Show:
Husbands
Symbols and Syntax
Eatonville
Backstory and Childhood
The Muck
100
This first husband of Janie's was described as looking "like an old skullhead in the graveyard."
Who is Logan Killicks?
100
This symbol represents all the possibilities of the future and the experiences that Janie might have.
What is the horizon?
100
This is the first thing Joe does when he arrives at Eatonville.
What is Joe buys more land from Captain Eaton?
100
This is Janie's mother's name.
What is Leafy?
100
This is how Tea Cake contracted rabies during the hurricane.
What is Tea Cake was bitten by a dog?
200
This incident early in their marriage causes Janie to question whether Tea Cake has used her and left her.
What is Tea Cake stealing Janie's money?
200
An example of this syntactical structure would be, "A little sack hung from the corners of his eyes and rested on his cheek-bones; a loose-filled bag of feathers hung from his earns and rested on his neck beneath his chin. A sack of flabby something hung from his loins and rested on his thighs when he sat down."
What is parallel structure?
200
This is Joe's response when the crowd at the lamp-lighting ceremony asks to hear Janie speak.
What is "She don't know nothing about no speech-making! I didn't marry her for that"?
200
This is the first boy Janie ever kissed, which led Nanny to marry Janie off.
Who is Johnny Taylor?
200
This is the girl with whom Tea Cake flirts, making Janie extremely jealous.
Who is Nunkie?
300
These are the activities that Janie and Tea Cake do together while they are just beginning to date.
What are playing checkers, fishing at night, and going to picnics?
300
This is what the pear tree symbolically represents.
What is maturity, physical pleasure, and a love life full of incredible happiness?
300
This is the notable feature about Eatonville as a town.
What is the fact that Eatonville is the first black incorporated town in America?
300
This man was Janie's father.
Who is Leafy's schoolteacher?
300
This is the reason that Janie chooses not to stay on the Muck after Tea Cake's death.
What is the Muck had no meaning or value for her without Tea Cake there?
400
This is the financial arrangement between Janie and Tea Cake after the incident with the $200.
What is Tea Cake will be responsible for providing for both of them, and they will never use Janie's money?
400
This symbol shifts from representing oppression to freedom after Joe's death.
What is the head rag?
400
This animal is the subject of a great deal of gossip and, when it does, is also the recipient of an elaborate funeral/party.
What is Matt Bonner's mule?
400
This is the identity of Janie's grandfather on her mother's side.
Who is Nanny's slavemaster/owner?
400
This is the reason that Janie works in the fields on the Muck.
What is the fact that Tea Cake misses Janie while he is at work and keeps sneaking away from work to see her?
500
This is Logan's response when Janie asks, "What if I were to leave you?"
What is "Nobody would want you anyway"?
500
An example of this syntactical structure would be, "Stands watchful and motionless all day with his sword drawn back, waiting for the messenger to bid him come. Been standing there before there was a where or a when or a then."
What are rhetorical fragments (or sentence fragments)?
500
This woman was an older widow with lots of money who got taken advantage of by a young man named Who Flung.
Who is Annie Tyler?
500
Given the Civil War context of the backstory, this is the year Janie's mother was likely born.
What is 1865?
500
This woman is racist against black people despite being black herself.
Who is Mrs. Turner?