Howe_TEWWG Themes/Symbols by GEORGE HOWE https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu Made with a warm hug, a crisp high five, and about a gallon of sacrificial goats blood. en-us 2018-04-30 16:47:56 UTC 2018-05-22 15:59:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Shakinghands.png Fate 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261027536 2018-05-15 21:51:59 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261027536 Power 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261027574 2018-05-15 21:52:15 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261027574 Love 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261027661 2018-05-15 21:52:55 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261027661 History 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261028094 2018-05-15 21:56:21 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261028094 Communtiy 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261029458 2018-05-15 22:06:04 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261029458 Race & Racism 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261029487 2018-05-15 22:06:21 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261029487 Independence 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261029526 2018-05-15 22:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261029526 Religion/Spirituality 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261029599 2018-05-15 22:07:09 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261029599 Speech & Silence 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261029671 2018-05-15 22:07:43 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261029671 Hair 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261029773 2018-05-15 22:08:31 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261029773 Pear Tree 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261029816 2018-05-15 22:08:50 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261029816 The Horizon 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261030669 2018-05-15 22:15:40 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261030669 The Hurricane 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261030724 2018-05-15 22:15:59 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261030724 Love pg: 25 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261039234 She knew marriage did not make love. Janie's first wish was dead, so she became a woman.]]> 2018-05-15 23:26:31 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261039234 Love pg: 25 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261039718 This is when Janie actually starts to grow as a person. She's learning that life isn't bliss and that she needs to grow in order to survive.]]> 2018-05-15 23:30:37 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261039718 Independence pg: 114 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261404995 Ah done lived Grandma's way, now Ah means tuh live mine.]]> 2018-05-16 23:11:19 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261404995 Independence pg: 114 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261405316 Here is when Janie finally turns her life around into something only she had control over.]]> 2018-05-16 23:13:21 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261405316 Community pg: 40 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261407219 A day was named for roads and they all agreed to bring axes and things like that and chop out two roads running each way.]]> 2018-05-16 23:25:16 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261407219 Community pg: 40 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261407421 This shows the power of th Eatonville community, Joe has only been there for a short time and already they're fixing the town at a rapid pace.]]> 2018-05-16 23:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261407421 Power pg:41 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261408070 Jody told her to dress up and stand in the store all that evening. Everybody was coming sort of fixed up, and he didn't mean for nobody-else's wife to rank her. She must look on herself as the bell-com, the other women were the gang.]]> 2018-05-16 23:30:59 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261408070 Power pg: 41 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261408326 This is the first time Jody truly overpowers her. He is purposefully using her to gain a higher status within the community.]]> 2018-05-16 23:32:58 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261408326 Race & Racism pg: 171 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261741810  "Got orders from headquarters. They makin' coffins fuh all de white folks. 'Tain't nothin' but cheap pine, but dat's better'n nothin'. Don't dump no white folks in de hole jus' so." "Whut tuh do 'bout de colored folks? Got boxes fuh dem too?" "Nope. They cain't find enough of 'em tuh go 'round. Jus' sprinkle plenty quick-lime over 'em and cover 'em up." ]]> 2018-05-17 20:35:31 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261741810 Race & Racism pg: 171 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261941598 This shows that even in death and even in the aftermath of the same disaster the white people are treated better than the African Americans.]]> 2018-05-18 14:41:00 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/261941598 Fate pg: 83 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262379204 "Just a matter of time," the doctor told her. "When a man's kidneys stop working altogether, there is no way for him to live. He needed medical attention two years ago. Too late now." ]]> 2018-05-21 14:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262379204 Fate pg: 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262379271 2018-05-21 14:35:58 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262379271 Fate pg: 83 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262379347 This quotes shows just how inevitable Joe's death was.]]> 2018-05-21 14:36:11 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262379347 Fate pg: Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262379403 2018-05-21 14:36:19 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262379403 Hair pg: 26 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262385636 He had ceased to wonder at her long black hair and finger it.]]> 2018-05-21 14:52:14 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262385636 Hair pg: 26 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262385936 This is when Janie first notices that Jody's attitude about her has changed. The hair is used as a sort of mile marker that shows a main change in her life.]]> 2018-05-21 14:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262385936 Hair pg: 55 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262387065 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.]]> 2018-05-21 14:56:00 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262387065 Hair pg: 55 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262387493 Jody is using her hair to put her lower in a social status. Her hair, because of her mixed heritage, looks similar to the hair of a white women. This alone puts her slightly above the common black folk at this time, or at least in the eyes of others.]]> 2018-05-21 14:57:01 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262387493 Speech & Silence pg: 43 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262449986  "And now we'll listen tuh uh few words uh encouragement from Mrs. Mayor Starks." The burst of applause was cut short by Joe taking the floor himself. "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." Janie made her face laugh after a short pause, but it wasn't too easy. She had never thought of making a speech, and didn't know if she cared to make one at all. It must have been the way Joe spoke out without giving her a chance to say anything one way or another that took the bloom off of things. But anyway, she went down the road behind him that night feeling cold. He strode along invested with his new dignity, thought and planned out loud, unconscious of her thoughts. ]]> 2018-05-21 17:40:52 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262449986 Speech & Silence pg: 43 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262450394 In this scene Joe is keeping Janie silent, once again lording his power over her.]]> 2018-05-21 17:42:12 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262450394 The Horizon pg: 1 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262455211  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.]]> 2018-05-21 17:55:00 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262455211 The Horizon pg: 1 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262455790 It explains that men get lost in their own dreams and therefore either run it into the ground or prosper]]> 2018-05-21 17:56:36 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262455790 The Horizon pg: 29 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262457014  Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon. He spoke for change and chance. ]]> 2018-05-21 17:59:51 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262457014 The Horizon pg: 29 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262457106 This relates to the first quote. Joe speaks of his dream to rise in society and bring prosperity to people.]]> 2018-05-21 18:00:01 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262457106 The Hurricane pg: 159 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262458600  The time was past for asking the white folks what to look for through that door. Six eyes were questioning God. ]]> 2018-05-21 18:03:50 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262458600 The Hurricane pg: 159 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262458791 Things got so bad that all social classes and hierarchy was dismissed.]]> 2018-05-21 18:04:20 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262458791 Pear Tree pg: 11 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262508487 She was lying across the bed asleep so Janie tipped on out of the front door.'Oh to be a pear tree—any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the begin- ning of the world! She was sixteen. She had glossy leaves and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her. ]]> 2018-05-21 21:06:23 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262508487 Pear Tree pg: 11 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262509095 The pear tree is a metaphor for herself and where she is at this time. ]]> 2018-05-21 21:10:00 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262509095 Pear Tree pg: 1006 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262509670 He could be a bee to a blossom—a pear tree blossom in the spring. ]]> 2018-05-21 21:13:30 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262509670 Pear Tree pg: 106 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262509782 This relates to the previous quote. In this she finally thinks she finds what she was thinking of when she was sixteen.]]> 2018-05-21 21:13:59 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262509782 The Hurricane pg: 176 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262509874 Janie came around the bed full of concern. 
"Doctah, Tea Cake ain't tellin' yuh everything lak he oughta. We wuz caught in dat hurricane out heah, and Tea Cake over- strained 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." 
]]> 2018-05-21 21:14:34 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262509874 The Hurricane pg: 176 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262509948 This is the recount of some of the plights that Janie and Tea Cake faced during the hurricane.]]> 2018-05-21 21:14:49 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262509948 Religion/Spirituality pg: 145 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262515223 Once having set up her idols and built altars to them it was inevitable that she would worship there. It was inevitable that she should accept any inconsistency and cruelty from her deity as all good worshippers do from theirs. All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood. ]]> 2018-05-21 21:51:39 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262515223 Religion/Spirituality pg: 145 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262515356 This is an example of how religion is a major part of their lives, as it makes them likely to both forgive and/or excuse the faults in life as acts of Gods or defied members of society. At least in the eyes of Ms. Turner.]]> 2018-05-21 21:52:30 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262515356 Religion/Spirituality pg: 24 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262516462 Towards morning she muttered, "Lawd, you know mah heart. Ah done de best Ah could do. De rest is left to you." ]]> 2018-05-21 21:57:50 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262516462 Religion/Spirituality pg: 24 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262516827 Almost right before her death in the story we see Nanny give up control of her life and Janie's to God.]]> 2018-05-21 21:58:48 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262516827 Community pg: 1 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262517386 The people all saw her come because it was sundown. The sun was gone, but he had left his footprints in the sky. It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment. ]]> 2018-05-21 22:03:08 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262517386 Community pg: 1 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262517449 We see the bad side of the Eatonvile community in this quote. It shows that everyone in the town judged the others simply by the way they looked as they passed by.]]> 2018-05-21 22:03:33 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262517449 History pg: 99 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262517896 Janie was halfway down the palm-lined walk before she had a thought for her safety. Maybe this strange man was up to some- thing! But it was no place to show her fear there in the darkness between the house and the store. ]]> 2018-05-21 22:07:53 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262517896 History pg: 99 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262517950 This brief moment is when Janie is thinking back to her previous history with men and relationships. She's thinking that it'll repeat what happened with Joe and Logan.]]> 2018-05-21 22:08:15 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262517950 Love pg: 193 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262547230 Then Tea Cake came prancing around her where she was and the song of the sigh flew out of the window and lit in the top of the pine trees. Tea Cake, with the sun for a shawl. Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had fin- ished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace. 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! She called in her soul to come and see. ]]> 2018-05-22 02:11:52 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262547230 Love pg: 193 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262547309 This quote at the very end of the book shows us the first time she's mourned for the loss of a husband. It also shows us that the love between her and Tea Cake was strong enough to stay with her after his death.]]> 2018-05-22 02:12:24 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262547309 Power go: 80 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262548505 Joe Starks didn't know the words for all this, but he knew the feeling. So he struck Janie with all his might and drove her from the store. ]]> 2018-05-22 02:21:03 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262548505 Power go: 80 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262548579 This is Joe's way of trying to assert dominance and flex his control over Janie. ]]> 2018-05-22 02:21:35 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262548579 Independence pg: 90 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262550039 "Uh woman by herself is uh pitiful thing," she was told over and again. "Dey needs aid and assistance. God never meant 'em tuh try tuh stand by theirselves. You ain't been used tuh knockin' round and doin' fuh yo'self, Mis' Starks. You been well taken keer of, you needs uh man." 
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. But most of the others were poor. Besides she 
]]> 2018-05-22 02:31:53 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262550039 Independence pg: 90 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262550092 Janie is finally enjoying a single life devoid of the control of Joe.]]> 2018-05-22 02:32:21 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262550092 History pg: 100 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262550541  Then again he didn't look like he had too much. Maybe he was hanging around to get in with her and strip her of all that she had. Just as well if she never saw him again. He was probably the kind of man who lived with var- ious women but never married. Fact is, she decided to treat him so cold if he ever did foot the place that he'd be sure not to come hanging around there again. ]]> 2018-05-22 02:35:22 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262550541 History pg: 100 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262550604 Once again she returns to the thought of Tea Cake being similar to Logan and Joe, and relates it to the story about Ms. Annie Tyler and her partner Who Flung.]]> 2018-05-22 02:35:50 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262550604 Race & Racism pg: 142 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262551093  It was so evident that Mrs. Turner took black folk as a personal affront to herself. ]]> 2018-05-22 02:39:41 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262551093 Race & Racism pg: 142 Explanation 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262551180 Ms. Turner obviously has a disliking of black people. She constantly talks about how much they are inferior to the white people. This leads to a fight in her restaurant which destroys the place.]]> 2018-05-22 02:40:18 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262551180 133571 https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262746385 2018-05-22 15:58:38 UTC https://padlet.com/133571/dshl7n9hhnuu/wish/262746385