Who is Nanny?
Janie's grandmother who raised her and forced Janie into a marriage with Logan Killicks
Who is Janie?
the story teller and narrator throughout the book
Who is Tea Cake Wood?
Janie's third husband and true love, dies after being bitten by a rabid dog and then being shot
Who is Pheoby?
the student of Janie's story, Janie's best friend
Who is Jody Starks?
Janie's second husband, a black man who tried to build like a white man
Who is Sam?
Pheoby's husband
Who is Logan Killicks?
Janie's first husband who she did not enjoy at all, threatened to kill Janie
Who is Motorboat?
a friend from the Glades who survives the hurricane asleep
Who is Nunkie?
a girl that flirts with Tea Cake and causes the first fight after being found in the woods with him
Who is Mrs. Turner?
Tea Cake's maid who felt superior to others because of the paleness of her skin
Who "always wanted to be a big voice"?
Jody Starks
Who "wanted to preach a great sermon about colored women sittin' on high, but they wasn't no pulpit for me"?
Nanny
Who was not allowed to tell stories on the porch outside of the store with all of the other story-telling men?
Janie
Who would "lie awake in bed asking lonesomeness some questions"?
Janie
Who discovered Hurston's novel after it went out of print?
Alice Walker
Who "done growed ten feet higher jus' from listenin' tuh you, Janie"?
Pheoby
Who was the "somebody [who] wanted her to play"?
Tea Cake
Who "fell off the shelf inside her"?
Jody
Who was "that strange being with the huge square toes"?
Death
Who had "toe-nails that look lak mule foots"?
Logan Killicks
What was the novel's catalyst?
the pear tree
What was the novel's rising action?
Janie's marriages with Logan, Joe, and Tea Cake
What was the novel's turning point?
The hurricane, when Tea Cake is bitten
What was the novel's falling action?
When Janie has to kill Tea Cake, when Janie is put on trial, when Janie goes back to Eatonville
What was the novel's resolution?
When Janie finally gets to tell her story to Pheoby and finally finds peace with herself
What was the story's plot structure(s)?
Frame and circle
What was the symbol of flowers representing?
True, perfect love
What was Janie's call to adventure?
the pear tree
What was Janie's motivation to go on her journey (destiny's herald)?
the pear tree
What was the the threshold Janie had to pass through?
Leaving Logan and marrying Jody
Who were the threshold guardians?
Logan and Nanny
Who were Janie's mentors AND/OR who did Janie mentor?
Janie mentors Pheoby
What are the events that lead Janie to her abyss?
she marries Logan and soon leaves him, she marries Jody where she becomes isolated, lonesome, and abused, Jody dies and she achieves freedom, she marries Tea Cake where she gains respect, gets to "play", and causes jealousy
What is Janie's abyss?
When Janie has to shoot Tea Cake
What is Janie's epiphany?
When Janie finishes telling her story to Pheoby and gains a voice
What is Janie's transformation?
when she is lying in her bed in Eatonville where she remembers Tea Cake and gains peace
What is Janie's atonement?
when Janie returns home and gains peace and a voice (becomes one with herself)
What gift does Janie bring home?
her story and knowledge
What is Janie's return?
her return back to Eatonville
Why does Nanny say she wishes for Janie to have protection, not Logan?
Nanny does not want Janie to have to go through the awful situations that Nanny and her daughter had to go through.
What figurative language is in "...the outstretched hand of power"?
personification, power does not have hands
allusion, to the devil
What figurative language is in "Janie starched and ironed her face..."?
Metaphor, starching and ironing her face = making herself look presntable
What figurative language is in "It was like a wall of stone and steel"?
Simile, wall = Janie's veil
What figurative language is in "She sent her face to Joe's funeral"?
Synecdoty = sending her face represents sending her whole body
What figurative language is in "...herself went rollicking with springtime across the world..."?
Personification, springtime can not rollick
Symbol, springtime = rebirth
What figurative language is in "...asking lonesomeness some questions"?
Implied Metaphor, loneliness is all around her
What figurative language is in "...digging around inside of herself..."?
Metaphor, digging = finding true love
What figurative language is in "...a cloak of pity..."?
Metaphor, cloak = pity
What figurative language is in "...her great journey to the horizons..."?
Extended metaphor, physical journey for love = journey to the horizons
What figurative language is in "...whipped like a cur dog..."?
Simile, cur dog = Janie
What figurative language is in "...pinched [the horizon] in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it around her granddaughter's neck tight enough to choke her."?
Antithesis, dreams vs. choking
Metaphor, choke her = taking away her dreams
What figurative language is in "She had found a jewel down inside herself."?
Metaphor, jewel = soul
What figurative language is in "But she had been set in the marketplace to sell."?
Metaphor, marketplace = Nanny selling her to Logan
What figurative language is in "Like all the other tumbling mud balls, Janie had tried to show her shine."?
Metaphor, tumbling mud balls = Janie
What figurative language is in "...grinning at her like a pack of cheesy cats..."?
Simile, pack of cheesy cats = men who were wishing her well and grinning = fake affection
What figurative language is in "They's jes lak uh pack uh hawgs, when dey see uh full trough."?
Simile, hawgs = the men who were chasing her