Characters
Symbols
Phrases
Plot
Miscellaneous
100

Janie's best friend who she tells her life story to.

Phoeby

100
Represents her strength, her expression of freedom unless it is bound up.
Janie's hair
100
" Tain't Logan Killicks Ah wants you to have, baby, it's protection."
Nanny
100
Another name for the muck, where Tea Cake and Janie lived
Everglades
100
How much money was Janie carrying when she ran off with Tea Cake?
200
200

Goes by the name of an old popular snack,  gives the heroine the love she has always craved. 

Tea Cake

200

Represents Janie's growth and maturing womanhood

The pear tree

200
"Gal, you sho look good. You looks like youse yo' own daughter."
Phoeby
200
What causes Joe to become sick?
A rabid dog bite
200

What is Tea Cake's job in the glades?

Picking beans

300
Joe's pupil, runs the store when Janie is out doing stuff after Joe's death
Hezekiah
300
Symbolizes love, forgiveness, what a true relationship should be (a give and take).
Tea Cake
300
"Love is lak de sea. It's a movin' thing, but still and all, it takes shape from de shore it meets..."
Janie Crawford
300
When the town realizes that Janie can speak, that she is a gifted orator.
When Joe buys the donkey to let it live freely
300
What is the first tell tale sign of rabies?
The inability to swallow water
400
The man who travels with Tea Cake and Janie when they are trying to flee the hurricane, stays behind to sleep in the house.
Ole Motor
400

Represents the power and ferocity of nature, and undetermined fate

The hurricane

400
"Where is de Mayor? Ah wants tuh talk wid hem."
Joe Starks
400
What made Janie aware that she was black and not white?
A picture of herself
400
What time frame does the novel take place in?
Late 1930's-1940's
500
The man who caused Janie to have to put her hair up because Joe gets jealous.
Walter
500

Symbolizes the lowest status in society and the abuse of power, specifically the exploitation of African American women

The mule

500

"L-l-less we strack a compermise, Brother Mayor. Less m-make it ten."

Matt Bonner

500
Why does Janie bury Tea Cake in Palm Beach?
The Everglades lie to low near the water level
500
What is the name of the boy that Janie kisses that causes her to get married to Logan Killicks?
Johnny Taylor
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