QUOTES
PLOT
THEMES
CHARACTERS
SYMBOLS
100

Bodies had to be ______out, carried to certain gathering places and buried. Corpses were not just found in wrecked houses. They were under houses, tangled in ___, floating in water, hanging in trees, drifting under ___.

(chapter 19)

searched, shrubbery, wreckage

Page 170

100

 How is racism shown in the burial of the bodies?

What is the whites being buried in hastily constructed pine boxes; the blacks are just buried?

100
This theme is what the novel is based on; the journey in which Janie sets forth to find
What is LOVE
100
This person married young because of her grandmother and left her husband for another man. After her second lover passed away, she finally met her true love.
Who is Janie
100
"When Janie Meets Johny Taylor, Hurston uses the symbol the______ to represent the "golden dust of pollen"
What are the bees
200

"Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore" (191).

- No true definition of love

- Deep like the sea

- "ships on the Horizon"

200

What did Janie wear to Tea Cake's funeral, why?

This time Janie does not wear traditional mourning attire to the service; rather, she wears her overalls, clothing that she associates with her husband. 

"she was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief."

200
This recurring theme is present in the scene where Janie witnesses the bee and the pear tree blossom and also in the scene where Nanny punishes Janie for kissing a boy.
What is SEXUALITY
200

Which character miraculously survived the hurricane despite his laziness.

Who is Motor Boat?

200
"She was Stretched on her back beneath the ________ 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."
What is the Pear tree
300

"Tea Cake hung back defensively. What ah got tuh do wid dat? ah'm uh workin' man wid money in mah pocket. jus' got blowed outa de 'Glades by de storm." 

(170)

What is Tea Cake's encounter with racism even though he is a black man with money

300

What did Janie bring back to Eatonville?

What are the pack of seeds that Tea Cake had wanted to plant?

300
Throughout the story Janie enters many relationships hoping to find this
What is IDENTITY
300

This person is in love with an older woman named , but people never really trusted that he loved her until he began treating her like his property.

Who is Tea Cake

300
This symbol is an image of the light of of the corner of the earth. It begins and concludes day and night
What is The Horizon
400

"He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace." (193)

- Light motif

- Wall/barrier motif

- Death theme

400

What did janie find under tea cake's pillow and what did she do about it?

What is she found his pistol, with three full chambers. When Tea Cake went outside, she whirled the cylinder so the three empty chambers would snap first. Then she readied the rifle and put it in a corner of the kitchen?

400
Gradually, Janie finds this through the relationships she has with Nanny, Logan Killicks, Joe Starks, and Tea Cake Woods. Janie does not realize it until the end of the novel and after Tea Cake's death.
What is INDEPENDENCE
400
This person likes/only talks to Janie because Janie is light skinned and looks less like an African American. She thinks she is better than every other African American because she has "white features" such as small lips and a flat bottom.
Who is Mrs. Turner
400
Janie's _____ represents her femininity and freedom. It is her identity, her unique tribute as a beautiful woman. Starks, on the other hand, see's it as a symbol of male power defiance.
What is Her Hair
500

“And then again Him-with-the-square-toes had gone back to his house. He stood once more and again in his high flat house without sides to it and without a roof with his soulless sword standing upright in his hand. His pale white horse had galloped over waters, and thundered over land. The time of dying was over. It was time to bury the dead.” – Pg. 168

- Death Motif

500
Because Janie killed Tea Cake she had to go through this in which one would say that she was proven innocent only because she was light skinned and the people of the jury were predominantly white.
What is Janie's trial regarding Tea Cakes death?
500
Throughout the story Janie tries to live out her life through this, althoygh she isn't sure what it really means for her
What is DREAMS
500

Who is Jim, why are they called that way?

What is a reference to “de Jim crow law" ( the laws associated with traditional discrimination against or segregation of blacks). This is because Tea Cake is black and clearly the white men are being racist towards Janie and him.

500
This is the symbol of the powerful fury of nature, the opposite reflection of the pear tree.
What is The Hurricane
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