggers. Ah don’t blame de white folks from hatin’ ‘em ‘cause Ah can’t stand ‘em mahself."

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Mrs. Turner shows that she judges people heavily by the color of their skin and manifests in the belief that all blacks are inferior.

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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"

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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"

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Janie is encouraged to do as women have done for ages and forget the regrettable things in their past.

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"The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace."

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"The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace."

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Janie's past with Tea Cake will live on in her mind as the time in her life when her dreams came true.

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"It had called her to come and gaze on a mystery. From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom"

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"It had called her to come and gaze on a mystery. From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom"

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the pear tree serves as a symbol of Janie becoming increasingly interested in sex and love.

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"Before she slept that night she burnt up every one of her head rags and went about the house the next morning with her hair in one thick braid swinging well below her waist"

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"Before she slept that night she burnt up every one of her head rags and went about the house the next morning with her hair in one thick braid swinging well below her waist"

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Janie's hair is who she is and what Jody was trying to hide.

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"thank yuh fo yo' compliment, but mah wife don't know nothin' 'bout no speech-makin'. Ah never married her for nothin' lak dat. she's uh woman and her place is in de home"

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"thank yuh fo yo' compliment, but mah wife don't know nothin' 'bout no speech-makin'. Ah never married her for nothin' lak dat. she's uh woman and her place is in de home"

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Joe is the man holding Janie down to his own standards of how she should act and speaks for her even if its not what she desires.

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the hurricane gives balance to life and equals out the good of love and dreams in Janie's life.

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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."

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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."

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Men's dreams are on a unreachable by effort and only can be due to fate.

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"ah'll have you whipped til de blood run down to yo' heels"

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"ah'll have you whipped til de blood run down to yo' heels"

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Logan establishes his authority over Janie by Threatening to beat her.

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"What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls? Can’t she find no dress to put on?"

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"What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls? Can’t she find no dress to put on?"

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The people who gossip on the porch are always critical about people even though they claim not to be

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"Sometimes Janie would think of the old days in the big white house and the store and laugh to herself. What if Eatonville could see her now in her blue denim overalls and heavy shoes? "

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"Sometimes Janie would think of the old days in the big white house and the store and laugh to herself. What if Eatonville could see her now in her blue denim overalls and heavy shoes? "

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Janie is okay with her new life which people would consider to be poor back in eatonville.

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"The young girl was gone, but a handsome woman had taken her place. She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair. The weight, the length, the glory was there."

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"The young girl was gone, but a handsome woman had taken her place. She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair. The weight, the length, the glory was there."

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Janie was now free and no longer depended on Joe for support nor could he continue to oppress her.

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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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"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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Janie thinks of Tea cake as the man of her dreams, what was foreshadowed by the pear tree, lovers made for each other.

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"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."

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"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."

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Nanny made it seem as though dreams were a lost cause and all Janie could do was live as a woman with no hopes or dreams and simply to get married and live her life dependent of someone.

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"You have tuh have power tuh free things and dat makes you lak uh king uh something."

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"You have tuh have power tuh free things and dat makes you lak uh king uh something."

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Janie praised Joe for freeing the mule and compared him to Abe Lincoln.

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"Did he mean to do this thing to Tea Cake and her? It wasn’t anything she could fight. She could only ache and wait. Maybe it was some big tease and when he saw it had gone far enough he’d give her a sign."

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"Did he mean to do this thing to Tea Cake and her? It wasn’t anything she could fight. She could only ache and wait. Maybe it was some big tease and when he saw it had gone far enough he’d give her a sign."

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Janie wanted to believe in god through her struggles. The fate of Tea Cake and Janie seemed tragic.

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"They huddled closer and stared at the door. they just didn't use the other part of their bodies, and they didn't look at anything but the door. the time was past for asking the white folks what to look for through that door. six eyes were watching god"

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"They huddled closer and stared at the door. they just didn't use the other part of their bodies, and they didn't look at anything but the door. the time was past for asking the white folks what to look for through that door. six eyes were watching god"

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The three were awaiting to see what god had planned for their lives through the storm. dying or surviving the storm.

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"tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair"

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"tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair"

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Janie's hair represents the envy of other people to have the Caucasian features she does.

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"the wind had romped among lakes and trees. In the city it had raged among houses and men. Tea Cake and Janie stood on the edge of things and looked over the desolation"

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"the wind had romped among lakes and trees. In the city it had raged among houses and men. Tea Cake and Janie stood on the edge of things and looked over the desolation"

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The hurricane brought great change to Janie's life in the form of Tea Cakes's death following the storm.

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"Still and all, she’s her own woman. She oughta know by now whut she wants tuh do"

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"Still and all, she’s her own woman. She oughta know by now whut she wants tuh do"

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Phoeby praises Janie's independence.

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"Ah told you in de very first beginnin’ dat Ah aimed tuh be uh big voice. You oughta be glad, ‘cause dat makes uh big woman outa you."

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"Ah told you in de very first beginnin’ dat Ah aimed tuh be uh big voice. You oughta be glad, ‘cause dat makes uh big woman outa you."

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Joe strives to be the leader and have the biggest voice of Eatonville. Joe believes if Janie remains silent she will be a role model for women in Eatonville as well.