1. “She had come back from the sodden and the bloated; the sudden dead, their eyes flung wide open in judgment.” Description of a person who died and did not see it coming and left the world judging people and events. Page 1.
2. " She knew the word was stallion rolling on the blue pasture of ether. Page 25
3. " They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into same crack in the earth from which the night emerged. page 33
4. “The great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume,”. Page 2
5. “They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged.” This is symbolizing the start of a new day, and Janie has a new start for happiness. Page 33
6. “Mind- pictures brought feelings, and feelings dragged out dramas from the hollows of her heart.” Nanny is trying to raise Janie while remembering the past things from her life, and trying to do better this time. Page 16
7.“She had glossy leave and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.” This compares Janie to the blooming pear tree and how it is blooming as she is growing up and becoming a woman. Page 11
8. "Janie saw her life a great tree in leaf with the things suffered things enjoyed, things done and undone.
Dawn and doom was in the branches." Page 8
9. “time makes everything old so the kissing, young darkness became a montropolous old thing while Janie talked.” Time loomed on as Janie told her story to Phoeby. Page 7
10. “The new moon had been up and down three times before she got worried in mind.” Page 22. Three months had passed.
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