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"The pistol and the rifle rang out almost together... leaped forward as he crashed forward in her arms." pg. 175

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Fate is demonstrated when Tea Cake was shot by Janie. Her shooting him was out of her control, he would have killed her

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"Tea Cake rose out of the water...sent him to the bottom to stay there." pg. 157

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Tea Cake had no control over him getting infected with rabies. This, sadly, leads to his death.

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"The years took all the fight out of Janie's face." pg. 72

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Janie was powerless against Joe. He had way to much power over how she acted and lived

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"The guards had a long conference over that." pg. 163

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This was when they were burying the bodies, the guards were ordering them on what to do.

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"'Tea Cake, 'tain't no use in you bein' jealous uh me. In de first place Ah couldn't love nobody but yuh...don't want but you." pg. 171

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Janie believed that after her first two marriages, love was just an imaginary thing. But then she would Tea Cake an fell in love for real.

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"'Whut would Ah do wid dat lil chunk of a woman wid you around?... tuh git old and forgit tuh die." pg. 132

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Janie was jealous of a woman named Nunkie, but Tea Cake reassured her that he only loved her.

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"'Look lak dey think God don't know nothin' 'bout de Jim Crow law." pg. 163

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Jim Crow laws limited the rights of African Americans. Law enforcement was treating them unfairly, worse than how passed laws treated them.

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"The house was full of people every night... most of them came to get into whatever game was going on or might go on." pg. 127

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Once Tea Cake and Janie moved to the Everglades, the people in their town accepted them.

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"Tea Cake's house was a magnet, the unauthorized center of the 'job.'" pg. 126

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Where Tea Cake and Janie lived, community was a major part of their lives.

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"'Ah was wid dem white chillun so much till Ah didn't know Ah wazn't white till Ah was round six years old." pg. 8

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During her childhood, Janie faced segregation outside of her home, but she was treated equal in the house she lived in

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"Got orders from headquarters... white folks in de hole jus' so." pg. 163

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Segregation was prominent when this book was written. This is a great illustration of how blacks and whites were treated differently.

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"'We find the death of Vergible Woods to be... So she was free and the judge and everybody up there smiled with her and shook her hand." pg. 179

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Janie was now independent. She now has to learn how to depend on herself for the first time.

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"'Tain't dat Ah worries over Joe's death, Pheoby. Ah jus' loves did freedom." pg. 89

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Once Joe died, Janie was finally able to get out of a life where everything had to be perfect to the outside world.

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“When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time... lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.”

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Religion is mentioned in this novel by Hurston referring to God many times, revealing some deeper meaning to her plot.

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"It was the meanest moment of eternity... Then the grief of outer darkness descended." pg. 175

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Once Tea Cake had died, Janie's love life ended in silence with her love in her arms.

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"No matter what Jody did, she said nothing." pg. 72

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Joe did not allow Janie to say much during their relationship, while Tea Cake allowed much more freedom with her words.

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"Her hair was NOT going to show in the store... figuratively wallowing in it as she went about things in the store." pg. 51

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By making her hide her hair, Joe took away the one thing which she could express herself with.

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"'Look at they hair. when you cain't tell no other way. And don't lemme ketch none uh y'all dumpin' white folks, and don't be wastin' no boxes on colored. They's too hard tuh git holt of right now." pg. 163

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The symbolism of hair in the novel is a way of expression between people of color and others. It is a way of distinguishing who a person is.

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"Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. Ah..." pg. 23

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Janie's vision of the pear tree is a safe place where she is able to comfortably talk to someone she loves.

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

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The pear tree symbolizes Janie's growth in love and relationships

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"Here Nanny had taken...about her granddaughter's neck tight enough to choke her." pg. 85

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Nanny played with Janie's heart, forcing her to love a man she didn't . Which then lead her to loving Joe, leading her to heartbreak.

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"They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged." pg. 31

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"A big burst of thunder and lightning that trampled over the roof of the house." pg. 150

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The beginning of the hurricane shows the calm before the storm. Which could also symbolize the beginning of Janie's relationship with love.

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"Tea Cake rose out of the water at the cow's rump... before Tea Cake stroked in and crawled weakly upon the fill again." pg.157

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This illustrates how Tea Cake was willing to fight for Janie. This was also at the end of the hurricane symbolizing the strong bond of love between the two.