https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x Made with a wink and a smile en-us 2018-05-14 12:20:32 UTC 2018-05-15 12:52:43 UTC hello@padlet.com 110834 https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260437020 "The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off." - Chapter 3

]]> 2018-05-14 12:44:15 UTC https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260437020 110834 https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260438936  "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 here in? – Where all dat money her husband took and died and left her? – What dat ole forty year ole ‘oman doin’ wid her hair swingin’ down her back lak some young gal? – Where she left dat young lad of a boy she went off here wid? – Thought she was going to marry? – Where he left her? – What he done wid all her money? – Betcha he off wid some gal so young she ain’t even got no hairs – Why she don’t stay in her class? – " - Chapter 1]]> 2018-05-14 12:48:47 UTC https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260438936 110834 https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260813882 the porch wants to confine Janie to a rigid and easily-definable category , through gender, social class, and age. the fact that she freely moves between high and low classes as well as male, female, and youthful types of dress makes her too ambiguous for the people to classify.]]> 2018-05-15 12:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260813882 110834 https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260814198 because her relationship with Logan is so not a fairytale, Janie longs for freedom, away from her husband’s property and towards an unending horizon.]]> 2018-05-15 12:25:24 UTC https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260814198 110834 https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260815637 "Yes, she would love Logan after they were married. She could see no way for it to come about, but Nanny and the old folks had said it, so it must be so. Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant. It was just so. Janie felt glad of the thought, for then it wouldn’t seem so destructive and mouldy. She wouldn’t be lonely anymore." - Chapter ]]> 2018-05-15 12:29:02 UTC https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260815637 110834 https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260816216 "He don’t even never mention nothin’ pretty."

She began to cry.

"Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. Ah…" 
- Chapter 3]]> 2018-05-15 12:30:22 UTC https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260816216 110834 https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260816390 because Nanny tells her so, Janie assumes that marriage entails love. she assumes that after she marries Logan, she will magically wake up one day and love him.]]> 2018-05-15 12:30:52 UTC https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260816390 110834 https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260816906 janie has this idea about love that it comes with nothing but happiness and sweetness, but when logan fails to meet these standards, she feels cheated.]]> 2018-05-15 12:32:11 UTC https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260816906 110834 https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260817925 "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." - Chapter 2]]> 2018-05-15 12:34:57 UTC https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260817925 110834 https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260818160 because janie's father is known as a white rapist and her mother being the result of that, janie has to learn how to have strength for herself to overlook the bad.]]> 2018-05-15 12:35:29 UTC https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260818160 110834 https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260819425 "Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have to, but he don’t tote it. He hand it to his womenfolks. De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see." - Chapter 2]]> 2018-05-15 12:38:42 UTC https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260819425 110834 https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260819663 nanny points out an even more victimized group – black women. y virtue of being both a racial minority and the "weaker" sex, black women had it worst of all and were essentially the bottom of the totem pole.]]> 2018-05-15 12:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/110834/2ohw7stdo61x/wish/260819663