Imagery

1. Janie’s butt p.2

The men noticed her firm buttocks, like she had grape fruits in her hip pockets. Janie at her age still had some of the good features of younger people, like a firm butt.

2. Pear tree p. 10-11
From barren brown stems to glistening leaf buds; from the leaf buds to snowy virginity of bloom. It stirred her tremendously. How? Why? It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again….It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep. The pear tree, Janie feels, relates to her, like how it goes through all of its stages to reach a full growth.

3. The porch setting p.1

The sun was gone, but he had left his footprints in the sky. It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongue less, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long.
Where Janie’s from, it’s like an old southern town, where everyone is lazy and lackadaisical at the end of the day and everyone is in everyone’s business.

4. Janie’s hair p.2

A great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume. Janie’s hair is beautiful and long, which most of the women are envious of.

5. Beginning of the night p.7
They sat there in the fresh darkness close together. Janie and Pheoby are really close, and sat there in the early part of the night, talking to each other.

6. Johnny Taylor kissing Janie p.12
She bolted upright and peered out the window and saw Johnny Tayler lacerating her Janie with a kiss! Janie is seen by Nannie kissing Johnny Taylor, and Nannie overexagerrates and freaks out because of what has happened before.

7. Nannie’s voice p.12
The old woman’s voice was so lacking in command and reproof, so full of crumbling dissolution-that Janie half believed that Nannie had not seen her. Nannie has a very weary old cracking voice, making it hard to understand whether or not she had noticed things she was talking about.

8. Nannie’s hair.12
Nannie’s head and face looked like the standing roots of some old tree that had been torn away by a storm. Nannie had some major bad head.

9. When Nannie slapped Janie and the outcome of the slap p.14
She slapped the girl’s face so violently, and forced her head back so their eyes would meet in struggle. Nannie smacked Janie across the face and moved her head back so Janie would understand Nannie was the boss and to do what she says.

10. The first site of Joe p. 27
It was citified, stylish dressed man with his hat set at an angle that didn’t belong in these parts. Is coat over his arm, but he didn’t need it to represent his clothes. The shirt with the silk sleeveholders was dazzling enough for the world. Joe was very stylishly dressed, with all the accessories showing he was wealthier than most other black men.

11. The lumber under the tree p. 40
In the first place everybody was late in coming; then the next thing as soon as they heard where Jody was, they kept right on up there where the new lumber was rattling off the wagon and being piled under the big live oak tree.

12. Janie’s red dress p. 41

So she put on one of her bought dresses and went up the new-cut road all dressed in wine-colored red.