TEWWG Themes & Symbolism by ALEK HARDEN https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u en-us 2018-04-30 12:25:59 UTC 2018-05-22 18:12:37 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Tent.png "She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her." (11) 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/256482816 2018-04-30 12:56:00 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/256482816 "You'se always off talkin' and fixin' things, and Ah feels lak Ah'm jus' markin' time. Hope it soon gits over". (46) 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/260430297 2018-05-14 12:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/260430297 Janie wants to help Joe but he wants a wife that is only for show. Janie is starting to realize that she wants to be involved and be more independent. 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/260430913 2018-05-14 12:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/260430913 "Whut make her keep her head tied up lak some ole 'oman round de store? Nobody couldn't git me tuh tie no rag on mah head if Ah had hair lak dat." (49) 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/260432253 2018-05-14 12:33:37 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/260432253 Janie's hair symbolizes her beauty and individuality. Joe is being oppressive when she makes her hide her hair and her personality from the public. 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/260434768 2018-05-14 12:38:42 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/260434768 "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. (14) 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/260439798 2018-05-14 12:50:36 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/260439798 Nanny is explaining why she wants Janie to marry Logan Killicks. She tells Janie that she wants her to be protected so the same occurance of slavery doesnt' happen to Janie 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/260441412 2018-05-14 12:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/260441412 "'No wonder things ain't no better,' Joe commented. "Ah'm buyin' in here, and buyin' in big. Soon's we find some place to sleep tonight us menfolks got to call people together and form a committee. Then we can get things movin' round here". (35) 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/261180593 2018-05-16 12:17:27 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/261180593 Joe is surprised there is no mayor or order to the town. so he assumed authority and wants to get the community recognized and official. 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/261181732 2018-05-16 12:21:34 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/261181732 "Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. Ah..." (24) 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/261185762 2018-05-16 12:35:02 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/261185762 Janie is remembering the feeling of how it was when she was young and curious about love 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/261187638 2018-05-16 12:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/261187638 Janie is very content sitting under the tree and taking in the nature. it makes her realize what she wants in love and marriage. 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/261187825 2018-05-16 12:41:25 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/261187825 "It would be pitiful if Ah didn't. Somebody got to think for woman and chillun and chickens and cows. I god, they sho don't think none theirselves"(71) 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262333615 2018-05-21 12:29:50 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262333615 Joe is justifying his reason for not letting janie go to the draggin'-out. He is forcing his ideals about what a wife should be onto her. 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262335660 2018-05-21 12:38:04 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262335660 "So gradually, she pressed her teeth together and learned to hush. The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor. It was there to shake hands whenever company came to visit, but it never went back inside the bedroom again." (71) 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262337130 2018-05-21 12:43:41 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262337130 Janie is realizing that Joe doesn't want to have a meaningful relationship, but rather to use her as a vanity. She learns to stay silent since she can never win an argument. 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262338930 2018-05-21 12:50:16 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262338930 "She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. 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!" (11) 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262657879 2018-05-22 12:28:25 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262657879 This is Janie's original thoughts on love and this is what drives her feelings about love and what she believes to be right. 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262658700 2018-05-22 12:30:53 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262658700 "Didn't buy 'im fuh no work. I god, Ah bought dat varminttuh let 'im rest. You didn't have gumption enough tuh do it."(58) 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262734869 2018-05-22 15:30:02 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262734869 The mule is a symbol for a slave and Joe is seen as noble for freeing him. 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262735965 2018-05-22 15:32:40 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262735965 "The flock had to wait the white-headed leader, but it was hard. They jostled each other and pecked at heads in hungry irritation.Some walked up and down the beast from head to tail, tail to head."(61) 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262737222 2018-05-22 15:35:30 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262737222 The flock is a symbol for black people and the white- headed leader is a symbol for a white leader. This puts into perspective that the underlings are actual people too 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262737878 2018-05-22 15:37:02 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262737878 "And look at the way he painted it—a gloaty, sparkly white. The kind of promenading white that the houses of Bishop Whipple, W. B. Jackson and the Vanderpool's wore. It made the village feel funny talking to him—just like he was anybody else" (47) 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262739642 2018-05-22 15:41:29 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262739642 Jody, dat wuz uhmighty fine thing fuh you tuh do. 'Tain't everybody would havethought of it, 'cause it ain't no everyday thought. Freein' datmule makes uh mighty big man outa you. Something like GeorgeWashington and Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln, he had de wholeUnited States tuh rule so he freed de Negroes."(58) 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262740082 2018-05-22 15:42:36 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262740082 Sometimes God gits familiar wid us womenfolks too andtalks His inside business. He told me how surprised He was 'bout y'all turning out so smart after Him makin' yuh different; and how surprised y'all is goin' tuh be if you ever find out you don't know half as much 'bout us as you think you do. It's so easy to make yo'-self out God Almighty when you ain't got nothin' tuh strain against but women and chickens." 145299 https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262798930 2018-05-22 18:12:14 UTC https://padlet.com/145299/2qa8qyy3hc7u/wish/262798930