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__Shannon Yancey

Chapter 1: In Layman’s Terms!__ Everybody in town is gathered on Pheoby Watson’s porch as the story begins. Everyone sees an unknown woman walking down the road. They are all mad about why she left and begin openly spewing forth harsh words about her. You soon find out that the woman is Janie Sparks, and she ran off with a man named Tea Cake. Most of the women seem jealous or envious of Janie’s beauty which is evident in her description as she walks away. Pheoby gets mad at the other women for being so mean, and she defends her friend. Pheoby later meets up with Janie and tells her what the other people have said, and Janie laughs. She also brings her a plate of food and they begin talking about Janie and her life with Tea Cake, with whom she lived with in the everglades. She then begins to tell Phoeby a story of herfe! Chapter 2 Janie was raised by her nanny, but she never met her mom or dad. They live in Mrs. Washburn’s backyard, they are white people, and Janie herself thinks she is white until they tell her otherwise. When she gets older she sits under a pear tree, the pear tree is symbolic of love or passion. One day she’s caught kissing a boy, and Nanny gets mad and tells her she is going to get married to Logan Kellicks. Nanny was born into slavery and got raped. The baby became Leafy, and Leafy gave birth to Janie. Chapter 3 Janie prepares to marry Logan, and she knows she doesn’t love him; however, she hopes that she will soon fall in love with him. They have a big wedding, but Janie isn’t happy. Her Nanny basically tells her to get over it and slaps her, then says she will develop it later. Nanny dies a month later, but Janie still doesn’t love Logan. Chapter 4 Logan begins being less and less nice to Janie. He eventually wants her to plough the fields and work like a man. So Janie finally decides that she wants to run off, and she does with a guy by the name of Joe Starks. Joe has grand ambitions, and lots of money and plans to help a town that is starting in Florida. They get married and run off to Florida. Chapter 5 Jody and Janie realize Eatonville is nothing more than a couple of shacks, so Jody starts buying up the places and selling em back as plots to new comers. He decides to build a store and Janie ends up running it. Janie doesn't dislike the store; however, she would much rather listen to people socialize on the porch. They town has a meeting, and at it Janie tries to make a speech and is basically told to shut up. Thats when she realizes her husband is a shovanist and a jerk. Jody begins seperating Janie from the rest of the town, which ticks her off... Chapter 6 Janie starts hearing stories about a poorly fed poorly dressed man named Matt Bonner. He has a mule that is practically retarded and has body like rawhide. The stories Janie hears the whole town joins in on, and are really funny and pretty much just dissing Matt and his mistreatment of his mule. One day one of the mules runs off and Jody ends up buying him up and the whole town is proud, because he sit him free. After he set the mule free, the town was suprised by his noble effort to free the poor suffering animal and compared the entire ordeal to Lincoln freeing the slaves. Later on Janie is accused of being incompetent in the store by Jody, followed by another event of Jody being a jerk where he slaps her after a making a bad meal. Chapter 7 Janie remains married to Jody, however, she has been repressing her feelings towards Jody. She is hidding her true emotions and she is miserable. One day Janie realizes that Jody is looking older, he is hobbling around the store, and doesn't look the same as he used to. Jody seems to be melting away like an ice cream cone in the sun, and with his deteriorating physique comes a slew of verbal attacks on Janie. One day Janie messes up a cut of tobacco and Jody insults her incompetence and her looks. Janie releases all that anger and starts yelling at Jody, making fun of his appearance and destroying is image for the whole town. Chapter 8 After they fight Jody is so pissed he moves to another room in his house and refuses to sleep with Janie. However, Jody's health is just getting worse and worse as he gets sicker and sicker. Then he begins getting desperate for help, and for a cure, so he begins calling in voodo doctors and the like for medicinal cures. Janie responds by calling a real doctor from orlando to check on him. He is due to die, his condition is terminal. Janie walks in to talk to Jody eventually and tells him he is going to die. They then get into a fight and Jody dies basically at the climax of the arguement. Chapter 9 After Jody dies, Janie is stoked, but she can't admit it openly. She feels free and is excited to be able to be herself finally. Soon after men begin approaching Janie talking about marriage, but she is completely uninterested. She sends all the suitors and men interested packing, and just enjoys her independence. Chapter 10 Hezekiah asks to leave to go to a baseball game, Janie okays it. While holding down the store she begins talking to some guy. They end up playing checkers, and you can tell that Janie is interested. She finds out that his name is Vergible Woods, but he's called "Tea Cake." He lingers around and flirts with Janie and helps her close the store, and he walks her home. Chapter 11 Tea Cake leaves Janie for a week and begins to think he was just taking advantage of her aswell. When he comes back he is as charming as ever and Janie is falling head over heels for him as usual. They stay out all night and go fishing. The next morning Hezekiah warns her of him and it just goes in one ear and out the other for Janie. **__Janie and Tea Cake are at it again!__** This time Tea Cake professes his love for her, she tries to send him packing; however, the next morning he knocks on her door and tells her he is serious and meant what he said. Chapter 12 The town was TICKED about Janie and Tea Cake. Why the heck was an older wealthy widow like her dating a poor young man. Phoeby warns Janie about Tea Cake but Janie has already made up her mind. Janie reveals plans to get out of town and sell the store, and says that she is happy with Tea Cake because he treats her as she wants to be treated. Chapter 13 Janie runs off to Jacksonville with her new husband; however, she is still weary of being ripped off so she hides her 200 bucks in her walet pined to her chest. Tea Cake runs off with her money any way and blows it all by being stupid and buying other people dinner. The whole time Janie is thinking about Who Flung and Ms. Tyler who had the exact same problem and Ms. Tyler got totally ripped off. Tea Cake returns and tells her all about this super awesome time he had without her blowing her money which he stole and some how stupid Janie is completely calm and doesn't really seem to care that he stole her money. However, Tea Cake swears to win the money back by gambling, and through some odd turn of events Janie seems to think that some how Tea Cake gambling back her money was a good idea. Chapter 14 Tea Cake wins her money back. He plans to plant beans and play guitar and gamble to support the family, and they eventually live a fairly stable life. Janie learns to hunt with Tea Cake, and becomes a better shot than him. Migrant workers flood into the everglades, and Tea Cake's house becomes a popular place. Tea Cake convinces Janie to work on the fields with him, and she does. She actually enjoys blabbing on the porch and just enjoying the "common" mans life. Chapter 15 After a while Janie begins getting jealous of this fat chick who is flirting with her man. Her name is Nunkie, ironic, like **__"Chunky Nunkie."__** Nunkie starts like flirting openly with Tea Cake and is touching him and stuff. One day Janie catches chunky nunkie and Tea Cake play fighting in the cane fields, and some how freaking Janie ends up taking him home and bedding him down instead of getting pissed that Chunky Nunkie was all over her man. Chapter 16 Janie starts being more social and meets a woman by the name of Mrs. Turner. Mrs. Turner is a black chick who hates black people, and worships whiteness. Tea Cake hears Janie talking to this woman and tells her not to hang out with Mrs. Turner any more. Janie tries to be mean to her to scare her off but it doesn't work. The off-season ends and then work begins up again. Chapter 17 Mrs. Turner brings her brother to town and Tea Cake beats the crap out of her out of jealousy. Yet once again the ever carefree Janie doesn't even care that she got a random beating, and loves him unconditionally. One day, a saturday, a couple of workers started a ruckus inside the restaurant where Tea Cake was. Tea Cake tries to solve the problem but just makes it worse and it ruins Mrs. Turner's store. Chapter 18 Janie sees a bunch of indians leaving the everglades and they say there will be a hurricane coming up. The whole town is preparing for it and when the hurricane finally arrives Tea Cake, Janie and a dude name Motor Boat end up stuck together. There is massive flooding and the three are begining to see the damns holding up the Okechobe are bursting and the flood water is pushing closer. They take refuge in a house, but later leave with Motor Boat staying behind. The flooding gets so bad that they end up having to swim great distances. Janie grabbed a piece of roof for cover but ended up getting blown into rough water. She grabs a cow's tail and gets attacked by a dog. I have no idea how a mean dog just climbed on a cows back for protection but there was a dog on a cows back. The dog actually attacks Janie, but Tea Cake jumps in after her and stabs the stupid thing to death. Janie thanks him, for saving her life from the viscious cow surfing dog. Chapter 19 A couple of white guys make Tea Cake bury a bunch of people. Tea Cake and Janie are fed up with the racism quickly and they soon return to the everglades. Tea Cake's health starts going bad so Janie talks to a doctor, the doctor thinks that Tea Cake is going to die but he will order medicine anyway. Tea Cake is now firmly crazy due to the rabies, and begins to start getting paranoid. One time Janie catches him with a gun, and when she later finds the gun with three bullets in it, she decides to move the bullets so that it would just take Tea Cake longer if he decided to kill her. Why Janie didn't just take out the bullets i dont know. But in the end Tea Cake tries to kill her and she is forced to shoot him, because she didn't take out the bullets and instead decided to leave them inside the gun for some completely unknown reason. She is then sent to court and she has to try and convince her former friends that she is innocent. The white jury finds her innocent, thanks to her and the doctor's testimonies. Chapter 20 With Tea Cake dead she returns to Eatonville, where she plans to live happily ever after and what not. She doesn't seem to care about people talking behind her back because she has had real, true love and has seen the "horizon". She admits that she can be content living in Eatonville because she knows that Tea Cake is with her.

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**Alex Galotti

** **__Chapter One__ This book starts at the end with Janie recalling past events that led all of the characters to where they are at this point in the story. She tells the events that lead up to her not being able to live with Tea Cake anymore, the man she ran off with. She says shes unable to live with him anymore, for undisclosed reasons at this point in the story. Her life unfolds as she tells her story.

** **__Chapter Two. __Janie was raised by her grandmother, Nanny, as a child. They both occupied a house in the backyard of a white couple, Mr. and Mrs. Washburn. Janie was raised around an environment of white children thinking that she was just like them, until she made a stunning realization that she was black from seeing herself in a photograph. One day, in the midst of a dream, Nanny awakes to see Janie kissing Johnny Taylor, a local boy under a pear tree. Distraught that Janie may end up marrying a poor man, she tries to arrange a marriage with Logan Killicks, a middle class farmer. She wants Janie to have security in life before she dies and feels that Logan will be the only one to fulfill that duty. Janie objects to the idea, but Nanny soon recalls the events that led to her desire to keep her daughter safe. Nanny was born into slavery and was raped by her master. She later gave birth to daughter that ended up having an alcohol addiction, and ran away as soon as her second daughter, Janie was born.

__Chapter 3__ Janie spends the beginning of her marriage hoping that she will eventually find love for Logan. After the newness of the marriage wears off, she begins to realize that she may never find the love that she was hoping for from him. Nanny wants her to appreciate what she helped to provide her: a secure, hard working man. Janie and Logan get in a fight and Janie ends up getting punched in the face.

__Chapter 4__ Logan is working in the yard, angry that Janie will not help him with carrying the wood inside. He thinks that as long as he can chop the wood, Janie can do her part in carrying it inside. Janie later spots a man on the street and begins to flirt with him. He says his name is Joe Starks, and explains to her about his ambitious dreams. She falls in love with him, and ends up leaving Logan to marry Joe.

Chapter 5 Janie and logan head to a run-down town called Eatonville, which is made up of only 50 acres of a couple of shacks. To flaunt his wealth, Jody buys 200 acres of land. Jody eventually becomes mayor and Janie, as his wife is the subject of envy among the townspeople. Jody becomes distant with the townspeople, but no one challenges his title as mayor.

Chapter 6 One of the townspeople, Matt Bonner, has a mule thats deprived and underfed. Its the center of attention around the town. One day, it runs away and ends up being auctioned off. Jody wants to show his love for Janie and is determined to win the auction. He makes an offer of five dollars and gives the mule to Janie. Later on, at the general store, janie mouths off, saying that men dont know as much about women as they think they do.

Chapter 7 Janie starts to lose hope in her relationship. Shes become depressed and considers running away, but feels that she couldnt find anywhere to run to. At the general store. Jody begins to insult her, but she loses her temper and makes a revealing insult. Enraged by this, Jody unleashes a flying hand and strikes her.

Chapter 8 The relationship between the two is beginning to deteriorate. Jody moves into a different room of the house. he becomes ill and eventually discovers from a doctor that he has a kidney disorder and will not survive. He feels sorrow about how he treated Janie, but Janie felt that he wouldnt let her be who she really was. Jody then dies.

Chapter 9 Janie pretends to mourn Jodys death, but on the inside, is relieved about finally finding her freedom. She doesnt want to be tied down to another relationship, and fends off any potential relationships. <span style="COLOR: #111311; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #b8a3a3"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: #111311; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #b8a3a3">Chapter 10 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: #111311; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #b8a3a3">Janie meets Tea Cake at the general store for the first time. They joke around, and Tea Cake then asks her to play checkers. They have some bonding time, then tell each other goodnight. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: #111311; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #b8a3a3">Chapter 11 **<span style="COLOR: #111311; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #b8a3a3">**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #b8b8b8"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 130%; COLOR: #0a0a0a; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #c4c4c4"><span style="COLOR: #080808; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #dbd7d7">After deterrance and second thoughts, Janie finally falls for Tea Cake. They go on a date fishing and tea cake confesses his feelings for Janie. Janie doesn't beliveve that Tea Cake could love a woman so much older than him. Two days later, Tea Cake confirms to her that his feelings for her are real. ** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 130%; COLOR: #0a0a0a; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #c4c4c4"><span style="COLOR: #080808; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #dbd7d7"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 130%; COLOR: #0a0a0a; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #c4c4c4"><span style="COLOR: #111311; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #b8a3a3">**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #b8b8b8"><span style="COLOR: #080808; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #dbd7d7">Chapter 12 The town is unhappy with janies decision to date a poor man. Janie is finally doing what feels right for HER, not what other people think. She decides to sell the store and skip town with Tea Cake.

Chapter 13 Janie and Tea Cake move to jacksonville with $200. One day, the money goes missing and Janie suspects Tea Cake ofr taking it. She later discovers that he gambled the money. Tea Cake promises to earn it all back, and ends up doing so, plus a little extra.

Chapter 14 The two leave for the everglades to find work. They begin harvesting beans to make a living. Tea Cake teaches Janie how to shoot a gun and she eventually becomes a better shot than him. She enjoys her time with tea cake and is happy shes away from her old town.

Chapter15 Janie begins to suspect tea cake of flirting with another girl, nunkie. He runs off with her one day and janie stumbles upon them wrestling in the fields. she tries to beat him when he comes home, but he holds her off. They end up doing the nasty and laugh about what happened the next morning.

Chapter 16 In this chapter, we meet a racist, arrogant black woman named ms. turner. She thinks that the black population should act more white and stop being lazy. She brings up that Janie should marry her light skinned brother. Tea cake doesnt like her talking to her and wants the to stop talking to each other.

Chapter 17 Ms. turner brings her borther to town. Tea Cake gets jealous and the two are envious over the posession of her. Tea cake becomes enraged and later ruins the general store.

Chapter 18 THere is word that a hurrican is about to strike. tea cake and janie are stubborn and decide to stay. The storm progressively gets worse and they soon relize that they have to evacuate. they meet up with a man named motor boat. He helps them get to safety in a vacant house. Tea Cake has a brawl with a dog and gets bit in the face.

Chapter 19 Chapter 19 mainly focuses on tea cake's condition. He contracted rabies and is starting to lose his mind. Janie finds a gun under his pillow with three bullets in it. She trusts him enough to make theyre be 3 attempts for tea cake to shoot her before he actually does. The time comes where he tries to kill her and she is forced to shoot him with a rifle. Her white friends find her innocent in court.

Chapter 20 Janie moves back to Eatonville and is content on her own, know that tea cake will always be with her. This marks the end of her story ** **Chapter 1-In chapter one, Janie returns from the everglades without tea cake. The mouth almighty sitting on Pheoby’s porch criticizes her because she is wearing muddy over halls and tea cake isn’t with her and they think that he took all her money and ran off with some young gal. Janie goes to her house and sits on the porch trying to soak up the tiredness and dirt out of her feet. Pheoby brought over some mulatto rice for Janie to eat. While she ate they discussed how the gossiping crowd gathered at Pheoby’s porch was talking about Janie. Janie begins to tell Pheoby everything.** **Chapter 2-In chapter two, Janie tells Pheoby how she grew up. Janie was raised by her grandmother and the white folks her grandmother worked with. She never met her parents or at least she doesn’t remember them. Janie’s grandmother takes a nap and is awoken by Janie talking to a boy named Johnny Taylor. Her Nanny sees her kiss him and yells at her. Nanny suggests that she gets married soon so Nanny can see her safe before she dies. Nanny suggests she marries Logan kellicks, Janie pitches a fit and cries and Nanny hits her. Nanny sees tears in her eyes and tells her to sit and her lap. While she is in her lap she explains that she would never hurt her and she just wants the best for her because she’s not going to be around forever. While Janie is sitting on her Nanny’s lap she explains her situations with Janie’s mother. When Nanny just had Janie’s mother her slave threatened to whip Nanny until she died and then sell her baby. Nanny did not tolerate that and took her baby and went to hide in a swamp. She heard a ruckus and later found out that all slaves were free. Then she went down to Florida with some white people and helped them out. She put Janie’s mother in school down there in West Florida. Then one day she didn’t come home from school and came home crawling on her knees. Nanny then was informed that her teacher hid her in the woods all night and raped her at age 17. After she was raped Janie’s mother was pregnant with Janie.** **Chapter 3- In chapter 3,It starts off by Janie asking herself questions. She goes to her nanny’s house and discusses her marriage. She says how Logan always wants her and doing things for her. Janie tells Nanny that she wants to do some of the wanting to not just Logan. A month later her Nanny died and she soon began to stand around the gate and accept things. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.** **Chapter 4- In chapter 4 It talks about how Logan doesn’t talk rhymes to Janie anymore. Logan wants Janie to plow and do barnyard work. Logan is out getting another mule for Janie to plow with, when Joe Starks comes walking down the road. He asks Janie for a cold glass of water. They start talking and talking everyday. Joe asks her to come with him and he tells her he will show her how a lady ought to be treated. Janie talks to lagan in bed about leaving, while they were lying in bed. The next morning they got up together. Janie was cooking breakfast when Logan called Janie to help him move a pile of manure. She refused over and over, and then Logan threatened to kill her. She began to finish cooking when a sense of change came over her. She began to turn south, to meet Joe. Joe was waiting for her with a hired rig. He told the driver Green Cove Springs.** **Chapter 5-It starts off as Janie and Joe on the train. When they got to Maitland, Joe found a buggy to carry them over to the colored town right away. It was early in the afternoon when they got there so they walked around. When they got there Joe was kind of disappointed. Joe wanted to meet Cap’n Eaton to buy some land to start building their town of colored people. Joe bought 200 acres of land with cash. Joe gets some lumber from the saw mill to start building. They build a store and use it as a center of their town. The store sells can foods before they can even put it up on the shelves. They hold a meeting at the store and discussed things. Ten new families bought lots and moved to town in 6 weeks. Joe became mayor and some people were not down with some of his rulings. They would talk about him when he’s not there. They gossip about why he rules with a mighty hand. When he comes around they bow down to him anyways.** **Chapter 6-In chapter 6 Janie talks about how she doesn’t want to work the store and she would rather sit on the porch and socialize with everyone. They all sit around and share colorful detailed stories. one example of the men telling stories would be that they enjoy teasing a man name Matt Bonner and his sorry looking of a mule.** **Chapter 7-In chapter7 Janie just hides all emotions in a tightly sealed bottle. One day she notices that Jody is getting old and is moving around more sluggish than usual. One day in the store Janie is cutting a piece of tobacco for a customer and she messes up and Jody sees this mistake. Jody knowing what he looks like and ashamed takes out his anger on Janie and her mistake. She snaps back like a dormant volcano that finally erupts after many years of sleeping. She jokes him by his awful and saggy appearance. Jody left standing powerless in front of the whole town hits Janie and runs her out of the store.** **Chapter 8-In chapter8 Jody moves to another room in their house in regards to their previous fight. Jody is very ill and calls for black magic doctors by doing this you can tell a man of his status is very desperate. Janie being the woman she is sees this and calls a real doctor for Jody from Orlando. The doctor tells Janie that Jody is going to die. Janie comes into Joy’s room and tells him the bad news. They start talking and it turns into fighting as usual. At the end of their conversation Jody dies.** **Chapter 9-In chapter9 Janie can finally be free and uncontrolled. With Jody dieing she is so happy but she can not show the town that due to her dignity. Man after Man comes to Janie talking of marriage and the future of her. Janie being the free spirited woman she now is sends all of them packing. Her actions show that she has no desire for another man and wants to enjoy her impendence.** **Chapter 10-In chapter10 basically the whole town is at a baseball game and Janie wants to close the store down early. Janie can’t do so because of this never seen before man comes in. He ends playing checkers with Janie and doing so Janie is interested in him. They flirt with each other and he helps her close the store. He walks her to her porch and says goodnight.** **Chapter 11-In chapter11 it’s been about a week or so and Tea Cake finally returns. In his absence Janie feels as if he was just taking an advantage of her as well. Tea Cake using his Charming skills has Janie sprung again. On the night of his return they stay out all night and go fishing. In the morning Hezekiah warns her of tea cake and he is going to use her. Janie acts if she has selective hearing because what he has to say goes in one ear and straight out the other. Tea Cake pours his heart to Janie confessing his undesirable love for her. Janie doesn’t believe him and tells him to tell her what he feels in the morning. Tea Cake returns to her house and knocks on her door still with an empty heart.** **Chapter 12-In chapter12 the town being the way they are does not approve of them being together because she is wealthy and older and he is poor and young. Her friend Pheoby gives Janie advice but she doesn’t care. She tells Pheoby that she plans to leave the town and sell the store. She wants to leave off with Tea Cake because he is sweet and gentle and most of all treats as well as respects her like no other man has ever did.** **Chapter 13-In chapter13 In chapter 13 Janie leaves Eatonville to find tea cake waiting in Jacksonville. Janie and tea cake then Marry there in Jacksonville, Florida. Janie does not tell the tea cake that she has $200.00 dollars pinned to the inside of her shirt. One morning Tea Cake tells Janie that he is going to fetch some fish for breakfast. Janie discovers that her money is missing from the inside of her shirt. She is worried what the town people said was true. Tea Cake doesn’t return to later that night. He tells her that he saw the money and was overwhelmed with undesirable excitement. He took the money and through a big chicken and macaroni party for him and his railroad workers. He tells her not to worry, he will win the money back because he is an excellent gambler. He doesn’t return until the next day and Janie acts like a worry wart about him. He returns with $322.00.** **Chapter14-In chapter 14 Janie and Tea Cake finally move to the everglades. He tells her what he plans to do and that is pick beans all day and roll dice and play the guitar at night they live a comfortable life. Janie wants to spend more time with her new husband so she helps him in the fields. Janie wishes people in Eatonville could live a more laid back life as she does in the Muck.** **Chapter15-In chapter 15 Tea Cakes starts working in the fields. Janie notices that Tea Cake and this girl Nunkie work together in the cane fields. Janie notices that Nunkie kind of throws her self out there and flirts a little more than friends do. Janie is enraged with these actions. One day Janie notices that Tea Cake and that flirtageous of a girl Nunkie appears missing together in the cane fields. Janie nearly shattered finds them two “Play” wrestling around in the cane fields. She is furious and pissed at Tea Cake. So furious that she is taking action trying to beat his skull in. Tea Cake being male just holds her back. When the world makes one revolution reveling sun they awake and think back and laugh because Nunkie is such an adolescent girl.** **Chapter16-In chapter 16 the busy working season finally comes to a holt. Janie starts to hang out with Mrs. Turner who is a confused black woman. She hates black people and considers them all lazy. Mrs. Turner thinks that all black people should be more like white people. Mrs. Turner envies Janie because she is lighted skinned, gorgeous, and of her prior status. Mrs. Turner thinks that Janie should marry her light skinned brother and devoice Tea Cake’s dark skinned self. Tea Cake doesn’t want Mrs. Turner to come around because of her thoughts and she is a bad influence.** **Chaper17-In chapter 17 Mrs. Turner brings her light skinned brother to town to show him off. As of what happened in the past Tea Cakes gets jealous. To show that he still has power over Janie he beats her and then after he caters to her. Other men are jealous of such power. One Saturday evening Tea Cake and his peeps are dinning at Mrs. Turner’s restaurant when two men come in drunk and cause a scene. Tea Cake being the gentlemen he is and trying to get on Mrs. Turner’s good side he tries to throw them out. In the end he causes a mess and Mrs. Turner ends up pissed.** **Chapter18-In chapter 18 Janie notices a lot of people leaving the muck. They tell her that a hurricane is a brewing. Her and Tea Cake decides to stay in the Muck. When all the people leave they stay and meet up with a guy named Motor Boat. And the next couple of days their eyes were watching God. They noticed that the storm was really picking up and decided to hide tale it out of there. They came across an abounded house that was tall and on a small hill. When Janie woke up she noticed that the flood was catching up to them pretty fast Tea cake and Janie decided to leave but Motor Boat decided to stay due to him being exhausted. Janie tries to hold on to a piece of roofing but falls into rough water. She notices that a cow is swimming near by with a dog that was growling at her. She grabs on to the tale of the cow and the angry dog starts attacking her Tea Cake jumps in and wrestles with the dog and is bitten in the cheek and Tea Cake stabs it to its death. The next day they reach Palm Beach.** **Chapter19-In chapter 19 When they arrived at Palm Beach two white men with riffles forced Tea Cake to buried the dead. The sensed a bit of racism so the headed back to the Everglades. When they arrived back home few of their friends died but may survived. Even Motor boat who was asleep in that abounded house** **Four weeks have went by and Tea Cake just finished up the dam. One day he arrives home from work with a splitting headache. He is also starving but unable to eat. Janie calls for a Dr. She is then told that Tea Cake was bitten by a rabbi invested dog. One day while Tea Cake is in the out house she notices a pistol under his pillow it is loaded with three bullets. In stead of taken out the bullets she moves it to the last three chambers so she can have time to react. One day Janie returns home and finds Tea Cake filled with jealousy and anger and points the gun at her. He pulls it three times and after that Janie pulls out a riffle and blows his head off. When she has trial about her actions her black friends turn against her and makes a powerful testimony and the white men find her innocent. After the trial Janie gives her dead love a burial suite for a king.** **Chapter20-In chapter 20 after the burial she realizes that there is know need or desire to live in the Everglades any more. She tells her self that she is now ready to move back to Eatonville. When she returns she talks to her stranger of a friend Pheoby and tells her that she has already lived her dream. When she came back she bought with her a bag of seeds and plans to plant them in memory of Tea Cake. That night in bed she realizes that she has lived her dreams and now she can rest at peace**  **.**