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** __ Chapter 1 __ **
by Jenn Carlberg Janie Starks came home looking different than when she left. The other women say her come back and did nothing else other than fill their heads with thoughts and ideas of what might have happened with Janie while she was gone. Janie's best friend, Pheoby Watson, left these women to bring dinner to her friend who just returned. They spent time talking and Janie told Pheoby that they didn't need to worry about her and her overhalls as long as she still had nine hundred dollars in the bank. Tea Cake didn't waste her money or leave her for a younger wonam, but that Tea Cake is gone. ~Alan Deadwyler As the new and more ragged Janie returned to her old town of Eatonville the other woman speculated on why she had returned. They all presumed her “lil boy” Tea Cake left her for some younger woman. Then when she didn’t immediately come and tell all of her business, the other women were appalled. She strutted right on past them without speaking in her blue overalls rather then the blue satin dress she skipped town with Tea Cake in. they bad mouthed her like a dog and when her good friend pheoby told them off for being so nosey they shunned her to take Janie some dinner. That’s when Janie began to tell pheoby of all her endeavors It was a new janie that returned home. Everyone thought that tea cake had taked everything from her and left her fo another younger wonmen.as she walked in to the town all the other women looked at her and whispered things about her. But janie paid them no mine at all. Her only friends pheoby defended her. they went back to pheobys house and they told lots of stories. And thats were the flashback began
 * ---**Dorian Young

__** Chapter 2 **__
by Jenn Carlberg Janie was telling Pheoby the story of when she was younger. Her grandma, Nanny, had a house in the backyard of the white folks home. Janie would play with the other children around the home. She never knew shew wasn't white until she was six years old because of teh picture she was in with the other children. Although she was colored, she did have things better than the other colored children. Most of the white children didn't like playing with Janie because of what was said about her dad. Janie enjoyed telling her story. One afternoon, Janie went to visit Nanny because she remembered she was home sick. Nanny heard Janie outside talking with a man. When she looked, she saw Johnny Taylor kissing Janie. Nanny was upset because she doesn't want Janie with a man who will just trample over her and use her. She wants her to marry a man like Logan Killicks. ~Alan Deadwyler As Janie told Pheoby about when she was younger she laughed at how didn’t realize she was colored until she took the picture with her white friends. She told of how she was teased by the other colored children for being above them class wise. Another thing that crossed Janie’s mind, while reliving her past experiences, was her first kiss from Mister Johnny Taylor. After her nanny saw that kiss she gave her that talk about being married to a man who wouldn’t treat her right and that’s when her nanny brought up all this talk of Logan Killicks to Janie. At first it was just to scare her out of talking to Johnny but not long after Mr. Killicks asked for Janie’s hand in marriage.

__** Chapter 3 **__
by Jenn Carlberg Janie did what Nanny wanted and married Logan Killicks. She waited for love to begin, but nothing changted for her. Three days later she went to Nanny's house and told her about what she was feeling and how she didn't love Mr. Killicks, but wanted to. Nanny told her to just wait and her mind will change. Janie's first dream died when she realized that marriage did not make love, so then she became a woman. ~Alan Deadwyler Janie waited and waited but love never came for her and mr. killicks. She even asked Nanny why she didnt yet feel love but nanny scolded her for not truly appreciating whay she was placed with. A month later nanny dies and at this point janie doesn' have anyone to turn to and doesn't love logan.

**__ Chapter 4 __**
by Jenn Carlberg Janie's husband kept saying that she was spoiled rotten and was complaining that since her grandmother and himself had spoiled her, he would have to keep up with it. Logan left for Lake City to get a second mule so Janie can do some plowing. He left her to cut up seed potatoes. While she was working in the yard, she saw a very well dressed man walking down the road. Janie made a loud noise with the pump which caught his attention. This man's name was Joe Starks and he told her his story about how he grew up with the white folks and made enougth money where he was. Although he had a fine life, he decided to go to the new state they were building that was for colored folks. He always wanted to be a big voice. Joe and Janie kept up these conversations and time together in the scrubs oak across the road. Joe made it known that he wanted to marry Janie. That night Janie got into an arguement with her husband and had enough. She left the next morning and headed off with Joe Starks to get married. ~alan deadwyler Logan continued to bother janie about how spoiled she was. He stated that he and nanny did it to her but he was upset about it all the same. to the point where he grew tired and decided to put her to work. He left one day for to get another horse so janie could plow with him. While he was gone she met a handsome man named Jody sparks. They began to meet up and discuss rumor of a new colored town and joe kept saying how he wanted to go. He extended her an invitation to join him and after long thought and an arguement with logan pushed her they left.

**__ Chapter 5 __**
<span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="COLOR: #12c419; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">by Jenn Carlberg Whe Janie and Joe got to the colored town, they were dissappointed because it wasn't as great as they thought it would be. The couple met two men named Lee Coker and Amos Hicks. Once Joe found there was no Mayor, he told them he was buying in. Coker and Hicks were talking to Joe about the land and how they only had fifty acres thanks to Captain Eaton. Shortly after, Joe left to go visit this man and ended up buying more land. This irritated Hicks. Starks speaks with Tony Taylor about starting to build a store first and have it be the meeting place for the town. They had there first town meeting by the big live oak tree. Within the amount of time it took to build the store, ten new families bought lots and many of the canned goods sold. Joe had Janie dress up, he didn't want her to be ranked the same as anyone else's wife. Once th store was finished, Joe Starks was made Mayor of the town. Many people talked about Joe and had both positive and negative things to say. <span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left">~Alan Deadwyler Joe and janie found dissappointment when they reached this odd town because it looked like jus a rough patch in the woods. Joe went to work building up this "town". He became self proclaimed mayor and and talked with capton eaton about getting more land.After the big purchase he talked of building up a store and as it was being built more and more families came to be a part of the town. Joe began to put janie on a pedastool and she didnt appreciate it but he just didn't want her on the same playing field as any one else. As they progressed many began to talk on joe.

**__ Chapter 6 __**
<span style="COLOR: #12c419; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ff94fc"><span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #12c419; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ff94fc; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc"><span style="COLOR: #12c419; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">by Jenn Carlberg A few men, Lige and Sam, were giving Matt Bonner a hard time one morning about his mule and how he doesn’t feed him. They were making up all kinds of jokes and stories. On another note, Janie was always pushed into the store to sell things by her husband and usually ended up putting up the mail when Joe didn’t do it. The store itself was always giving her a sick headache. Ever since Jody saw men liking Janie cause of her hair, he had made her put it up because of his jealousy. One afternoon, Matt was searching town for his mule and Lige and Sam gave him a hard time once again. Shortly after the mule was found, Jody made an offer and bought the mule from Matt. Way after the mule died and there was a more ceremonial burial for it. Janie wanted to go, but Joe convinced her otherwise. Jody started getting annoyed with Janie’s ungratefulness of being the mayor’s wife. Then there was a play going on outside the store that everyone was enjoying to watch, including Janie. Joe, regardless of how much he knew of Janie’s enjoyment, told her to go into the store. Joe hated when Janie spoke her mind and beat her for it. She learned to keep what she was on the outside and what she was on the inside separate and became quite good at it. <span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc">~Alan Deadwyler After the store was built janie even began to learn and grow in it but she doesn't really enjoy working in it, she enjoys all the towns people coming and telling elaborate over exagerated stories. She wants to go enjoy herself but after joe saw the way the men look at her he makes her wrap up her hair and stay away to make her seem to seditity and far more unattractive to the men though he never tells her so. Matt bonners mule is also purchased by Mr. mayor which makes him seem even more noble and good willed but that is even questioned by janie shortly after because at the mules' funneral joe doesn't allow janie to go and during the reception he makes her help a lady and grows very upset when she cant help her. Janie can feel the love in their happy marrige fading but she stays silent and soon after joe hits her at a dinner gone horribly wrong. Janie makes an attempt while at the store to take up for women because the men are bad mouthing them but Joe trumps her and commands her to fetch the checkerboard.

**__ Chapter 7 __**
<span style="COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc"><span style="COLOR: #12c419; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">by Jenn Carlberg Jody's age was really starting to show and Janie had realized that he was noticing. He began making comments of Janie's age just to make himself feel better. One day at the store Janie was getting Steve Mixon some chewing tobacco and didn't cut it right on the mark. Steve had made a little honest fun with it, but Joe took it very seriously. He talked her down right infront of all the guys in the store by making remarks of her age once again. Janie fought right back for the first time and stripped him of his illusion of maleness. <span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #12c419; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ff94fc; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc">~Alan Deadwyler Janie soon begins noticing joes body falling apart and to make himself feel better he sends attacks on her. then it goes public as janie is getting some tobacco for a customer she messes up and joe goes at it but at this point janie is through and goes off on a rant off how he can't "lay the pipe right" any more. In front of the town he dominishes some so to get even he violenlty hit Janie. This is when everyone starts to see they are realy having problems.

__**Chapter 8**__
<span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc"><span style="COLOR: #12c419; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">by Jenn Carlberg Joe was beginning to get sick and old. He began speaking with a root-doctor but that wasn't of much help. Janie didn't know what to do, so she went to Pheoby. Joe was finally seen by a doctor but it was too late. Jody was now in a sick room laying in bed while people of the town visited. Janie kept wanting to go in and see Jody, but he didn't want her to. Eventually, Janie went in his room an told him she wanted to talk. She wanted him to know what kind of person she is before it's too late. They started arguing and then finally Joe had breathed his last breath. ~Alan Deadwyler It turns out Joe's weakening state was caused by trouble in his kidneys Janie drew worried that something was really wrong so she had a real doctor as opposed to those that Joe called in to see what was wrong and thats when she found out. <span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc">

<span style="COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc"> __Chapter 9__
<span style="COLOR: #12c419; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">by Jenn Carlberg Janie showed up at the funeral just waiting for it to be over. When she got home she got rid of all her head rags and put her hair in one big braid. She felt lonely and wanted to figure out what she should do. With all that thinking Janie realized that she wouldn't go to and tend to her grandmother's grave because she had come to hate her. With only a month passed since the death of Joe, many men came from short distances for Janie. But she actually like being lonesome for a change. She was happy except for the store. She still felt Joe would be there to find her mistakes, even when she knew she was absolute owner. Hezekiah was the best imitation of Joe. He began talking like him and picking up his habits. All Janie could do was laugh. More and more men came to show their supposed love for Janie. Although she didn't seem to car for them, she was done grieving and mourning over Joe Starks. ~ <span style="COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">

<span style="COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">__Chapter 10__
<span style="COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc"><span style="COLOR: #12c419; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">by Jenn Carlberg  <span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc"><span style="COLOR: #12c419; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">Everyone was at the ball game while Janie sat at the store. At five-thirty a man came in and she didn't know his name. He bought smoking tobacco while keeping conversation. This man decided to play a game of checkers with the lady. He had to teach her because Joe never let her learn how. Janie found herself growning fond of this man named Tea Cake. He ended up staying and helped her close up shop. Then bid her good night once he walked her home. ~

__**Chapter 11**__
<span style="COLOR: #12c419; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">by Jenn Carlberg One thing that held Janie back was the age difference. Tea Cake looked like he was around twenty-five and she's around forty. A week later, Tea Cake came back. They held another fun conversation at the store. When it was time to close, she had Hezekiah do it and Tea Cake walked her home once again. That night they went fishing and caught to or three and got home just before day. The next night they fixed up fish to eat. Then Tea Cake played the piano, which put Janie to sleep. She woke up to find him combing her hair. He began to please her with comments of her beauty. He admitted that those were things he told other women, which mad Janie a little upset. She told him that his thoughts at night were different than day. He didn't come the next night, but the morning after he showed up just to tell her that his thoguhts had not changed. The next night they rested in the hammock and ate dinner. Tea Cake woke Janie with a kiss and went off to work. Four days went by and Tea Cake came driving up in a battered car. They went off to shop for groceries for the Sunday School picnic he wanted her to go to. ~

__**Chapter 12**__
<span style="COLOR: #12c419; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">by Jenn Carlberg The town began to notice things between Janie and Tea Cake and got mad. Word got to Pheoby's husband, Sam, and he brought it up to his wife. He told her that Janie better be careful because Tea Cake's just in it for the money. Pheoby went to chat about this with Janie the next moring. She told her to be careful and make sure that she won't be like Miss Tyler. Janie said that Tea Cake was not that kind of man because he hadn't asked for money before. Janie was going to sell the store and then her and Tea Cake were going off to get married. ~

**__Chapter 13__**
<span style="COLOR: #12c419; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">by Jenn Carlberg Janie left on a train to Jacksonville and wore the new blue dress. Tea Cake and Janie married soon after she got there. The next day they went to a show and drove around town. Janie had two hundred dollars pinned to the inside of her shirt, but she didn't feel the need to tell him since he was spending out of his own pocket. The next morning Janie told Tea Cake to get fish to fry for breakfast. He said he would and she went back to sleep. Later she woke up and found Tea Cake still gone and her two hundred dollars along with him. The next morning she heard Tea Cake playing his new guitar outside the door. They ate dinner and Tea Cake told her all that happened. He originally grabbed the money to count it. Once he found out how much it was, he made up his mind that he would spend some of it to see how it felt to be rich. He only had twelve dollars left and used that to win back Janie's money and more by gambling. Tea Cake came back from the game late one night hurt and his pocket full of three hundred and twenty-two dollars. Tea Cake told her that when his cuts were better, they would move to the Everglades. ~

**__Chapter 14__**
<span style="COLOR: #12c419; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">by Jenn Carlberg Janie and Tea Cake got a house down by the big Lake Okechobee in the Evergaldes. Tea Cake bought some shooting tools to go hunting so he had to teach Janie how to handle those tools. Something everybody started noticing was how well she was catching on. While Janie would be home, Tea Cake would be popping in at odd hours just to see her. He missed her while he was working and she missed him while she was at home. So they decided Janie would go work alongside of Tea Cake out in the field. ~

__**Chapter 15**__
<span style="COLOR: #12c419; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">by Jenn Carlberg Janie now knew what if felt like to be jealous. This one girl, Nunkie, kept fooling around with Tea Cake out in the fields and in the head quarters. He didn't fend her off as much as Janie would have liked him to. Later one day on the job, Janie noticed that both Tea Cake and Nunkie were nowhere in sight. Janie went off to find them and saw the two of them struggling. Nunkie took off while Tea Cake told Janie that she took his working tickets and he was just trying to get them back. When they got back to the quarters they began to argue. But Tea Cake comforted her with trusting words that he would never run off with another woman unless she were to grab him just like Janie did. ~

__**Chapter 16**__
<span style="COLOR: #12c419; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">by Jenn Carlberg The season closed but Tea Cake and Janie decided to stay, while others left. Janie came to know Mrs. Turner and they got to be visiting friends. Tea Cake always made fun of this lady and her looks. Mrs. Turner always thought that her looks and characteristics set her aside from the other black people. She found Janie as a friend because she had light skin just like her. But Mrs. Turner hated that Janie was married to such a dark man like Tea Cake. She was ok though because she was going to try and hook Janie up with her brother. Tea Cake was there listening to their whole conversation. He got even more mad with Mrs. Turner and went to her husband to say something. That didn't do much. ~

__**Chapter 17**__
<span style="COLOR: #12c419; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">by Jenn Carlberg Season is open again and many of the old crowd was back and some new ones. Some of those men made passes at Janie but Tea Cake took care of it. Before the week was over he had whipped Janie. This reassured him in possession. One night everyone was eating at Mrs. Turner's house. She even ran out of room. One of the drunk guys came in and tried to take somebody's seat. This started a whole fight and Tea Cake tried to be nice and told him to be mannerful or take it outside. Things got bad and the house was a mess. Mrs. Turner was so mad and yelled at her husband for just sitting there and watching. ~