Comments by Student Christopher Leaphart Most recent public comments by Student Christopher Leaphart https://nowcomment.com/users/145128 Tea Cakes death caused her immense pain and grief, as she tries to do something to remember Tea Cake by; planting some seeds because Tea Cake loved planting. He was the only man she truly loved. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371428?scroll_to=3301824 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371428?scroll_to=3301824 Tue, 07 May 2024 11:56:18 -0400 Because of his Reput, the town was angry at Janie for murdering Tea Cake until they discovered the truth about the incident; in which they empathized for Janie, as she had lost someone she truly loved https://nowcomment.com/documents/371428?scroll_to=3301822 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371428?scroll_to=3301822 Tue, 07 May 2024 11:54:13 -0400 It is rabies... damn... https://nowcomment.com/documents/371428?scroll_to=3301805 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371428?scroll_to=3301805 Tue, 07 May 2024 11:48:59 -0400 Rabies turns people aggressive, so the Doctor's is telling Janie to stay away from Tea Cake to avoid being harmed. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371428?scroll_to=3301804 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371428?scroll_to=3301804 Tue, 07 May 2024 11:48:08 -0400 I think Tea Cake has rabies. He got big by an aggressive dog during the storm, and in paragraph 239, he tried to drink some water but spat it out and said it was horrible and something is wrong with his throat. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371428?scroll_to=3301803 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371428?scroll_to=3301803 Tue, 07 May 2024 11:46:19 -0400 After the diaster, coffins for those who passed away are only being provided to the whites and not blacks, while blacks get the cheaply crafted material. Showcasing the aspects of this time period, where the story takes place. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371428?scroll_to=3301800 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371428?scroll_to=3301800 Tue, 07 May 2024 11:39:34 -0400 Janie and Tea Cake continued to ignore Mrs. Turner relationship as they should, as it doesn't involve her in the first place, therefore she has no say it in. She's just trying to project her own beliefs onto Janie. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371427?scroll_to=3301718 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371427?scroll_to=3301718 Tue, 07 May 2024 10:03:18 -0400 Highlights the likeable and attractive personality of Tea Cake, in which he has managed to climb the ranks, unoffically, through respect and a positive demeanor. The complete opposite of Joe. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371427?scroll_to=3301678 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371427?scroll_to=3301678 Tue, 07 May 2024 09:36:32 -0400 Janie's insecurity is showing once again, showing that she is still in denial about how great Tea Cake is too her, suspecting the relationship with transform into a hateful one like her last ones. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371427?scroll_to=3301658 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371427?scroll_to=3301658 Tue, 07 May 2024 09:25:55 -0400 This moment is a great portrayal of their relationship, as Janie is having much fun learning something new with Tea Cake who willingly teaches her without any bitterness or insecurity involved. Unlike her previous relationships with Joe and Logan. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371427?scroll_to=3301655 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371427?scroll_to=3301655 Tue, 07 May 2024 09:24:03 -0400 I think the reason Tea Cake wants to teach Janie how to shoot is because he had gotten into trouble before considering his dangerous job and he wants to keep Janie safe in the event that she needs to shoot someone. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371427?scroll_to=3301648 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371427?scroll_to=3301648 Tue, 07 May 2024 09:20:04 -0400 I thought he was a gambler earlier; I believe an earlier statement by one of the characters will come true about Tea Cake taking Janie money, but not because he's "some young folk" but for his gambling https://nowcomment.com/documents/371427?scroll_to=3301273 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371427?scroll_to=3301273 Tue, 07 May 2024 01:15:17 -0400 Connects to my other comment, and shows how Janie trust Tea Cake completely as she laughs at Pheoby's "safety" precaution. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371427?scroll_to=3301272 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371427?scroll_to=3301272 Tue, 07 May 2024 01:13:10 -0400 Pheoby isn't as mindlessly trustworthy of Tea Cake yet in comparison to Janie who seemlingly fully trust them already, enough to already want to marry him. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371427?scroll_to=3301271 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371427?scroll_to=3301271 Tue, 07 May 2024 01:12:26 -0400 The townspeople still viewed Janie as a good figure but they believed that what she was doing was wrong. Prehaps because she jumping into a relationship after just leaving one or she doesn't know the guy that well yet. Or both. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371427?scroll_to=3301270 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371427?scroll_to=3301270 Tue, 07 May 2024 01:03:51 -0400 Jody makes a point, he did show up directly after Janie's rich husband died and is now attempting to befriend the mayor and inheriter of that money. Additionally, based on the games he plays, he could be a gambler of some type. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301217 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301217 Mon, 06 May 2024 23:34:17 -0400 Just like Tea Cake, Janie is becoming extremely invested into Tea Cake as they start doing all kinds of things together, to the point of where Janie ceases to do a lot of activites she did prior, to spend time with Tea Cake. Beautiful. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301216 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301216 Mon, 06 May 2024 23:32:42 -0400 Tea Cake is growing closer to Janie, both as a caring friend and as a future lover. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301215 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301215 Mon, 06 May 2024 23:31:00 -0400 Tea Cake broke through her previously established defenses, where she said she would act cold towards him, showing her that he is truly as great as she originally thought despite denying it. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301214 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301214 Mon, 06 May 2024 23:29:53 -0400 Janie shows some feelings of prejudice towards Tea Cake which is probably a result of the trauma from her previous relationships. She doesn't want to believe that Tea Cake is as good as he's showing her, or else he would be too perfect; she's nit-picking. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301213 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301213 Mon, 06 May 2024 23:28:25 -0400 Tea Cake has already showcased the better ability to please Janie compared to her other partners, she laughing and giggling, having a great time overall with Tea Cake showing that they might have a promising relationship. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301212 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301212 Mon, 06 May 2024 23:25:20 -0400 Tea Cake was in the prolouge, he was the reason Janie went back to the village place; he is her next relationship. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301211 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301211 Mon, 06 May 2024 23:24:14 -0400 This is the first time she has expressed a genuine liking in a guy's looks, compared to her interactions with her previous parnters. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301210 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301210 Mon, 06 May 2024 23:22:18 -0400 Janie expresses/brags about how much she loves her freedom from a relationship to Pheoby, almost as if it's setting up this freedom not lasting for too long; is she going to get into another relationship? https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301209 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301209 Mon, 06 May 2024 23:19:19 -0400 The people of the town suggest that Janie gets remarried to someone else, probably has to due with the time period in which women are only housewives. However, she rejects this notion whole heartily because she wants to enjoy her newly found freedom. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301208 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301208 Mon, 06 May 2024 23:17:26 -0400 Janie is able to show her true emotions now as she isn't being bombarded by misery from her parnter. She seems very happy and grateful to finally be alone, after she jumped from one bad relationship to another. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301207 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301207 Mon, 06 May 2024 23:14:31 -0400 She has gained her independent now, with the death of Joe, who was controllingly restricting her actions. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301205 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301205 Mon, 06 May 2024 22:57:41 -0400 This sentence along symbolizes Joe's desire for control and power trip over the town. Even in death, he tries to let his power and what he did for the town be remembered through this funeral despite everyone being relieved of his death. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301202 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371426?scroll_to=3301202 Mon, 06 May 2024 22:39:51 -0400 She personaifies herself as a pear on a pear tree, wanting time for her to find herself, be herself and evolve as a person before settling down into a relationship. Like how a pear starts blooming before becoming a pear which evolves as it becomes ripe https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300039 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300039 Fri, 03 May 2024 09:53:56 -0400 Another reference to a tree made by Janie, and it's specifically a pear tree again, referring to her long life ahead as pear trees can live up to 100 years. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300037 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300037 Fri, 03 May 2024 09:45:12 -0400 She doesn't love Logan but she wants to love him because she feels guilty because they are in a relationship/marriage. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300035 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300035 Fri, 03 May 2024 09:43:20 -0400 She believes that she will eventually fall in love with Logan simply because they are married, foreshadowing why this relationship won't work out in the end. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300032 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300032 Fri, 03 May 2024 09:40:14 -0400 Janie comparing herself to a pear tree is in reference to her earlier comparison of her life in chapter 1 to that of a "big ol' tree," so why is it now a pear tree specifically. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300031 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300031 Fri, 03 May 2024 09:39:03 -0400 Nanny showcases that she wants the best for Janie and to know she is safe which explains her reason for wanting Janie to marry a white man. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300030 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300030 Fri, 03 May 2024 09:36:15 -0400 This scene illustrates the complex relationship between Janie and her Nanny, in which they both love each other immensely but the way Nanny treats Janie only causes suffering and weakens their overall connection. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300029 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300029 Fri, 03 May 2024 09:34:20 -0400 Janie opposes her Nanny idealogy and want for her to get married. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300028 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300028 Fri, 03 May 2024 09:31:01 -0400 Janie's Nanny wants to force Janie into a marriage because of her belief that it will help Janie and set her up for a sucessful life. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300027 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300027 Fri, 03 May 2024 09:30:25 -0400 She compares her life to that of a tree, a life long filled with pain, happiness, using a simile. Those pains of a tree being the animal that come live inside the tree or the falling of their leaves in the fall/winter, a slow and painful pain https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300026 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300026 Fri, 03 May 2024 09:27:24 -0400 We discover Janie's motivation to return to the town for the first time in a while, and considering the reason, Tea Cake must have been a very important person to Janie as she only returned because of his passing. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300025 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300025 Fri, 03 May 2024 09:23:57 -0400 Pheoby and Janie appear to have been close individuals last time they met, as can't help her curiosity to figure out what is bothering Janie in order to help her. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300024 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300024 Fri, 03 May 2024 09:22:16 -0400 Based on their dialogue, Tea Cake is probably Janie's parnter. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300009 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300009 Fri, 03 May 2024 09:14:09 -0400 foreshadows the ignorance that is present within Janie's village, as they judge and speak lowly of her https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300008 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371412?scroll_to=3300008 . Fri, 03 May 2024 09:12:27 -0400 This is a very contradictory comparison made by Janie after Joe has been very manipulative and controlling in their relationship. It potentially foreshadows a change of heart within Joe in the future, or it was simply Janie trying to keep her hopes up. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371429?scroll_to=3289495 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371429?scroll_to=3289495 Wed, 17 Apr 2024 01:20:04 -0400 Joe demonstrates how controlling he acts toward Janie, preventing her from making conversation with others, and reveals his true opinion on the people of the town, which is very negative as he belittles them in comparison to himself. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371429?scroll_to=3289465 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371429?scroll_to=3289465 Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:59:48 -0400 Janie marriage is leading to the same path as her previous marriage but with a reversed caused. She didnt love Logan in the beginning but believed she would come to love him, as for Joe, she loved him at first, but now she's falling out. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371429?scroll_to=3289435 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371429?scroll_to=3289435 Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:48:27 -0400 "the rest of the town looked like servants' quarters surrounding the 'big house' is another reference to slavery, illustrating how Joe is abusing his power as the authority. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371429?scroll_to=3289434 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371429?scroll_to=3289434 Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:41:01 -0400 Joe is abusing his power as major to the point of it being compared to slavery, despite it being voluntary. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371429?scroll_to=3289433 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371429?scroll_to=3289433 Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:38:04 -0400 He allowed his dream to be in authority over people overrule the time to spend with his wife, Janie; revealing his ignorance towards marriage. https://nowcomment.com/documents/371429?scroll_to=3289432 https://nowcomment.com/documents/371429?scroll_to=3289432 Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:35:25 -0400