Chaper 18

Since tea cake and Janie had friended with the Bahaman workers in the glades they saw had been gradually drawn into the American crowd. Janie and tea cake were being Americanize form the Bahaman workers they learned new things new dances. They enjoyed the workers as company. He sleeps on the bed and yonder. I think Janie is trying to say that tea cake sleeps and wonder and dreams he don’t wake up when he is called because he might be in deep sleep and cant hear at all when he goes to sleep and don’t wake up until he fill like it.

Chaper 17

Great deals of the old crowd were back. But there were lots of new ones to. A lot of people came back to the town and there were some new comers as well the town was coming back to life and was becoming a town again. Uh person can see every place you hit her. In saying he hit her so hard that it left marks on her face and people could tell that she had gotten beat by her husband and she didn’t do anything about it and act like nothing had happened to her and everybody knew what happen.

Chapter 16

The season closed and people went away like they bad come in droves. People were leaving the town and the town stared to get dead because everybody was leaving. People were leaving the town fast and quickly. The town is not what it used to be and need help to get it back to get it started. Taint de poorness its de color and de features. I think it means it’s not the money in your pocket it’s the color of your skin and don’t bring a different color in the home they live in. But its not the money in there pocket.

Chapter 15

Janie learned what it felt like to be jealous. She wanted to see what all the other girls see what it felt like to talk about somebody behind there back. People talk about here so much behind her back she wanted to see how it felt is it fun. She grabbed mah working tickets outa mah shirt pocket and ah run tuh get em back. I think what this means is that somebody took something from him and he tried to get it back what ever they took it must of meant something and he must of needed it to.

Chaper 14

To Janie strange eyes, everything in the everglades was big and new. She never seen things big as in her life and was very new to her and she was not used to it and was
As amazed on how things grew there she never seen nothing like that in her life so, all of those things was new to her. Tell yuh whut, Janie, less buy us some shootin tool and let’s go hunting round heah. Joe wants to buy guns to go hunting for animals and go have fun and be a man and just go live life.

Chapter 13

Jacksonville. Tea cake letter bad said Jacksonville. His letter has came a letter that he have been waiting for a long time and it is about to finally arrive and what ever it is he really need it because it can help him in someway and is vary helpful and he need it. Don’t need tuh ask me where ah been all dis time, cause its mah all day job tuh tell you I think what this means is that she don’t need to ask him how was is day because its his job to tell her and he was gone tell her anyway.

Chapter 12

It was after the picnic that the town began to notice things and got mad. They didn’t like the fact that Janie and Tea Cake was together they though she was down grading herself and they didn’t like him because he was spending so much time with him hanging out every day. Because Tea Cake isn’t no Jody Starks and if he tried tuh be, it would be uh complete flommucks. Tea Cake can’t be no Joe because he don’t have what Joe had and did not do what Joe did. Tea cake and Joe Starks are two different people.