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PLOT SUMMERIES CHAPTER 1:GABBY MOORE JANIE RETURNS HOME TO EATONVILLE,AND THE CITIZENS OF EATONVILLE ARE VERY CURIOUS TO AS WHY SHE CAME BACK. THEN THEY BEGEN TO TALK AMOUNG THEMSELVES,AND THEY BEGIN TO CRITICIZE HER AND TEACAKES REALTIONSHIP. JANIES BEST FRIEND PHEOBY, LEFT FROM THE CHATTING OLD WOMEN TO GO AND BRING JANIE SOME SUPPER. AND THEY BEGIN TO TALK ABOUT WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON IN JANIES LIFE. SHE TELLS PHEOBY FORM THE VERY BEGINING EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED, AND WHY SHE HAS RETURNED TO EATONVILLE.

PLOT SUMMERIES CHAPTER 2:GABBY MOORE JANIE BEGINS TO TELL PHEOBY ABOUT HER CHILDHOOD GROWING UP IN WEST FLORIDA. SHE AND HER GRANDMOTHER LIVED IN THE BACKYARD OF MISS WASHBURN AND HER FOUR GRANDCHILDREN. WHEN JANIE USED TO GO TO SCHOOL, SHE WAS TEASED BY THE WAY SHE DRESSED WHICH WAS NICER THAN THE OTHER BLACK CHILDREN, HER PARENTS, AND THE FACT THAT HER AND HER GRANDMOTHER WERE LIVING IN THE BACKYARD OF A WHITE FAMILY. NANNY SAW JANIE WAS UPSET ABOUT THEIR LIVING CONDITIONS. SO SHE BOUGHT A PIECE OF LAND, AND MOVED OUT OF MISS WASHBURN'S BACKYARD. THAT'S WHERE JANIE SPENT THE YEARS TILL SHE GOT OF AGE. JANIE WAS 16 WHEN SHE CAUGHT HER FLIRTING WITH JOHNNY TAYLOR, AND DECIDED TO CALL HER IN TO HAVE A TALK WITH JANIE. NANNY TOLD HER THAT HER DAYS HERE ON EARTH WERE GETTING SHORT,AND THAT SHE WANTED JANIE TO SETTLE DOWN WITH SOMEONE. SHE DOESNT WANT TO LEAVE HER IN THE WORLD BY HERSELF.SHE NEEDS JANIE TO BECOME A WOMEN. DURING THE TALK SHE BEGINS TO TELL JANIE ABOUT HER MOTHER. NANNY WAS RAPED BY A WHITE MAN,AND THATS HOW SHE CONCIVED LEAFY, JANIES MOTHER. WHEN JANIES MOTHER WAS 17 A YEAR YOUNGER THAN JANIE, SHE WAS RAPED AND BEATEN BY HER WHITE SCHOOL TEACHER, AND THAT IS HOW JANIE WAS CONCIVED. LEAFY TOOK TO DRINKING, AND ENDED UP LEAVING HER MOTHER TO RAISE JANIE ALL BY HERSELF.

PLOT SUMMERIES CHAPTER 3: GABBY MOORE JANIIE WAS STILL A LITTLE GIRL SHE AND WASN'T READY FOR MARRIAGE. BUT HER GRANDMOTHER THOUGHT THAT LOGAN KILLICKS WAS GOOD FOR HER. HE COULD SUPPORT HER. JANIE WAS WORRIED,BECAUSE SHE THOUGHT THAT BEFORE YOU MARRY YOU WOULD HAVE TO LOVE THE PERSON. BUT GRANNY KEPT INSURING HER THAT SHE WOULD LOVE LOGAN AFTER THEY MARRIED. JANIE AND LOGAN FINALLY MARRIED ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON. JANIE AND LOGAN THEN RODE OFF ON HIS WAGON, AND WENT TO HIS LONESOME HOUSE.AFTER JANIE LOOKED INSIDE HERSELF AND RELIZED SHE DIDNT LOVE LOGAN, THE WAY NANNY SAID SHE WOULD. SHE WENT TO GO PAY A VISIT TO NANNY TO GET THE ANSWERS THAT HER HEART LONGED TO KNOW. AFTER SHE TOLD NANNY WHAT SHE WAS FEEING. NANNY TOLD HER IT ISN'T ABOUT LOVE IT IS ABOUT, HAVING PEOPLE RECONIZE YOU HAS LONGAN KILLICKS WIFE. NANNY WAS MORE WORRIED ABOUT PROTECTION FOR JANIE. NOT SO MUCH HER LOVING LOGAN. NANNY WANTED JANIE TO HAVE SECURITY FOR WHEN SHE PASSES AWAY. LOGAN WAS DOING BETTER OFF THAN MOST COLORED MEN IN THE TOWN. SO SHE WANTED JANIE TO STOP WORRING ABOUT LOVE AND LOOK AROUND TO SEE WHAT SHE HAS. WHEN JANIE FINSHED COMPLAINING ABOUT LOGAN'S APPERENCE. THEY DEPARTED AND WENT THERE SEPERATE WAYS. JANIE TRYING TO HOLD ON AND THINK ABOUT WHAT NANNY SAID TO HER. THAT NIGHT NANNY PRAYED TELLING THE LORD THAT HER HEART WAS RIGHT AND SHE WAS READY TO GO. A MONTH LATER NANNY HAD DIED. TOWARDS THE END OF THE CHAPTER JANIE FINALLY RELIZED THAT MARRIAGE DIDN'T MAKE LOVE SO HER AND SHE BECAME A WOMEN.

PLOT SUMMERIES CHAPER 4: GABBY MOORE A YEAR HAD PASSED, AND LOGAN DIDN'T SHOW JANIE AS MUCH AFFECTION AS HE DID IN THE BEGINNING. HE WOULD TELL HER THAT SHE WAS SPOILED ROTTEN, BECAUSE HE FIGURED IF HE CHOPPED THE WOOD, SHE COULD TOTE IT IN. EARLY IN THE MORNING JANIE WAS CALLED TO THE BARN BY LOGAN. HE TOLD HER THAT HE WS GOING TO LATE CITY TO SEE A MAN ABOUT A MULE. HE TOLD JANIE TO HELP HIM OUT AND CUT SOME POTATOES FOR HIM. LOGAN WAS GOING TO LAKE CITY TO GET ANOTHER MULE TO SPEED UP FARM PRODUCTION. HE SAID THAT POTAOTES WERE GOING TO BE IN DEMAND AND HE NEED TWO MULES. THE MAN THAT WAS SELLING IT SAID HE GOT HIS MULE ALL GENTLED UP SO A WOMEN CAN HANDLE IT. HE WANTED JANIE TO RUN THE FARM WITH HIM SIDE BY SIDE. LOGAN LEFT AND SAID HE MIGHT BE GONE AWHILE BECAUSE IT IS SORT OF A LONG TRIP, SO HE LEFT. AS THE SUN AND WARM WEATHER CAME THROUGH THE BARN. JANIE MOVED HER CHORES OF CUTTING POTATOES OUTSIDE. SHE WAS OUT THERE SO LONG SHE HEARD WHISTLING COMING DOWN THE ROAD. AS SHE LOOKED, SHE DESCRIBED HIM AS A CITYFIED, STYLISH DRESSED MAN. THAT DIDN'T BELONG IN THIS PART OF TOWN. AS JANIE WONDERED TO HERSELF WHERE A FINE LOOKING MAN COULD BE COMING FROM OR BETTER YET GOING TO. HE WALKED RIGHT PASSED HER. SO TO GET HIS ATTENTION SHE RAN TO THE PUMP AND STARTED JERKING THE HANDLE HARD. THE HANDSOME MAN LOOKED HARD AT HER. THEN FINALLY APPROCHED HER AND ASKED FOR A COOL DRINK OF WATER.JANIE KEPT PUMPING THE WATER TILL SHE GOT A GOOD LOOK AT THE MAN. HE TALKED FRIENDLY AS HE DRANK. HIS NAME WAS JOE STARKS. HE WAS FROM IN AND OUT OF GEORGIA. HE AS WORKED FOR WHITE FOLKS ALL HIS LIFE, AND MANGED TO SAVE UP THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS. SO WHEN HE HEARD THEY WERE MAKING A TOWN ALL OUT OF COLORED FOLKS HE KNEW THAT WAS THE PLACE FOR HIM. HE KNEW THAT HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MAKE A LIFE FOR HIMSELF IN A COLORED TOWN. HE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A BIG VOICE BUT THE WHITE PEOPLE HAD ALL THE SAYSO. HE WANTED TO GET THERE WHEN THE TOWN WAS YOUNG. SO HE COULD BUY A BIG PIECE OF LAND, AND MAKE A BETTER LIFE FOR HIMSELF. AS JOE ASKED JANIE WHERE HER FAMILY SHE TOLD THEM SHE WAS RAISED BY HER GRANDMOTHER AND SHE WAS DEAD. AS JOE ASKED WHO WAS RAISING A YOUND CHILD LIKE HER, SHE SHOCKED HIM BY SAYING SHE WAS MARRIED. AS SHE PROUDLY SAID HER NAME, SHE SAID HER HUSBAND WAS GONE. HE WENT OUT TO GET ANOTHER MULE SO SHE COULD HELP PLOW. JOE SAID THAT JANIE HAD NO BUISNESS BEHIDE A PLOW THAT SHE SHOULD SIT DOWN AND BE ADMIRED. -- chapter 6 by mark cantu Chapter 6 In chapter 6 Janie reveals that she doesn’t like running the store. She likes all the people and attention that it brings to her. (Maybe this is because Joe doesn’t show her the type of love that he should?) Joe doesn’t like that she is interacting with all the towns’ people and makes her stay in the store. He also makes her wear a scarf over her hair so that it takes away some of her beauty.

Chapter 7 by mark cantu In chapter 7 Janie feels like all she is good for is keeping the store running and listening to Joe. She begins to feel that she is becoming less attractive. She also thinks about trying to run away again but she believes that no one else would want her. While Jamie is helping a customer in the store she and Joe get into an argument. They argue about each other and how they are getting old and how they feel about them aging.

Chapter 8 by mark cantu After there arguments in chapter 7 Joe start living in another room of the house. He also stops eating her food. Janie finds out from her friend that a rumor is going around about Janie trying to poison Joe. Janie gets a doctor to come look at Joe and he says that Joe is going to die soon. When Janie finally goes to talk to him there conversation turns into an argument and Janie tells him that he was never happy with her and really loved her for who she was. At the end of the chapter Joe dies.

Chapter 9 by mark cantu in chapter 9 Janie is mourning Joe’s death. She feels a little relieved on the inside but want to look sad for all the towns’ people. A lot of guys tried to “talk’ to Janie for about six months after Joe’s death but none of them fit her.

Chapter 10 by mark cantu in chapter 10 the entire town leaves to a baseball game besides Janie, she stays back to keep the store open. Right when she is about to close up a tall man walks in. he buys cigarettes and starts a conversation with her. Then they play a game of checker and flirt with each other for the rest of the day until the towns people come back. She closes the store and he walks her home.

Chapter 11 by mark cantu In chapter 11 tea cake comes back to the store a week later. They flirt some more and play checkers. When the store close tea cakes walks her hone and they sit on the porch and talk. Then tea cake decides to go fishing and they do. They stay at the lake all night. At the store the next day Janie’s store helper tells she that tea cake isn’t good enough for her. Tea cake and Janie tell each other how they feel about one and other.

Chapter 12 by mark cantu In chapter 11 all of the town gossips about how they don’t think that tea cake is good enough for Janie and that he is to young for her. Everyone thinks that tea cake is going to use her for her money. Janie likes tea cake because he actually treats her nice and kind.

Chapter 13 by mark cantu in chapter 13 Janie leaves Eatonville to marry tea cake in Jacksonville tea cake takes 200 dollars of Janie’s money and throws a party for his workers. He promises to give Janie the money back after she found out he took it. Janie also finds out that Janie is a gambler, but he is a pretty good one.

Chapter 15 by mark cantu in chapter 15 Janie gets mad that another girl is always chasing tea cake around. She finds out they are wrestling with each other in a field. When Janie gets there the other girl runs away. When Janie and tea cake get hone Janie tries to beat tea cake.

Chapter 18 by mark cantu in chapter the 18 the hurricane is coming. Over the next couple of days a lot of the people in town leave but tea cake decided to wait the storm out. The waters out side begin to rise and then they final deiced that they need to leave, but it’s too late. They get swept into the water and a dogs attacks Janie, tea cakes wrestles with it to keep it away from her and the dog bites him then tea cake stabs and kills the dog.

Chapter 20 by mark cantu In chapter 20 the signs of tea cakes rabies come out. He complains of a headache, he can’t eat or drink. Janie calls for a doctor to come look at tea cake. He says that the rabies will probably kill tea cake but tries to bring back medicine to see if that will help. Tea cakes starts to accuse Janie of talking with other guys and tries shooting her so she picked up his rifle and shoot him.

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