Their Eyes Were Watching God-American Literature – Flashcards
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ailing
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sick
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sodden
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saturated; water-logged
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pugnacioius
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combative
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mulatto
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1) mixed race; African American/ White 2) brown
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calyxes
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outer protective portion of a flower
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languid
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easy going, slow moving, with low energy (positive connotation)
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desecrate
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disrespectful or destructive to the sacred
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zest
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enthusiasm, excitement for life
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shiftless
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lazy (negative connotation)
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saunter
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to walk in a casual manner
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disconsolate
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without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable
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percale
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cotton cloth/fabric
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temerity
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boldness, rashness
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dilemma
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any difficult situation
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orator
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a public speaker
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euology
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a speech given in honor of a deceased person
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distended
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increased in size; expanded
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ponderous
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heavy, awkward or unwieldy; dull and labored
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discomfiture
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embarassment
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chasten
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to inflict suffering upon
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scornful
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expressing disapproval (negative word)
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insinuation
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unpleasant hint or suggestion
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ostentatious
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overly fancy
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rollicking
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to act in an energetic, happy fashion
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usurper
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a person who takes another person's power illegitimately
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pullet
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young chicken
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vicinity
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locality, in the neighborhood of.
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flivver
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a cheap old car
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abyss
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bottomless pit
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scimitar
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curved sword
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console
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comfort
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slang/ invented words
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jooks
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country bar (south)
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zigaboo
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racial slur for a black person
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doodly squat
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nothing
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mostropolous
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monstrous/huge
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box
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guitar
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the muck
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the Everglades
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knuckle puddin'
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getting beaten up with a fist
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freezeolity
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cold bluntness
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class off
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to act superior to the other class; to separate from the lower class
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get your knot charged
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get drunk
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saws
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Bahaman migrants
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Poetry Definitions
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alliteration
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repetition of beginning sounds of words adjacent or near to one another in a line or stanza
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allusion
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reference to history, geography, or mythology intended to add meaning to a story or text
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mood
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the state or quality of feeling of the author's writing
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tone
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the quality/character of how the author sounds
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hyperbole
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exaggeration to emphasize strong feeling, or for humorous effect
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personification
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giving human characteristics to animals, objects, or ideas
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synasthesia
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imagery that appeals to one sense when another is being stimulated
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onomatopoeia
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use of words that echo the sounds they describe
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consonance
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recurrence/repetition of consonants, especially at the end of stressed syllables without the similar correspondence of vowels
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synecdoche
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a phrase where a part represents a whole (ex. "The long arm of the law")
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dialect
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an attempt to put actual language use into print. ("Ah" instead of "I") ("De" for "the")
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motif
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a recurring subject, theme, idea (especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work)
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rhyme scheme
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pattern of end rhyme in a poem
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repetition
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to use any element of language more than once- a sound, a word, a phrase, or sentence
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assonance
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use of words that have the same or very similar vowel sounds near one another
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Minor Characters
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Phoeby Watson
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Janie's best friend
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Leafy Crawford
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mother of Janie
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Nanny
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grandmother to Janie
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Johnny Taylor
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man whose wife acts poor so she can get a piece of meat from Joe
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Mrs. Turner
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black woman who is racist against blacks. Tries to befriend Janie
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Nunkie
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woman who makes Janie jealous. Tea Cake almost cheated on Janie?
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Double Ugly
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Lost to Tea Cake in gambling and fought him
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Matt Bonner
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Owns mule, center of "verbal abuse" from town who jokes about it. Doesn't take care of mule- feed it.
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Sop de Bottom
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Tea Cake's friend, at her trial he took sides against Janie for Tea Cake's death.
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Hezekiah Potts
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works in store with Janie. Imitated Joe after he died. Teenager- 17 years old.
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Annie Tyler
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a rich widow at 52 years old. Men came after her for her insurance money; they used her.
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Who Flung
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young man who takes advantage of Annie Tyler
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Amos Hicks
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no job, hits on Janie, tells stories
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Motorboat
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tired, survived the hurricane, slept through it, (fate)
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Mr. and Mrs.Washburn
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the white family where Nanny and Tea Cake lived with
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Logan Killicks
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Janie's first husband. Old man, non attractive.
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Joe Starks
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Janie's second husband.
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Sam Watson
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Pheoby's husband, good sense of humor
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Miss Samuels
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reminds Janie of Pheoby back in Eatonville. (In Jacksonville)
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Important Places
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Lake City, Florida
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Eatonville
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Where Joe and Janie live together.
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Green Cove Springs
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Jacksonville
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Palm Beach
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"Georgy"
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Lake Okeechobee
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Orlando
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Altamonte Springs
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Belle Glade
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The Everglades
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Tea Cake and Janie go here to plant seeds.
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Orange County
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West Florida
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Maitland
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Miami
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Symbols
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Mules
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work animal, often associated with women in the sotry
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The Pear Tree
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life, love sex, marriage, romance, sexual awakening
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God
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The Power of nature, unfathomable power beyond human control, fate
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Lake Okeechobee/the Everglades
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oppurtunity
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Eatonville
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independence, freedom for African Americans, self-determination, easy-going, gossipy, pride
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Nanny
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old ways, the damage done by slavery, she thinks marriage is only about security, she arranges a marriage for Janie
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Annie Tyler
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represents the greed of (young) men for money and Janie fears the same thing could happen to her
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the color blue
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Tea Cake's affection for Janie. He liked to see her wear blue, a symbol of her escape from mourning Joe
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"him with the square toes"
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a personification of death as a flightless bird with square toes. It lives on a platform with no walls or roof
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Mrs. Turner
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talks bad about Tea Cake, wants to be Janie's friend, black but hates black people, the darker people are-the more she dislikes them
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the human voice
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metaphor for influence
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Hezekiah
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Shop keeper with Janie
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Nature
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power, beauty, danger, human limitation (we can't overcome nature)
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White People
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Women
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associated with animals with animals- mules, chickens, unthinking "brutes" that men use
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The porch sitters
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the gossipers of the town, entertainment, socializing
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Janie's headrags
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Joe's power, Janie's submission
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Janie's hair
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her most attractive physical feature, a symbol of Joe's jealousy
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Joe's store
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center of Eatonville's social activity (telling stories, talking, guys watching girls, bragging, buying food)
