Quotes
"What killed this man?" "Bare, bare fat!"
The buzzards
Has poor personal hygiene
Logan Killicks
Name of the "Nation's Oldest Black Incorporated Municipality"
Eatonville
the attribution of human characteristics to non-human objects or animals
personification
Slept through the hurricane
"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."
Janie
Says to Janie, "You got de keys to de kingdom."
Tea Cake
The location of the plantation that Nanny was on
Savannah, Georgia
a character whose attributes or personality contrast statically with those of another character
foil
Racist woman Janie meets in the Everglades
Mrs. Turner
"Don't stand dere rollin' yo' pop eyes at me wid yo' rump hangin' nearly to yo' knees!"
Jody
Janie makes fun of Jody's "manhood" by saying...
"When you pull down yo britches, you look lak de change uh life"
Florida town in which Jody and Janie are married
Green Cove Springs
African-American literary movement which began in the 1920s
Harlem Renaissance
Raises Janie
Nanny
Says, "She's uh woman and her place is in de home."
Jody
Wants to buy Janie a mule
Logan Killicks
Where Logan goes to buy a mule
Lake City
a version of a language spoken by the people of a particular place, time, or social group
dialect
Flirts with Tea Cake
Nunkie
"Ah wanted to preach a great sermon about colored women sittin' on high, but they wasn't no pulpit for me."
Nanny
Jody buys the land from this man.
Capt. Eaton
Jody's home state
Georgia
German: "novel of education"
Bildungsroman
Stood up for Janie during the trial.
Dr. Simmons