Janie
Janie is associated with images of this season.
What is spring?
What is stability / security?
The craft employed in these lines of a poem: "Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering, / Little hands clapping and little tongues chattering,"
What is onomatopoeia?
Janie's meaning when "she tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair" at the end of chapter 8.
What is, she is free from Joe and their marriage?
The first two buildings Joe has built in Eatonville.
What are a post office and a general store?
Janie's age when she marries Logan Killicks.
What is 16 years old?
Janie's third husband, who we have not officially met yet in the story.
Who is Tea Cake?
The craft found in this quote: “The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.”
What is a simile?
What Hurston is referring to in Joe's last days, "the stillness was the sleep of swords."
What is the underlying tension between Joe and Janie?
The item that Joe gives to Mrs. Robbins when she comes begging at the store in chapter 6.
What is a slice of meat?
Janie's first dream that died during her marriage with Logan.
What is, that marriage makes love?
The characteristic of Joe Starks that allowed him to take charge in Eatonville.
What is his presence / charisma? ("He had a bow-down command in his face")
The craft used in this quote: "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
What is a metaphor?
What Nanny means in saying, "Put me down easy, Janie, Ah'm a cracked plate."
What is, Nanny can only rest if Janie marries Logan?
The two characters who engage in a "nature vs. caution" debate on the porch of the store.
Who are Sam Watson and Lige Moss?
Janie's two main roles in Eatonville.
What is, mayor's wife and storekeeper?
The president that Joe Starks is compared to when he buys Matt Bonner's mule.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The craft in this quote: "Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago."
What is personification? (Also acceptable: imagery)
Joe and Janie's different dreams as represented when they first meet: "Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon."
What is, Joe has dreams of greatness and Janie has dreams of love?
Janie's mom's father.
Who is Nanny's slave-master?
The name of Janie's mother.
What is Leafy?
Name one major fight between Janie and Joe.
What is: her hair in the store, serving him a bad dinner, talking with men on the porch, them getting older, their life together as he is dying?
The name of the craft used in this line of narration: "I know he’s dead! Don’t you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can’t I?"
What is voice?
Janie's meaning when she snaps back at the men in town: "You don’t know half as much ’bout us as you think you do. It’s so easy to make yo’self out God Almighty when you ain’t got nothin’ tuh strain against but women and chickens."
What is, the men think they are powerful and smart, but they don't know everything and aren't as big as they think?
The rumored reason for Joe's illness and death.
What is Janie poisoning him?