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Symbols and Motifs
Key Facts
Major Events
Janie's Relationships
Themes
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This symbol is introduced in the first chapter of the book and represents Janie's strength and unconventional identity.
What is Janie's hair?
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Who wrote TEWWG?
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
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What does Janie attend at the end of the novel?
What is Teacake's funeral?
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Where Janie meets Teacake.
What is in the store?
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This main theme is linked to nature, starting at the beginning of the novel.
What is sexuality?
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This symbolizes Janie's journey in the novel.
What is the horizon?
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What time period does this story take place in?
What is the 1920s?
200
Why does Nanny slap Janie?
What is for kissing Johnny?
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The man Janie is the most physically attracted to.
Who is Teacake?
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Zora Neale Hurston was criticized for not writing enough about this theme.
What is racism?
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This represents Janie's idealized view of nature or her blooming sexuality.
What is the pear tree?
300
TEWWG is this type of novel.
What is a bildungsroman?
300
Why Janie marries Logan.
What is Nanny wants her to marry Logan?
300
The man Janie is with the longest.
Who is Joe Starks?
300
Janie discovers that the way to find this is not from material possessions but from meaningful experiences.
What is power?
400
This symbol represents the fury of nature.
What is the hurricane?
400
What type of narrator does TEWWG have?
What is an anonymous third person narrator?
400
What makes Janie consider leaving Logan.
What is meeting Joe Starks?
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The man that makes Janie tie back her hair and gets jealous easily.
Who is Joe Starks?
400
This theme is prominent throughout the novel but especially surfaces in the chapter about the mule.
What is gender?
500
This symbol is used in chapter 6 either as a symbol for Janie or the treatment of women in general.
What is the mule?
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The rest of the novel serves as this after chapter 1.
What is a flashback of Janie's life?
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What Joe does when Janie prepares a bad meal.
What is he slaps her?
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Who picks beans and buys Janie a blue satin dress.
Who is Teacake?
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This theme is one of the main themes in the work and is what Janie is searching to figure out.
What is identity?