QUOTES
"t'ain't no use in getting all mad, Janie, 'cause ah mention you ain't no young gal no 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.
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 end of childhood
This theme is what the novel is based on; the journey in which Janie sets forth to find
What is LOVE
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
"When Janie Meets Johnny Taylor, Hurston uses the symbol of the ______ to represent the "golden dust of pollen"
What are the bees
"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
At this point in the story, Janie has run away with this man who she believes to be kind and sweet. She knows of his big dreams and go to an unestablished town.
Who is Joe Starks
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 the relationship between nature and love
This person is in love with an older woman named Janie, but people never really trusted that he loved her until he allowed her to be herself
Who is Tea Cake
"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
"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
This liberates Janie from a relationship filled with tyranny in which demanded her to be someone she was not.
What is Joe Starks' death?
Throughout the story Janie enters many relationships hoping to find this
What is love
This person likes and only talks to Janie because Janie looks less like an African American;. believing she is better than every other African American
Who is Mrs. Turner
"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 are the events of her life reeled in
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 rabies?
Gradually, Janie finds this through the relationships she has with Nanny, Logan Killicks, Joe Starks, and Tea Cake. Janie does not realize it until the end of the novel and after Tea Cake's death.
What is INDEPENDENCE
She is assaulted and threatened to be killed, later she raises her granddaughter after she is emancipated
Who Janie's grandmother?
"'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 givng you cause."'
What is Tea Cake's ailment and how it affects his relationship with Janie
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?
Throughout the story Janie tries to live out her life through this, although she isn't sure what it really means for her
What are DREAMS
He first seems to love Janie a lot but according to nature they didn't quite click. He wasn't the bee to her blossom
Who is Joe Starks?