their eyes chapter 14 Flashcards
local color
feel where you are
muck symbolizes
fertility
Big Lake Okechobee
pivotal thing that tragedy occurs
dirt roads so rich and black that a half mile of it
would have fertilized a kansas wheat field
teacake teaches janie how to
shoot a gun (foreshadows)
janie got to become a good shot that she could shoot
a hawk out of a pine tree and not tear him up
janie became a better shooter than
teacake
work all day for money,
fight all night for love
teacake’s house was a magent
stated metaphor
everyone loved to hear
ed dockery, bootyny, and sop-de-bottom
what girl began playing with teacake
nunkie
a little seed of fear was
growing into a tree
what did janie do to teacake
hit him
teacake and Janie decide to
stay after the season is over
janie became friends with
mrs. turner
mrs. turner was conscious of her
pelvis because she had it stuck out the whole time
mrs. turner was an
ironing board with things throwed at it
mrs. turner is
racist
but mrs. turner’s shape and features were entirely approved by mrs. turner
irony, she is a black
mrs. turner’s son claims that black draw
lightning
janie has an ____ for teacake
internal love
why does mrs. turner not like black people
they maker her tired
they are always laughing
“always singin’ ol’ nigger songs!”
there’s too many of them
“he didn’t do nothin but hold us back- talkin’ ‘bout work when de race ain’t never done nothin’ else. He wuz uh enemy tuh us, dat’s whut. he wux uh white folks’ nigger.”
booker t washington
said by Mrs. Turner
what does mrs. turner’s brother do
carpenter
