Summer School: TEWWG ch. 19 & 20
Chapter 19:
1. Why does Tea Cake believe he can walk through the streets without being forced to work?
2. What do the white men call Tea Cake?
3. Whom has Tea Cake seen alive, and who has died in the flood?
4. What does Tea Cake refuse from Janie?
5. Whom does Janie meet as she goes to the see the doctor about the medicine?
6. Does the doctor have the medicine for Tea Cake?
7. Why does Tea Cake tell Janie not to work in the front yard?
8. What does Janie do after Tea Cake falls dead on her?
9. What is worse than death to Janie?
10. Why did Sop and his friends try to hurt Janie?
Chapter 20:
1. How does Sop-de-Bottom explain the town’s attack on Mrs. Turner’s brother?
2. How does the town make itself feel better after what they did to Janie?
3. How long had the town’s anger lasted against Janie?
4. What is the Everglades to Janie without Tea Cake?
5. What does Janie keep for herself from the Everglades?
6. What is love like, according to Janie?
7. What does Pheoby plan to do tomorrow?
8. What are the two things that everybody has to do for themselves?
9. What is Tea Cake wearing for a shawl?
10. What did Janie pull in around her waist?
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cselph
Chapter 19
1. Tea Cake believes he can walk through the streets without being forced to work because he has money.
2. The white men call Tea Cake "Jim".
3. Tea Cake has seen Sop-de-Bottom, Stew Beef, Dockery, 'Lias, Coodemay, Motor Boat, and Bootnyny alive and saw Sterrett dead.
4. Tea Cake refuses a pan of baked beans from Janie.
5. Janie meets Sop-de-Bottom and Dockery as she goes to the see the doctor about the medicine.
6. No, the doctor doesn't have any medicine for Tea Cake but they had wired Miami to send it.
7. Tea Cake tells Janie not to work in the front yard because he wants her to be where he can see her. He doesn't want Mrs. Turner's brother to be with Janie.
8. Janie hovered over Tea Cake as he closed his teeth in the flesh of her forearm. She then pried the his teeth from her arm after he fell dead on her.
9. To Janie "lying thoughts" are worse than death.
10. Sop and his friends try to hurt Janie because they loved Tea Cake and didn't understand the situation.
Chapter 20
1. Sop-de-Bottom explains the town’s attack on Mrs. Turner’s brother by saying his purpose in returning to the town was of mischief.
2. The town makes itself feel better after what they did to Janie by beating and running of Mrs. Turner's brother.
3. The town’s anger had lasted two days against Janie.
4. Without Tea Cake, the Everglades is "a great expanse of black mud" to Janie.
5. Janie keeps a package of garden seeds that Tea Cake had bought to plant for herself from the Everglades.
6. According to Janie, love is like the sea.
7. Pheoby plans to go fishing with Sam the next day.
8. Finding God and finding out about living are two things that everybody has to do for themselves.
9. Tea Cake is wearing the sun for a shawl.
10. Janie pulled the horizon in around her waist.
gmachin
Chapter 19
1. Tea Cake believes that he won't be forced to work because he has money.
2. The white men call Tea Cake "Jim."
3. Since the storm, Tea Cake has seen Sop-de-Bottom, Stew Beef, Dockery, 'Lias, Coodemay, Bootyny, and Motor Boat alive, and found that Sterrett was killed.
4. Tea Cake changes his mind and refuses the baked beans he asked Janie for.
5. ?
6. The Doctor orders medicine from Miami, but because Tea Cake waited so long to take it, it is unlikely it will work.
7. Tea Cake asks Janie not to work long in the yard, because he doesn't want to be alone.
8. After Tea Cake falls onto Janie, she pries his teeth from her arm and, weeping, thanks him "for giving her the chance for loving service."
9. To Janie, "lying thoughts" are worse than death.
10. Sop and his friends try to hurt Janie because they "loved Tea Cake and didn't understand.
Chapter 20:
1. Sop explains that when Mrs. Turner's brother came to town, he was ahsking how Tea Cake and Janie were doing, so he was "up tuh somethin'," so they ran him out of town.
2. The town begs Janie to stay to make them feel better.
3. The town was mad at Janie for two days.
4. Without Tea Cake, the muck is "just a great expanse of black mud" to Janie.
5. Janie brings a packet of seeds, which Tea Cake was going to plant, back home with her.
6. Janie says, "Love is lak de sea. it's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore."
7. Pheoby plans to go fishing with Sam.
8. The two things that everybody has to do for themselves are to learn how to live independently and to go to God.
9. Tea Cake was wearing the sun for a shawl.
10. Janie pulled the horizon "from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder."
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