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// Janie and Nanny lived in a house on the property of Mrs. Washburn. Janie seen herself in a group picture, when she was six years old, and discovered that she was not white. As a child, she had happy times, but those times ended when the girls at school picked on her because she came to school better dressed and better groomed than they did. They would tell her stories about her father and omitted anything positive. // // Nanny believed things would be better for Janie if they did not live with Mrs. Washburn. Nanny was a woman of ambition and determination. She accepted help from her employer and was then able to purchase land and a small house that Janie loved. //
 * // Chapter 2 By Tremayne Gates  //**

// Chapter 3 By Tremayne Gates //
===// Janie gets married and many of Nanny’s friends attend Janie’s wedding. The wedding is held in Nanny’s parlor. Janie gets happily married and she and her new husband ride away in Logan's wagon to his lonely home. The farm is right next to the road, but the house is set back. Janie thinks it is a dreary place. //=== // After awhile, Janie comes to visit Nanny at Mrs. Washburn’s. Love has not come into Janie’s marriage as she thought it would. So she comes to Nanny for her advice about the situation. Nanny can’t give Janie the advice she wants. Instead, Nanny tells Janie that she needs to make her own decisions and learn from this experience. This advice is not what Janie came to hear, and so she returns home. A month later Nanny is dies. //

// Chapter 4 By Tremayne Gates //
// In this chapter, Logan begins to compare Janie to his first wife. He points out to Janie that his first wife worked very hard. She plowed and chopped wood and he expects the same from her. Logan states that, “Janie has been spoiled both by her grandmother and him.” // // Janie really hates it there and all the work he has her doing and one night, Janie has a talk with Logan and suggests that she might run off and leave him. Although he is deeply hurt, he laughs at the idea and tells her that if she did, “she would soon be back.” Then Logan really tries to use her and demands her some more work. Janie refuses and they get into a really bad argument. Janie ends up leaving Logan and runs off with Joe. //

// Chapter 5 By Tremayne Gates //
// Janies married life with Joe Starks seems to get off to a good start. When they arrive in town the both of them are disappointed. It is much less than either of them expected. Joe is very creative and full of ideas and he also has the money to help them out. While examining the nature of the town, Joe finds a place for them to live. Joe rents a house for a month and they settle in. // // Joe builds a crossroads store to secure a government post office for the town. He begins selling off portions of his 200 acres to new settlers. The small town grows rapidly, and when Joe’s new store is completed, he holds a party. Now that the store and post office are functioning, Joe tells Janie that she must work in the store, because he is simply too busy. Later, Janie becomes an item of jealousy for Joe. He makes Janie hide her hair while she works in the store because he is afraid that some other man might admire her. Janie realizes that she has no power to dispute with Joe, so she does what he says. //

// Chapter 6 By Tremayne Gates //
// This chapter is about a game the “porch sitters” play called mule baiting. Janie overhears the guys talking about it and she very much disagrees with the game. So out of the kindness of Joes heart, he purchases a mule and it becomes the pet of the town and no more mule fighting goes on. // // One day it seems like everything goes wrong in the kitchen and Joe slaps Janie. From there on Janie realizes that the marriage the have has got to end. She began thinking of her past relationship and didn’t want to go through with anything like that again. All the “porch sitters” saw what had happened and told Joe that Janie will be a bad loss and she was a good woman. //

// Chapter 7 By Tremayne Gates //
// The loveless marriage goes on. Many years have passed and another problem occurs. The two of them begin aging but Joe more than Janie. Janie is still beautiful and attractive, whereas Joe begins to show signs of physical decline. Such as an aching back, increasing thinness, and grumpiness and his verbal abuse of Janie becomes worse and he begins doing it in front of the towns people. Janie usually bites her tongue and accepts it, but this time Janie strikes back and she insults his manhood but unexpectedly Joe retaliates by hitting her as hard as he can and making her leave the store. //

// Chapter 8 By Tremayne Gates //
// Joe and Janie’s marriage is now breaking apart. Joe moves out of their bedroom and he refuses to let Janie take care of him anymore. He also stubbornly refuses to see a medical doctor. Janie takes matters into her own hands and gets him a doctor, but it’s too late. Joe’s kidneys have failed, and he is a dieing man. Even though Joe doesn’t want Janie in his room, Janie goes to his bedside and tells him some of the things that should have been said a long time ago about how there marriage didn’t bring either of them happiness. Joe later dies. //

// Chapter 9 By Tremayne Gates //
// Janie attends his funeral like a wife should but holds back all her true feelings and feels no sorrow for the man. The first thing Janie does to show her freedom is burn all of the head rags that Joe made her wear. Other than that, she makes no changes. She keeps the store with the help of from Hezekiah. Now Janie can sit on the porch and talk if she chooses and doesn’t have to worry about anyone telling her what she can and cannot do. //

// Chapter 10 By Tremayne Gates //
// Just about everyone in town has gone to a baseball game when a man by the name of Tea Cake arrives at Janie’s store. He discovers that he has come to the wrong town for the baseball game, but he stays to chat with her. He invites her to play checkers and is astounded when she tells him that she doesn’t know the game. He teaches her how to play. Then, Tea Cake walks Janie home. //

// Chapter 11 By Tremayne Gates //
// Tea Cake is always welcome in Janie’s store. He helps Janie in the store by frying fish, making corn bread, and entertaining customers by playing the guitar. They begin catching feelings towards one another. Then the two of them begin try to avoid one another. Janie is unsure that she can trust him, and Tea Cake is afraid that he will lose her. They later have a serious conversation about the age difference between them. Tea Cake ends up leaving and Janie spends the next day thinking about him and trying to get him out of her mind. She finally accepts his intentions and leaves her past out of there relationship. Tea Cake then disappears for a few days and this causes Janie to go crazy wondering where he is. When he returns, Tea Cake informs Janie that he has been working to make enough money to take her to the Sunday School picnic. Janie is concerned but Tea Cake assures Janie that she is the only one for him. //

// Chapter 12 By Tremayne Gates //
// All eyes are on Janie when she appears at the Sunday School picnic with Tea Cake. The towns people become upset when Tea Cake and Janie begin to hunt, fish, dance, go to the movies, and seem to act like they are married. One night Phoeby goes off to speak with Janie about her and Tea Cake’s romance. Phoeby begins to talk to Janie about how she is going to go through the same thing as one of there friends before, and how all Tea Cake is trying to do is take her money. Janie begins to tell her that Tea Cake isn’t like that and they will be fine together and etc. Pheoby ends there conversation by hinting a bit of envy as she warns Janie about the risks of marrying Tea Cake. //

// Chapter 13 By Tremayne Gates //
// Janie leaves on an early train in Eatonville and goes to Jacksonville to marry Tea Cake. The train leaves so early that most of the towns people didn’t get to see her leave, but some of them did and the word got around fast. // // Tea Cake is a man of his word. They get married but his first act as a new husband was to disappear with $200 of Janie’s money and Janie began to have visions of her fate being similar to that of Mrs. Tyler, an Eatonville woman who was seduced and then abandoned by a younger man and afterwards returned to Eatonville with nothing. After hours of Janie’s worrying, Tea Cake finally returned. He explains that he did not run off with another woman and that he never has any intention of doing so and that he used her money to throw a big party for all the men that worked with him. The money Tea Cake used was later won back through gambling, but the men he won the money from got angry and stabbed Tea Cake a few times. When he healed up they moved to Everglades and began working in cane, bean, and tomato fields. //

// Chapter 14 By Tremayne Gates //
// The Everglades was Tea Cake’s territory. He knew about everything that went on there. He and Janie arrived there early so they could get a room at a hotel where they had access to a bathtub. They move few days later to a location where there is the plenty work for them and a boss that Tea Cake likes. At first, Janie would just clean the house and cook baked beans, but then it became a hassle for the two of them to see each other so Janie decided to work with him. Together they would work and joke around with each other and just have fun. //

// Chapter 15 By Tremayne Gates //
// In this chapter a girl named Nunkie tries to make a play for Tea Cake, and Janie gets really upset. Tea Cake goes through the motions of trying to resist her but Janie doesn’t feel its enough and takes matters into her own hands. When Tea Cake tries to talk to Janie about the situation, she hits him. A fight between the two breaks out but then is later settled. //

// Chapter 16 By Tremayne Gates //
// As the planting and harvesting season ends, all the migrants leave, but Tea Cake and Janie stay. Janie soon becomes real good friends with Mrs. Turner, who owns the restaurant. They visit each other often and Janie realizes that Mrs. Turner is prejudice against dark-skinned people and migrants. This doesn’t make sense to Janie because that’s the main people that come into her restaurant. Tea Cake is very unhappy with the way Mrs. Turner feels about his kind and takes offense to it, but Janie talks him into still eating there with her and what not. //

// Chapter 17 By Tremayne Gates //
// As time goes by, all the seasonal workers begin returning back to work. One of the workers try to hit on Janie (which is Mrs. Turners brother), and it makes Tea Cake mad so he begins to slap Janie around. He feels that slapping Janie is one of his roles as a husband. This is nothing new to Janie because her past husband Joe used to hit her all the time. // // A fight later breaks out at Mrs. Turner’s restaurant between several migrant workers. Tea Cake tries to break up the fight but ends up becoming involved in the brawl. //

// Chapter 18 By Tremayne Gates //
// In Everglades a terrible storm hits and the work of Janie, Tea Cake, and the migrants are destroyed. They all make an effort to go to higher ground, but they are almost swept when the surge of the water from the lake breaks through rushes toward them. Tea Cake tries to help Janie survive by telling her to hang on to the tail of a cow, and in doing so Tea Cake gets bitten by a dog that had rabies. //

// Chapter 19 By Tremayne Gates //
// The two survive and make it to Palm Beach. Janie appreciates how Tea Cake put his life in more danger by trying to save hers, but she insists that he should go to the doctor about that bite he suffered in doing so. // // Tea Cake doesn’t want to go to any doctor’s office and soon begins to show signs of an infection where the dog bit him. Janie tries to take care of him, but as his illness gets worse Janie goes to get the doctor to see if there is any cure for his illness. The doctor says he can get him some medicine but it will take him a little while and he is not sure if it will work because he has waited so long to try and cure it. He later goes crazy, pulls a gun out on Janie; she does the same, but actually shoots him in fear of her life. //

// Chapter 20 By Tremayne Gates //
// The people of the Everglades loved Tea Cake so much that Janie paid her respects by staying a few more weeks following his death. She later returns back to Eatonville (the place she considered home) in her muddy clothes that she had worn when she worked on the fields. By listening to Janie’s story, Phoeby is inspired and promises that her and Sam will spend more time together. //