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Characters
Quotations
Plot
Context and the Big Picture
Even More Plot
100
Janie's true love
Tea Cake
100
“Ah told you in de very first beginnin’ dat Ah aimed tuh be uh big voice. You oughta be glad, ‘cause dat makes uh big woman outa you.”
Joe Starks
100
What Janie is wearing when she returns to Eatonville
Dirty overalls
100
The author's full name
Zora Neale Hurston
100

What task does Logan insist Janie do?

Plow the fields 

200
Janie's best friend in Eatonville
Pheoby
200
“Come help me move dis manure pile befo’ de sun gits hot. You don’t take a bit of interest in dis place. ‘Taint no use in foolin’ round in dat kitchen all day long.”
Logan Killicks
200

How does Janie's story align with Foster's 5 criteria for a quest?

Quester = Janie; Place to go = Eatonville, the Everglades; Stated Reason to go = seeks love and human connection, a sense of belonging; Challenges = controlling husbands, resulting struggle for self expression; Real reason to go = self-empowerment, learned how to choose herself 

200
The novel was written as a part of this period in time
The Harlem Renaissance
200
This caused the end of Janie's childhood
The kiss with Johnny Taylor
300

The character who looks down upon African Americans but is friends with Janie because she is light-skinned

Mrs. Turner

300
“So long as they get a name to gnaw on they don’t are whose it is, and what about, ‘specially if they can make it sound like evil.”
Pheoby
300
The first thing Tea Cake shows Janie to do
Play checkers
300
The author herself shares many traits with this character
Janie
300
Joe forces Janie to do this out of jealousy
Wear a head rag
400

When Janie leaves with Tea Cake, she is warned that she may end up like this couple--the man took all the lady's money

Annie Tyler and Who Flung

400
“Janie is wherever Ah wants tuh be. Dat’s de kind uh wife she is and Ah love her for it.”
Tea Cake
400
The term used to refer to the Everglades in the novel
The muck
400

Name at least two symbols or motifs in the novel.

Pear tree, horizons, hurricane/ nature, voice, hair, mule. 

400
Hezekiah is most like this person as he runs the store
Joe Starks
500
The girl who flirts with Tea Cake in the Everglades
Nunkie
500
“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.”
Janie
500

Janie breaks her silence on the store porch to say this

To tell the men on the porch that they don’t know as much about women as they think they do

500

According to Janie, what does real love look and feel like?

Mutual love, respect, and freedom of expression. 

500

What Tea Cake does with Janie's $200?

Buys an elaborate dinner and gambles it.