Summer School-TEWWG Chs. 3 & 4
Answer the following using complete sentences.
Chapter 3:
1. What does Janie ask herself as the marriage approaches?
2. Who arranges Janie’s wedding ceremony?
3. When Janie asks Nanny for “information” why does Nanny laugh?
4. What does Janie want Nanny to do?
5. What does Nanny mean when she says “bein’ a fool don’t kill nobody. It just makes you sweat”?
6. What doesn’t Janie like about Logan’s appearance?
7. What does Nanny do after Janie leaves her?
8. What is “a bloom time, a green time, and an orange time?”
9. What does she tell the seeds, and why?
Chapter 4:
1. How does Logan treat Janie differently in the months that follow Nanny’s death?
2. What does Janie do when Logan threatens not to chop any wood for her?
3. Why does Logan want an extra mule?
4. Describe Joe as Janie first sees him.
5. As Joe walked down the road, “he acted like Mr. Washburn or somebody like that to Janie.” What does this imply?
6. Why does Joe want Janie to shake her head?
7. What does Janie mean when she says to Logan, “you don’t take nothin’ to count but sow-belly and cornbread”?
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r reyes
ch.3
1.did the marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the unmated ? did the marriage compel love like the sun the day?
2. nanny arranges janie's wedding
3. because nanny is thinking that janies is trying to get some info on the sex topic
4. if she could tell her how to love logan or how to want to be in the relationship how to love him back how he loves her
5. that being a house wife never hurt nobody being dependent never hurt anybody
6. how his head is so long one way and flat on the sides and "dat pone fat back uh his neck" is belly is to big his toe nails look lke a mules .
7.she dwindled all the rest of the day as she worked and when she went back in her shack she stayed on her knees so long she forgot she was there herself. she thought about if she could given somethin better to janie.
8.its the seasons the bloom time and a green time and an orange time all stand for the seasons .
9. "ah hope you fall on soft ground," becaue she had heard seeds saying that to each other.
ch.4
1.he starts making her do things and stops being all nice and affectionate and stopped talking in rhymes to her he had ceased to wonder at her long black hair and finger it. and starts telling her that she had been spoiled .
2.he threatens him about not having any dinner if he doesnt chop any wood
3.he needs two mules for a bigger crop plantation cause he aims t get mre taters because prices are goin to go up.
4. She describes him as being a stylish dressed man with his hat set at an angle a man that didnt belong in these parts. His cat was over his arm his shirt had silk sleeve holders.
5.
gmachin
Chapter 3
1. As the wedding approaches, Janie asks herself if marrige will bring love for Killick.
2. Nanny and Miss Washburn arranged the wedding.
3. Nanny thinks that Janie has gotten pregnant already, and the "information" she wants is about pregnancy.
4. Janie wants Nanny to teach her how to love Logan back.
5. Nanny means that Janie is a fool for not loving Logan, but that isn't hurting anybody.
6. Janie doesn't like the shape of Logan's head, his large belly, and his toenails.
7. After Janie leaves, Nanny collapses onto her bed, where she remains until her death, one month later.
8. Janie waits "a bloom time [spring], a green time [summer], and an orange time [autumn].
9. Janie tells the seeds that she wishes they will "'fall on soft ground,' because she heard seeds saying that to each other."
Chapter 4
1. After Nanny dies, Logan stops pampering Janie and makes her do difficult chores, like chopping wood.
2. When Logan threatens to stop chopping wood, Janie counters by threatening to stop preparing food for him.
3. Logan wants an extra mule so he can run two plows.
4. Janie is stunned by Joe's appearance, and especially by the way he is dressed.
5. The quote about Joe acting "like Mr. Washburn or somebody" implies that he has a confident attitude.
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7. When Hanie says to Logan," you don't take nothin' to count but sow-belly and cornbread," she means that Logan is a greedy, materialistic man who is only concerned with profit.
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