https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp Made with a lightning strike of genius en-us 2018-05-14 15:51:46 UTC 2018-05-16 00:15:59 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260534277 "Mah daily prayer now is tuh let dese golden moments rolls on a few days longer till Ah see you safe in life" (15).]]> 2018-05-14 16:05:27 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260534277 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260534613 Foreshadows Nanny's fate. She knows she'll be gone soon. She prays to God that she lasts long enough to see Janie safe.]]> 2018-05-14 16:06:13 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260534613 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260539870 "The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman" (25).]]> 2018-05-14 16:19:47 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260539870 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260540798 Basically states that Janie's first goal was dead, so she sets her sights to her future, she wants to make her own fate. Choose her own path.]]> 2018-05-14 16:22:05 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260540798 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260541918 "Honey, de white man is de ruler of eerything as fur as Ah been abe tuh find out"(14).]]> 2018-05-14 16:25:02 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260541918 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260541983 Nanny is telling Janie that the white people hold the power in their world. And that Nanny has never seen life any different.]]> 2018-05-14 16:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260541983 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260542034 "De n*gger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see. Ah been prayin' fuh it tuh be different wid you.Lawd, Lawd, Lawd!"(14).]]> 2018-05-14 16:25:21 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260542034 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260542094 Nanny says this after she brings up the white man's power. She's explaining how black women don't have any power in the world and that it's been like that since before she was even born.]]> 2018-05-14 16:25:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260542094 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260916962 "Janie had no chance to know things, so she had to ask. Did marriage end the cosmmic loneliness of the unmated? Did marriage compel love like the sun the day?" (21).]]> 2018-05-15 16:19:50 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260916962 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260917961 This intro to the chapter lays down the frame for Janie's thoughts about how love really works.]]> 2018-05-15 16:22:17 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260917961 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260957858  "'Cause you told me Ah mus gointer love him, and, and Ah don't. Maybe if somebody was to tell me how, Ah could do it"(23)]]> 2018-05-15 17:52:04 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260957858 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260958283 Janie assumed that marriage would instantly make you love the person. She explained to Nanny that she thought that she'd love Logan. She doesn't love him, and she doesn't know how to either.]]> 2018-05-15 17:52:55 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260958283 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260959612 "Dis occasion is something for us all tuh remember tuh our dyin' day. De first street lamp in uh colored town" (45).]]> 2018-05-15 17:55:37 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260959612 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260959688 Shows history of the town by retelling when the first street lamp was placed in the colored town.]]> 2018-05-15 17:55:46 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260959688 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260959743  "`Aw, aw! Ah'm colored!' "Den dey all laughed real hard. But before Ah seen de picture Ah thought Ah wuz just like de rest.'" (9).]]> 2018-05-15 17:55:53 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260959743 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260959815 Gives the readers a little bit of Janie's history. When she was young, she didn't know that she was black until someone pointed it out in a photo.]]> 2018-05-15 17:56:02 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/260959815 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261034153 "And furthermo' everything is got tuh have uh center and uh heart tuh it, and uh town ain't no different from nowhere else. It would be natural fuh de store tuh be meetin' place fuh de town." (40).]]> 2018-05-15 22:45:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261034153 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261034747 Explains that a town, or community needs a center so they can gather and be together. The character is saying how a store would be the perfect place for that.]]> 2018-05-15 22:50:14 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261034747 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261035087 "When Janie emerged into her mourning white, she had hosts of admirers in and out of town. Everything open and frank...They were all so respectful and stiff with her, she might've been the Empress of Japan" (92,93).]]> 2018-05-15 22:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261035087 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261035602 This scene shows that the community as a whole was respectful towards Janie, especially since Joe died.]]> 2018-05-15 22:57:10 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261035602 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261035760 "To her way of thinking all these things set her aside from Negroes. That was why she sought out Janie to friend with. Janie's coffee-and-cream complexion and her luxurious hair made Mrs. Turner forgive her for wearing overalls like the other women who worked in the fields. She didn't forgive her for marrying a man as dark as Tea Cake, but she felt that she could remedy that"(140)]]> 2018-05-15 22:58:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261035760 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261035825 Mrs.Turner is racist towards blacks. Despite liking Janie, she dislikes her choice of mates. (Tea cake)]]> 2018-05-15 22:58:54 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261035825 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261036866 "Ah was wid dem white chillun so much till Ah didn't know Ah wuzn't white till Ah was round six years old" (8).]]> 2018-05-15 23:07:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261036866 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261037171 Janie was conditioned to think she was white because she had hung around the white children so much, and she didn't find out about her real race until she saw herself in a photo.]]> 2018-05-15 23:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261037171 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261037458  "'Tain't dat Ah worries over Joe's death, Pheoby. Ah jus' loves dis freedom." 
"Sh-sh-sh! Don't let nobody hear you say dat, Janie. Folks will say you ain't sorry he's gone." (93).]]> 2018-05-15 23:11:51 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261037458 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261037480 Shows how Janie is pleased that Joe isn't around to tell her what to do.]]> 2018-05-15 23:11:59 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261037480 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261037506 " The young girl was gone, but a handsome woman had taken her place. She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair. The weight, the length, the glory was there"(87).]]> 2018-05-15 23:12:11 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261037506 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261037628 Janie was free from Joe, and this independence is represented by her letting down her hair, which Joe had always made her hide.]]> 2018-05-15 23:13:18 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261037628 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261039103 "One mornin' soon, now, de angel wid de sword is gointuh stop by here. De day and de hour is hid from me, but it won't be long. Ah ast de Lawd when you was uh infant in mah arms to let me stay here till you got grown" (15).]]> 2018-05-15 23:25:29 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261039103 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261039272 Nanny believes that the day that the angel carrying a sword stops protecting her from death, she'll finally pass away.]]> 2018-05-15 23:26:47 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261039272 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261039364 "Lawd have mercy! It was a long time on de way but Ah reckon it had to come. Oh Jesus! Do, Jesus! All done de best Ah could"(15).

]]> 2018-05-15 23:27:36 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261039364 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040183 Nanny asked God to have mercy once she saw Janie kissing a boy.]]> 2018-05-15 23:34:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040183 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040275 "Time came when she fought back with her tongue as best she could, but it didn't do her any good. It just made Joe do more. He wanted her submission and he'd keep on fighting until he felt he had it. So gradually, she pressed her teeth together and learned to hush" (71).]]> 2018-05-15 23:34:45 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040275 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040313 Janie decided to verbally defend herself, but Joe wanted her to submit completely, so he tried harder to silence her.]]> 2018-05-15 23:35:03 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040313 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040339 "Shut up! Ah wish thunder and lightnin' would kill yuh!" 
"Ah know it. And now you got tuh die tuh find out dat you got tuh pacify somebody besides yo'self if you wants any love and  any sympathy in dis world. You ain't tried tuh pacify nobody but yo'self. Too busy listening tuh yo' own big voice"(86,87). ]]> 2018-05-15 23:35:15 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040339 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040352 Both Joe and Janie want each other to stop speaking and be quiet.]]> 2018-05-15 23:35:19 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040352 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040360 "The men noticed her firm buttocks like she had grape fruits in her hip pockets; the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume..."(2). ]]> 2018-05-15 23:35:24 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040360 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040367 The men are noticing her hair. This will later be a symbol for freedom and confidence since Joe forces her to wear a hair rag.]]> 2018-05-15 23:35:27 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040367 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040384 "Before she slept that night she burnt up every one of her head rags and went about the house next morning with her hair in one thick braid swinging well below her waist"(89).]]> 2018-05-15 23:35:34 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040384 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040393 Janie freeing her hair is symbolizing her freeing herself from Joe's oppression.]]> 2018-05-15 23:35:38 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040393 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040410 "He could be a bee to a blossom—a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung about him. He was a glance from God"(106). ]]> 2018-05-15 23:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040410 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040418 Tea Cake is the bee to Janie, who's the blossom. And the pear tree is representing their love for each other.]]> 2018-05-15 23:35:52 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040418 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040428 "The vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the pear tree, but Janie didn't know how to tell Nanny that. She merely hunched over and pouted at the floor"(14). ]]> 2018-05-15 23:35:58 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040428 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040433 Logan was messing up Janie's thoughts of the pear tree, which symbolizes love, because Logan was just so damn gross.]]> 2018-05-15 23:36:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040433 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040451 "Here Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon—for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you—and pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter's neck tight enough to choke her"(89). ]]> 2018-05-15 23:36:07 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040451 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040459 Horizons symbolize goals, and Nanny had messed up Janie's horizon which was love and freedom.]]> 2018-05-15 23:36:11 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040459 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040471 "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"(1).]]> 2018-05-15 23:36:15 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040471 1118861 https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040483 While everyone has a goal, not everyone can reach them]]> 2018-05-15 23:36:17 UTC https://padlet.com/1118861/dwcxosew9gkp/wish/261040483