Teacake ended up feeling sick after a couple of days. Janie called a doctor and they said he had rabies. He wasn’t feeling good and kept thinking Janie was with someone else. He wasn’t feeling good trying to shoot her and in self defense she shot him back.
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A hurricane hits the Everglades and Janie and tea cake don’t evacuate. A guy named motorboat stays with them and they try to escape. A dog bites tea cake on the face and they escape.
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Tea cake is becoming just like Janie’s past husbands. He is hitting her physically just out of jealousy.
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So Mrs. Turner frowned most of the time. She had so much to disapprove of. It didn’t affect Tea Cake and Janie too much.
Mrs. Turner didn’t like tea cake very much and was very racist towards him. She doesnt want tea cake to be with Janie but of course they dont care what she thinks. Mrs. Turner loves Janie’s company.
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The next morning Janie asked like a woman, “You still love ole Nunkie?”
She feels that tea cake might actually like nunkie more than her. Her and tea cake get into a physical argument but she realizes she loves him.
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“Dat would be fine, Tea Cake, exceptin’ you know Ah can’t shoot. But Ah’d love tuh go wid you.”
Tea cake is teaching her how to shoot. They moved to the Everglades and Janie finds that she likes it better there
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You done married one uh de best gamblers God ever made.
She got married but he seems to care about money. She is changing all the time and doesnt know how to feel about him.
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de older you gits, de less sense yuh got.
The towns people do not like tea cake and Janie together but Janie doesn’t care. They are very rude to her.
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“Ah don’t know ’bout dat, Tea Cake. Tell yuh whut you do. G’wan down tuh de house and wait for me. Be dere in uh minute.”
She isn’t sure if she should trust him fully yet but still doesn’t want to not talk to him.
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Tea Cake wasn’t strange. Seemed as if she had known him all her life.
She feels like he is interesting and she has a good impression on him. She is interested in getting to know him.
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Tain’t dat Ah worries over Joe’s death, Pheoby. Ah jus’ loves dis freedom.
She was happy with her freedom and isn’t mourning joe anymore.
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She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair.
She realized that she was free from the controlling man that joe was and she was going to begin to find herself.
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So he struck Janie with all his might and drove her from the store.
Joe in this chapter is growing tired of Janie and is treating her bad. He keeps getting angry and isn’t afraid to hit her in front of people anymore.
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You gettin’ too moufy, Janie,” Starks told her. “Go fetch me de checker-board and de checkers. Sam Watson, you’se mah fish.”
In this chapter he is really controlling and rude. Janie is growing tired of him and their marriage.
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Janie was astonished to see the money Jody had spent for the land come back to him so fast.
She was kind of shocked to see how much money he actually had.
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You married? You ain’t hardly old enough to be weaned. Ah betcha you still craves sugar-tits, doncher?”
He notices how young she is and is kind of concerned for how hard it might be.
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She slapped the girl’s face violently, and forced her head back so that their eyes met in struggle.
Nanny was very abusive and mean to her and she isn’t treating her fair.
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