https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe Made with eyes on the prize en-us 2018-04-30 15:59:23 UTC 2018-05-22 03:31:10 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rafaelo.png 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256585504 2018-04-30 16:04:53 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256585504 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256585934 2018-04-30 16:05:55 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256585934 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256586202 2018-04-30 16:06:28 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256586202 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256586345 2018-04-30 16:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256586345 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256586506 2018-04-30 16:07:02 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256586506 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256586747 2018-04-30 16:07:35 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256586747 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256586892 2018-04-30 16:07:55 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256586892 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256587010 2018-04-30 16:08:12 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256587010 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256587367 2018-04-30 16:08:57 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256587367 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256588134 2018-04-30 16:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256588134 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256588358 2018-04-30 16:10:59 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256588358 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256588557 2018-04-30 16:11:27 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256588557 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256588712 2018-04-30 16:11:47 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256588712 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256593165 "Thank yuh for yo' compliments, but my wife don't know nothin' 'bout no speech-makin'. "]]> 2018-04-30 16:20:44 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256593165 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256593217 "She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead so she became a woman."]]> 2018-04-30 16:20:52 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256593217 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256593274 "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!"]]> 2018-04-30 16:21:00 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256593274 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256593355 " You don't know half as much 'bout us as you think you do"]]> 2018-04-30 16:21:11 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256593355 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256593598 "Lawd, you know mah heart. Ah done de best Ah could do. De rest is left to you." (pg.30)]]> 2018-04-30 16:21:44 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256593598 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256593656 "’Cause I hates de way his head is so long one way and so flat on de sides and dat pone uh fat back uh his neck."]]> 2018-04-30 16:21:53 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256593656 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256593777 "He looked like the love thoughts of women. 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. "]]> 2018-04-30 16:22:10 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256593777 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256593808 "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."]]> 2018-04-30 16:22:15 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256593808 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256593855 "Corpses were not just found in wrecked houses. They were under houses, tangled in shrubbery,floating in water, hanging in trees, drifting under wreckage" (pg. 170)]]> 2018-04-30 16:22:21 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256593855 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256593889 "Nature is de first of everything. Ever since self was self, nature been keepin' folks off of red-hot stoves. Dat caution you talkin' 'bout ain't nothin' but uh humbug."]]> 2018-04-30 16:22:27 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256593889 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256593975 2018-04-30 16:22:38 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256593975 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594026 2018-04-30 16:22:44 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594026 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594070 2018-04-30 16:22:48 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594070 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594115 "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…De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see." (2.44)]]> 2018-04-30 16:22:54 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594115 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594165 2018-04-30 16:23:00 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594165 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594192 2018-04-30 16:23:04 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594192 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594225 "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."]]> 2018-04-30 16:23:10 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594225 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594262 "Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon."]]> 2018-04-30 16:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594262 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594299 2018-04-30 16:23:19 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594299 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594372 "The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles an hour wind has loosened his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran forward until he met the quarters; uprooted them like grass and rushed on after his supposed-to-be conquerors, rolling the dikes, rolling the houses, rolling the people in the houses along with other timbers." (pg. 161-162)]]> 2018-04-30 16:23:29 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594372 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594407 "She had glossy leave and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her" (pg. 11)]]> 2018-04-30 16:23:34 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594407 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594519 "Ah done been done tuh de horizon and back and now Ah kin set heah in mah house and live by comparisons" (pg. 191)]]> 2018-04-30 16:23:48 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594519 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594551 "the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume" (pg. 2)]]> 2018-04-30 16:23:53 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594551 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594602 "tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair" (pg. 86)]]> 2018-04-30 16:23:59 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594602 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594647 "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." (pg. 1]]> 2018-04-30 16:24:04 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/256594647 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260525050 "Sometimes God gits familiar wid us womenfolks too and talks His inside business. He told me how surprised He was 'bout y'all turning out so smart after Him makin' yuh different; and how surprised y'all is goin' tuh be if you ever find out you don't know half as much bout us as you think you do."]]> 2018-05-14 15:46:28 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260525050 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260527968 It is known that at the time whites were superior to blacks, also women were often seen as less of human being than a man. Here Nanny explains to Janie how black women are at even more of a disadvantage. They are the inferior race and they are women. The quote represents how the attitude at the time to this inferiority was acceptance.

]]> 2018-05-14 15:52:21 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260527968 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260528163 Janie breaks out of the traditional role of the silent, obedient woman and speaks her mind to the men]]> 2018-05-14 15:52:46 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260528163 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260532774 description of Janie's hair]]> 2018-05-14 16:02:31 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260532774 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260532853 Janie says that she has lived her dream by finally finding love in her life and she is satisfied to be at home again]]> 2018-05-14 16:02:43 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260532853 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260532890 This symbolizes Janie's newfound freedom after Jody's death]]> 2018-05-14 16:02:47 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260532890 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260533361 The hurricane was rolling on and it was reaching its peak strength. It was destroying almost everything in its path and even killing people in its wake, leaving great damage]]> 2018-05-14 16:03:33 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260533361 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260533388 The hurricane was so devastating that it took bodies with it and threw them everywhere. Any where you looked there would be a dead body laying around]]> 2018-05-14 16:03:36 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260533388 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260533420 to Janie the horizon symbolizes the realm of the possible, that which she can dream about]]> 2018-05-14 16:03:39 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260533420 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260533446 Janie's comparison between Tea Cake and the bee shows how she thinks back to the memory of her sexual awakening with Johnny Taylor]]> 2018-05-14 16:03:42 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260533446 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260533464 This compares Janie to the blooming pear tree and how its blooming while she's growing up too]]> 2018-05-14 16:03:44 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260533464 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535115 2018-05-14 16:07:27 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535115 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535157 2018-05-14 16:07:33 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535157 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535176 the sitters were known to be racist]]> 2018-05-14 16:07:35 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535176 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535210 2018-05-14 16:07:40 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535210 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535234 2018-05-14 16:07:44 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535234 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535246 2018-05-14 16:07:48 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535246 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535265 When Janie is 17, her grandmother arranges for her to marry Logan Killicks, an older man in the community. Janie is repulsed by Logan, but is assured by her grandmother that she will learn to love him once they're married. As time passes, Janie realizes that her grandmother is wrong, and that her dream of romance and pear blossom love is nothing more than a fantasy.]]> 2018-05-14 16:07:51 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535265 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535282 2018-05-14 16:07:54 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535282 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535299 2018-05-14 16:07:55 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535299 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535331 2018-05-14 16:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535331 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535353 2018-05-14 16:08:01 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535353 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535380 When the porch sitters criticize Mrs. Robbins, Janie defends her and, by extension, all women. This is a rare example of Janie standing up for her beliefs during her life with Joe.]]> 2018-05-14 16:08:05 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535380 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535396 At 16, Janie had never given much thought to the concept of love and marriage. However, after witnessing a bee pollinating a pear blossom, she suddenly feels awakened to the possibility. After this experience, Janie becomes obsessed with finding love. She compares each new man in her life to this pear blossom experience.]]> 2018-05-14 16:08:07 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535396 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535416 At a street lamp lighting ceremony, Tony Taylor asks Janie to say a few words; however, Joe won't let her speak. This quote reveals how Starks feels about women in general and Janie in particular.]]> 2018-05-14 16:08:10 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535416 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535435 even though Janie dislikes Logan cause his looks nanny points out to Janie that Logan can't help how he looks]]> 2018-05-14 16:08:12 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535435 5919002134 https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535453 regardless of all nanny's setbacks she still puts her trust in god]]> 2018-05-14 16:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/5919002134/quregq2sllxe/wish/260535453