https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60 en-us 2018-04-30 16:07:00 UTC 2018-05-23 03:58:19 UTC hello@padlet.com 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256589901 2018-04-30 16:14:12 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256589901 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256590279 2018-04-30 16:14:53 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256590279 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256590488 2018-04-30 16:15:18 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256590488 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256590555 2018-04-30 16:15:26 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256590555 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256590731 2018-04-30 16:15:48 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256590731 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256590901 2018-04-30 16:16:08 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256590901 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256591066 2018-04-30 16:16:26 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256591066 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256591282 2018-04-30 16:16:56 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256591282 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256591561 2018-04-30 16:17:27 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256591561 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256591738 2018-04-30 16:17:49 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256591738 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256591919 2018-04-30 16:18:07 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256591919 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256592053 2018-04-30 16:18:23 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256592053 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256592374 2018-04-30 16:19:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/256592374 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262232841 "Doctor, Ah loves him fit tuh kill. Tell me anythng tuh do and Ah'll do it p. 177]]> 2018-05-21 00:55:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262232841 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262233089 Tea Cake is Janie's first and only love and she is willing to do anything to save him.]]> 2018-05-21 00:57:03 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262233089 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262563106  "But Nanny, Ah wants to want him sometimes. Ah don't want him to do all de wantin'." p. 23]]> 2018-05-22 04:35:44 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262563106 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262563230 The only thing Janie desires is to love someone and she can't find what she's looking for with Logan]]> 2018-05-22 04:37:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262563230 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262563458  "This business of the head-rag irked her endlessly. But Jody was set on it. Her hair was NOT going to show in the store. It didn't seem sensible at all. That was because Joe never told Janie how jealous he was." p.55 ]]> 2018-05-22 04:39:08 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262563458 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262563522 Janie's hair is covered because Joe is jealous of the other men who pay attention to her. He is oppressing her by making her cover her hair.]]> 2018-05-22 04:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262563522 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262564369 "She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair. The weight, the length, the glory was there." p.86]]> 2018-05-22 04:45:55 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262564369 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262564471 Janie tearing her hair rag off is symbolic of her freeing herself from being oppressed by Joe.]]> 2018-05-22 04:46:39 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262564471 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262564666  "Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. Ah..." p. 24]]> 2018-05-22 04:48:07 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262564666 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262564818 "He could be a bee to a blossom—a pear tree blossom in the spring" p.106]]> 2018-05-22 04:49:16 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262564818 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262564872 Sitting under the pear tree is symbolic of true love in a more physical sense and Janie wants to experience that but is unable to with Logan because she does not love him]]> 2018-05-22 04:49:40 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262564872 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262565215 Janie finds the physical aspect of a relationship she has been searching for with Tea Cake]]> 2018-05-22 04:51:55 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262565215 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262565595  "Look at me! Ah ain't got no flat nose and liver lips. Ah'm uh featured woman. Ah got white folks' features in mah face. Still and all Ah got tuh be lumped in wid all de rest. It ain't fair. Even if dey don't take us in wid de whites, dey oughta make us uh class tuh ourselves." p. 142]]> 2018-05-22 04:55:00 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262565595 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262565978 "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. Ah been prayin' fah it tuh be different wid you. Lawd, Lawd, Lawd!" p. 14 

]]> 2018-05-22 04:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262565978 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262566222 Mrs. Turner, despite being colored, is discriminatory towards black people and prides herself in having more white features showing how society condemns a race to the point where even those of said race reject it.]]> 2018-05-22 05:01:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262566222 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262566381 Nanny tells Janie she wants her to marry well because as a black woman, she is going to be looked down upon in society which shows how colored people were treated in this era]]> 2018-05-22 05:02:55 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262566381 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262567060 "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." p.1 ]]> 2018-05-22 05:11:23 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262567060 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262567115  "Now, dat's how everything wuz, Pheoby, jus' lak Ah told yuh. So Ah'm back home agin and Ah'm satisfied tuh be heah. Ah done been tuh de horizon and back and now Ah kin set heah in mah house and live by comparisons." p. 191]]> 2018-05-22 05:12:08 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262567115 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262567213 The horizon is symbolic of dreams and goals. This first statement is about how differently men and women seek out these goals.]]> 2018-05-22 05:13:10 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262567213 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262567410 At the end of the story Janie is telling Pheoby that she has reached her goals and that she is now satisfied and no longer needs to keep searching.]]> 2018-05-22 05:15:38 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262567410 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262567926  "Thank yuh fuh yo' compliments, 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." p. 43]]> 2018-05-22 05:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262567926 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262568019 Joe silences Janie when she is requested to make a speech. He believes that woman's place is in the home.]]> 2018-05-22 05:21:30 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262568019 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262568522  "You gettin' too moufy, Janie," Starks told her. "Go fetch me de checker-board and de checkers. Sam Watson, you'se mah fish." p. 75]]> 2018-05-22 05:26:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262568522 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262568689 Joe once again silences Janie by ordering her around. he doesn't like it when she gets friendly with the men who hang around the shop.]]> 2018-05-22 05:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262568689 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262569208 "That brought her wide awake. She bolted upright and peered out of the window and saw Johnny Taylor lacerating her Janie with a kiss." p. 12]]> 2018-05-22 05:32:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262569208 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262569356 Janie has no emotional attachments to Johnny Taylor, but being able to kiss him makes her feel like she has a choice in who she can be involved with

]]> 2018-05-22 05:33:41 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262569356 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262569748 "The morning road air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet." p. 32]]> 2018-05-22 05:38:29 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262569748 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262569854 When Janie leaves Logan she leaves behind her apron which shows she is freed from him and no longer has to be unhappy with him.]]> 2018-05-22 05:39:32 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262569854 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262571927 "They huddled closer and stared at the door. They just didn't use another 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 questioning God." p. 159]]> 2018-05-22 05:54:29 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262571927 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262572056 Everyone looked to God because no one knew what would be coming next. They dependon God to determine their fate.]]> 2018-05-22 05:55:29 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262572056 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262573125 2018-05-22 06:05:24 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262573125 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262573656 "Mrs. Turner, like all other believers had built an altar to the unattainable—Caucasian characteristics for all. Her god would smite her, would hurl her from pinnacles and lose her in deserts, but she would not forsake his altars." p. 145]]> 2018-05-22 06:10:58 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262573656 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262573858 In this era, many believed that God would judge based on color.]]> 2018-05-22 06:12:52 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262573858 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262574260  "They's mighty particular how dese dead folks goes tuh judgment," Tea Cake observed to the man working next to him. "Look lak dey think God don't know nothin' 'bout de Jim Crow law." p. 171]]> 2018-05-22 06:16:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262574260 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262574376 Tea Cake does not believe that God judges based on color and openly states this when he is told to bury the white and black people differently]]> 2018-05-22 06:16:57 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262574376 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262575324  "Don't you change too many words wid me dis mawnin', Janie, do Ah'll take and change ends wid yuh! Heah, Ah just as good as take you out de white folks' kitchen and set you down on yo' royal diasticutis and you take and low-rate me! Ah'll take holt uh dat ax and come in dere and kill yuh! p. 31]]> 2018-05-22 06:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262575324 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262575542 Logan holds power of Janie by threatening her for her life when she asks what he would do if she left him.]]> 2018-05-22 06:23:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262575542 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262576911  "Over, Janie? I god, Ah ain't even started good. 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." p. 46]]> 2018-05-22 06:31:11 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262576911 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262577041 Joe intends to hold power of the town by declaring himself mayor of the town. He will later assert power over Janie as he tries to dicate what she can and can't do.]]> 2018-05-22 06:31:58 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262577041 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262578933  "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 left 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?—" p. 2]]> 2018-05-22 06:41:30 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262578933 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262579113 The porchsitters all gather around and have nothing better to do than to gossip about where Janie has been and what she has been up to.]]> 2018-05-22 06:42:26 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262579113 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262581076  "But, Tea Cake, de hurricane wuz down in de 'Glades too. It'll be dead folks tuh be buried down dere too." p. 172]]> 2018-05-22 06:53:39 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262581076 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262581171 The hurricane is symbolic of a natural force stronger than man which is shown when janie states that the hurricane killed people all over the area.]]> 2018-05-22 06:54:11 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262581171 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262581659  "Doctah, Tea Cake ain't tellin' yuh everything lak he oughta. We wuz caught in dat hurricane out heah, and Tea Cake overstrained hisself swimmin' such uh long time and holdin' me up too, and walkin' all dem miles in de storm and then befo' he could git his rest he had tali come git me out de water agin and fightin' wid dat big ole dawg and de dawg bitin" im in de face and everything. Ah been spectin' him tuh be sick befo' now." p. 176]]> 2018-05-22 06:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262581659 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262581835 When Tea Cake and Janie get caught out in the storm he has to defend her from the dog and when they finally find out he has rabies it is too late and it is out of their control even though the doctor is trying to bring them medicine.]]> 2018-05-22 06:58:12 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262581835 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262901579  "'Tain't no use in you cryin', Janie. Grandma done been long uh few roads herself. But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die. Wait awhile, baby. Yo' mind will change." p. 24 ]]> 2018-05-23 03:31:00 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262901579 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262901859 2018-05-23 03:33:05 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262901859 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262903810  He didn't want her talking after such trashy people. "You'se Mrs. Mayor Starks, Janie. I god, Ah can't see what uh woman uh yo' stability would want tuh be treasurin' all dat gum-grease from folks dat don't even own de house dey sleep in. 'Tain't no earthly use. They's jus' some puny humans playin' round de toes uh Time." p. 54]]> 2018-05-23 03:48:46 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262903810 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262903868 Joe believes that because she is his wife she can't talk to certain people because of her status in the society he has built.]]> 2018-05-23 03:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262903868 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262904376 "Dat school teacher had done hid her in de woods all night long, and he had done raped mah baby and run on off just before day." p. 19]]> 2018-05-23 03:54:12 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262904376 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262904435 In this time period it was not uncommon for someone of an authoritative status to take advantage of a younger girl.]]> 2018-05-23 03:54:57 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262904435 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262904517 "Tea Cake, you sho is a lucky man," Sop-de-Bottom told him. "Uh person can see every place you hit her. Ah bet she never raised her hand tuh hit yuh back, neither. Take some uh dese ol' rusty black women and dey would fight yuh all night long and next day nobody couldn't tell you ever hit 'em." p. 147]]> 2018-05-23 03:56:00 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262904517 1087731 https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262904575 It was not uncommon for a man to beat his wife and it is normalized in society at the time.]]> 2018-05-23 03:56:47 UTC https://padlet.com/1087731/79z66qu1qw60/wish/262904575