Show:
Characters
Setting
Quotes
Theme
Symbols
100

Represents "protection" to Nanny

Who is Logan?

100
Where Janie and Tea Cake moved off to and worked in the "muck"
What is The Everglades?
100
"...youse got yo' womanhood on yuh. So Ah mout ez well tell yuh whut Ah been savin' up for uh spell. Ah wants to see you married right away"(12).
Who is Nanny?
100

Learning when and when not fight battles. To be quiet or to speak out. 

What is using your voice?

100
Representation of racial identity and freedom

What is a hair?

200

How Tea Cake Woods became deathly ill

What is Rabies from a dog attack?

200

Where Janie worked 

The store
200
"Thank yuh fuh yo' compliments but mah wife don't know nothin' 'bout no speech-makin'"(43).
Who is Joe Starks?
200

Being okay with being alone and not staying bitter over the past.

What is independence or learning forgiveness?

200
Hard-working but pushed around
What is a mule and Janie?
300
Does't believe in love, was raped by her master.
Who is Nanny?
300

The specific spot where Nanny decides that Janie is a woman and needs to marry

What is under a blossoming-pear tree in the backyard?

300
"Ah told yo' before dat you got de keys tuh de kingdom. You can depend on dat"(121).
Who is Tea Cake?
300

To take racial bias and believe it about yourself and those in your fellow race

Internal Racism

300

the representation that nature is greater than man and his/her prejudices

The Hurricane

400

the best "imitation" of Joe Starks

Who is Hezekiah?

400

This is in the middle of the town, it is very beautiful, and a Pine Tree grows right here.

What is the Starks's home?

400
"Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves"(192).
Who is Janie?
400

The novel form in which a character grows and learns life lessons, often through moments of epiphany.

What is Bildungsroman?

400

Equality, blossoms and a bee. Dawn and doom.

What is a pear tree?

500
Man who never took care of his mule. It starved and always ran off.
Who is Matt Bonner?
500
The burial of Tea Cake.
What is Palm Beach?
500

"Shh! Don't let nobody hear you say dat, Janie. Folks will say you ain't sorry he's gone"(93)

Who is Phoebe?

500

Being able to connect with people in different ways and learning from them and having them learn from you.

What is the influence of community on the individual?

500

The entrance into a new place or experience

What is a gate?