Quote response #3

"Aw, Tea Cake, you just say dat tuhnight because de fish and corn bread tasted sort of good. Tomorrow yo' mind would change." (pg 105)

In this quote Janie is talking to Tea Cake about how he is lying about his feelings. She doesn't think it's possible for such a young person to love an old women like herself. What she realized throughout the rest of the chapter is that it is possible. She realizes that she loves him too and decides that it's time to move on from Mr. Starks. 

quote response

"Long before the year was up, Janie noticed that her husband had stopped talking in rhymes to her. He had ceased to wonder at her long black hair and finger it. Six months back he had told her, "if ah kin haul de wood heah and chop it fuh yuh, look lak you oughta be able tuh tote it inside. Mah fust wife never bothered me 'bout choppin' no wood nohow. She'd grab dat ax and sling chips lak uh man. You done been spoilt rotten."" (pg 26, chapter 4)

this quote talks about how Janie notices the difference between dating someone and being married to someone. it also shows how killicks doesn't really care about her. He talks about his old wife and how she never dis-obeyed him. This shows that he just wants somebody to be there to do what he says when he says and that's not exactly what Janie wants. Janie wants the real thing. She wants love. She wants what almost every human wants. We want somebody to be there not only to hold us when we're sad or in a bad mood, but somebody who's going to be there to love us unconditionally. Even when we don't do exactly what they ask. Somebody who will compliment us just the right amount of times but who will also not agree on everything we say just because he doesn't want to argue. Somebody who really gets you.... and isn't just along for the ride. 

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1. In the first quote, it talks about a man's wish. it talks about how every man has a different wish but in the end they all wish for something. some find what they're wishing for and some don't. It's talking about how men remember everything and can't let things go. How women can remember the things that they want to remember. "The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly."(page 1) 

2. The second quote describes janie and what she is thinking and doing. She's lying under a pear tree observing her surroundings. We see what she sees. She's watching a bee on a flower. how the bee sucks the nutrients out of the flower and the ground feels that. She looks at that one thing in nature and compares it to a marriage. The marriage takes effort and hard work to maintain. just like the life of a bee.