Who Am I?
Who is Nanny?
This is a symbol of Janie's innocence and discovery of what love is.
What is the Pear Tree?
She saw a dust-bearing [BLANK] sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree
Angels cover up people with this to dull their sparkling and glittering
What is mud?
This disease was what the mad dog and Tea Cake had.
What is rabies?
He was the one who expanded the acreage of Eatonville and became mayor.
Who is Joe (Jody)?
This is a symbol for Tea Cake's love after his death and of Janie's Independence.
What is the seed?
They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against cruel walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but [FIVE WORD PHRASE].
What is their eyes were watching god?
Nanny asked God to let her live until this event happens.
What is until Janie reaches adulthood?
Tea Cake taught Janie how to play this
What is checkers?
She worshiped whiteness as an alter
This was a symbol of the unpredictability and chaos of life and the strength of nature.
What is the hurricane?
"Nature is de first of everything. Ever since self was self, nature been keepin' folks off of red-hot [BLANK]. Dat caution you talkin' 'bout ain't nothin' but uh humbug."
What are stoves?
It was said that Mrs. Turner would still worship whiteness even if god would smite her, hurl her, and lose her here.
What is deserts?
This is the girl that Janie became jealous of Tea Cake "flirting" with.
Who is Nunkie?
She fell in love with Who Flung who went and stole all her money.
Who is Mrs. Taylor?
This animal was a symbol of bondage and victimization with Nanny, Logan, and then Jody.
What is the mule?
Naw, We been tuhgether round two years. If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at [BLANK]. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
What is Dusk?
Mrs. Turner sees heaven as filled of "straight haired, thin-lipped, high-nose boned, white" these biblical figures
What are seraphs, or angels?
Janie changed this in her appearance after Jody died to represent her independence.
What is let down her hair? (wearing bright colors and younger clothes works too)
He was the original owner of the mule.
These were given to certain fallen victims of the hurricane and represented societal racism.
What are coffins?
All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know [BLANK] and [SAME WORD] is the most divine emotion.
What is fear?
This is the term used to described God with the men on ships chasing their dreams in the first paragraph of the novel. (Hint: It's kind of connected to the title)
What is the watcher?
This is the country that the fire dancing workers from the bean fields are from.
What is the Bahamas?