EXPOSITORY WRITING: Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Janie Mae Crawford | protagonist of the story; very beautiful woman hair, has a total of three husbands in the story |
| Phoebe Watson | Janie's best friend that she meets in Eatonville; defends her against rumers and is there to listen |
| Nanny | Janie's grandmother who is all about getting Janie a husband that can protect her against everything; to her, marrige is not about love |
| Joe Starks | Janie's second husband; he is extremely ambitious and confident; runs away with Janie but ends up restricting her from life and experiences (not to mention verbally and physically abusing her) |
| Logan Killocks | Janie's first husband; a nice enough man, but he puts Janie to work and doesn't really love her |
| Tea Cake | Janie's third husband; although he is younger than Janie, he truly loves her and wants the best for her. He is a musician and a gambler |
| Mrs. Turner | a half black half white woman that ran a store with her husband on the Everglades; she hated black people, but respected Janie (and wanted her to marry her brother) because Janie was part white, had been raised well, and was very beautiful |
| Sop-de-Bottom | Tea Cake's best friend on the muck (the Everglades); once Tea Cake died, he was against Janie at first, but he soon came around |
| Matt Bonner | old farmer man who owned and overworked the mule for many years, which led Joe to eventually purchase it from him |
| pear tree | the tree that Janie sat under as young girl wondering what marrige and love was all about. She had a vision of sorts under this tree, and everything came to her |
| mules | the animal a funeral was held for in Eatonville; what women "are" |
| Eatonville | the first all black community; the town the Janie and Joe ran away to together; Joe became Mayor and took over very quicky (streetlamp, post office, store) |
| Everglades | the muck; where tea Cake and Janie went to start over and work; a swamp like place where the hurricane was |
| anthropology | the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings |
| horizon | very first part of book; condition of men is that they are always looking at the horizon and wanting more; condition of woman is that they remember everything they want to remember and forget everything they want to forget. To Janie, love (Tea Cake) is her horizon |
| sun | the big ball of light in the sky; follows the theme of earthy stuff in the book; signifies new life and light; it rises inevitably every morning |
| coming of age | what happened to Janie under the pear tree |
| inaudible voice | the voice that janie hears while under the pear tree; her voice, her conscience |
| Zora Neale Hurston | author of Their Eyes Were Watching God |
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