https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5 Made with a wink and a smile en-us 2018-04-30 15:55:20 UTC 2018-05-17 16:10:01 UTC hello@padlet.com 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256581458 2018-04-30 15:56:40 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256581458 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256581763 2018-04-30 15:57:19 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256581763 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256582393 2018-04-30 15:58:32 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256582393 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256582868 2018-04-30 15:59:29 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256582868 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256583104 2018-04-30 15:59:57 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256583104 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256583318 2018-04-30 16:00:25 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256583318 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256585364 "Dat mornin' on de big plantation close to Savannah, a rider come in a gallop tellin' 'bout Sherman takin' Atlanta" (Page 16).]]> 2018-04-30 16:04:33 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256585364 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256586153 By referencing a moment in american history, Hurston puts the story into perspective. This moment was towards the end of the civil war. It was not long after Sherman's march to the sea that all the slaves would be legally free.]]> 2018-04-30 16:06:23 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256586153 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256588799 "Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant" (Page 21)]]> 2018-04-30 16:11:57 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256588799 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256589369 As a young woman, Janie has some trouble understanding the concept of love. She feels as if marrying someone will automatically make her fall in love. However, this is a misconception and it contributes to her misery in her marriage with Logan Killicks. ]]> 2018-04-30 16:13:18 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256589369 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256591496 "Ah was wid dem white chillun so much till Ah didn't know Ah wuzn't white till Ah was round six years old" (Page 8).]]> 2018-04-30 16:17:21 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256591496 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256592396 Most African Americans experienced severe racism during this time. However, Janie did not experience this as a young girl in the way that many other people did. As she gets older, this innocence dissipates as she learns from her Nanny and has experiences of her own. ]]> 2018-04-30 16:19:04 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/256592396 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260525292 2018-05-14 15:46:58 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260525292 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260525628 2018-05-14 15:47:34 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260525628 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260525877 2018-05-14 15:48:05 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260525877 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260526270 2018-05-14 15:48:49 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260526270 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260526384 2018-05-14 15:49:04 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260526384 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260526494 2018-05-14 15:49:19 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260526494 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260526687 2018-05-14 15:49:44 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260526687 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260527670 There was something about Joe Starks that cowed the town... He had a bow-down command in his face, and every step he took made the thing more tangible (Page 47).]]> 2018-05-14 15:51:41 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260527670 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260528559 People in Eatonville feared Joe because of the way he acted. His strong desire to be successful and climb the social ladder made people feel inadequate when compared to him. This fear gives him more control over others and therefore makes him powerful. ]]> 2018-05-14 15:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260528559 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260531424 "the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another but the mud is deaf and dumb. Like all the other tumbling mud-balls, Janie had tried to show her shine" (Page 90).]]> 2018-05-14 15:59:42 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260531424 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260532312 In society, all people have some sort of potential. However, societal expectations and personal situations "cover us in mud' forcing us to abandon that potential and live by others' expectations instead of our own. This quote says that Janie has tried to reject the fate chosen for her and make her own. ]]> 2018-05-14 16:01:24 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260532312 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260534670 "Before she slept that night she burnt up every one of her head rags and went about the house next morning with her hair in one thick braid swinging well below her waist" (Page 89).]]> 2018-05-14 16:06:20 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260534670 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260535377 The placement of Janie's hair represents her freedom throughout the novel. When she was married to Joe, he controlled most aspects of her life and forced her to wear her hair up in rags. Once he died, it was once again hers to wear as she pleased.]]> 2018-05-14 16:08:04 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260535377 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260537065 "Janie laughed at all these well-wishers because she knew that they knew plenty of women alone; that she was not the first one they had ever seen...This freedom feeling was fine" (page 90).]]> 2018-05-14 16:12:16 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260537065 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260538232 After Joe dies, many people want to take care of Janie. However, Janie finds a strong sense of freedom in being independent, even though this was not a common characteristic in society at the time. ]]> 2018-05-14 16:15:09 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260538232 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260539960 Tea Cake and Mrs. Mayor Starks... Another thing, Joe Starks hadn't been dead but nine months and here she goes sashaying off to a picnic in pink linen" (Page 110).]]> 2018-05-14 16:20:01 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260539960 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260540948 Community as a whole has expectations for what they think people should do with their lives. When Janie moves on from Joe so quickly, the town judges her every move. ]]> 2018-05-14 16:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260540948 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260902975 "A whole lot of mens will grin in yo' face, but dey ain't gwine tuh work and feed yuh... when dat big gut reach over and grab dat little one, you'll be too glad to come back here" (Page 30)]]> 2018-05-15 15:45:09 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260902975 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260903812 When Janie threatens to leave Logan, he tries to convince her to stay. However, he does this by fighting with her and saying that she'll come crawling back to him eventually. By attempting to exploit her insecurities, he is trying to exert power over her. ]]> 2018-05-15 15:47:28 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260903812 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260905202 "Every tear you drop squeezes a cup uh blood outta mah heart. Ah got tuh try and do for you before my head is cold" (Page 15).]]> 2018-05-15 15:50:27 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260905202 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260905637 In the beginning of the novel, Nanny pushes Janie to get married. She is motivated to do so by her fate; she knows that she is eventually going to die. She wants to know that Janie will be taken care of. ]]> 2018-05-15 15:51:27 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260905637 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260906982 "But Nanny, ah wants to want him sometimes. Ah don't want him to do all de wantin' " (Page 23).]]> 2018-05-15 15:54:52 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260906982 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260907887 Once Janie marries Logan, she realizes that she just can't bring herself to love him. This is a pivotal moment where she realizes love is not a biproduct of marriage, marriage is a biproduct of love. ]]> 2018-05-15 15:57:03 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260907887 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260909251 "That night he order Janie to tie up her hair around the store. That was all. She was there in the store for him to look at, not those others" (Page 55)]]> 2018-05-15 16:00:41 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260909251 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260909977 Joe is very possesive over Janie. He thinks that her hair is his to appreciate so he hides it from everyone else. He uses her hair rags to assert dominance over her.]]> 2018-05-15 16:02:25 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260909977 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260911240 "take or instance the case of Matt Bonner's yellow mule. They had him up for conversation every day the Lord sent" (Page 51).]]> 2018-05-15 16:05:28 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260911240 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260911836 The mule is just one of many instances in which we experience the citizens of the town. They have formed a close-knit community that gossips about nearly everything, and their comments and judgement are essential throughout Janie's time there.]]> 2018-05-15 16:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260911836 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260912868 "take for instance that new house of his. It had two stories with porches, with banisters and such things. The rest of the town looked like servants' quarters surrounding the big house" (Page 47).]]> 2018-05-15 16:09:36 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260912868 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260913665 Joe's new house resembled the houses found on plantations during slavery. This made people feel as if he held some sort of power over them and they no longer felt like equals. This disparity in social classes due to racial tensions or symbols that represent them was common during this time. ]]> 2018-05-15 16:11:25 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260913665 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260915531 "And, Janie, maybe it wasn't much, but Ah done de best Ah kin by you. Ah raked and scraped and bought dis lil piece uh land so you wouldn't hage to stay in de white folks yard" (Page 19).]]> 2018-05-15 16:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260915531 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260916569 Nanny wants Janie to marry Logan because she wants to make sure she is taken care of. She is worried something bad will happen to her because of their family history. Both Nanny and leafy were mistreated, and she never wants that for Janie.]]> 2018-05-15 16:18:51 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/260916569 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261255313 "You ain't got nobody but me... Niether can you stand alone by yo'self. De thought of you being kicked from pillar to post is a hurting thing" (Page 15).]]> 2018-05-16 15:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261255313 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261257382 Nanny forces Janie to marry Logan because she wants someone to take care of her. She does not believe that Janie is strong enough to be independent, and this moment sets up the rest of the novel. ]]> 2018-05-16 15:20:42 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261257382 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261259293 "Dont keer what it was, she could stop and say a few words with us... you mean you mad cuase she didn't stop and tell us all her business" (Page 3)]]> 2018-05-16 15:25:22 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261259293 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261260196 When Janie first returns to Eatonville, all the porch takers gossip about her. However, she doesn't tell them her business because she always weighs her decisions between speech and silence. ]]> 2018-05-16 15:27:39 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261260196 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261261317 "No matter what Jody did, she said nothing. She had learned how to talk some and leave some" (Page 76).]]> 2018-05-16 15:30:39 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261261317 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261261945 Janie managed to stay in a miserable marriage with Joe for quite some time. The only thing that got her through it was knowing how to pick her battles. ]]> 2018-05-16 15:32:19 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261261945 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261264379 "Janie asked inside of herself and out. She was back and forth to the pear tree continuously wondering and thinking" (Page 21)]]> 2018-05-16 15:37:40 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261264379 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261264865 The pear tree is Janie's happy place. She goes there to think about major life decisions. It symbolizes growth in life and peace that Janie strives to find within herself. ]]> 2018-05-16 15:38:45 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261264865 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261394902 "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" (Page 193).]]> 2018-05-16 21:51:05 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261394902 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261395204 Although Tea cake is gone, Janie has a positive outlook on her future. The horizon is used as a symbol for embracing future growth and change. ]]> 2018-05-16 21:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261395204 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261396279 "They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching god" (Page 160).]]> 2018-05-16 22:01:47 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261396279 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261396421 When faced with the hurricane, all the people knew that they were in danger. Their eyes were watching a higher power because they knew that whatever happened next was out of their control.]]> 2018-05-16 22:03:01 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261396421 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261396568 "if you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all. Ah wuz fumblin round and God opened the door" (page 159).]]> 2018-05-16 22:04:08 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261396568 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261635677 In this moment, Janie references what she believes to be a godly intervention in her life. She thinks that Tea Cake coming into her life was an act of god. ]]> 2018-05-17 15:42:11 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261635677 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261639073 "their souls were asking if he meant to measure their puny might against his, they seemed to be staring at the dark but their eyes were watching god" (Page 160).]]> 2018-05-17 15:49:45 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261639073 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261639686 The hurricane is something that all the people cannot go against. They are sitting ducks, completely helpless against a force of nature.]]> 2018-05-17 15:51:09 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261639686 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261640423 "Dodging flying missiles, floating dangers, avoiding stepping in holes and warmed on the wind now at their backs... they saw other people like themselves struggling along" (Page 161).]]> 2018-05-17 15:52:54 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261640423 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261641433 When they were out in the destruction of the hurricane, they saw other people in the same danger. No matter what social issues the area had faced before, everyone was met with the same struggles and fate. ]]> 2018-05-17 15:55:14 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261641433 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261643851 "He could be a bee to a blossom- a pear tree blossom in the spring" (Page 106).]]> 2018-05-17 16:00:21 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261643851 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261644450 When Janie starts talking to Tea Cake, she compares him to a blossom of a pear tree. She recognizes the grow of the pear tree in the spring time as the potential for happiness and love. ]]> 2018-05-17 16:01:51 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261644450 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261646225 "Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon" (Page 29).]]> 2018-05-17 16:06:08 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261646225 109148 https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261647412 Janie is attracted to Joe because he is driven. His desire to accomplish things and become high society is represented by Janie's idea of reaching for better horizons. ]]> 2018-05-17 16:08:51 UTC https://padlet.com/109148/2i6f1fiad0g5/wish/261647412