TEWWG pg 190

"Because they really loved Janie just a little less than they had loved Tea Cake, and because they wanted to think well of themselves...So they blamed it all on Mrs Turner's brother and ran him out of town."

Its amazing that the loss of a loved one can turn people into crazed maniacs and make them react harsh and rashly. Just as Tea Cake's disease had done to him.

TEWWG pg 182

"They'd laugh over it when he got well"

Janie is holding on to the very slim but possible hope of Tea Cake is going to overcome rabbies, hopefull.

TEWWG pg 182

"Janie saw a changing look coe in his face. Tea Cake was gone"

Metaphorical death of Tea Cake. Janie still loves him but the "him" is gone. you can bet that Janie died a little inside at this point.

TEWWG pg 177

"How you know he's havin 'em doctah? Dat's us' what Ah come out heah tuh tell yuh"

Foreshadow that Tea Cake is going to die of rabies.

TEWWG pg 171

"They's mighty particular how dese folks goes to Judgment"

Could be a crack at white people needing to be in a box on judgment day since they are more likely to get into heavin.

TEWWG pg 163

"Ah'm safe here, man. Go ahead if youh want to. Ah'm sleepy"...Sposing it comes up dere?" "Swim dats all."

I suppose the reason why "Motor Boat" isn't scared of the water is why Zora named him "Motor Boat." And if Sop-de-bottom dies in the hurricane i suppose he'll be "sopping up the bottom" of the ocean...hehe

TEWWG pg 160

They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

Janie, Tea Cake and their friends sit and wait to find out what god has in store for them, waiting at his mercy.

TEWWG pg 159

"Thanky, Ma'am. But spousing you wuz tuh die, now...If ou kin see de light at daybreak, you dont keer is you die at dusk.

Janie can die happily now that she has found true love with Tea Cake or the "light". Reassures that Tea Cake is "the one for Janie.

TEWWG pg 156

"if ah never see ou no mo on earth, ah'll meet you in Africa"

Africa is place where colored people were free and happy, the equal to heaven.

TEWWG pg 156

"De Indians gohn east, man. It's Dangerous....Indians dont know much uh nothing, tuh tell de truth.

IRONY..Why would you trust the people who have lived successfully in florida for thousands of years before white men came, lets trust the folk who just moved here.

TEWWG pg 156

Morning came without motion. The winds, to the highest lisping baby breath had left the earth. Even before the sun gave light, dead day was creeping from bush to bush watching man.

The calm before the storm, foreshadow of the Hurricane being real and all hell breaking loose. "dead day was creeping..." gives the feeling of gloom and that something horrible is coming and death is waiting and watching what he will take when it comes.

TEWWG pg 154

"going to high ground. Saw-grass bloom. Hurrican coming"

Foreshadow that a hurricane is coming literally and metaphorically. When the hurricane comes Janies and Tea Cups lives are most likely going to change drastically.

TEWWG pg 147

No brutal beating at all. He just slapped her around a bit to show her whos boss...made the woman see visions and the helpless way she hung on him made men dream dreams.

Motif that in order to be worshipped the god must give punishment.

TEWWG pg 147

Still and all, jealousies arose now and then on both sides.

Shows Janie and Tea Cake still love each other enough to be worried about one another.

TEWWG pg 145

"Aw, don't make God look so foolish....findin fault with everything he made"

God created everything in his eyes as perfect. "Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world." Tea Cake fights back against Mrs Turner with what he believes in and since Mrs Turner is so Naive she probably believes this to.

TEWWG pg 145

"All gods who receive homage are cruel...Otherwise they would not be worshiped"

If white people did not have control over the colored man, it would be because they did not punish them for disobeying them.

TEWWG pg 142

"White doctors always get mah money"

Irony, Mrs. Turner is a big wig and pays all of the black people in town to do her work. Another hint at the thought that she really doesn't hate blacks or is completely clueless to how much the colored people in the town profit her.

TEWWG pg 141

"You'se diffferent from me. Ah cant stand black niggers.

Janie is keeping company with this woman who hate black people even though she is colored herself. It may be because she likes the idea of being equal with whites but i think that the woman does not hate blacks as much as she claims but only does it to seem powerful and Janie knows it.

TEWWG pg 136

Motif of seeds being love only this time it is Jamies jealousy/fear that Tea Cake will leave her for another woman. It is only because the seed of her love for him has become a tree that Janie is Jealouse.

TEWWG pg 136

Janie learned what if felt like to be jealous.

This is the first time Janie has felt Jealous because its the first time she's truly been in love. Its also the first time that she has been exposed to other people being around her and her husband because Tea Cake allows her to be with others.

TEWWG pg 125

"you done married one uh de best gamblers God ever made"

The cry of a man who looses his fortune. I believe that this is a foreshadow to loosing all of Janies money. First of all if Tea Cake is so good why wouldn't he of ever had his hand on 200 dollars before like he said on pg 122. But then he probably would spend all his earnings like he did to Janies 200.

TEWWG pg 120

"Ring de bells of mercy. Call de sinner man home"

Why would Tea Cake choose to sing this song. Is it possible that he was the one who took her money and spent it only coming home to beg for forgiveness.

TEWWG pg 119

Who flung had taken her to a shabby room in a shabby house in a shabby street and promised to marry her next day.

A forshadow that could happen to Janie with Tea Cake. Who Flung gives the idea of a fling or a one night stand which fits the name Who Flung. A short fling that ends up with nothign besides a few good memories to be ended with sorrow. Could also be taken as you fell for the trick, Who Flung?

TEWWG pg 118

"All day and night she worried time like a bone"

Interesting expression and a different way of expressing waiting and worrying. Gives me the picture of a dog knowing at a bone franticly or in Janies place being equally eager.

TEWWG pg 117

Tea Cake was spending out of his own pocket....Janie never told him about the two hundred dollars she had pinned inside her shirt next to her skin.

For somebody who is so sure about getting married again its weird that she doesn't want to let Tea Cake know how much money she has. She may be regretting it or thinking that it might not last. Apparently the suspicions of the town is getting to her.

TEWWG pg 113

Ah'd feel uh whole heap better 'bout yeh i fyou wuz maryin dat man up dere in Sanford. He got something tuh put long side uh whut you got and dat make it more better.

This is just like Nanny used to say. The woman is pushing someone on her just because he is well off and isn't thinking if they are nice, interesting, or compatible with one another.

TEWWG pg 111

"...if Tea Cake is tryin to rob her she kin see and know..."Aw mah Gody naw! Reckon He better step over dere tomorrow and have some chat wid Janie. She ju's aint thinking whut she doing that all.

The town is worried that Tea Cake is trying to rob Janie of her money and think if they warn her she will understand and get rid of him. However Janie already knows that this is possible but her long for love and company overpowers that of any concern for her money. "Woman forget what they don't want to remember."

TEWWG pg 111

You gots to have something to comb hair over.

Woman don't normally get dressed up and try to look nice in less there is a reason, normally being a man.

TEWWG pg 106

He could be a bee to a blossom...a pear tree blossom in the spring.

Motif of bee to a blossom is brought up again. The idea that the bee and the blossom need each-other to live on and reproduce.

tEWwG pg 96

Text: "You going teh be a good player too. after awhile." "You Reckon so? Jody useter tell me Ah never would learn. It wus too heavy fuh my brains"

Another example of Jody thinking she is below men so she cant play checkers or make a speaech. This is why she is so pleased when the man asks her to play with him.

TEwWg pg 96

Text: Somebody wanter her to play. Somebody thought it natural for her to play. That was even nice. She looked him over and got thrills from every one of his good points.

This is a happy moment for Jaine because she is being treated with the same respect as a man even if it is just the man hitting on her. Rather than assuming Janie cant play and wouldn't be able to learn like Jody would have done the man considers her as an equal. However i feel a "relationship" coming on and i think that just like the other ones she's been in the man will get tired of flirting with her and eventually start treating her poorly. Seems to be the pattern in this book.

TEWWG pg 91

Text: "But you will. You'se too young uh'omen tuh stay single and you'se too pretty for de mens tuh leave yuh alone. You'se bound tuh marry"

Foreshadow that Janie will forget eventually and move on to another man.

TEWWG pg 88

Text: "She sent her face to Joe's funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world.... before she slept that night she burnt up everyone of her head-rags and went about the house next morning with her hair in one thick braid swinging well below her waste.

As quote on the first page says woman forget what they want to so Janie is doing so in this line. She is taking the rags that kept her hair tied up just like Joe kept her and this is her way of forgetting it.

Tewwg pg 1

Text:  Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. THen they act and so things accordingly.

Means exactly what it says. When women come across something that they didn't love or enjoy they put it behind them and tuck it away while moving on and looking for something that they will remember.

Tewwg pg 87

Text: "She took careful stock in herself, then combed her hair and tied it back up again"

Even though Jody is dead Janie still ties up her hair the way Joe made her. Is jody still following by Joe's rule because she is still in love with him or is she putting on a show for the town and respecting him?

tewwg pg 86

Text:  "Jody, you aint de Jody ah run off down de road wid. You'se whut's left after he died"

Falls into the same idea of Janies love not blossiming. At first she was in love with Jody but after a while the him she knew that bent down and kissed her feet straightened and her love for him disappeared.

TEWWG pg 84

Text:  "He stands in his high house that overlooks the world. Stands watchful and motionless all day with is sword drawn back, waiting for the messenger to bid him come."

This seems like a very dark idea giving the impression that death is sitting around hopping on every chance he gets to kill someone. "With his sword drawn back" makes it sound like death is looking forward to it and ready to strike. However this fits with what Janie is wanting. She is tired of having Joe around and the sooner he is gone the better for her.

TEWWG pg 71

Text:  "Things packed up and put away in parts of her heart where he could never find them.

She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen. She had an inside and an outside

life now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.

Janie is starting to think like her grandmother or Nanny. Now that Joe has slapped her she views him as a thing to get her by and not to love. She has given up loving him and just dealing with it until her man comes along. "She had an inside and an outside life now" her outside life is living with Joe making it work and her inside is waiting for the man to make her hopes and dreams of love and not being lonely anymore come true.

TEWWG pg 66

Text: "Look at dat great big ole scoundrel-beast up dere at Hall's fillin station...Dey caught him over in Egypt....He wouldn't dig potatoes, and he wouldn't rake hay: He wouldn't take a whipping, and he wouldn't run away."

The men start to talk about a beast which is an allusion to the Sphinx. "How they going to tell he's a million years old", "Dey caught him over in Egypt." The men also talk of the beast swallowing men up and one man talks in rhyme as the sphinx does sometimes.

TEWWG pg 57

Text: "Janie, Ah reckon you better go fetch me dem old black gaiters. Dese tan shoes sets mah feet on fire. Plenty room in em, but they hurts regardless."

I think that the new shoes Joe tells Janie to bring him are a metaphor for going back to his old ways or turning over a new leaf. His tan shoes represent him as a black man with a white mans power and rule. Right before he sets the old mule free on pg 58, Joe switches into his old black gater shoes which represent him before his power as the nice man that set Janies love blossoming.

TEWWG pg 47

Text: And then he spit in that gold-looking vase that anybody here would have been glad to put on their front room table.

The spittoons is basically a metaphor for the "white mans power" because it is like Jody one-upping everybody in his town. The town was support to be a place for colored people to get away form poor treatment but now Jody is basically running it and everybody else is following under is command. It is not much different than a  normal town with its while folk bossing the colored around and dong there work for them.

TEWWG pg 43

TEXT: Janie made her face laugh after a short pause.....It must have been the way Joe spoke out without giving her a chance to say anything one way or another that took the bloom off of things.

The motif of Janie's love being like a flowering plant appears again but this time the bloom has ceased. Just like Janie's first marriage her husband has stopped kissing her feet like her Nanny warned. Janie thought that Jody would be the an to put her love into bloom but after Jody told told the town his wife couldn't make a speach without her saying so she is in the same position as last time.

TEWWG pg 43

Text: "Thank yuh feh'yo compliments, but mah wife don't know nothign bout no speech-makin. Ah never married her for nothign like dat. She's uh woman and her place is in de home....

The idea that men view woman as item to do house work comes up again. Jody upsets Janie when he doesn't give her a chance to say anything before he decides she cant give a speach. Zora must have had a poor view on many men and thought they didn't respect woman and underestimated them.

TEWWG pg 39

Text: "He's liable teh do it too, Hicks. Ah hopes so anyhow. Us colored folks is too envious of one' nother....Us keeps our own selves down."

Considering the time period this is a very different thing for a colored man to say. Most colored men would think that they cant move up is society because the white men are holding them down. But for this man to realize or say that they are holding themselves down is a very different and probably the first time a colored man has expressed this.

TEWWG pg 33

Text: "Green Cove Springs" he told the driver. So they were married there before sundown just like Joe had said."

This is the beginning of something new for Janie, her seed landing on soft ground and beginning to sprout. Joe has come into her life and is willing to keep her company and start over in a new town. However if Nanny's impression of men is correct Joe is most likely like Janies first husband. A wealthy man who will treat her well for a while and the slowly start to stop kissing her feet and make her work rather than sit around on a porch and fan herself.

TEWWG pg 25

Text: "A hope you fall on soft ground"

Falling on soft ground is a good thing especially if your a seed. When a seed falls on soft ground it gets pushed in and has an easy time sprouting and eventually sprouts into a plant ready to begin its task of growing into a full blown tree. For Janie falling on soft ground would be finding her special someone to love and keep her from feeling lonesome. However at the moment her seed is sitting on solid concrete, not blooming with love but just waiting for the right man to bring her to soft ground.

TEWWG pg 23

Text: "Ah ain't studyin bout none of 'em. At de same time ah ain't takin dat ole land teh heart neither. Ah could throw ten acres of it over de fence every day and never look back to see where it fell. Ah feel the same way bout Mr. Killicks too. Some folks never was meant to be loved and he's one of 'em.

Unlike her grandmother Janie is not looking to marry somebody just because of what the represent like a house or 60 acres of land. Janie is looking to have somebody to love. She has lived in an environment where she has not been adored like most people have. Earlier in the book she compares herself to a "tree in bloom waiting for a bee." This gives us the idea that she is waiting for somebody to come along and love her, like a bee would go to a tree and spread its pollen. Shes' looking for company, not money and valuables.

TEWWG pg 23

Text: "Humph! don't spect all dat tuh heep up. He ain't kissin' yo' fowf when he carry on over you lak dat. He kissin' yo' foot and tain't in uh man tuh kiss foot long. Mouf kissin' is on uh equal and dat's natural but when they got to bow down tuh love day soon straightens up."

However this may be true for some men I do not believe it is for all. What is interesting though is why Nanny would want Janie to get married,either for protection or something else, if she thinks that men are only into marriage for the physical aspects of it. Especially since she is ready to smack anybody who touches Janie in the wrong way. Nanny seems to have a very poor view of men and thinks their all rapist.

TEWWG pg 21

Text: "In the few days to live before she went to Logan Killicks and his often mentioned sixy acres"

Besides being wealthy and well off i get teh idea that Logan Killicks is probably not the best guy in town. The fact that his 60 acres are mentioned before and rather than his personality or looks most likely means he is an ugly feller and isn't the most fascinating guy to talk to.

T.E.W.W.G. pg 8

Text: ...She had a house out in de back yard and dat's where she wuz born. They was quality white folks up dere in West FLorida. She had four gran chillun on de place and al of us played together and dats how come ah never called my Grandma nothign but Nanny. 'Cause thats whate verybody on de place called her.

This gives an insight to why Janie is uneducated and so poor off. First we learn that her parents are not around anymore and secondly we learn that it is a time period when colored people are still treated poorly explain why she didn't get the best education and why she doesn't make a lot of money.

TEWWG pg 4

Text: "Aw, pretty good, Ah'm tryin' to soak some uh de tiredness and de dirt outa mah' feet."

This is the first time we here Janie speak and it confirms that she is also not the most educated person. Before this we only knew that her neighbors were uneducated. We also learn from this paragraph that the line is in that her neighbors and her are connected either through family or just friends because they bring her a plate of food. The area definitely has a southern/uneducated accent.

TEWWG pg 3

Text: "She's way fast forty to my knowledge, phoeby"
'She's way too old for a boy like Tea Cake"
"Tea Cake aint been no boy for some time. He's round thirty his ownself"

We learn that the womans age is somewhere a bit over 40. . Before this I thought that she was in her twenties considering her description, "...her firm buttocks like she had grape fruits in her hip pockets...then her pugnacious breast trying to bore holes in her shirt..." and the mention of her previous boy friend running off with a girl so young "she don't even have no hairs". From these descriptions we can take that she is a very good looking and healthy woman.

TEWWG pg 2

"What she doing coming back her in dem overhalls? Cant she find no dress to put on? Where's dat blue satin dress she left her in. Where all dat money her husband took and died and left her..."

This paragraph gives a lot of background information about the girl in the story very quickly. We learn that she is widowed and once had money but apparently lost it to another man. She is most likely a hard-working woman considering she comes home in overalls after other people in her neighborhood are already done and sitting on their porches. We also get a view of her community and how the people talking don't have much to do considering how much they know about other people's business and we also get a feeling that the people don't have much of an education because of the way they talk.

pg 253 wldn

Text: ...He had long ago bought a potters wheel off him, and wished to know what had become of him. I had read of the potter's day and wheel in scripture, but it had never occured to me that the pots we used were not such as had come down unbroken form those days, or grown on trees like gourds somewehre, and i was pleased to hear that so fictile an art was ever practiced in my neighborhood.

It is interesting that Thoreau, in my vew, hits another level of like for his neighborhood when he reads of another person making pots or instrument from the land. I think it makes him feel like he is in a place where people have been living from the land for ages. Much like he likes the idea of building his house he likes the thought of somebody making pots because it is dong something for themselves.

pg. 209 wldn

Text: ...A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle. Not that food which entereth in to the mouth defileth a man, but the appetite with which i is eaten. It is neither the quality nor the quantity, but the devotion to sensual savors...

This falls into the idea or theme that one can live simply if they wish to. Thoreau lives off brown bread crust in the woods and thinks about life but many people would call him crazy for doing so, especially those who are hard working men with nice things who have most likely mortgaged out their lives. However Thoreau is saying that if you live passionately for what you are doing it does not matter if you are not eating or living in a fancy house because your life will have the quality as if you were if you live passionately for it.

pg. 205 wldn

Text ...I have found repeatedly, of late years, that i cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect. I have tried it again and again. I have skill at it, and, lime many of my fellows, a certain instinct for it, which revives fro time to time, but always when i have done i feel that it would have been better if i had not fished

This is weird because to live as simply and as cheaply as Thoreau does he would have to fish to sustain himself as well as hunt However I suppose that Thoreau starts to feel like he is working and taking advantage of nature rather than being being with nature to get away from society learn from it. It could also appeal hover to Thoreau that eating fish and meet would be a more complicated life style than he wishes to live and thinks he could live simple enough of potatoes, rice, and bread. The idea of killing animals and fish is also like killing nature, it is the same as if he were to drain Walden Pond to make a pool.

pg. 198 wldn

Text: ...I did not work hard, I did not have to eat hard, and it cost me but a trifle for m food. But as he began with tea, and coffee, and butter, and milk and beef, he had to work hard to pay for them, and when he worked hard he had to eat hard again to repair the waste of system.

Thoreau is playing into the idea again that there is no point in having nice things if they are going to start owning you. "we don't ride the railroad but the railroad rides us." Thoreau gets along fine with what he has, which is not much and certainly nothing very nice, but he does it without working hard. However this man has many things like milk, bread and beef but has to work hard all day long for them and when he does this he must eat hard and buy new things to make up for the wear and tear put on his things by working hard therefore digging him into a certain debt. Thoreau then makes the statement later on that if the man only lived as simply as him he could work hard and make enough profit for 2 weeks.

pg. 186

Text: ...The villagers, who scarcely know where it lies, instead of going to the pond to bathe or drink, are thinking to bring its water, which should be as sacred as the Ganges at least, to the village in a pipe, to wash their dishes with!...

The idea of piping the water from Walden pond to village is absurd  to Thoreau because it represents to him what life is about and living with the wealth of knowledge rather than personal possessions. He believes that the water from walden is like the Ganges, a river thought to cleanse the soul of all its bad karma and wrong doings, but rather the idea of the purity of nature. Instead of the people of society going to the river and drinking it which for Thoreau reminds him of how he should live his life will be wasted on piping it to society where people will not gain the knowledge of it but rather continue living their lives in the fog.

pg. 172

Text: The water is so transparent that the bottom can easily be discerned at the depth of twenty-five or thirty feet. Paddling over it you may see may feet beneath the surface the schools of perch and shiners, perhaps only an inch long.

I think that Thoreau sees this pond as the purity of what nature represents compared to society which is compared to as a muddy river earlier on. The muddy river represents society and how the people in it aren't seeing the truth and are stuck thinking that the way people are measured in life is by what there personal possessions are and that their mind are confused and mirky like the muddy river. However Walden pond is crystal clear and nothing is keeping people from not seeing that life is measured by how much knowledge one possesses and that one doesn't need all the comforts of nice thing but rather the bare necessities. Thoreau continues to express how clear this pond is continuing the idea that it represents how nature is uncorrupted.

Literary Device

Epigram: A very short witty poem usually written as a brief couplet that expresses an idea or remark in a clever and amusing way with a witty or ingenious ending.

Example:

Bruce Bennett, "Ironist"

I mean the opposite of what I say.

You've got it now? No, it's the other way.

This is a clever epigram because the idea of "meaning the opposite of what I say" is expressed in the end or possibly not when the speaker says "No, it's the other way" which could mean that it is not correct or if its the opposite then it correct. Either way the last line of the poem is clever and somewhat confusing.

Function: Epigrams are not really used for any other purpose than to just be amusing and possibly show how clever one is by playing around with the idea of things and mixing them up. Many writers use them in stories or poems to say something but without really saying what is actually meant such as in this poem:

God bless our good and gracious king,

Whose promise none relies on,
Who never said a foolish thing,
Nor ever did a wise one.

At first you think the king is a great person but in the end you realize that he may not be so bright and has never done anything. However you cant actually take that out of the text.