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Plot summary by Mark Cantu B1 Chapter 1. Janie has just returned to florida from being away for a long time. She walked by pheoby's porch and all the neigbors that where there gathered on the porch talked about her and believed what they thought was true. They thought that the young man that she left with, tea cake, had left her for a younger woman and took all of her money. After janie got to her house pheoby came to talk to janie and brought her a plate of food. They talked about why janie left away fron tea cake. The reason why was because jaine said that she can no longer be happy living where they were staying, in the everglades.

Plot Summary by Jacob Lauver B1.

Chapter 2: Also at the end of Chapter 1 I just want to add is she starts telling her life story. In chapter two she tells us about her childhood and how she grew up. When she was little, she would play with her neighbors kids, and until she saw a photo of herself, she thought she was white. At school she always got teased for living in a white family's backyard. One day she kisses this boy named Johnny Taylor. When Nanny finds out about Janie and Johnny, she marries Janie off to a wealthy farmer named Logan Killicks. Nanny wanted to make sure Janie would be OK for the rest of her life, before she dies.

Plot Summary Of Chapter 3 by Jacob Lauver B1 In chapter 3 she marries Logan, she isn't happy because she hasn't fallen in love with him yet. Her grandma tells her all she wants for her is for her to do good in life, and then she passes away.

plot summary chapter 3 by mark cantu.

In chapter 3 Janie gets married to Logan kellicks. She is unhappy with her marriage because she has not fallen in love with Logan. Her grandmother tells her all she wants is for Janie to be happy and have a good life.

Plot Summary Chapter 4 Jacob Lauver B1. Logan buys a mule so him and Janie can work on a field together. Janie and Joe Starks meet one day, and they become good friends. One day Janie and Logan get in a fight so she runs out on him for Joe. Logan doesn't think she'll leave, but she does and her and Joe move into a new town.

plot summary for chapter 4 by mark cantu.

In chapter four Logan goes off to look at buying another mule so that Janie can help him work out in the field. While he is gone Janie see Joe Starks walking and Janie gets him water, she becomes friends with him and they meet up almost everyday after that. Janie gets in argument with Logan and decides that she is going to run away with Joe. Logan thinks that Janie will not leave him and that no other man wants her but him. She and Joe get married and they go to the new town that is being built be colored people for colored people.

Plot Summary Chapter 5 by Jacob Lauver.

They first get to the colored town they find out they don’t have a mayor and it’s not organized at all. They realize this, so Joe buys some land and nominates himself to be mayor. Joe starts telling the town folks how he wants to build a store, and more people start moving into the town. The store gets built and filled with canned goods. They vote Joe Starks mayor. He buys a street lamp for the town, and then he lets the town vote on whether they want it or not. Soon Joe starts taking over. One day he catches Henry Pitts with a wagon of Joe’s ribbon cane. So Joe forced him to leave town. A bunch of people started complaining about Joe, but some people like Sam Watson agreed with the way he is running the town.

In chapter 6 Janie and Jody begin to argue about how good looking Janie is. Even though Janie is just enjoying the conversation at the store, Jody gets jealous. Jody even buys a mule to make Janie happy.

In chapter 7 Janie begins to notice how old Jody got. Jody starts noticing how old he is too, and starts to lash out on Janie. One day he takes it too far and starts to hit him, so she blows up on him and leaves the store.

In chapter 8 Jody begins to die. His kidneys give out, so he and Janie have one last talk before he passes.

In chapter 9 Janie starts to realize her independence, but continues to mourn to the rest of the town. Men try to hit on her but none succeed. She also starts to think about the way Nanny raised her and is unhappy.

In chapter 10 Janie meets Teacake and he teaches her how to play checkers. They really hit it off and he hangs out with her all day.

In chapter 11 Janie and Teacake hang out some more, all day, and then all night. The next day people are telling Janie that Teacake isn’t as good as her, and that she should find someone else.

In chapter 12 everyone is trying to tell Janie that Teacake is using her for her money, but she doesn’t care because she says he treats her right.

In chapter 13 Teacake goes out and takes some money from Janie which freaks her out. When he returns he tells her how good he can gamble and wins her $320. Then they decide their going to move to the Everglades.

In chapter 14 Janie and Teacake get used to like in the muck. They start making a living and fall deeper in love. The more time they spend together the happier they both are.

In chapter 15 Teacake is fooling around with this girl Nunkie. Eventually it turns into them wrestling which gets Janie real upset. She starts trying to hit him, but it ends up to them making love. Janie knows Teacake wouldn’t cheat on her.

In chapter 16 Janie starts talking to Mrs. Turner, a black lady that is racist to blacks. Teacake doesn’t like her, so Janie tries to get rid of her. But Mrs Turner keeps coming around.

In chapter 17 Mrs. Turner’s restaurant gets messed up. There is a big fight and Teacake tries to stop it but instead the whole restaurant gets destroyed.

In chapter 18 there is a HUGE hurricane. Janie, Teacake, and Motorboat have to flee the house in hopes to avoid it. They get out of the house, and the hurricane is so bad that they have to swim to get away from it. While their swimming, a rabid dog attacks Janie, but before it can bite her, Teacake comes to save her. The dog bites Teacake in the face, but Teacake stabs it do death. Teacake and Janie make it to Palm beach the next day, and Janie is grateful for him saving her.

In chapter 19 Teacake starts to go crazy. She goes to talk to a Dr about it, and he diagnoses Teacake with rabies. Teacake starts accusing her of cheating on him, and he has a pistol holstered under his pillow, but when Janie finds it she puts the bullets in the last 3 chambers so she can avoid him if he tries to shoot her. When she returns from seeing Dr Simmons one day, Teacake starts going wild and tries to shoot her, but instead Janie turns it on him, and ends up shooting him. When the police find out and Janie is taken to court, she is proven innocent because of her testimony. Once she gets out of court, she buries Teacake with her blessings.

In chapter 20 Janie returns to Eatonville. She is satisfied now that she has lived out her dream, but still mourns over Teacake. She knows how much he gave her, and she knows he knows how much he meant to her.

plot summary for chapter 5 by mark cantu.

In chapter five Janie and Joe arrive at the new town. After arriving Joe buys 200 more acres of land so that the will be able to expand more. With the land he sells some of it so people can build their houses, builds his great big house on it, and builds a town store on it. He opens the store and stocks it with all the necessary products. He also puts up a light so that the town will have light when it is dark. When the light is lit the town has a great big feast with the men in charge of the meat the women in charge of all the sweets. Also while they are in the new town Joe gets elected as mayor.

Plot Summay Ch.1 By: Tremayne Gates The "porch sitters" are spread out on the front porch of Pheoby and Sam Watson's house. They are astonished to see Janie Starks walking into town, then deliberately turned her face in their direction. The men see Janie as an attraction, but u know there are always going to be haters, and the women see her as a disaster. They all wonder how she left town looking all nice and clean and come back dirty. They all assumed that she married Tea Cake, he took all of her money, and met a younger woman and left her with nothing. The women are very jealous of her and believed she should have stopped to talk to them about what was going on. So, Janie's good friend Pheoby sticks up for her and tells everyone that Janie doesnt have to tell her business to any of them if she doesnt want to. Pheoby then takes Janie a plate of food. The two of them get to talking and Janie explains to her that her husband didnt take her money and that it was safe in the bank and also that Tea Cake died.

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