https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0 en-us 2018-04-30 16:46:17 UTC 2025-04-24 13:10:35 UTC hello@padlet.com 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/256608214 "Something else made men give way before him. He had a bow-down command in his face, and every step he took made things more tangible." pg 47]]> 2018-04-30 16:53:53 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/256608214 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/256609690 Joe Starks' life seemed to revolve around gaining power. He was able to get it and make people nearly afraid of him, and not from any physical fear or intellectual.]]> 2018-04-30 16:57:20 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/256609690 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/256614683 "You have tuh power tuh free things and dat makes you lak uh king uh something." pg 58]]> 2018-04-30 17:09:19 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/256614683 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/256617454 Have the control of the of the fate of someone/something else defines power. ]]> 2018-04-30 17:13:54 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/256617454 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/260551086 "Here Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made- the horizon..." pg 89]]> 2018-05-14 16:45:26 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/260551086 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/260563830 "If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer where you at," pg 159]]> 2018-05-14 17:14:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/260563830 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/260567599 Janie refers to being with Tea Cake as coming out of the dark. Very romantic.]]> 2018-05-14 17:23:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/260567599 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/260935787 "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." pg 1]]> 2018-05-15 17:03:23 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/260935787 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/260937674 The horizon was dreams never met. Always out of reach, but visible.]]> 2018-05-15 17:07:38 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/260937674 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/260940281 Janie's dreams of love and her future were the horizon that her Nanny pinched.]]> 2018-05-15 17:14:02 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/260940281 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/260941411 "In the cool of the afternoon the fiend from hell specially sent to lovers arrived at Janie's ear. Doubt."]]> 2018-05-15 17:16:46 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/260941411 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/260942055 She loved Tea Cake but worried he would break her heart. Her fear affects their relationship and her own insecurity.]]> 2018-05-15 17:18:13 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/260942055 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261278723 "Mrs. Turner, like all other believers had built an altar to the unattainable-- Caucasian characteristics for all." pg 145]]> 2018-05-16 16:08:26 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261278723 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261279730 Mrs. Turner, like many others, is stuck in the fact that somehow specific features make a person better.]]> 2018-05-16 16:10:31 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261279730 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261281058 "Ah was wid dem white chillun so much till Ah didn't know Ah wuzn't white till Ah was round six years old." pg 8]]> 2018-05-16 16:12:05 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261281058 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261282520 The color of her skin hardly shaped her until she was old enough to realize there was something different.]]> 2018-05-16 16:14:15 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261282520 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261284791 "Besides she liked being lonesome for a change. This freedom feeling was fine." pg 90 ]]> 2018-05-16 16:18:52 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261284791 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261285784 "She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair." pg 87]]> 2018-05-16 16:21:14 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261285784 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261287557 Shortly after Joe is dead, she does this as a symbol of no longer being under his control. He controlled everything she did/had, even her hair.]]> 2018-05-16 16:24:51 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261287557 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261289424 "That night he ordered Janie to tie up her hair around the store. That was all." pg 55]]> 2018-05-16 16:28:54 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261289424 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261290225 Her hair represents her freedom, and Joe is exerting his control over her without question.]]> 2018-05-16 16:30:37 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261290225 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261661177 She's feeling relieved to be independent from those who would control her.]]> 2018-05-17 16:41:27 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261661177 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261661609 "'Tain't dat Ah worries over Joe's death, Phoeby. Ah jus' loves dis freedom."]]> 2018-05-17 16:42:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261661609 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261663968 Janie's not looking to give up her independence and freedom it took so long to regain.]]> 2018-05-17 16:47:39 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261663968 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261665670 "Ah wuz fumblin' round and God opened de door." pg 159]]> 2018-05-17 16:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261665670 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261667225 Janie refers to being with Tea Cake as something determined by a higher power.]]> 2018-05-17 16:55:37 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261667225 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261668552 "It wasn't anything she could fight. She could only ache and wait." pg 178]]> 2018-05-17 16:58:56 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261668552 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261669723 Fate is something that happens regardless of your wishes.]]> 2018-05-17 17:01:52 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261669723 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261670227 "Oh down in de Everglades ... We must go there." pg 178]]> 2018-05-17 17:03:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261670227 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261670766 Work on the Everglades and prosperity there was quite different from today.]]> 2018-05-17 17:04:21 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261670766 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261671057 "The very next day... to vote on it." pg 44]]> 2018-05-17 17:05:04 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261671057 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261672349 This quote refers to the first street light in Eatonville; the development of a town.]]> 2018-05-17 17:08:07 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261672349 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261673569 "The people all saw her come because it was sundown... They sat in judgement." pg 1]]> 2018-05-17 17:10:37 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261673569 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261674428 Janie's community consists of these judgmental porch sitters]]> 2018-05-17 17:12:41 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261674428 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261675014 "When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice." pg 51]]> 2018-05-17 17:13:44 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261675014 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261676648 Their are parts of her porch-sitter community that Janie enjoys.]]> 2018-05-17 17:17:20 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261676648 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261677889 "It was inevitable that she should accept any inconsistency and cruelty from her deity as all good worshippers do from theirs." pg 145]]> 2018-05-17 17:20:04 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261677889 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261679370 While this is referring to Mrs. Turner's 'worshipping' it also relates to Janie's own relationship with God and the events of the hurricane and Tea Cake's death.]]> 2018-05-17 17:23:31 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261679370 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261940207 "Was He noticing what was going on around here? He must because He knew everything. Did he mean to do this thing to Tea Cake and her?" pg 178]]> 2018-05-18 14:37:43 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261940207 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261941854 Janie's 'eyes are to God' in her moment of distress and questioning. ]]> 2018-05-18 14:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261941854 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261943081 "No matter what Jody did , she said nothing." pg 76]]> 2018-05-18 14:44:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261943081 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261943934 Janie's lost her will and fight and has resigned her self to a life of silent discontent.]]> 2018-05-18 14:46:32 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261943934 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261945085 "Thank yuh fuh yo' compliments, bu 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." pg 43]]> 2018-05-18 14:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261945085 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261946065 Jody controls even her speech without knowing her own thoughts because he believes in 'a woman's place'. Janie feels cold at being silenced.]]> 2018-05-18 14:51:45 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261946065 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261947939 "She was sixteen. She had glossy leaves and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her." pg 11]]> 2018-05-18 14:56:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/261947939 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/262387478 She relates the pear tree to her own blossoming youth and love. ]]> 2018-05-21 14:56:59 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/262387478 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/262387880 "Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon." pg 29]]> 2018-05-21 14:58:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/262387880 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/262692793 Janie didn't feel the youthful love that the tree symbolizes when she meets Joe, but she knows he promises something more.]]> 2018-05-22 13:52:49 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/262692793 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/262693431 "They just didn't use another part... Six eyes were questioning God." pg 159 ]]> 2018-05-22 13:54:18 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/262693431 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/262703740 When faced with the sheer force and power of the storm, all they can do is sit and wait and question their higher power.]]> 2018-05-22 14:18:30 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/262703740 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/262704923 "They sat in company with other shanties, their eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His." pg 160]]> 2018-05-22 14:21:09 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/262704923 1340412 https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/262706203 Once again relating the hurricane to the might of God with which they have no power against.]]> 2018-05-22 14:24:08 UTC https://padlet.com/1340412/cb1p7ncaj6f0/wish/262706203