Their eyes were watching God. – Flashcards

Janie Crawford

She is returning home after being gone for some time.

She had beautiful, long dark hair.

Pheobe Watson

The story was told as a flashback.

Her nanny told her too.

She thought marriage would bring love.

She died.

At first Logan talked in rhymes and did things for her, then he told her she had to do more work.

She discovered that marriage did not make love.

He was citified. Stylishly dressed and had money and ambitions.

She left Logan and ran off with Joe.

He was looking for the mayor.

It was called West Maitland and Eatonville.

He paid cash for 200 acres of land. He opened a store and a post office. He bought the towns first street lamp. He organized the men and built a road. He had a drainage ditch built.

He wanted her to be " the bell-cow"; to look and act better than other women.

He was elected mayor.

She felt cold; his remarks took the bloom off things.

It was the street lamp.

She couldn't get close to most of them. They felt jealous and awestruck.

She was frustrated in the Skye when she had to deal with the math involved in the customers purchases. Joe said she could do it if she wanted too and he wanted her to use her privileges.

He bought it so it could stay in the pasture and rest.

Joe started criticizing Janie. At first she fought back, then she gradually submitted. She learned to keep her thoughts to herself.

She said God told her how superiors he was that they turned out so smart after he made them different than women. And that they would be surprised if they ever found out they didn't know half as much about women as they thought.

Joe realized he wasn't as young as he used to be. He started picking on Janie because his fear of his own age.

She was very upset and cried often.

She told him he really didn't know her, that she had lots of sympathy but he would never let her use it.

She stopped eating headrags.

They thought she'd remarry

She didn't want too. She loved her new freedom.

She said mourning shouldn't last any longer than grief.

He came into the store and started talking to her.

He was tall and lean. He had full, lazy eyes. He joked and laughed a lot.

He was about 11 years younger than Janie. He didn't look like he had much money. She wasn't sure what his intentions were or if they were serious or honorable.

He wanted to tell her his daytime thoughts. Janie still has doubts about the seriousness of his intentions, so he was attempting to prove to her that he was serious about her.

He bought her strawberries in the morning so she could listen to his daytime thoughts. He invited her to the big Sunday school picnic.

They thought he was trying to take advantage of her.

She said she has always wanted to go and do things that she was doing. With tea-cake. But Joe wouldn't let her do those things

She planned to marry tea-cake and she didn't want people comparing him to Joe.

Janie took the train to Jacksonville, wearing her new blue satin dress. Yes-cake met her at the rain and took her to the preachers house, where they got married.

She woke up and discovered that tea-cake had taken her $200 and left their room before she woke up.

She told him she intended to partake of everything with him. And if he ever went off and had fun without her again, she would kill him.

He gambled and won $322.00

They event to the Everglades to pick beans. " de muck"

It was a section of the Everglades near clerks ton and belle glade where sugar cane, string beans and tomatoes were raised.

She enjoyed the work and the social life.

Tea-cake asked her too. Because he missed her during the day.

Janie found the struggling on one of the can rows. And confronted them. When they got back to their house they wrestled, then finally made up. The next morning tea-cake reassured Janie that she was the only women in whom he was interested.

Mrs. Turner was a light skinned with Caucasian features. She prides herself on not looking like the other negroes, and thought she was better than them.

She thought Janie wS to fine features to be married to a man as black as tea-cake. She wanted to introduce Janie to her brother.

He whipped Janie to show that he was still in possession of her. He wanted to show the turners he was still the boss.

They congratulated him because all of Janie's bruises were visible. Which meant she did not fight back. They said their wives would have fought and screamed.

She told her husband she wanted to move back to Miami

A hurricane was coming

They thought they were safe because of the dike. They also thought the boss-man would be able to stop the hurricane by morning.

She said when she was Skyhawks her husband in a storm, she didn't think she would die until her time came. And that she was happy being with tea-cake.

The people who had not left for higher ground were staring out at the first of the hurricane

They started walking and swimming toward the high road that went to the palm beach.

Janie had grabbed onto a piece of roofing to use to cover tea-came. The wind came up and blew Khmer and the roofing into the water. A cow was swimming by, and tea-cake told her to grab it's tail. There was a dog on the cows back. The dog advanced towards Janie. TSA-cake jumped in the water and fought the dog. The dog bit him before he was able to kill it.

After a few days they went back to the muck and were reunited with many of their old friends.

He came home complaining of a headache.

He had a headache and a fever, his throat was closed up and he couldn't swallow anything, not even water.

He said tea-cake had rabies. And that he had almost no chance to recover.

She went outside and looked up at the sky. She wondered if God was noticing what was going on. And if he had intentionally cause this problem for her and tea-cake.

She found a pistol. With three full chambers

When tea-came went outside she whirled the cylinder so the three chambers would snap first. Then she readied the rifle and put it in the corner of the kitchen.

He was in a delirious rage and aimed the pistol at Janie. After he shot once, Janie readied the rifle. He discharged the other two empty cylinders, then got ready to shoot again, and then Janie shot and killed tea-cake.

Janie held tea-came in her arms and wept and silently thanked him for all the time they had together. Yes-cake but her arm just before he died.

The doctor testifies that Janie has acted in self defense. Janie testified and tried to tell the jury hoe bad the situation was. She was acquitted.

At first they felt Janie should have been convicted of murder, but they relented after awhile.

She brought the lack of seeds tea-cake wanted to plant .