Their eyes Questions

1.       The Ship metaphor is showing that you can’t just wait for something you have to make it happen

2.       The towns people talk about Janie behind her back and gossip about her

3.       Phoebe Watson wants to know what happened to Janie so Janie tells her story

4.       Janie tells her story to Phoebe because she wants someone to know the truth of what happened to her.

5.       Nanny raises Janie because both Janie’s parents have left her and gone away.

6.       She sees in a picture that was taken of a group of people and that was the first time she saw herself and she was different than everyone else because she was black.

7.       The pear tree is a symbol of love for Janie

8.       Nanny saw Janie kissing Johnny Taylor

9.       Nanny doesn’t want Janie to end up like herself.

10.   Nanny doesn’t believe in romantic love

11.   Janie doesn’t want to marry Logan because she doesn’t love him and she thinks he is old.

12.    Janie thinks that she will fall in love with him now that she is married to him. She is wrong and does not fall in love.

13. She finds out that being married to someone does not make you fall in love with someone.

14. Logan becomes tired of Janie overtime and stops being romantic towards her and he wants her to do more work around the farm.

15. She thought he was very wealthy and nice to her.

16. She decides to run off with Joe because he would treat her better than Logan would.

17. They thought there was nothing there except for a few run down homes and woods. It was very disappointing to them.

18. His goals are to help build up the town and get a mayor for the town.

19. He gets the town more land and puts in a post office and a new store.

20. They liked that he was doing all the things to help the town but they didn’t like the way he told people what to do.

21.  An advantage was that she had money and she was highly respected in the town. Her husband is very busy all the time because he is the mayor.

22. Janie dislikes working in the store. She doesn’t like the bandanna she has to wear on her head.

23.   Joe does not think women should have the same rights as men. He won’t let her play checkers.

24. The head rag symbolizes the control of Joe over Janie

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26. Joe buys the mule from Matt because it was a gift for Janie

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28. Janie didn’t make him dinner the right way

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31. Janie was not sad about Joe’s death. She had money and a house to live in and all without Joe.

32. Janie made it look like she was sad at the funeral when she wasn’t

33. Janie wanted another man but she wasn’t sure of how soon she would after Joe’s death

34. Tea Cake came into the shop that Janie worked at during the day while everyone was at the baseball game and they hung out and played checkers.

35.  Tea Cake purposefully chose that time of day because everyone else was at the game and he knew he would get time alone with Janie.

36.  Men did not let women play checkers and it was a sign of equality that Tea Cake let Janie play checkers.

37. She liked him and it was a flirty word she used to mean that he was odd.