https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1 Made with serendipity en-us 2018-04-30 12:34:18 UTC 2026-02-26 00:07:01 UTC hello@padlet.com 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262531151 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. (p.29)]]> 2018-05-22 00:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262531151 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262531176 Joe was the future. He symbolized a change for Janie. The change that Janie thought she needed.]]> 2018-05-22 00:05:56 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262531176 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262532965 There was no doubt that the town respected him and even admired him in a way. But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate. (p.48)]]> 2018-05-22 00:22:44 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262532965 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262533097 Joe was so confident is was fate that people would hate him. Many loved him but also many hated him.]]> 2018-05-22 00:23:51 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262533097 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262658142 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 12:29:11 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262658142 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262661455 Everybody in the house was wondering what their fate would be. Wondering if they all were gonna get out of this situation and why and if they didn't why did God put them in this position to get killed.]]> 2018-05-22 12:38:32 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262661455 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262662328 You better dry up in dere! Ah’m too honest and hard-workin’ for anybody in yo’ family, at’s de reason you don’t want me!"…"Ah guess some low-lifed nigger is grinnin’ in yo’ face and lyin’ tuh yuh. God damn yo’ hide! (p.31-32)]]> 2018-05-22 12:41:08 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262662328 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262668343 Logan thinks that Janie doesn't deserve him. He thinks that he is better than all of Janie's family. ]]> 2018-05-22 12:56:49 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262668343 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262668726 Whut Ah seen just now is plenty for me, honey, Ah don’t want no trashy nigger, no breath-and-britches, lak Johnny Taylor usin’ yo’ body to wipe his foots on. (p.13]]> 2018-05-22 12:57:54 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262668726 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262669495 Nanny wants Janie to have a good life. She wants Janie to be in a powerful relationship. She does not want her to be with some low life that has nothing going for him. ]]> 2018-05-22 12:59:49 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262669495 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262676658 She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage. (p.11)]]> 2018-05-22 13:17:17 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262676658 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262677597 Under the pear tree is where ]]> 2018-05-22 13:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262677597 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262884476 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. (p.17)]]> 2018-05-23 01:46:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262884476 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262884613 Janie thinks love is what happened under the pear tree. Love is like a fantasy to Janie and she is in for a rude awakening. The pear tree is where Janie gets her first taste of what she thinks the rest of her life will be like. ]]> 2018-05-23 01:46:50 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262884613 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262884796 Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant. It was just so. Janie felt glad of the thought, for then it wouldn’t seem so destructive and mouldy. She wouldn’t be lonely anymore. (p.25]]> 2018-05-23 01:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262884796 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262885158 Janie always thought that love was in marriage. She thought that there was never a struggle to love someone. She had an unrealistic thought of what love would be. ]]> 2018-05-23 01:50:21 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262885158 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262885666 Long before the year was up, Janie noticed that her husband had stopped talking in rhymes to her. He had ceased to wonder at her long black hair and finger (p.29)]]> 2018-05-23 01:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262885666 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262886185 Nora, the author, uses "stopped talking in rhymes" very frequently. this means that Janie's husbands have stopped trying to impress her. This is when Janie realizes that her husbands are not truly in love with her. ]]> 2018-05-23 01:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262886185 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262886500 The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace. (p.227)]]> 2018-05-23 01:59:10 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262886500 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262886719 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 same 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. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly. (p.1)]]> 2018-05-23 02:00:23 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262886719 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262887505 Men and women are different. Men's wishes they strive to get or they settle, never trying to achieve their goals. Women are realistic. They adapt to their lives. ]]> 2018-05-23 02:05:08 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262887505 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262889097 Tea Cake is part of Janie's history. Tea Cake was Janie's one true love. Their history together will always be on Janie's mind. ]]> 2018-05-23 02:14:53 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262889097 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262889384 So when we looked at de picture and everybody got pointed out there wasn’t nobody left except a real dark little girl with long hair standing by Eleanor. Dat’s where Ah wuz’s s’posed to be, but Ah couldn’t recognize dat dark chile as me. So ah ast, ‘where is me? Ah don’t see me.’
… ‘Aw, aw! Ah’m colored!’
(p.11)]]> 2018-05-23 02:16:04 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262889384 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262889651 The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor (p.84)]]> 2018-05-23 02:17:17 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262889651 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262890512 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. (p.17)]]> 2018-05-23 02:22:31 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262890512 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262890941 The marriage was no longer one where they loved each other. It was all for show. ]]> 2018-05-23 02:24:50 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262890941 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262891194 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. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to. (p.60)

]]> 2018-05-23 02:26:05 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262891194 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262891337 This shows that every Sunday the community would come together. They would talk and laugh and all just be happy no matter the situation. ]]> 2018-05-23 02:26:47 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262891337 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262891659 White people had power during this time. However, there was no knowing if somewhere somehow that a black man had control over a white. ]]> 2018-05-23 02:28:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262891659 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262892130 When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking (p.185)]]> 2018-05-23 02:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262892130 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262892203 This is when Janie realized that things might be worse than they think. This storm could change everything. ]]> 2018-05-23 02:30:53 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262892203 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262892864 She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair. The weight, the length, the glory was all there. She took careful stock of herself, then combed her hair and tied it back up again. (p.104]]> 2018-05-23 02:34:38 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262892864 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262892935 This is when Joe dies. This is when Janie does not have to follow anybody's ruled but her own. She is now free from Joe.]]> 2018-05-23 02:35:02 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262892935 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262893356 Seeing the woman as she was made them remember the envy they had stored up from other times. so they chewed up the back parts of their minds and swallowed with relish. They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive. Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song. (p.2)]]> 2018-05-23 02:36:45 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262893356 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262893405 The community was harsh on Janie. They did not know her story. The judged her based on their truths. ]]> 2018-05-23 02:37:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262893405 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262894149 This was the history of Janie figuring out she was colored. She never was treated differently by the white folks so she never thought of herself different. ]]> 2018-05-23 02:40:44 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262894149 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262894904 Then one day she sat and watched the shadow of herself going about tending store and prostrating itself before Jody, while all the time she herself sat under a shady tree with the wind blowing through her hair and her clothes. Somebody near about making summertime out of lonesomeness. (p.91)]]> 2018-05-23 02:44:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262894904 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262895013 Janie was always controlled by Joe. She never had any freedom. She only had freedom in her thoughts where Joe had no control over. ]]> 2018-05-23 02:45:02 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262895013 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262895686 Nigger, whut’s yo’ baby doin wid gray eyes and yaller hair?’" She begin tuh slap mah jaws ever which a’way. Ah never felt the fust ones ‘cause Ah wuz too busy gittin’ de kivver back over mah chile. But dem last lick burnt me lak fire. Ah had too many feelin’s tuh tell which one tuh follow so Ah didn’t cry and Ah didn’t do nothin’ else. But then she kept on astin me how come mah baby look white. She asted me dat maybe twenty-five or thirty times, lak she got tuh sayin’ dat and couldn’t help herself. So Ah told her, ‘Ah don’t know nothin’ but what Ah’m told tuh do, ‘cause Ah ain’t nothin’ but uh nigger and uh slave. (p.21)]]> 2018-05-23 02:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262895686 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262895845 Nanny was a slave. She was treated poorly and raped by her slave owner. The wife of the slave owner did not know. She threatened to kill the baby and that was when Nanny decided to run off so she and her baby could live a better life. ]]> 2018-05-23 02:49:48 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262895845 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262896569  She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making. (p.30)]]> 2018-05-23 02:54:23 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262896569 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262896623 This is when Janie realized marriage doesn't bring love. She saw God bring in a new day every morning. He made things happen that were inexpiable. ]]> 2018-05-23 02:54:45 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262896623 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262896989  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.64)]]> 2018-05-23 02:57:14 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262896989 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262897413 Joe knows that Janie is not like the other women in town. He does not want the other men to fantasize about her. She was his. Her hair and all.]]> 2018-05-23 03:00:08 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262897413 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262897655  “Why, Tea Cake? Whut good do combin’ mah hair do you? It’s mah comfortable, not yourn.” “It’s mine too. Ah ain’t been sleepin’ so good for more’n uh week cause Ah been wishin’ so bad tuh git mah hands in yo’ hair. It’s so pretty. It feels jus’ lak underneath uh dove’s wing next to mah face.” (p.123]]> 2018-05-23 03:01:43 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262897655 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262897721 Tea Cake was obsessed with Janie's hair. Just like the other men in town. He carried a comb with him just for the time he gets the chance to feel her hair. Her hair is different and everbody wants to touch it. ]]> 2018-05-23 03:02:10 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262897721 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262898185 The wind came back with triple fury and put out the light for the last time. They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God. (p.187)]]> 2018-05-23 03:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262898185 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262898241 This is when everyone is sitting in the house during the hurricane. Wondering what God had in-store for them. Would they all live? Would they die? ]]> 2018-05-23 03:06:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262898241 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262898605  A respectful silence fell on the place. Sam looked at Joe and said, “Dat’s uh new idea ’bout varmints, Mayor Starks. But Ah laks it mah ownself. It’s uh noble thing you done.” Everybody agreed with that. (p.68)]]> 2018-05-23 03:09:12 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262898605 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262898678 Everybody respected Joe. They did not talk when he talked and they listened. They looked at him for guidance.]]> 2018-05-23 03:09:41 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262898678 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262898763  There was a finished silence after that so that for the first time they could hear the wind picking at the pine trees. It made Pheoby think of Sam waiting for her and getting fretful.  It made Janie think about that room upstairs—her bedroom. Pheoby hugged Janie real hard and cut the darkness in flight. (p.226-227]]> 2018-05-23 03:10:13 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262898763 1076982 https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262899137 This is when they realized the storm was serious. They all were quite thinking of their loved ones and things they loved. The could hear outside getting tossed around. The silence was making them anxious.]]> 2018-05-23 03:12:41 UTC https://padlet.com/1076982/qg3q4kq2uqw1/wish/262899137