https://padlet.com/johnsonabigail/j4vn7c2v3uztczg5 Directions: Re-read the following quotes from TEWWG that reference the mule. Then, add a note to answer the following questions: Why do you think Hurston references the mule and the idea of the mule so often? What do you think it symbolizes? en-us 2021-04-27 11:39:43 UTC 2021-05-21 18:41:03 UTC hello@padlet.com johnsonabigail https://padlet.com/johnsonabigail/j4vn7c2v3uztczg5/wish/1463803851 2021-04-27 11:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonabigail/j4vn7c2v3uztczg5/wish/1463803851 johnsonabigail https://padlet.com/johnsonabigail/j4vn7c2v3uztczg5/wish/1463803855 "He complained that she ought to be able to take in the firewood, since he chopped it. 

One morning, Logan had some mules saddled up and asked Janie to come with him to run some errands. Janie demured and said she’d wait for him at the house."

]]> 2021-04-27 11:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonabigail/j4vn7c2v3uztczg5/wish/1463803855 johnsonabigail https://padlet.com/johnsonabigail/j4vn7c2v3uztczg5/wish/1463803860 "The days and the years went on. Janie liked to listen to the people in the town--their inside jokes and secret lives. The town was especially fond of teasing Matt Bonner about his mangy old mule. The mule was dirty and old and showed up randomly in other peoples’ kitchens and gardens. It was an animal with real determination and the townspeople thought it was ridiculous. Janie thought the townspeople were being unnecessarily harsh to the mule. Jody gave Matt $5 to buy the mangy animal and to let it rest for once. Once it finally died, they held a mock funeral for the mule. The townspeople chanted and sang and left its rotting carcass."]]> 2021-04-27 11:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonabigail/j4vn7c2v3uztczg5/wish/1463803860 johnsonabigail https://padlet.com/johnsonabigail/j4vn7c2v3uztczg5/wish/1463803863 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. So de white man throw down de load and tell de black 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 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!”]]> 2021-04-27 11:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonabigail/j4vn7c2v3uztczg5/wish/1463803863 1479418 https://padlet.com/johnsonabigail/j4vn7c2v3uztczg5/wish/1463930590 I think that Hurston was referring the mule as a target for bullying & that is why the townspeople held a mock funeral & Janie felt bad for the mule because it doesn't show harm.

]]> 2021-04-27 12:22:21 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonabigail/j4vn7c2v3uztczg5/wish/1463930590 1641021 https://padlet.com/johnsonabigail/j4vn7c2v3uztczg5/wish/1463931277 the mule is symbolized as a working animal/person he refers to women as a mule to say that women are workers.

]]> 2021-04-27 12:22:33 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonabigail/j4vn7c2v3uztczg5/wish/1463931277 https://padlet.com/johnsonabigail/j4vn7c2v3uztczg5/wish/1463932311 I think they mention the mule a lot because mule were used to carry things.
The mules may symbolize something to do with women.]]> 2021-04-27 12:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonabigail/j4vn7c2v3uztczg5/wish/1463932311 https://padlet.com/johnsonabigail/j4vn7c2v3uztczg5/wish/1463956517 The mule symbolizes carrying the weight of everything that's put on them.Like pressure and stress.]]> 2021-04-27 12:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonabigail/j4vn7c2v3uztczg5/wish/1463956517 https://padlet.com/johnsonabigail/j4vn7c2v3uztczg5/wish/1463981794 The mule is symbolized as a form of work it does mostly carrying and basically holding things.]]> 2021-04-27 12:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonabigail/j4vn7c2v3uztczg5/wish/1463981794 https://padlet.com/johnsonabigail/j4vn7c2v3uztczg5/wish/1548679839 Because the mule is symobolizing a harwworker and representing how much work that everyone has to do.]]> 2021-05-21 17:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonabigail/j4vn7c2v3uztczg5/wish/1548679839