Who Said?
Storytime
Theme
Characters
Symbolism
100

"t'ain't no use in getting all mad,Janie, 'cause ah mention you ain't no young galno mo'. Nobody in heah ain't lookin' for no wife outa yuh. old as you is"

What is Joe's reaction toward Janie in the store, in front of the other men.

100

This is the part of the story where Janie is forced to marry at a young age. Her grandmother insists that she marry this man because she will die soon and Janie will need someone to take care of her.

What is Janie's marraige with Logan

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
"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."
What is Tea Cake's encounter with racism even though he is a black man with money
200
At this point in the story, Janie has run away with this man who she belives to be kind and sweet. She knows of his big dreams and go to an unestablished town.
What is Joe Starks getting a position as Mayor in Eatonville
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

This person is in love with an older woman named Janie, but people never really trusted that he loved her until he slapped her, making Janie seem as if she were his property.

Who is Tea Cake

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
"Wait till you see de new blue satin Tea Cake done picked out for me tuh stand up wid him in..."
What is Tea Cake's desire to provide for Janie
300
This liberates Janie from a relationship filled with tyranny in which demanded her to be someone she was not.
What is Joe Starks' death?
300
Throughout the story Janie enters many relationships hoping to find this
What is IDENTITY
300

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

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
"she pulled in her horizon like a great fish net. puled it from around the waist of the world and raped it over her shoulder. so much of life in its meshes! she called in her soul to come and see."
What is Janie's finding of her confidence and strength
400
As a result of this Janie had to almost protect herself from Tea Cake although she really loved him and because of him having this she killed him.
What is Tea Cakes illness?
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

She pretty much forces Janie to get married because she feels that Janie cannot take care of herself after she passes away. She dies soon after Janie marries Logan.

Who Nanny?

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
"'What you slip off from me just now for?'...'Tea Cake, ah don't lak you astin' me no sich question. Dat sho how sick you is sho nuff. you'se jealous 'thout me ging you cause."'
What is Tea Cake's ailment and how it affects his relationship with Janie
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

He first seems to love Janie a lot but according to nature they didn't quite click. He began to be demanding of what kind of woman he wanted Janie to be and of what a mayor's wife should be like.

Who is Jody Starks?

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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