English 12, Unit 3:
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Quoted Passages
Directions: Below you will find important quotes from the passages from the book. They are intended to help you check your comprehension of the text. You should be able to identify:
* The Speaker
* The Importance of the Quote =
- Character Details
- A Pivotal Change in the Story
- It Highlights Some Aspect of a Quality or Person
I will not be collecting this. It is simply designed as a test review item.
Chapter 1:
“ Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.” Ch. 1 P.1
“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 do things accordingly.” Ch. 1 P.1
Chapter 2:
“Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches.” Ch.2 p. 8
"'You know, honey, us colored folks is branches without roots and that makes things come round in queer ways. You in particular. Ah was born back due in slavery so it wasn't for me to fulfill my dreams of whut a woman oughta be and to do . . . Ah wanted to preach a great sermon about colored women sittin' on high, but they wasn't no pulpit for me.'" Chapter 2, pg. 15
“[Janie] was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation. Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid.” Ch. 2
Chapter 3:
“Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.” Ch 3 p. 25
Chapter 4:
“Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he [Joe] spoke for far horizon. He spoke for change and chance. Still she hung back. The memory of Nanny was still powerful and strong.” Ch. 4 p. 29
Chapter 5:
“Over, Janie? I god, Ah ain’t even started good. Ah told you in de very first beginnin’ dat Ah aimed tuh be uh big voice. You oughta be glad, ‘cause dat meaks us big woman outa you.
A feeling of coldness and fear took hold of her. He felt far away from things and lonely.” Ch. 5 p. 46
“They had murmured hotly about slavery being over, but every man filled his assignment.” Ch. 5 p. 47
“It sort of made the rest of them feel that they had been taken advantage of. Like things had been kept from them. Maybe more things in the world besides spitting pots had be hid from them, when they wasn’t no better than to spit in tmato cans. It was bad enough for white people, but when one of your own color could be so different it put you on a wonder. It was like seeing your sister turn into a ‘gator.”Ch. 5 p. 48
“Speakin’ of winds, he’s de winds, he’s de wind and we’se de grass. We bend which ever way he blows,…but at dat us needs h im. De town wouldn’t be nothin’ if it wasn’t for him. He can’t help bein’ sorta bossy. Some folks needs thrones, and ruling – chairs and crowns tuh make they influence flet. He don’t. He ‘s got us throne in de seat of his pants.” Ch. 5 p. 49
Chapter 6:
“This business of the head-rag irked her endlessly. But Jody was set on it. Her hair was NOT going to show in the store. It didn’t seem sensible at all. That was because Joe never told Janie how jealous he was… She was there in the store for him to look at, not those others. But he never said things like that. ..” Ch. 6 p. 55
“The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor. It was there to shake hands whenever company came to visit, but it never went back inside the bedroom again. .. The bed was no loner a daisy field for her and Joe to play in. It was a place where she went and laid down when she was sleepy and tired.” Ch. 6 p. 71
“She found that she had a host of thoughts she never expressed to him, and numerous emotions she had never let Jody know about. 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.” Ch 6. p. 73
Chapter 7:
“She got nothing from Jody except what money could buy, and she was giving away what she didn’t value.” Ch. 7 p. 76
“Then one day she sat and watched the shadow of herself going about tending store and prostrating itself before Jody, while all the time she herself sat under a shady tree with the wind blowing through her hair and her clothes. Somebody near about making summertime out of lonesomeness.” Ch. 7 p. 77
Chapter 8:
“The young girl was gone, but a handsome woman had taken her place. She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair. .Then she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see…” Ch. 8 p. 87
Chapter 9:
“The Little Emperor of the cross-roads was leaving Orange County as he had come – with the out-stretched hand of power.
Janie starched and ironed her face and came set in the funeral behind her veil. It was like a wall of stone and steel. The funeral was going on outside. All things concerning death and burial were said and done… Weeping and wailing outside. Inside the expensive black folds were resurrection and life. She did not reach outside for anything, not did the things of death reach inside to disturb her calm. She set her face to Joe’s funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world.” Ch 9. p. 89
Chapter 10:
This is a transition chapter. I did not pick any quotes from this section.
Chapter 11:
“He was probably the kind of man who lived with various women but never married. Fact is, she decided to treat him so cold if her ever did foot the place that he’d be sure not to come hanging around there again. “ Ch 11 p. 100
"[Tea Cake] looked like the love thoughts of women. He could be a bee to a blossom - a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung about him. He was a glance from God." Chapter 11, pg. 101
Chapter 16:
"Before the week was over he had whipped Janie. Not because her behavior justified his jealousy, but it relieved that awful fear inside him. Being able to whip her reassured him in possession. No brutal beating at all. He just slapped her around a bit to show he was boss." Chapter 16, pg. 140
Chapter 17:
"They huddled closer and stared at the door. They just didn't use another part of their bodies, and they didn't look at anything but the door. The time was past for asking the white folks what to look for through that door. Six eyes were questioning God." Chapter 18, pg. 150
Chapter 18:
"'Once upon uh time, Ah never 'spected nothin', Tea Cake, but bein' dead from standin' still and tryin' tuh laugh. But you come 'long and made somethin' outa me. So Ah'm thankful fuh anything we come through together.'" Chapter 18, pg. 158
Chapter 19:
"Janie held his head tightly to her breast and wept and thanked him wordlessly for giving her the chance for loving service. She had to hug him tight for soon he would be gone, and she had to tell him for the last time. Then the grief of outer darkness descended." Chapter 19, pg. 175
Chapter 20:
"'So Ah'm back home agin and Ah'm satisfied tuh be heah. Ah done been tuh de horizon and back and now Ah kin set heah in mah house and live by comparisons.'" Chapter 20, pg. 182
"Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see." Chapter 20, pg. 184
Monday, December 14, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
A Note on Points Earned During Discussions - Extra Credit Option
Students,
Please check your Parent Portal to see how many discussion points you have earned. You have the potential to earn 125 during weeks 1-3 and 50 points during week 4. If you find that you do not have as many points earned as you would like you may do a bit of extra credit work. You may copy some of the questions from various chapters into a Word document and answer them.You will find that most chapters have several sets of questions. Pick the best set and answer those questions. You may also create a special set by picking and choosing from the available questions. Be sure to label the chapter number and include the question with your answer. This option is not available for the chapter you presented.
Here's how they are broken down:
Week 1 Chapters 1-7
Week 2 Chapters 3-12
Week 3 Chapters 4-19
Week 4 Chapter 20 (We have not done this one, yet)
These must be turned in by close of school on Wednesday, December 17.
Please check your Parent Portal to see how many discussion points you have earned. You have the potential to earn 125 during weeks 1-3 and 50 points during week 4. If you find that you do not have as many points earned as you would like you may do a bit of extra credit work. You may copy some of the questions from various chapters into a Word document and answer them.You will find that most chapters have several sets of questions. Pick the best set and answer those questions. You may also create a special set by picking and choosing from the available questions. Be sure to label the chapter number and include the question with your answer. This option is not available for the chapter you presented.
Here's how they are broken down:
Week 1 Chapters 1-7
Week 2 Chapters 3-12
Week 3 Chapters 4-19
Week 4 Chapter 20 (We have not done this one, yet)
These must be turned in by close of school on Wednesday, December 17.
Chapters 19-20 Their Eyes Were Watching God
Chapter 19
1. “Git on down de road dere, suh! Don’t look out somebody’ll be buryin you! G’wan in front uh me, suh!” (170).
-the black man’s reality is a white man with a badge and a gun
2. “Death had found them watching, trying to see beyond seeing” (270).
-Any significance between these “watchers” and the Watcher from in the opening lines of Chapter 1?
-What is significant about the title Their Eyes Were Watching God.
3. Why worry about putting the whites in a coffin? (171).
4. Treated like crap-here’s their reality: “Sofar as [de white man’s] concerned all [the blacks] he don’t know oughta be tried and sentenced to six months behind de United States privy house at hard smellin’”(172).
5. Why would Tea Cake be so angry with Janie? He’s never been angry with her before-just take his anger out on her (176).
6. Rabies! What would you do if your spouse was sick like Tea Cake? Save yourself or take care of him?
7. “If she didn’t see the sickness in his face she could imagine it wasn’t really happening” (178).
-Any significance about Janie’s character?
8. Would sop-de-bottom and Dochery have stayed with Tea Cake if Janie had told them he had rabies? (179)
-Should she have told them?
9. Why would Tea Cake sleep with a pistol under his pillow? (181).
10. “You’se uh lil girl baby all de time” (186) Is Janie to naïve for her own good?
11. Why didn’t Janie just run when she found the loaded gun? (182).
12. Why try Janie if she shot Tea Cake in self defense?
13. In what ways does our justice system waste time and money today?
14. What is it about gruesome details that make us want to see? To know? (Car accident?).
15. Why do we want to believe/see the worst in people?
16. Why does the author want us to see “the white woman [cry] and [stand] around [Janie] like a protecting wall and the Negroes… with heas hung down [shuffle] out [of the court house] and away (188).
17. “Aw you know dem white mens wazn’t gointuh do nothin’ tuh no woman. Dat look like her” (189).
-Do beautiful people suffer as a process/result of their beauty?
Chapter 20
1. Why do people have to place blame on someone or something when a loved one dies? (190)
2. “The seeds reminded Janie of Tea Cake more then anything else…” (191).
How does this feed the tree metaphor for Janie’s life?
3. “Ah done been to the horizon and back now Ah kin set heah in mah house and live by comparison” (191).
How does this tie into Hurston’s opening lines about the dreams of men and women?
4. What does Pheoby mean when she says, “Ah means tuh make same take me fishin’ wid him after this (192)?
5. What does Janie mean by saying “And listenin’ to dat kind of talk is lak openin’ yo mouth and lettin’ the moon shine down your throat” (192)?
6. “She pulled in her horizon lke a great fish net” (193).
What would the rest of Janie’s life be like?
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Chapter 19
Ivan’s Summary:
After the hurricane Tea Cake decides to go walk around and finds himself being forced by two white men to help find and bury dead bodies. Has time go’s by Tea Cake find an opportunity to escape and he takes it. He gets back to his house only to find Janie crying worried, he calms her down and tells her that they need to move, and so they leave. A couple weeks later Tea Cake comes home with a headache and starts having problems eating and drinking water. Janie calls a doctor to do a diagnosis on him, Tea Cake has Rabies and it’s too late to save him because he has been infected for to long. Janie decides not to tell him and look for a cure but has time passes by it gets worse and worse until Janie finds out that Tea Cake is hiding a gun under his pillow so instead of taking the bullets out she fixes the gun so that it shoots three blanks first while he go’s to the out house when he comes back in a fit of rage he get’s the gun and walk into the kitchen with Janie he fires the first blank shots and has he is about to shoot the last one Janie gets the rifle and kills him. Janie held his head tightly to her breast and wept and thanked him wordlessly for giving her the chance for loving service. She had to hug him tight for soon he would be gone, and she had to tell him for the last time. “Then the grief of outer darkness descended." And that same day she was sent to jail. She was sent to trail and was considered innocent after that happened they held a funeral for her love and she buried him in her overalls.
Alejandro’s Summary:
In chapter 19 many interesting things happen. At the beginning Tea Cake is forced to help two white guys bury dead bodies. He finds out that white people get coffins and black people just get put in ditches. When he gets the chance he runs away and goes to Janie and tells her that they need to get away. So after some time Tea Cake starts to feel sick. His condition gets really bad so Janie tells a doctor what’s wrong. The doctor tells Janie that he has rabies and that she should be careful. Janie finds a gun on tea Cake’s bed and so she puts the blank rounds in first so that in case something was to happen the blank rounds would fire first. When Tea cake loses his mind he shoots at Janie and then defends herself by shooting Tea Cake. Tea Cake dies and Janie is sent to be on trial but is found innocent. At Tea Cake’s funeral Janie goes to it in her overalls.
1. What happen in town? (Literal)
2. Where do Janie and Tea Cake go at the beginning of the Chapter? (Literal)
3. When Janie is on trial do they find her guilty or innocent? (Literal)
4. Why was there two white men carrying weapons in town? (Literal)
5. What are some of the odd things that start happening to tea cake? (Literal)
6. What do you think Tea Cake means when he says “Dey claims dey’s after de unemployed, but dey ain’t bein’ too particular about wether you’se employed or not.”?(Interpretive)
7. When Janie goes to fix Tea Cake’s bed what does she find? (Literal)
8. What did Tea Cake have to do once he was part of the small army pressed into service? (Literal)
9. Do you think that Janie should have told Tea Cake that he had Rabies? (Interpretive)
10. Do you think it’s fair that the dead whites get coffins but the colored don’t? (Interpretive)
11. Why do you think that Tea Cake shoots at Janie? (Interpretive)
12. Do you think that Tea Cake became jealous because Janie went to Mrs. Turner’s Brother? (Interpretive)
13. If Tea Cake had taken the cure do you think things would have been different instead of how it ended happened with Janie killing Tea Cake?(interpretive)
14. Why do you think that Janie went to the funeral in her overalls? (Interpretive)
15. Do you think it was Janie’s fault that Tea Cake died? (Interpretive)
16. Would you be able to take the life of your one true love? (Universal)
17. If you took the life of the person you love would you be able to live your life like if it never did?
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Fransisco's Discussion
Chapter 20
This chapter is about Janie and her best friend Pheoby. And in this chapter it’s really talking about how everybody in court blamed her because she had killed Tea Cake. But after she had told everybody that she had done it because it was self defense everybody was sorry that they accused her. This chapter was also about how she came back to her home town and she was walking in her room for the first time after a long time, remembering all those emotions that she once had with Tea Cake. She is also remembering the whole story that had happen to her.
1. How long were they mad at Janie for? L
2. What one thing did Janie keep when she was giving her things away? L
3. What is Janie trying to say to Phoeby when she says,
…love is lak de sea . Its uh movin’ but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore. (pg. 191) I
4. What emotions come to Janie when she steps into her old room? I
5. Do you think that Janie found true love? I
6. Why did the court forgive Janie after she explained why she killed Tea Cake? L
7. Do you think that she will stay in town or move away? I
8. Do you think people like Janie seek love again or do you think that they stay alone? U
1. “Git on down de road dere, suh! Don’t look out somebody’ll be buryin you! G’wan in front uh me, suh!” (170).
-the black man’s reality is a white man with a badge and a gun
2. “Death had found them watching, trying to see beyond seeing” (270).
-Any significance between these “watchers” and the Watcher from in the opening lines of Chapter 1?
-What is significant about the title Their Eyes Were Watching God.
3. Why worry about putting the whites in a coffin? (171).
4. Treated like crap-here’s their reality: “Sofar as [de white man’s] concerned all [the blacks] he don’t know oughta be tried and sentenced to six months behind de United States privy house at hard smellin’”(172).
5. Why would Tea Cake be so angry with Janie? He’s never been angry with her before-just take his anger out on her (176).
6. Rabies! What would you do if your spouse was sick like Tea Cake? Save yourself or take care of him?
7. “If she didn’t see the sickness in his face she could imagine it wasn’t really happening” (178).
-Any significance about Janie’s character?
8. Would sop-de-bottom and Dochery have stayed with Tea Cake if Janie had told them he had rabies? (179)
-Should she have told them?
9. Why would Tea Cake sleep with a pistol under his pillow? (181).
10. “You’se uh lil girl baby all de time” (186) Is Janie to naïve for her own good?
11. Why didn’t Janie just run when she found the loaded gun? (182).
12. Why try Janie if she shot Tea Cake in self defense?
13. In what ways does our justice system waste time and money today?
14. What is it about gruesome details that make us want to see? To know? (Car accident?).
15. Why do we want to believe/see the worst in people?
16. Why does the author want us to see “the white woman [cry] and [stand] around [Janie] like a protecting wall and the Negroes… with heas hung down [shuffle] out [of the court house] and away (188).
17. “Aw you know dem white mens wazn’t gointuh do nothin’ tuh no woman. Dat look like her” (189).
-Do beautiful people suffer as a process/result of their beauty?
Chapter 20
1. Why do people have to place blame on someone or something when a loved one dies? (190)
2. “The seeds reminded Janie of Tea Cake more then anything else…” (191).
How does this feed the tree metaphor for Janie’s life?
3. “Ah done been to the horizon and back now Ah kin set heah in mah house and live by comparison” (191).
How does this tie into Hurston’s opening lines about the dreams of men and women?
4. What does Pheoby mean when she says, “Ah means tuh make same take me fishin’ wid him after this (192)?
5. What does Janie mean by saying “And listenin’ to dat kind of talk is lak openin’ yo mouth and lettin’ the moon shine down your throat” (192)?
6. “She pulled in her horizon lke a great fish net” (193).
What would the rest of Janie’s life be like?
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Chapter 19
Ivan’s Summary:
After the hurricane Tea Cake decides to go walk around and finds himself being forced by two white men to help find and bury dead bodies. Has time go’s by Tea Cake find an opportunity to escape and he takes it. He gets back to his house only to find Janie crying worried, he calms her down and tells her that they need to move, and so they leave. A couple weeks later Tea Cake comes home with a headache and starts having problems eating and drinking water. Janie calls a doctor to do a diagnosis on him, Tea Cake has Rabies and it’s too late to save him because he has been infected for to long. Janie decides not to tell him and look for a cure but has time passes by it gets worse and worse until Janie finds out that Tea Cake is hiding a gun under his pillow so instead of taking the bullets out she fixes the gun so that it shoots three blanks first while he go’s to the out house when he comes back in a fit of rage he get’s the gun and walk into the kitchen with Janie he fires the first blank shots and has he is about to shoot the last one Janie gets the rifle and kills him. Janie held his head tightly to her breast and wept and thanked him wordlessly for giving her the chance for loving service. She had to hug him tight for soon he would be gone, and she had to tell him for the last time. “Then the grief of outer darkness descended." And that same day she was sent to jail. She was sent to trail and was considered innocent after that happened they held a funeral for her love and she buried him in her overalls.
Alejandro’s Summary:
In chapter 19 many interesting things happen. At the beginning Tea Cake is forced to help two white guys bury dead bodies. He finds out that white people get coffins and black people just get put in ditches. When he gets the chance he runs away and goes to Janie and tells her that they need to get away. So after some time Tea Cake starts to feel sick. His condition gets really bad so Janie tells a doctor what’s wrong. The doctor tells Janie that he has rabies and that she should be careful. Janie finds a gun on tea Cake’s bed and so she puts the blank rounds in first so that in case something was to happen the blank rounds would fire first. When Tea cake loses his mind he shoots at Janie and then defends herself by shooting Tea Cake. Tea Cake dies and Janie is sent to be on trial but is found innocent. At Tea Cake’s funeral Janie goes to it in her overalls.
1. What happen in town? (Literal)
2. Where do Janie and Tea Cake go at the beginning of the Chapter? (Literal)
3. When Janie is on trial do they find her guilty or innocent? (Literal)
4. Why was there two white men carrying weapons in town? (Literal)
5. What are some of the odd things that start happening to tea cake? (Literal)
6. What do you think Tea Cake means when he says “Dey claims dey’s after de unemployed, but dey ain’t bein’ too particular about wether you’se employed or not.”?(Interpretive)
7. When Janie goes to fix Tea Cake’s bed what does she find? (Literal)
8. What did Tea Cake have to do once he was part of the small army pressed into service? (Literal)
9. Do you think that Janie should have told Tea Cake that he had Rabies? (Interpretive)
10. Do you think it’s fair that the dead whites get coffins but the colored don’t? (Interpretive)
11. Why do you think that Tea Cake shoots at Janie? (Interpretive)
12. Do you think that Tea Cake became jealous because Janie went to Mrs. Turner’s Brother? (Interpretive)
13. If Tea Cake had taken the cure do you think things would have been different instead of how it ended happened with Janie killing Tea Cake?(interpretive)
14. Why do you think that Janie went to the funeral in her overalls? (Interpretive)
15. Do you think it was Janie’s fault that Tea Cake died? (Interpretive)
16. Would you be able to take the life of your one true love? (Universal)
17. If you took the life of the person you love would you be able to live your life like if it never did?
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Fransisco's Discussion
Chapter 20
This chapter is about Janie and her best friend Pheoby. And in this chapter it’s really talking about how everybody in court blamed her because she had killed Tea Cake. But after she had told everybody that she had done it because it was self defense everybody was sorry that they accused her. This chapter was also about how she came back to her home town and she was walking in her room for the first time after a long time, remembering all those emotions that she once had with Tea Cake. She is also remembering the whole story that had happen to her.
1. How long were they mad at Janie for? L
2. What one thing did Janie keep when she was giving her things away? L
3. What is Janie trying to say to Phoeby when she says,
…love is lak de sea . Its uh movin’ but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore. (pg. 191) I
4. What emotions come to Janie when she steps into her old room? I
5. Do you think that Janie found true love? I
6. Why did the court forgive Janie after she explained why she killed Tea Cake? L
7. Do you think that she will stay in town or move away? I
8. Do you think people like Janie seek love again or do you think that they stay alone? U
Monday, December 7, 2009
Chapters 17-18 Their Eyes Were Watching God
Ch. 17 Questions - Carolyn
Summary: In this chapter Mrs. Turner brings by her brother to meet Janie. Tea Cake gets jealous and hurts Janie to prove he is in charge, even though she didn’t do nothing wrong. That Saturday when everyone gets paid they decide to party! Sterrett and Coodemay get the most drunk and they push, shove and talk really loud till they end up in Mrs. Turner’s store. Since the store was full they had to stand and eat and they ended up fighting. Tea Cake tried to stop them, but that only made it worse. Mrs. Turner got mad and told Mr. Turner to do something and he did nothing. The next morning Sterrett and Coodemay apologize and even pay her $5 for her forgiveness.
1.) How did Tea Cake prove to Janie and everyone else that he’s in charge?
2.) Could Tea Cake have treated or handled Janie different to prove his point?
3.) How do the men compare Janie to “other black women”
4.) When the men say “Ah ain’t mad wid her for whut she done, ‘cause she ain't done me nothin’ yet. Ah’m mad at her for thinkin’.”……is it right for them or anyone to be mad at another person just because the way they think about life?
5.) Could Tea Cake have handled trying to escort Sterrett and Coodemay out a little differently?
6.) What did Mr. Turner do when the store went crazy?
7.) Why didn’t Mr. Turner help his wife?
8.) Do you think being drunk is a good enough reason to explain your actions, why you did what you did?
9.) Should Mrs. Turner forgive Sterrett and Coodemay for their actions?
Chapter 18 – 1st half - Selena
Janie and Tea Cake Begin Having Dances out behind their house, because of the dances Tea Cake stops Janie from working with him in the Field so she can get her rest. One Day while Janie is at home She Sees Indian Walking through to Palm Beach. They inform her, a Hurricane is coming. Janie notices the animals start to leave, and some workers leave. On the way out Lias stops and offers Tea Cake and Janie a ride out, Tea Cake says no because he believes that there will never be the Hurricane. Tea Cake is putting work before the safety of Janie and Himself. Some People who stay in the muck continue to work and Party at Tea Cakes and Janie’s. Their Main fear is the Lake Okechobee will overflow. After everyone except Motorboat, Janie, and Tea Cake leave the house, Tea Cake questions if Janie, regrets staying with him...
Literal:
1.) Who Offers Janie and Tea Cake a Ride out of the Muck?
2.) What lake Are they Afraid is going to overflow?
3.) What did the People in the Muck think of the Indians?
Interpretive:
1.) When everyone began questioning the storm because of the Indians, Did the people really trust the judgment of the Indians? Why or why not?
2.) Should Janie have stayed with Tea Cake even though her opinion on the storm was different then his?
3.) Even though Janie was concerned about the Hurricane, why do you believe she allowed there to be a party at her house anyway?
4.) Is Janie Life worth risking for what may or may not be meaningful love with Tea Cake?
5.) Knowing the dangers of staying in the muck through the storm. Do you Think Janie stayed because she honestly loved Tea Cake and trusted his Judgment or Do you think Janie stayed out of fear that with out Tea Cake she loses the little bit of youth she has…
Universal:
1.) Was it a Good Idea to Party and Not dwell on what could be with the storm?
Alexzandra
Chapter 18 part 2
This chapter is about a huge storm coming in and they don’t choose to leave until it gets really bad the storm builds in the distance and the gigantic Lake Okechobee begins to roil. The three of them wait out the storm in the house with “their eyes . . . watching God.” They decide to flee and the storm is so bad that they have to swim long distances Janie gets blown into rough water. She struggles but then sees a cow swimming by with a growling dog perched on its back. She grabs the cow’s tail for safety, but the dog begins to attack her. Tea Cake dives to the rescue and wrestles in the water with the beast, which bites him on the cheek before he stabs it to death. The next day, Janie and Tea Cake reach Palm Beach, a scene of chaotic destruction. They find a place to rest and Janie thanks Tea Cake for saving her life.
1. How deep is the water when they leave the house? (L)
2. How long and wide is Lake Okechobee according to Tea Cake? (L)
3. Describe what T.C did when he saw Janie struggle on the cow and the dog attacked her. (L)
4. In what way has Tea Cake “made somethin’ outa” Janie as she tells him at the end of the chapter?(I)
5. What does Janie mean by the statement, “If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all” (I)
6. In this chapter, they say “their eyes are watching God.” What does this mean to you? (I)
7. If you had a friend like Motor boat and he decided to stay in the house when the storm was coming and sleep, how would you react? (U)
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Ch. 18 (pg. 54-60) - Vince
1. After hearing what the Indian told Janie, would you have left to higher ground as well?
2. Why were all the animals going east?
3. Why do they feel it’s easier to have hope during the day then at night?
4. Who are they referring to when they say massa?
5. Do you think during the hurricane Tea Cake regretted not leaving before?
6. Do you think the same way as Janie does when she said “ People don’t die till dey time come now how, don’t keer where you at”…
7. Do you think it was dumb for Tea Cake to want to leave after the hurricane but not before?
8. Do you think the hurricane strengthened Tea Cakes and Janie’s relationship?
Summary: In this chapter Mrs. Turner brings by her brother to meet Janie. Tea Cake gets jealous and hurts Janie to prove he is in charge, even though she didn’t do nothing wrong. That Saturday when everyone gets paid they decide to party! Sterrett and Coodemay get the most drunk and they push, shove and talk really loud till they end up in Mrs. Turner’s store. Since the store was full they had to stand and eat and they ended up fighting. Tea Cake tried to stop them, but that only made it worse. Mrs. Turner got mad and told Mr. Turner to do something and he did nothing. The next morning Sterrett and Coodemay apologize and even pay her $5 for her forgiveness.
1.) How did Tea Cake prove to Janie and everyone else that he’s in charge?
2.) Could Tea Cake have treated or handled Janie different to prove his point?
3.) How do the men compare Janie to “other black women”
4.) When the men say “Ah ain’t mad wid her for whut she done, ‘cause she ain't done me nothin’ yet. Ah’m mad at her for thinkin’.”……is it right for them or anyone to be mad at another person just because the way they think about life?
5.) Could Tea Cake have handled trying to escort Sterrett and Coodemay out a little differently?
6.) What did Mr. Turner do when the store went crazy?
7.) Why didn’t Mr. Turner help his wife?
8.) Do you think being drunk is a good enough reason to explain your actions, why you did what you did?
9.) Should Mrs. Turner forgive Sterrett and Coodemay for their actions?
Chapter 18 – 1st half - Selena
Janie and Tea Cake Begin Having Dances out behind their house, because of the dances Tea Cake stops Janie from working with him in the Field so she can get her rest. One Day while Janie is at home She Sees Indian Walking through to Palm Beach. They inform her, a Hurricane is coming. Janie notices the animals start to leave, and some workers leave. On the way out Lias stops and offers Tea Cake and Janie a ride out, Tea Cake says no because he believes that there will never be the Hurricane. Tea Cake is putting work before the safety of Janie and Himself. Some People who stay in the muck continue to work and Party at Tea Cakes and Janie’s. Their Main fear is the Lake Okechobee will overflow. After everyone except Motorboat, Janie, and Tea Cake leave the house, Tea Cake questions if Janie, regrets staying with him...
Literal:
1.) Who Offers Janie and Tea Cake a Ride out of the Muck?
2.) What lake Are they Afraid is going to overflow?
3.) What did the People in the Muck think of the Indians?
Interpretive:
1.) When everyone began questioning the storm because of the Indians, Did the people really trust the judgment of the Indians? Why or why not?
2.) Should Janie have stayed with Tea Cake even though her opinion on the storm was different then his?
3.) Even though Janie was concerned about the Hurricane, why do you believe she allowed there to be a party at her house anyway?
4.) Is Janie Life worth risking for what may or may not be meaningful love with Tea Cake?
5.) Knowing the dangers of staying in the muck through the storm. Do you Think Janie stayed because she honestly loved Tea Cake and trusted his Judgment or Do you think Janie stayed out of fear that with out Tea Cake she loses the little bit of youth she has…
Universal:
1.) Was it a Good Idea to Party and Not dwell on what could be with the storm?
Alexzandra
Chapter 18 part 2
This chapter is about a huge storm coming in and they don’t choose to leave until it gets really bad the storm builds in the distance and the gigantic Lake Okechobee begins to roil. The three of them wait out the storm in the house with “their eyes . . . watching God.” They decide to flee and the storm is so bad that they have to swim long distances Janie gets blown into rough water. She struggles but then sees a cow swimming by with a growling dog perched on its back. She grabs the cow’s tail for safety, but the dog begins to attack her. Tea Cake dives to the rescue and wrestles in the water with the beast, which bites him on the cheek before he stabs it to death. The next day, Janie and Tea Cake reach Palm Beach, a scene of chaotic destruction. They find a place to rest and Janie thanks Tea Cake for saving her life.
1. How deep is the water when they leave the house? (L)
2. How long and wide is Lake Okechobee according to Tea Cake? (L)
3. Describe what T.C did when he saw Janie struggle on the cow and the dog attacked her. (L)
4. In what way has Tea Cake “made somethin’ outa” Janie as she tells him at the end of the chapter?(I)
5. What does Janie mean by the statement, “If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all” (I)
6. In this chapter, they say “their eyes are watching God.” What does this mean to you? (I)
7. If you had a friend like Motor boat and he decided to stay in the house when the storm was coming and sleep, how would you react? (U)
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Ch. 18 (pg. 54-60) - Vince
1. After hearing what the Indian told Janie, would you have left to higher ground as well?
2. Why were all the animals going east?
3. Why do they feel it’s easier to have hope during the day then at night?
4. Who are they referring to when they say massa?
5. Do you think during the hurricane Tea Cake regretted not leaving before?
6. Do you think the same way as Janie does when she said “ People don’t die till dey time come now how, don’t keer where you at”…
7. Do you think it was dumb for Tea Cake to want to leave after the hurricane but not before?
8. Do you think the hurricane strengthened Tea Cakes and Janie’s relationship?
Friday, December 4, 2009
Chapters 15-17 Student Generated Questions for Their Eyes Were Watching God
Chapter 15 Saylor
1. Who is the chunky girl Nunkie?
2. Why does Janie get jealous?
3. Where does the find tea cake and Nunkie?
1. Does Janie start to doubt Tea Cake?
2. Are some of Janies fears coming true?
3. Should Janie think about leaving yet?
Their Eyes Were Watching God -Chapter 16
1. Why would a black/white woman (or any colored folk) judge another based on the color of their skin?
-They’re not accepted by whites
-Do the blacks reject the lighter blacks because of their mixed blood? Why?
2. What does Ms. Turner hope to gain by “lighten[ing] up the race”? (140).
3. What makes others so sure that we will agree with their opinions? Is it narcissism? Hope? Insecurity? Stupidity?
4. What keeps us from speaking their minds to people like Ms. Turner who is overbearing and a boar?
5. Is there a “class system” of skin color for blacks?
6. “Half gods are worshiped in wine and flowers real gods require blood” (145). What does this symbolize for Ms. Turner
7. Are blacks intimidated by half-white/Negroes? Why?
Chapter 16 - Gabby
1. On page 140 in the 2nd paragraph it says, “To her way of thinking all these things set her aside from Negros.” Who is this they’re talking about and what “things”?
2. What does Mrs. Turner mean when she says she couldn’t see herself married to such a black man?
3. Why does Mrs. Turner assume that Tea Cake must have had a lot of money when they got married?
4. How does Mrs. Turner feel about black people? Why is it ironic?
5. Think of yourself as Mrs. Turner, would you be friends with someone who’s husband or boyfriend made fun of you behind your back the way Tea Cake did to Mrs. Turner?
6. Do you think Tea Cake has a reason to hate Mrs. Turner?
1. Who is the chunky girl Nunkie?
2. Why does Janie get jealous?
3. Where does the find tea cake and Nunkie?
1. Does Janie start to doubt Tea Cake?
2. Are some of Janies fears coming true?
3. Should Janie think about leaving yet?
Their Eyes Were Watching God -Chapter 16
1. Why would a black/white woman (or any colored folk) judge another based on the color of their skin?
-They’re not accepted by whites
-Do the blacks reject the lighter blacks because of their mixed blood? Why?
2. What does Ms. Turner hope to gain by “lighten[ing] up the race”? (140).
3. What makes others so sure that we will agree with their opinions? Is it narcissism? Hope? Insecurity? Stupidity?
4. What keeps us from speaking their minds to people like Ms. Turner who is overbearing and a boar?
5. Is there a “class system” of skin color for blacks?
6. “Half gods are worshiped in wine and flowers real gods require blood” (145). What does this symbolize for Ms. Turner
7. Are blacks intimidated by half-white/Negroes? Why?
Chapter 16 - Gabby
1. On page 140 in the 2nd paragraph it says, “To her way of thinking all these things set her aside from Negros.” Who is this they’re talking about and what “things”?
2. What does Mrs. Turner mean when she says she couldn’t see herself married to such a black man?
3. Why does Mrs. Turner assume that Tea Cake must have had a lot of money when they got married?
4. How does Mrs. Turner feel about black people? Why is it ironic?
5. Think of yourself as Mrs. Turner, would you be friends with someone who’s husband or boyfriend made fun of you behind your back the way Tea Cake did to Mrs. Turner?
6. Do you think Tea Cake has a reason to hate Mrs. Turner?
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Chapters 13-15 Their Eyes Were Watching God Student Generated Questions
Their Eyes Were Watching God -Chapter 13
1. Did Janie’s sneaking off to marry Tea Cake likely give the town a reason to be angry with her?
-maybe she could have convinced them to accept Tea Cake.
-People get P.O.’d when they don’t get invited to the wedding- they feel snubbed.
2. Is it odd that Tea Cake left ahead of Janie? If a couple runs off/elopes, is it usually done together?
3. “It was hard to love a woman who always make you wishful” (117).
-Are pretty women always required to prove themselves?
-How would things be different if Janie weren’t so pretty?
4. Why would Janie keep her money a secret? Does she still not fully trust Tea Cake?
5. How do we “check” ourselves from making bad decisions? What should Janie have done differently?
6. Describe a time when you have done something so completely dumb and how you recovered from your demise (Janie’s realization of her and Ms. Tyler) (119).
7. Why didn’t Tea Cake invite Janie to the party? (122)
8. Is he lying? Is he testing her?
9. How well should you know someone before you marry him/ her? How do you know?
10. Is it a good idea to reveal “bad habits” before you commit to some one? (124).
11. What “bad habits” are bad enough to throw in the towel on a relationship? (What about that list of characteristics of the perfect mate?
12. Is Janie defending Tea Cake out of love? Embarrassment? Fear? (126).
13. Why wouldn’t Tea Cake want a doctor to check out his migraines?
14. What details does Tea Cake leave out of his heroic story?
-he was cheating?
-he killed the guy?
15. “When I ain’t got nothin’ you don’t get nothin’” (128). Will he stop gambling & get a real job?
16. “Folks don’t do nothin’ down there but make money and fun and foolishness” (128).
-When is it time to set priorities and get real about a future?
Their Eyes Were Watching God -Chapter 14
1. “Ground so rich that everything went” (129). What is this foreshadowing?
2. What does Tea Cakes gambling habit symbolize?
-Janie gambles away her future?
-You have to take risks for some adventure in life?
-Love is just a gamble anyway?
3. “Even if you didn’t never find no game it’s always some trashy rascal dat needs a good killer.’” (130-131).
Did Tea Cake kill the man who stabbed him? (See page 126: “Honey no up-to-date man don’t fool wid no razor. De man wid de switchblade will be done cut yuh tah death while you foolin’ wid a razor.”
See page 126: “He went out and bought a new switchblade knife…”
4. Is Tea Cake about money or just excitement? (Janie shoots alligators & they sell the hides-?)
5. What is attractive to Janie about Tea Cake’s lifestyle? (131). “People ugly from ignorance and broke from being poor.
6. What’s different about Janie’s housekeeping now that she & Tea Cake are “on the much”?
7. Does Tea Cake really need Janie to work beside him?
8. Is it healthy to spend so much time together in a relationship?
9. How important is it for couples to have similar interests? When is it okay to do things independently?
10. Did Tea Cake get Janie into the field with him for any other reason?
11. Are Janie & Tea Cake equals?
12. What is better: Wealth & social status or hand-to-mouth & party time atmosphere all day, everyday?
Chapter 14 - Lisette
1. For what reason do Janie and Tea Cake move to the Everglades? literal
2. Why did Tea Cake say Janie and him had to get their ahead of time? literal
3. What did Tea Cake say he was going to be picking and making money off of? literal
4. "It was generally assumed that she thought herself too good to work like the rest of the women and that Tea Cake pomped her up tuh dat." Do you believe Tea Cake is the reason for her thinking this way? Or is it also because of the way she was living before? universal
5. Do you think Tea Cake was trying to keep an eye on Janie when he would stop by the house during his work hours? interpretive
Raina - Chapter 15 Summary!
Janie became jealous of a girl named Nunkie. Tea cake and Nunkie would always flirt with each other and the whole town started to notice. When they were working in the field tea cake and Nunkie ran off, when Janie found them they were rustling in the cane field and yelled at them. After that Janie truly believed that tea cake was fooling around with that girl. Later that night tea cake tried to talk to Janie but she didn’t want to hear it. Tea cake held her and wouldn’t let go the wrestled till they fall to the floor and kissed then they fall asleep and he reassured Janie that Nunkie was nothing to him.
1. Who was Janie jealous of? (F)
2. Where did Janie find Tea Cake & Nunkie? (F)
3. How would Nunkie flirt with Tea cake? (F)
4. Why is Janie so worried about losing Tea Cake? (I)
5. Does Tea Cake really love Janie, and vise versa? (I)
6. Would you react as Janie did about Tea Cake and Nunkie? (U)
7. What does Tea Cake say Nunkie is good for? (F)
8. Does Janie really believe that he loves Nunkie in the morning? (F)
9. Tea Cake says that Janie is the kind of women to make a man forget what? (f)
10. Would you trust Tea Cake? (U)
6. Do you think Janie is more in love now with Tea Cake than she was with Logan and Joe? universal
7. "She was sorry for her friends back there and scornful of the others." Do you think she should feel this way towards the others still living in Eatonville because of how they doubted hers and Tea Cakes relationship? universal
8. What did Tea Cake mean by, “Dis ain’t no game fuh pennies. Po’ man ain’t got no business at de show.”? Interp.
Their Eyes Were Watching God -Chapter 15
1. Why does Tea Cake chase and play with Nunkie if he knows she’s playing him?
2. What kind of flirting is okay> when is it time to set things straight with someone if the teasing/flirting gets out of hand?
3. Is there a different set of rules for make/female friendships?
4. Compare Janie’s behavior with Tea Cake’s situation with Nunkie to a possible mistress situation with Joe Starks. How would Janie have acted if Joe stepped over the line of faithfulness?
5. Should Janie have taken off after Nunkie? When is it not appropriate to physically make your relationship issue of public or “air dirty laundry”?
6. Is it right for Janie to smack Tea Cake at home for his flirtations with Nunkie?
7. Is there anything significant about Tea Cake not engaging in a physical fight with Janie?
8. Is it important to have verbal reinforcements of a husband’s/wife’s commitment form time to time?
1. Did Janie’s sneaking off to marry Tea Cake likely give the town a reason to be angry with her?
-maybe she could have convinced them to accept Tea Cake.
-People get P.O.’d when they don’t get invited to the wedding- they feel snubbed.
2. Is it odd that Tea Cake left ahead of Janie? If a couple runs off/elopes, is it usually done together?
3. “It was hard to love a woman who always make you wishful” (117).
-Are pretty women always required to prove themselves?
-How would things be different if Janie weren’t so pretty?
4. Why would Janie keep her money a secret? Does she still not fully trust Tea Cake?
5. How do we “check” ourselves from making bad decisions? What should Janie have done differently?
6. Describe a time when you have done something so completely dumb and how you recovered from your demise (Janie’s realization of her and Ms. Tyler) (119).
7. Why didn’t Tea Cake invite Janie to the party? (122)
8. Is he lying? Is he testing her?
9. How well should you know someone before you marry him/ her? How do you know?
10. Is it a good idea to reveal “bad habits” before you commit to some one? (124).
11. What “bad habits” are bad enough to throw in the towel on a relationship? (What about that list of characteristics of the perfect mate?
12. Is Janie defending Tea Cake out of love? Embarrassment? Fear? (126).
13. Why wouldn’t Tea Cake want a doctor to check out his migraines?
14. What details does Tea Cake leave out of his heroic story?
-he was cheating?
-he killed the guy?
15. “When I ain’t got nothin’ you don’t get nothin’” (128). Will he stop gambling & get a real job?
16. “Folks don’t do nothin’ down there but make money and fun and foolishness” (128).
-When is it time to set priorities and get real about a future?
Their Eyes Were Watching God -Chapter 14
1. “Ground so rich that everything went” (129). What is this foreshadowing?
2. What does Tea Cakes gambling habit symbolize?
-Janie gambles away her future?
-You have to take risks for some adventure in life?
-Love is just a gamble anyway?
3. “Even if you didn’t never find no game it’s always some trashy rascal dat needs a good killer.’” (130-131).
Did Tea Cake kill the man who stabbed him? (See page 126: “Honey no up-to-date man don’t fool wid no razor. De man wid de switchblade will be done cut yuh tah death while you foolin’ wid a razor.”
See page 126: “He went out and bought a new switchblade knife…”
4. Is Tea Cake about money or just excitement? (Janie shoots alligators & they sell the hides-?)
5. What is attractive to Janie about Tea Cake’s lifestyle? (131). “People ugly from ignorance and broke from being poor.
6. What’s different about Janie’s housekeeping now that she & Tea Cake are “on the much”?
7. Does Tea Cake really need Janie to work beside him?
8. Is it healthy to spend so much time together in a relationship?
9. How important is it for couples to have similar interests? When is it okay to do things independently?
10. Did Tea Cake get Janie into the field with him for any other reason?
11. Are Janie & Tea Cake equals?
12. What is better: Wealth & social status or hand-to-mouth & party time atmosphere all day, everyday?
Chapter 14 - Lisette
1. For what reason do Janie and Tea Cake move to the Everglades? literal
2. Why did Tea Cake say Janie and him had to get their ahead of time? literal
3. What did Tea Cake say he was going to be picking and making money off of? literal
4. "It was generally assumed that she thought herself too good to work like the rest of the women and that Tea Cake pomped her up tuh dat." Do you believe Tea Cake is the reason for her thinking this way? Or is it also because of the way she was living before? universal
5. Do you think Tea Cake was trying to keep an eye on Janie when he would stop by the house during his work hours? interpretive
Raina - Chapter 15 Summary!
Janie became jealous of a girl named Nunkie. Tea cake and Nunkie would always flirt with each other and the whole town started to notice. When they were working in the field tea cake and Nunkie ran off, when Janie found them they were rustling in the cane field and yelled at them. After that Janie truly believed that tea cake was fooling around with that girl. Later that night tea cake tried to talk to Janie but she didn’t want to hear it. Tea cake held her and wouldn’t let go the wrestled till they fall to the floor and kissed then they fall asleep and he reassured Janie that Nunkie was nothing to him.
1. Who was Janie jealous of? (F)
2. Where did Janie find Tea Cake & Nunkie? (F)
3. How would Nunkie flirt with Tea cake? (F)
4. Why is Janie so worried about losing Tea Cake? (I)
5. Does Tea Cake really love Janie, and vise versa? (I)
6. Would you react as Janie did about Tea Cake and Nunkie? (U)
7. What does Tea Cake say Nunkie is good for? (F)
8. Does Janie really believe that he loves Nunkie in the morning? (F)
9. Tea Cake says that Janie is the kind of women to make a man forget what? (f)
10. Would you trust Tea Cake? (U)
6. Do you think Janie is more in love now with Tea Cake than she was with Logan and Joe? universal
7. "She was sorry for her friends back there and scornful of the others." Do you think she should feel this way towards the others still living in Eatonville because of how they doubted hers and Tea Cakes relationship? universal
8. What did Tea Cake mean by, “Dis ain’t no game fuh pennies. Po’ man ain’t got no business at de show.”? Interp.
Their Eyes Were Watching God -Chapter 15
1. Why does Tea Cake chase and play with Nunkie if he knows she’s playing him?
2. What kind of flirting is okay> when is it time to set things straight with someone if the teasing/flirting gets out of hand?
3. Is there a different set of rules for make/female friendships?
4. Compare Janie’s behavior with Tea Cake’s situation with Nunkie to a possible mistress situation with Joe Starks. How would Janie have acted if Joe stepped over the line of faithfulness?
5. Should Janie have taken off after Nunkie? When is it not appropriate to physically make your relationship issue of public or “air dirty laundry”?
6. Is it right for Janie to smack Tea Cake at home for his flirtations with Nunkie?
7. Is there anything significant about Tea Cake not engaging in a physical fight with Janie?
8. Is it important to have verbal reinforcements of a husband’s/wife’s commitment form time to time?
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Chapters 11 & 12 Their Eyes Were Watching God
Chapter 11:
1. Why would the others like to see Janie play checkers? What does this imply about her status?
2. Should Janie be more cautious about Tea Cake? Why?
3. What does Hezekiel mean when he says “…nobody wouldn’t marry Tea Cake tuh starve tuh death lessn it’s somebody jes lak him- ain’t used to nothing’”
4. Why would Janie look strangely at Tea Cake when he laid on the compliments? What does this say about her character?
5. Is there a limit to an age difference between men & women?
6. Is it important who’s older: the man or the women?
7. Read passage on 106: Is Tea Cake right for Janie?
8. How do we try to talk ourselves out of love? What kinds of things do we do or say to push away the attentions of others?
9. Why is love so scary?
10. What’s different about Tea Cake’s “daytime thoughts”?
11. Is the “fiend from hell (doubt)” a mode of self protection?
12. How do we know when love is real and not just a fleeting thing?
Bojan's Chapter 11:
CHAPTER 12
SUMMARY: At this point the wealthy Janie and the penniless Tea Cake are doing everything together. Janie’s friend Pheoby Watson talks to her about the towns concern. Janie is well aware that every suitor after her is after her dead husband’s property. Janie informs Pheoby that she and Tea Cake are already getting married. Janie is taking Tea Cake out to plan on moving somewhere and start all over.
Literal #1: How long was Janie’s husband died, before she started seeing Tea Cake?
Literal #2: Do you think Tea Cake is after Janie for her wealth?
Literal #3: Do you think Janie should marry Tea Cake?
Interpretive #1: On page 113 Janie says “still and all ah’d ruther be wid Tea Cake” Is Tea Cake the one for Janie?
Interpretive #2: How does the town feel on Janie’s dissension to marry Tea Cake and move out of town?
Interpretive #3: Is it right that the whole town is trying to convince Janie not to go after Tea Cake and move away?
Universal #1: what does this chapter focus on the most?
1. Why would the others like to see Janie play checkers? What does this imply about her status?
2. Should Janie be more cautious about Tea Cake? Why?
3. What does Hezekiel mean when he says “…nobody wouldn’t marry Tea Cake tuh starve tuh death lessn it’s somebody jes lak him- ain’t used to nothing’”
4. Why would Janie look strangely at Tea Cake when he laid on the compliments? What does this say about her character?
5. Is there a limit to an age difference between men & women?
6. Is it important who’s older: the man or the women?
7. Read passage on 106: Is Tea Cake right for Janie?
8. How do we try to talk ourselves out of love? What kinds of things do we do or say to push away the attentions of others?
9. Why is love so scary?
10. What’s different about Tea Cake’s “daytime thoughts”?
11. Is the “fiend from hell (doubt)” a mode of self protection?
12. How do we know when love is real and not just a fleeting thing?
Bojan's Chapter 11:
CHAPTER 12
SUMMARY: At this point the wealthy Janie and the penniless Tea Cake are doing everything together. Janie’s friend Pheoby Watson talks to her about the towns concern. Janie is well aware that every suitor after her is after her dead husband’s property. Janie informs Pheoby that she and Tea Cake are already getting married. Janie is taking Tea Cake out to plan on moving somewhere and start all over.
Literal #1: How long was Janie’s husband died, before she started seeing Tea Cake?
Literal #2: Do you think Tea Cake is after Janie for her wealth?
Literal #3: Do you think Janie should marry Tea Cake?
Interpretive #1: On page 113 Janie says “still and all ah’d ruther be wid Tea Cake” Is Tea Cake the one for Janie?
Interpretive #2: How does the town feel on Janie’s dissension to marry Tea Cake and move out of town?
Interpretive #3: Is it right that the whole town is trying to convince Janie not to go after Tea Cake and move away?
Universal #1: what does this chapter focus on the most?
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