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Important Characters
Symbols
Important Events I
Important Events II
Themes
100
This character is looking to find herself and is the main character of the story.
Who is Janie?
100
This is the symbol of Janie's freedom.
What is Janie's hair?
100
This is the town that Janie moves to with Jody.
What is Eatonville?
100
This is the game that Tea Cake plays with Janie when they first meet.
What is checkers?
100
This theme is explored through the three marriages of Janie and through the symbol of the pear tree.
What is Love?
200
This is the last husband of the main character and the one who gave the main character the love she was looking for.
Who is Tea Cake?
200
This is the symbol of love that the main character believes is the perfect example of love.
What is the pear tree and the bee?
200
This is the person that raised Janie.
What is her nanny or grandmother?
200
This is what Tea Cake takes Janie to do on their second encounter in the middle of the night.
What is go fishing?
200
This theme is represented through Janie's hair and can be seen in Janie's relationship with Nanny and Jody.
What is freedom?
300
This is the main character's second husband who wanted the main character to do what he wanted.
Who is Joe Starks or Jody?
300
This is the symbol that represents the possibilities of the unknown and the future.
What is the horizon and/or the gate?
300
This is what Joe Starks does to impress the town when he first arrives.
What is buy 200 more acres?
300
This is where Tea Cake takes Janie to live and farm beans.
What is the Everglades?
300
This theme can be seen in the way that Janie is expected to marry by Nanny and again when Jody dies.
What is the role of women?
400
This is the main character's best friend who the main character tells her story to.
Who is Phoeby?
400
This is the symbol that represents the position of women, especially black women.
What is the mule?
400
Janie's grandfather was this thing.
What is a slave owner that raped her grandmother?
400
This is the reason that Tea Cake beats Janie.
What is to show the Turner's he is the boss?
400
This theme in the novel is explored through the way the bodies are treated when Tea Cake has to bury them.
What is racism?
500
This is the main character's first husband who Nanny arranged for the main character to marry to provide her with protection.
Who is Logan Killicks?
500
This is the symbol of judgment and destruction.
What is the hurricane?
500
This is the first thing Joe wants to build for the town.
What is a general store?
500
This is the place that Janie and Tea Cake run to when the hurricane comes.
What is Palm Beach?
500
This is the theme that is expressed at the beginning and the end of the novel as Janie explains her comfort in herself.
What is self-reliance/identity?