Think about the scene in which Janie kills Tea Cake. (Spoiler alert!) Using a DIRECT quote from the text, answer the following question: Who saved who? Did Janie save Tea cake, or did Tea Cake save Janie?
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In the scene in which Janie kills Tea Cake I feel that Tea Cake had saved Janie. When the storm came they had came across a dog on top of a cow. If Janie didn't have Tea Cake too help save Janie from that diseased dog then she would of gotten infected by the dog disease like Tea Cake was. "He wanted to plunge in after her but dreaded the water, somehow. Tea Cake rose out of the water at the cow's rump and seized the dog by the neck." ( page 166) Without he help of Tea Cake Janie would be in danger. Even though Janie shoots Tea Cake she had to for her own protection. Overall tea cake had save Janie from the natural disaster and then from the rabid dog. If none of this would of happened then the events would of occured in the other way around with Janie being sick.
ReplyDelete- Alyssa Sotelo 6th period
When Janie shot Tea Cake, she was really saving him from further horrors, for one he was suffering, more importantly though, if people found out he had gone mad, they would have treated him cruelly, and remembered him wrongly. As mentioned on page 183, "Folks would do such mean things to her Tea Cake if they saw him in such a fix." Most people on the muck loved and respected Tea Cake, however if they saw him as insane as he was, they would have treated him just as they treated Mrs. Turner's brother. Janie's elegant funeral left a pleasant memory of Tea Cake, if Janie hadn't shot Tea Cake, he would be remembered as a mad murderer for shooting Janie, and possibly others. Janie sparred some mercy for Tea Cake by putting him out of his misery.
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I feel that Janie was the one to save Tea Cake because Tea Cake's rabies were making him act differently. It would make him act more jealous of Janie than usual. Tea Cake having rabies made him show a darker side of himself. "Tea Cake, Ah dont lak you astin' me no such question. Dat shows how sick you is sho nuff. You'se jealous' thout me givin' you cause." Janie saved Tea Cake by putting him out of his misery as if he was a rabid dog.
ReplyDeleteJanie saved tea cake. With the rabbies he had gotten aggressive and his attitude and the way he would acted changed a lot. He became more aggressive towards Janie and wanted to shoot and kill her. Tea cake felt as what he did and himself wasn't enough for Janie. He felt as if he wasn't getting treated well because he was sick. "How come you ruther sleep on uh pallet than tuh sleep in de bed wid me?" janie saw then that he had the gun in his hand that was hanging to his side. "answer me when ah speak." Janie did not want to shoot tea cake but if she didn't she was risking her life.
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ReplyDeleteWhen Janie killed Tea Cake, it seems to me as if Janie saved Tea Cake. She saved him from the rabies he was suffering from. "She tried to make them see how terrible it was that things were fixed so that Tea Cake couldn't come back to himself until he had got rid of that mad dog that was in him and he couldn't get rid of the dog and live." Janie knew that the only way for Tea Cake to be relieved from his suffering was for him to die. It also kind of helps that he was trying to kill her.
It's my belief that Tea Cake and Janie saved each other. Janie states that, "Ah jus' know dat God snatched me out of the fire through you." This says that Tea Cake saved Janie by just being in her life. It is for Tea Cake in the fact that Janie shoots him to get rid of the mad dog even though it means losing Tea Cake. Janie would not have been able to save Tea Cake without being saved first.
ReplyDeleteTea Cake saved Janie. In the storm when Janie was dragged into the water, Tea Cake helped her survive when he told her what to do to in that situation. "Make it tuh de cow and grab hold of her tail! Don't use yo' feet. Jus' yo' hands is enough. Dat's right, come on !" (pg. 165) Not only did he did that for her, but he prefer to risk his life by taking the dog with rabies away from her. He prefer getting bit by the dog then letting the dog hurt Janie. "But the dog couldn't free himself either. They fought and somehow he managed to bite Tea Cake high up on his cheek-bone once." (pg. 166) Saving Janie from getting drowned, and also saving her by not getting bit by a dog with rabies.
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Janie saves Tea cake because he got very sick and was very depressed since. He would always think that he is not good enough for her. That she deserve better and Tea Cake gets mad at that and threatens Janie. He gets mad because he can't give her enough of what he wants. Then Tea Cake takes is too far that he has a gun and threaten to kill Janie. Janie had to choose weather to save her own life or his. That is the difficult part that happened. The whole paragraph "how come you ruther sleep on up pallet than tuh slep in de bed wid me?" Janie saw then that he had the gun in his hand that was hanging to his side. That when she has to decide what to do and for the best also. Bobbi Cordle 2nd period
ReplyDeleteJanie did save Tea Cake because when the dog bit him in the neck he got rabies and Janie was trying to do everything to save him. When Janie was leaving every time to see if the medicine arrived Tea Cake thought that he wasn't enough for her and thought she was fooling around."Tea Cake, Tea Cake, honey! Go lay down! ect.(pg.183) What this quote means is that Janie really does care about Tea Cake but when he was going to shoot her she had to protect herself. When Janie got the rifle she shot him because if she didn't get anything she was going to risk her own life.
ReplyDeleteJanie saved Tea Cake from the thoughts of jealousy. In chapter 19 Tea Cake says, "Janie, whut is dat Turner women's brother doin' back on de muck?", then Janie replies, "Ah don't know, Tea Cake. didn't even know he wuz back", right after Tea Cake responds fiercely, "According tuh mah notion, you did. Whut you slip off from me just now for?"(pg.180). These quotes show how the diseased Tea Cake didn't trust Janie, and showed how he was jealous of other men like Mrs. Turner's brother from getting with Janie. Tea Cake also knew he was going to die, which is why he planned on killing Janie with his pistol, but killing her because he didn't want her to be with anyone else once he died. Janie saved Tea Cake from suffering all the bad thoughts such as what man is going to take his place once his place once he's gone, she didn't want to kill him either, but she knew that if she didn't then she was putting her life in danger because of Tea Cake's jealousy. Tea Cake loved Janie so much to the point where he planned on killing her because he felt that if he can't be with Janie, then no one can.
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In every way, they saved each other. Tea Cake killed the dog and got bit in order to save Janie from getting hurt. The only downside being that when he was bitten, the dog was mad. He was infected with rabies and Tea Cake got infected as well. While Janie took care of him he got worse and worse. He was becoming what had bit him and finally came to the point where all he knew was to kill what moved.As soon as Tea Cake, who wasnt Tea Cake anymore, whipped out his pistol, Janie pulled out a rifle and they shot at each other, Tea Cake missing and Janie hitting her target. "She had wanted him to live so much and he was dead." (page 184/iphone book) She spent so much of her time ensuring his health get better but ended up saving HIM from any possible worse conditions. So i guess you could say Janie saved Tea Cake. At least thats what i think would answer this question, but if it were up to me i'd say they saved each other.
ReplyDeleteJordan Ocampo ( 8th Period )
DeleteTea Cake and Janie both save each other. When a dog tries to attack Janie, Tea Cake gets in between and gets a bite. Even though the dog bite cured it was slowly killing Tea Cake from inside that soon led him to his death and saving Janie's lfie. "Well, she thought, that big old dawg with the hatred in his eyes had killed her after all." But just before Tea Cake had died, Janie saved him from his doubt. Tea Cake didn't feel good enough for her and though she was having an affair win Mrs. Turner's brother, but Janie proved her love for him by caring and serving him through his sickness.
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Tea Cake at first was the one who had save Janie in several ocasions. Such as the incident were they were trying to escape from the rising water, and ended fighting a dog. "You was twice noble tuh save me from dat dawg. Tea Cake, Ah don't speck you seen his eyes lak Ah did. He didn't aim tuh jus' bite me, Tea Cake. He aimed tuh kill me stone dead. Ah'm never tuh fuhgit dem eyes. He wuzn't nothin' all over but pure hate. Wonder where he come from?"(pg. 167) Meaning that if it werent for Tea Cake saving Janie the roles would have been switch an Tea Cake wouldn't have died. In the end Janie was the one who save Tea Cake from a horrible diseas that in the end will kill him slowly. "The pistol snapped once. Instinctively Janie's hand flew behind her on the rifle and brought it around. Most likely this would scare him off. If only the doctor would come! If anybody at all would come! She broke the rifle deftly and shoved in the shell as the second click told her that Tea Cake's suffering brain was urging him on to kill." (pg. 183) Meaning that if Janie hadn't kill Tea Cake deffending herself she would have probably become infected an eventually died an a epidemic would occur.
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ReplyDeleteI believe that Tea Cake was the one that saved Janie, not only because he saved her from the rabid dog, but also from the connection the had as a couple that she'll never forget. Janie had not felt the same way about her past marriages in contrast to her marriage with Tea Cake. The text quotes "He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking."(Pg. 193) After Janie's unsuccessful relationship's, Tea Cake made her feel special, something no other man had done and she had her first true love. Although Janie and Tea Cake had their struggles, Janie gave up everything to be together with Tea Cake due to her love and affections for him. This make Tea Cake an important character that makes a major impact in Janie's life.
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ReplyDeleteI would have to say that Janie definitely saved Tea Cake, but she also saved herself in a way. Tea Cake was going to shoot her, so she shot him saving her life. When she pulled the trigger and that bullet killed Tea Cake, Janie saved him. He was now out of his suffering, no more gagging, not being able to eat, and most importantly no more pain. Tea Cake could now rest in peace. "Ah'm goin' git de doctor tuh come see 'bout yuh. Aw ain't dat bad, Janie. Looka heah! Ah kin walk all over de place. But you'se too sick tuh play wid." (page 204). This quote shows that Janie loves Tea Cake and has his best interest at heart, even when he is being stubborn. All she wanted was to relieve her husband of his misery and have him not worry, that's why she waited so long to tell him what the doctors were saying.
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When Janie killed Tea Cake, it was Janie who saved Tea Cake. The situation was that Tea Cake and Janie were greatly unfortunate. Tea Cake got sick from a rabid dog that bit him without him knowing it was rabid. The doctor said, "Ah'll phone... For the serum... i'll do what i can. but it looks too late," (pg177). As time went by the medicine hasn't arrived and Tea Cake began to act crazy and aggressive towards Janie for no justifiable reason. After a while she began to worry that, "[people would] treat Tea Cake like he was some mad dog when nobody in the world had more kindness about them" (pg 183). This is saying that she would hate for people think he has gone mad and treat him badly because of his sick state and everybody would forget the great and kind things he has done in his life time. Also as the doctor said it was too late. Time was against her and Tea Cake's sickness began to worsen where he pulled a gun and pointed to Janie and tried to fire a bullet, and in that moment, to save her own life and Tea Cake's, she unfortunately had to kill him. It began to show that that was a good thing for both of them because after Janie wins the court case, even though Tea Cake's friends hated Janie, they soon realize and understand that Tea Cake was sick and Janie only did it for the good of herself and of Tea Cake himself.
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Although Janie is the one that put the end to Tea Cake's pain and suffering, he is the one who really saved Janie. if it wasn't for him, she would've been the one going mad. But most importantly, he saved her from her past and gave her the best relationship she could ever ask for. She never knew what it felt like to love or be loved, but with Tea Cake, the connection was so strong and changed Janie, in a good way. "He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking (pg.193)." He was apart of her and that is what made her so alive. Those years with him made her into a better person and made her realize many things. If it wasn't for him, Janie would've never found her true self.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion Janie was the one who saved Tea Cake, because she put him out of his misery. And because he was already out of things, she stopped him from getting worse. That way she could remember him as the man he was and not as a delirious disdraught man. For example when Janie yells "Tea Cake, put down dat gun and go back tuh bed!" Page 203. This shows that he didnt really know what he was doing. Therefore Janie saves him because she stops him from getting any worse.
ReplyDeleteIn the end I feel that it was Tea Cake that saved Janie. Before coming together with Tea Cake Janie was mistreated and unloved. In Janie's eyes tea cake was her night in shining armor when she states "...Ah jus' know dat God snatched me out de fire through you.And ah loves yah and feels glad."(pg211). This just goes to show that not only did tea cake make her feel young and loved but he was the one to sweep her off her feet and out of the darkness. Just like how she had to do when she took Tea Cake's life.
ReplyDeleteWhen Janie shot Tea Cake it was for protection and to save Tea Cake. Janie save Tea Cake from a horror life since she couldn't control the rabies that Tea Cake has. Janie wanted to do anything to save Tea Cake from this sickness, so he wouldn't harm anyone and her. In chapter 19, it's where Janie tells the doctor, " Doctor, Ah loves him fit tuh kill. Tell me anything tuh do and Ah'll do it (page177)". For this she didn't had any choice than to kill Tea Cake. She didn't mean too but Tea Cake didn't know about the sickness that was provoking him to harm Janie. In chapter 20 it said, " She tried to make them see how terrible it was that things were fixed so that Tea Cake couldn't come back to himself until he had got rid of that mad dog an live. He had to die to get rid of the dog. But she hadn't wanted to kill him (pg. 187)". She didn't want people to hate her for what she did to Tea Cake. She wanted to see her like she had done the right thing to help Tea Cake to get rid of the rabies.
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In my opinion Janie saves Tea Cake. Tea Cake was eventually going to die according to the doctors predictions. "Tea Cake had two bad attacks that night. Janie saw a changing look come in his face. Tea Cake was gone."(pg. 181) Janie realized how much Tea Cake was suffering, and he knew something was wrong with him aswell. Killing him was the best and only choice Janie had. To save herself and him. -Genesis Ramirez, 8th.
ReplyDeleteJanie saved Tea Cake from the judgment from the people. Tea Cake started being aggressive towards Janie. "Ah know yuh didn't. Ah been heah uh long time listenin' to dat heifer run me down tuh de dawgs uh try tuh tole you off from me." (Pg.143). People started judging Tea Cake because he had became so aggressive towards Janie that they started judging him. Janie was just saving Tea Cake from that.
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Janie and Tea cake save each other. Tea Cake risks his life to save Janie from, "...A massive built dog..."(pg.165). The dog and Tea Cake get into a scuffle that results in Tea Cake getting bite in the face by this humongous dog. "They fought and somehow he managed to bite Tea Cake high up on his cheek-bone once."(pg.166). Janie loves him so much and is willing to do anything to save him from death. "Doctor, Ah loves him fit tuh kill. Tell me anything tuh do and Ah'll do it."(pg.177). The disease from the dog bite drove Tea Cake mad, he went crazy, he tried to kill Janie. she shot him first because it turned into a kill or be killed game.It hurt her so much to kill the man she loved. It was explained as "The meanest moment in eternity."(pg.184). "She had wanted him to live so much and he was dead." (pg.184) Janie tries so hard to keep him from death and eventually saves him from turning into a mad animal. In the end it shows once more that Tea Cake did save Janie, he saved her from her bad marriage, from her way of thinking that maybe love didn't exists, from her desperate journey that started when she was 16 when she started to ponder the question of love with Johnny Taylor. "Janie held his head tightly to her breast and wept and thanked him wordlessly for giving her the chance for loving service. " (pg.184).
ReplyDeleteIn the beginning, Tea Cake saved Janie. Tea Cake saved Janie from flowing off because of the water and he saved her from the dog trying to kill her. "Po' me, he'd tore me tuh pieces, if it wuzn't fuh you, honey." "You don't have tuh say, if it wuzn't fuh me, baby, cause Ah'm hea, and Ah want yuh tuh know it's uh man heah." (pg 167). Later on, when Janie finds out that Tea Cake has rabies, she's horrified and doesn't want to leave his side. "Did He mean to do this thing to Tea Cake and Her? It wasn't anything she could fight. She could only ache and wait" (pg 178). But unfortunately, Tea Cake goes mad and intends to kill Janie. Janie saved Tea Cake by shooting him, ending his misery. In the end, they saved each other, their undying love for one another caused them to do great acts of courage.
ReplyDeleteJanie and Tea Cake in a way both saved each other. When the flood occurred and Janie and Tea Cake got struck by flowing water, Janie had no other choice but to listen to Tea Cake when he said to hold on to a cow passing by. There was a rabid dog (or so it seems) on top of the cow which restrained Janie to go on it any further. Tea Cake grabs a hold of Janie but gets bit on the cheek by saving Janie's life. "They fought and somehow managed to bite Tea Cake high up on his cheek bone. Then Tea Cake finished him and sent him to the bottom to stay there." This courageous action brought sickness to Tea Cake because of the bite from the dog. Tea Cake soon goes insane by picking up a pistol trying to shoot Janie. Janie soon shoots Tea Cake ending his misery and saving him from the depths of his ugly sickness. " You can't blame her for puhtecting' herself. She wuz crazy 'bout 'im. Look at de ay she put him away. Ah aint got anything in mah heart aginst her." The end of the story was about how two people loved each other so much they would do anything to save each other.
ReplyDeleteJanie saved him and herself. She shot him before he did anything wrong. "People would treat tea cake like he was some kind of mad dog but nobody in the world had more kindness bout them" Getting rabies made him more jelous and mad and all the people thought wrong about him. So she had to do something about it before it was too late. "Tea Cake, Ah don't lak you askin me no such question. Dat shows how sick you is sho nuff. You'se jelous thout me givin' you cause." Janie saved him for a good cause. But she would still hate when people would say he had gone mad and treat him badly because of his sick state. So she saved him and herself too.
ReplyDeleteIn the case of Tea Cake's death, I believe that Tea Cake saved Janie. He saved her because she was no longer in a life or death situation, she was set free of her worrying, and she could finally be at peace. To emphasize this point, "A minute before she was just a scared human being fighting for its life. Now she was her sacrificing self with Tea Cake's head in her lap... Janie held his head tightly to her breast and wept and thanked him wordlessly for giving her the chance for loving service." (page 184) This excerpt shows that even though Janie had unfortunately killed her distraught husband, she was still very thankful for everything he had done for her. The last moments of his life he had spent being a dangerous burden to Janie, causing her distress and pain through his sickness. The death of Tea Cake ultimately saved Janie because she was no longer at risk of being harmed and no longer worrying about her ailing husband.
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Janie and Tea Cake both saved each other when Janie shot him. She saved herself from being killed by Tea Cake and she saved him from having to live and suffer from that illness. Tea Cake had no control over his actions and the illness took over his body when he held pistol at Janie. She was terrified and she knew killing him was the best solution for both of them. "It was the meanest moment of eternity" (chapter 19) but she had done the right thing.
ReplyDelete-Dominique Briddell
Janie saved Tea Cake. He was already gone from the sickness; all that was left was an angry killer. After Janie is forced to pull the rifle on Tea Cake, she frantically thinks: “If only the doctor would come! If anybody at all would come! She broke the rifle deftly and shoved in the shell as the second click told her that Tea Cake's suffering brain was urging him on to kill.” (Chapter 19) This shows Tea Cake isn’t himself. She saved him from both agony and a humiliating death. If the people in the muck interacted with Tea Cake, Nobody would have understood him because they weren’t there when he was bitten. The look rabies developed on Tea Cake was a drained, crazy look. It didn’t have typical fever symptoms of coughing or sneezing people need to identify a sick person. The people would have tortured him. Janie “humanely” ended it. The sickness was messing up his brain and he wasn’t winning the fight for it back. Tea Cake was so far gone; Janie putting him out of his misery was the only solution. Medications would’ve had no effect regaining his mind back. An infuriated Tea Cake was already firing on Janie forcing her to protect herself.
ReplyDelete-Tameka Smith 2nd period
Janie and Tea Cake both saved each other in that moment. Janie did by taking him away from the cruelty of his own sickness and putting him to rest. Even the doctor confirmed that Tea Cake was bound to die sooner or later anyways, but in that sense, Tea Cake saved Janie from the burden. He made her shoot him so Janie wouldn't haven't to carry his burden any longer. Janie even admitted that she couldn't take care of him any longer in Chapter 19 when she said "Ah'm just skeered you'se too sick fuh me tuh handle."(Pg 182) Tea Cake took the burden away from Janie so she could live her life and Janie let Tea Cake rest so he wouldn't have to suffer any longer. Some little perfect harmony.
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Obviously it was Janie that did the saving and not Tea Cake. One way to prove that Janie was the one that did the saving is by showing how Tea Cake didnt save Jaine. Even before Tea Cakes death Janie rather wishes to have die than to see him suffer like he did, "She wished she had slipped off that cow-tail and drowned then and there and been done. But to kill her through Tea Cake was too much to bear"(page 178). The qoute proves that Tea Cakes death couldn't have possibly saved her, the only way she would've been saved would be through her own death, allowing her to not take part in Tea Cakes death, which doesn't happen. Janie ends a long painful/agonizing road that Tea cake would of gone through, thus being the one to truley have saved while sacraficing.
ReplyDeleteI think Janie saved Tea Cake. she saved him form his rabies ad out him out. With the rabies he was becoming very aggressive towards her. "She tried to make them see how terrible it was that things were fixed so that Tea Cake couldn't come back to himself until he had got rid of that mad dog that was in him and he couldn't get rid of the dog and live." She knew the only to end his suffering is to kill him. And when he tried killing her, it somewhat motivated her to go through with it.
ReplyDelete-Anthony Lopez
After Tea Cake gets bit by the rabid dog and becomes very ill, Janie brings in a doctor to see him. The doctor tells Janie that Tea Cake is bound to die soon, but he would suffer immensely beforehand. Janie mentions that it would be too hard to kill Tea Cake because she loved him so, but eventually she has to shoot him when his illness took over his sense. "Tea Cake couldn't come back to himself until he had got rid of that mad dog that was in him and he couldn't get rid of the dog and live. He had to die to get rid of the dog." Ultimately, Janie saved Tea Cake by killing him because he was entirely lost to the mad dog, and couldn't be saved and kept alive.
ReplyDeleteI believe Janie saved Tea Cake. She saved Tea Cake by taking him away from the monster that had taken over his body. As Janie is forced to point the riffle upon Tea Cake, she is constantly thinking about the "what if's" and the "only if's". There was no other way but to end his life because in chapter 19 it says "A minute before she was just scared human being fighting for its life. Now she was her sacrificing self with Tea Cakes head in her lap. She had wanted him to live so much and he was dead." Janie simply put Tea Cake out of his own misery and his unwanted side effects of the rabies. Nobody would have ever understood his sickness and would have made fun of him. Not only did Janie save him from making a fool out himself but saved him from humiliation with the rest of his surroundings.
ReplyDeleteJanie saved Tea Cake because he was obviously suffering from the rabies. If she hadn't, then he may have killed her and would have felt terrible about it. "Tea Cake had two bad attacks that night. Janie saw a changing look come in his face. Tea Cake was gone." (Hurston 181) There was no hope for him to live or return to his normal state.
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In the long run if you think about it Janie saved both of them. If Janie didn't kill Tea Cake he would of killed her and he was suffering from his sickness. To get technical she saved Tea Cake. "She ought not let poor sick Tea Cake do something that would run him crazy when he found out what he had done." (pg. 182) Janie knew Tea Cake was not in his normal state of mind and knew that once he realized what he did if he did kill her he would probably go psycho and never forgive himself. Janie saved Tea Cake from making a mistake he would regret forever.
ReplyDeleteWhile trying to escape the water from raising Tea Cake saves Janie from getting bit from the mad dog with rabies by getting in the way between the dog and Janie. Janie could have gotten infected if Tea Cake had not killed the dog. Tea Cake would get worse and worse from the infection, and was dying very slowly. Janie in a way saves Tea Cake from the painfully slow death, but she knew he was gonna kill her, because of the jealousy he had on other men and couldn't stand anyone else with her. Janie saves herself from getting killed by her own husband. They all saved each other in some way.
ReplyDeleteI believe it was Tea Cake that saved Janie. I believe this because before Tea Cake came around she was lost and sad. She didn't really know who she was. she had no purpose in life she was unsatisfied with her life but didn't really know it. Tea Cake saved her from her self and to me this becomes clear when she says "Ah jus' know dat God snatched me out of the fire through you.". Tea Cake showed her the way and helped her find her self with love and affection.
ReplyDeleteTea Cake was the one who saved Janie. Before janie meet Tea Cake she was sad and treated badly by other men. She felt like she had no purpose. But then she meet with tea cake and he treated her well. He helped her feel loved and special again. He also did protect her from the dog infected with rabies. Putting his life on the line for hers.
ReplyDeleteJanie saved herself in the sense that she knew that the pistol behind Tea Cake's pillow was dangerous to Janie while Tea Cake was in the condition that he was. For example, " It was then she felt the pistol under the pillow... She whirled the cylinder so that if he even did draw the gun on her it would snap three times before it would fire." If Janie would have never whirled the six shooter earlier, neither of them would have survived. Janie would have been shot to death, and Tea Cake's fate had already been choosen he was just waiting to die. So in this case I believe that Janie has saved herself in the scene of the killing of Tea Cake.
ReplyDeleteIn the end Tea Cake had been saved by janie, by getting shot by her. because if she wouldnt have shot Tea cake, he wouldve only gotten worse either ways and be treated like a mad man due to the effect of rabies in his body. on chapter 19 pg. 181 "tea cake had two bad attacks that night. Janie saw a changing look come in his face. Tea Cake was gone. something else was looking out of his face." this quote explaions how that person that Janie once knew and loved so dearly was gone.Janie did Tea cake a favor by killing him and putting him out of his misery. Tea cake wouldve only suffered in the future.
ReplyDeleteJaime Balderrama
Although Janie saved Teacake from his sickness, Teacake ultimately saved Janie from an unhappy loveless life. In the moments after Janie killed Teacake, she realized how much she loved him and how much she wanted him to live (something she never felt when Joe died). She appreciated all that Teacake had given her emotionally and physically as shown when Zora Neale Hurston writes "Janie held his head tightly to her breast and wept and thanked him wordlessly for giving her the chance for loving service." pg. 184 Due to Teacake Janie had a purpose to live on, a purpose that she never had before she met Teacake. He brought meaning and love to her life. He saved her.
ReplyDelete-Dominique Lopez
In the scene in which Janie kills Tea Cake Janie was not killing Tea Cake she was saving him. Tea Cake was no longer himself "The fiend in him must kill and Janie was the only living thing he saw." (pg.184). Tea Cake was overrun by the infection and could no longer listen to reason only to instinct. The sickness filled Tea Cake with rage and he began to feel that he was too much for Janie. He was filled with hate, jealousy, and rage and the instructions the Doctor had given to Janie is what drove him over the edge. All of the instructions the Doctor had given Janie, such as to not sleep in the same bed, made Tea Cake believe Janie did not want to be with him. Janie saved Tea Cake from the monster he was becoming.
ReplyDeleteI want to stay Janie actually saved Tea Cake along with her own self as well. Yes Tea Cake took part in saving Janie from a maniac dog but overall Janie did all the action by at first taking care of Tea Cake and doing as he said. The action she made by killing Tea Cake gave him the only way to be able to step out of his own misery. I believe it wasn't much of a bad idea at all to kill him due to it's future happening to occur without much control to stop it, "You mean he's liable tuh die, doctah? " .."Sho is But de worst thing is he's liable tuh suffer something awful befo' he goes." (pg 177) Apart from Janie saving Tea Cake she gave herself a benefit under all the grief of utter darkness that descended to her, her life was no longer put at danger along with not needing to depend on the doctor to straighten out Tea Cakes situation. As much as it gave out a dreadful and sorrow feeling it was what had to be done in order to save the both of them.
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ReplyDeleteJanie saved Tea Cake because when he had gotten bit by the dog, she tried to do everything that she can to save him. She was always trying to go and see if his medicine had come in. “Tea Cake, Tea Cake, honey! Go lay down! Ah’ll be too glad tuh be in dere wid yuh de minute de doctor say so. Go lay back down. He’ll be heah wid some new medicine right away.”(pg. 162) This shows how Janie really cares for Tea Cake. She will go to extremes to try to save his life. At this point Tea Cake believes that he is not good enough to be with Janie so he pulls out his gun. Janie had to act out in self defense so she pulled the gun from him and shot him. She shot him because she couldn't live with the thought of risking her own life for him.
ReplyDeleteDerek Fuller
Subsequent to Joe Starks death, Janie met Tea Cake who was 12 years older than her and because of that had no interest in dating him. But Tea Cake didn't give up in achieving her. And when he did have her, he wanted to show her a good time. A time that he knew she had not yet experienced the past twenty years and perhaps her whole life. So I think that Tea Cake saved Janie.
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Reaching the end of "Their Eyes Where Watching God' Janie has reached a point or lesson in her life where everything happens for a reason. Now Janie has found a respectful man ,Teacake who has not only showed Janie her true self but whose saved her from all fears and judgement. "...So us is goin' off somewhere and start all over in Tea Cake's way. Dis ain't no business proposition, and no race after property and titles.Dis is uh love game.Ah done lived Grandma's way,now ah means tuh live mine." (page 114) Long after the obscure looks and criticism, Janie and Tea cakes lived happy until it so happened Janie had to do the favor of saving Tea Cake. Even though Tea Cake saved her from the dog , he got bitten and began getting sick. his illnes wasn't going away and sad to think he was dying.He was dying but the disease of the bite had made him angry and caused him to almost shoot Janie ,but just before he got the chance. "A minute before she was just a scared human being fighting for its life. Now she was her sacrificing self with Tea Cake's head in her lap... Janie held his head tightly to her breast and wept and thanked him wordlessly for giving her the chance for loving service." (page 184) Janie took his life away, she wanted him so bad that he had to die."Tea Cake, the son of Evening Sun, had to die for loving her." (page 178) Their love somehow saved each other at the end for their own good.
ReplyDeleteI believe the Janie saved Tea Cake, because there were multiple times where Janie had to cater & take care of him in his time of need. But then again I also believe that Tea Cake was the one to save Janie, because before she involved herself with him she didn't know what a sense of true love was. Times start getting harder & Tea Cake starts really acting up when he asks Janie .. " how come you ruther sleep on up pallet than tuh sleep in de bed wid me? " Tea Cake then threatens to to shoot & kill Janie, Janie taking the matters into her own hands later grabs a rifle and shoots him. She didn't want to risk her own life so she took the shot and ended up killing him.
ReplyDeleteWhen Janie shot Tea Cake, she was really saving him from himself, for one he was in pain, he had gone mad, and the world would see him for his flatus not for who he was. An example "Folks would do such mean things to her Tea Cake if they saw him in such a fix." (183) Most people on the muck loved and respected Tea Cake, yet if they knew how insane he was he would have been treated Mrs. Turner's brother. If Janie hadn't shot Tea Cake, he would be remembered as a mad murderer for shooting Janie, Her brilliant idea with the funeral left a kind memory of him. Janie sparred Tea Cake by putting him out of his misery.
ReplyDeleteI believe Tea Cake saved Janie. He took her to the "horizon and back." He showed her what it felt like to be in love and to be loved. Once she moved back to Eatonville, Janie knew the people would be gossiping about her, but she didn't care. She knew that Tea Cake gave her everything that the townswomen could never have. Janie said, "So Ah'm back home agin and Ah'm satisfied tuh be heah. Ah done been tuh de horizon and back and now Ah kin set heah in mah house and live by comparisons." This let's the reader know that Tea Cake saved Janie by breaking her out of her old life and led her to a fresh, happy life in love, and now she can rest easy.
ReplyDeleteI believe Jaine saved Tea Cake. Tea Cake acquired rabies after being bit by a dog in chapter 18. The rabies had got to Tea Cake's head and made him more aggressive toward Jaine. Thus he tried to kill her after and argument about her not sleeping with him anymore. The love Jaine had for Tea Cake was so strong that she couldn't bare to see him suffer no longer, thus she put shot and killed him putting him out of his misery. "Then they called Dr. Simmons and he told about Tea Cake's and how he was scared for her and thought to have Tea Cake locked up in the jail, but seeing Jaine's care he neglected to do it," (pg. 186). So this means even though Jaine and the doctor knew Tea Cake was getting crazier, Jaine still wanted to take care of him until she couldn't no more. Thus ending up in Jaine killing Tea Cake to stop his misery.
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It is apparent that Tea Cake and Janie saved each other. He saved Janie from the vicious dog during the storm and Janie saved him from the deterioration of his sickness. Tea Cake, however, ultimately saves Janie when he is killed, by ending her struggle in trying to keep him alive, a person who he was longer. As described by Hurston, Janie would have rather been dead then to see the love of her life go through this when she stated, “She wished she had slipped off that cow-tail and drowned then and there and been done. But to kill her through Tea Cake was too much to bear.” (pg 178) Despite the tragic events leading Tea Cake’s death and her love for him, Janie is forced to make the decision of killing him and being freed or being killed herself.
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I think that Janie saves Tea Cake because she tried doing everything and anything she could to save Tea Cake from the dog bite incident. Janie would worry sickly about Tea Cake and was willing to do anything to save Tea Cake as you can see in pg.177 "Doctor, Ah loves him fit tuh kill. Tell me anything tuh do and Ah'll do it." In the end though Tea Cake starts acting crazy and decides to kill Janie because he thinks that he isn't good enough for her, but of course Janie doesn't want to risk her own life for him so she ends up taking the gun from Tea Cake and shooting him. In a way it shows that their relationship wasn't really based in love but more than in feelings. Also Janie saves Tea Cake because it was as if Tea Cake was becoming a horrible/jealousy person due to the sickness, so by Janie ending his life it also ended the horrible person Tea Cake was becoming.
ReplyDeleteI believe that they both saved each other but Tea Cake truly saves Janie. Janie saved Tea Cake by ending his life so he wouldn't suffer from the rabies. But how Tea Cake saved Janie was by showing her love and an unhappy life. As she ended his life she realized how much she loved him and how her life has been better since being with Joe. Tea Cake has made her emotionally better as in pg 184 " Janie held his head tightly to her breast and wept and thanked him wordlessly for giving her the chance for loving service ." This truly helped Janie live on and have meaning in her life.
ReplyDeleteI believe Janie saved Tea Cake. When Janie shoots Tea Cake she relieves him from painful rabbies. "Tea Cake couldn't come back to himself until he had got rid of that mad dog that was in him and he couldn't get rid of the dog and live." Janie was not only able to save Tea Cake, but she also saved herself from the threatening feel from Tea Cake. Tea Cake had changed from his usual state to an insane character. He began to be aggressive towards Janie, spoke harshly, and had heightened emotions.
ReplyDeleteI believe that they both saved each other Tea cake saved Janie when they meet each other she became happier and Tea Cake saved her from the dog." you was twice noble huh save me from dat dawn. Tea Cake Ah dont speck you seen his eyes lak Ah did he didnt aim huh just bite me Tea cake he aimed tuh kill me stone died Ah'm never huh fuhgit dem eyes he wuznt nothin all over but pure hate. wonder where he come from" Janie is very greet full for Tea Cake and what he did for saving her life.
ReplyDeleteJanie saved Tea cakes by making him happier and when she killed him she saved him from all the pain and anger he was starting to have.
Tea cake saved Janie by risking his life and getting bit by the rabid dog. "They fought and somehow he managed to bite tea cake high up on his cheek bone once."(pg.166) but in the end Janie took the sacrifice in killing tea cake to : prevent him from suffering anymore and saving many lives from this disease.
ReplyDeleteSo Janie saved tea cake and the lives of others in the end
DeleteI think Janie protected Tea cake from other people and herself. in the book it says Tea Cake got bit by a rabid dog which makes him go crazy, he begins to be more aggressive towards Janie. in chapter 19 it states "where was Dr.Simmons with that medicine? She was glad she was there to look after hiim. Folks would do such mean things to her tea cake if they saw him in such a fix. Treat tea cake like he was some mad dog when nobody in the world had more kindness towards them." This quote shows how Janie protects Tea Cake from other people so he doesnt get hurt. Also by killing tea cake, she was ab le to avoid a situation like she had with Joe in her passed relationship. She also was able to avoid the possibility if tea cake becoming a murderer, making him seem like a menace whe he wasnt in his right mind to know what he was doing.
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I think both saved each other. Tea Cake saved Janie by letting a rabid dog bit him instead of Janie. Which made Janie shoot Tea Cake in order to save him from suffering, "The fiend in him must kill and Janie was the only living thing he saw." (pg.184) as Tea Cake said. Janie and Tea Cake saved each others lifes.
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I believe that they both saved each on different occasions but Janie was the "ultimate saver". For example when Tea Cake saved her from that dog, only to end up getting bit by that dog. The way I believed Janie saved him is from his madness. "She had wanted him to live so much and he was dead." Tea Cake just became a mad man after getting bit, so I believe that by Janie shooting him and saving him from his troubles was more effective than him saving her from that dog. Causing her to be the ultimate saver.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion I think Janie and Tea Cake both saved each other from their own different kind of sadness. Janie saved Tea cake by always being a good, loyal wife to him and taking care of him in his time in need. She also knew that Teacake was well respected by the other people in the muck, and she didn't want his illness to ruin his reputation by others thinking he was insane. "Folks would do such mean things to her Tea Cake if they saw him in such a fix."(page 183).Janie did the bravest and most depressing thing anybody could do by letting him be at peace, and end his fight from his brutally sickness. Even the doctor said there was no hope in Tea Cake recovering "Sho is But de worst thing is he's liable tuh suffer something awful befo' he goes." (pg 177) This shows the reader, that Tea Cake was bound to die sooner or later and in an awful sense, when Janie shoot Tea Cake she saved him from suffering any longer. On the other hand, Tea Cake saved Janie from a maniac dog and from the burden to take care of him any longer. When Tea Cake threatens to to shoot & kill Janie, Janie took it upon herself to grab a rifle and shoot him. In Chapter 19 Janie said "Ah'm just skeered you'se too sick fuh me tuh handle."(Pg 182) Janie even admitted that she couldn't take care of him any longer. In a weird way Tea cake wanted to die, so that Janie could live her life. But even before that I believe Tea cake had already saved Janie by opening her eyes to the world, and letting her experience what true love really was. Tea Cake made Janie a stronger, more independent women with a mind and voice of her own. Janie learned how to truly be happy and not fear anybody else's judgement. "So Ah'm back home agin and Ah'm satisfied tuh be heah. Ah done been tuh de horizon and back and now Ah kin set heah in mah house and live by comparisons."Janie has reached a point in her life where really everything happens for a reason. Tea cake was brought to her to make her "blossom", into the women she always desired to be. "A minute before she was just a scared human being fighting for its life. Now she was her sacrificing self with Tea Cake's head in her lap... Janie held his head tightly to her breast and wept and thanked him wordlessly for giving her the chance for loving service." (page 184)
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Janie saved tea cake from.getting any worse. Tea cake became very ill.and.crazy. He became so crazy that he wanted to kill get because of jelously. Tea cakes wants to give her the world.but.her cant and that bothers him."how come.you ruther sleep on up pallet than tuh sleep.in da bed with me? Tea cake was.jelously.that janie didnt want to sleep with him.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion Tea Cake saved Janie by taking her with him to the muck and giving her life a meaning. Without Tea Cake Janie's life was just about working in a shop all day doing nothing and slowly rotting away. When Tea Cake killed the dog from biting Janie he also saved her from having to suffer from the mad dog disease like he did and would have had to kill her like Janie did Tea Cake."Janie held his head tightly to her breast and wept and thanked him for loving service" (pg184). This show how Tea Cake saved Janie by caring and loving her.
ReplyDeleteThe final chapters of Their Eyes Were Watching God reveal for the first time, Janie as a self actualized, self possessed human being. Tea Cake beats Janie to prove to her that he still has control over her, but comforts her after. Tea Cake over came that but then gets bitten by what seems to be a rabid dog. He tries to muscle through it but then later, his sickness becomes life threatening. He becomes paranoid about Janie as the time goes by. Tea Cake tries to kill Janie, but Janie came through with killing the life of her life before he killed him. "Because they really loved Janie just a little less than they had loved Tea Cake, and because they wanted to think well of themselves, they wanted their hostile attitude forgotten." chapter 20 pg 190
ReplyDeleteJanie and Tea Cake were both in savior situations. As to when Janie was washed up through the water and had to take grip of the cows tail, but as she was there was an infected dog sitting upon the cow ready to attack. Tea cake made the decision to go near even after the dog had been giving off bad vibes that he was going to attack, and that's exactly what happened. Tea Cake was bitten on his cheekbone, later on visited by a Doctor and diagnosed with a serious infection he may not survive. As Tea Cake was making assumptions about where his wife was going and who she was seeing he has a pistol under the pillow, which Janie had later found. She knew something was suspicious but set the gun to not fire until the third trigger so she'd have time to get away. Janie had no choice but to arm herself and seek protection for her life and shot the love of her life. As the reader can conclude Janie was the true rescuer because she had to build up the courage to let her husband go for his health, and her protection. She even regretted hanging onto the cows tail and not just drowning as she states “She wished she had slipped off that cow-tail and drowned then and there and been done. But to kill her through Tea Cake was too much to bear.” It took a lot for her to even take into consideration of shooting her husband, but it was needed to be done.
ReplyDeleteJaine saved Tea Cake. "Janie, whut is dat Turner women's brother doin' back on de muck?", then Janie replies, "Ah don't know, Tea Cake. didn't even know he wuz back", right after Tea Cake ferociously replied with, "According tuh mah notion, you did. Whut you slip off from me just now for?"(pg.180). Janie saved him from his doubt. Tea Cake didn't feel good enough for her and though she was having an affair win Mrs. Turner's brother. However, Janie proved her love for him by caring and helping him through his sickness. That saved him from his toughts as well.
ReplyDeleteI believe that both Tea Cake and Janie saved each other. Tea Cake saved Janie from the dog during the storm. In Chapter 18 pg. 167, Janie tells Tea Cake, "You was twice as noble tuh save me from dat dawg." In this quote we can see that Tea Cake has saved Janie from harm. The later on in Chapter 19, Janie saves Tea Cake by killing him to put him out of his misery from his sickness. On pg. 183, the narrator states, "Tea Cake's suffering brain was urging him to kill." then later on in pg.184, we read, "The fiend in him must kill and Janie was the only thing living he saw. The pistol and rifle rang out almost together. The pistol just enough after the rifle to seem its echo." Tea Cake's sickness was starting to overcome him, and to stop him and put and an to all his suffering Janie shoots him. In this case I believe Janie saves him from his sickness.
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I believe that Janie saved herse;f just as much as she Tea Cake. For example when the narrator says, "She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief." (pg. 177) Aside from Tea Cakes rabies issue, she really loved him and she knew that Tea Cake still loved her the same way. But, because he was sick, he became violent that Janie did what she did to end his misery and ultimately hers as well. It can be seen as selfish to save one owns self and benefit from it, but Janie also loved him very much to not just view this as a selfish act but as also a token of love for Tea Cake. Janie loved him so much she was in shock to wear something sad or mournful after Tea Cake had died.
ReplyDeleteI think Janie saved Tea Cake because after dog incident he got real sick and he wasn't being himself. Janie loved him and didn't like who he became due to the accident he wasn't himself. "Doctor, Ah loves him fit tuh kill" The Love was there and Janie wanted the best for him but it got to the point where Tea cake tried to kill her in his madness and to protect herself she took the gun and shot him. The other way that tea Cake saved Janie was through saving her from a corrupt marriage and put all his love in her while he could.
ReplyDeleteJanie not only saved Tea Cake but lots of other people while doing that. Tea Cake had got bitten by a rapid dog. Getting bit by the dog made him very sick and he was beginning to get angry faster and easier. Tea Cake would get jealous at things that didn't matter and he would just get mad at Janie. Tea Cake had threatened to shot Janie because the sickness had taken over him and he had gotten very angry. "She ought not let poor sick Tea Cake do something that would run him crazy when he found out what he had done." (pg. 182) Janie had to shoot Tea Cake in order to save him and herself. She saved him because he had been going through a lot of pain and would have killed her not knowingly.
ReplyDeleteJanie saved herself from Tea Cake in the situation where he had the pistol. She knew he wasnt himself. For example, "It was then she felt the pistol under the pillow...she whirled the cylinder so that if he even did draw the gun on her it would snap 3 times before it would fire." She did this in self defense. Janie saved herself from Tea Cake.-Nathan Aguilar
DeleteIn the final moments of the book janie had killed tea cake. Though it seemed like janie saved tea cake. I do believe that they both saved each other. Tea cake protected janie from the dog from bitting janie. "Tea cake rose out of the water at the cow rump and seized the dog by the neck."(page 166). In this part of the story tea cake protected janie from getting bit by a dog thay rushed her. The dog bit tea cake and that will soon be reason for his death. Janie protected tea cake by putting out of his misery. "Tea cake crumpled as the bullet buried itself in the joist over janie's head."(page 184). Tea cake was gpin crazy amd was about to hurt janie. Janie also saw how bad he was suffering. So jamie shot tea cake to help end his suffering and protect her self. In the tea cake showed janie the true meaning of love.
ReplyDeleteTea Cake might have saved Janie from being the one bitten, but the infection’s effects were still a serious threat toward Janie and himself. Janie saved Tea Cake from the overcoming illness that came from the dog bite. The infection was diagnosed to say that he may not fight it off. “Janie fooled around outside awhile to try and think it wasn’t so. If she didn’t see the sickness in his face she could imagine it wasn’t really happening.” (page 178). “Tea Cake had two bad attacks that night. Janie saw a changing look come in his face. Tea Cake was gone. Something else was looking out of his face.” (page 181). Tea Cake wasn’t doing well and would become angry easily. She felt it was the best for both of their sake to take away his misery.
ReplyDeleteIn a way they both saved eachother at one moment. Tea Cake saved Janie from being bitten but then Janie saved Tea Cake from the illness that came from the dog that bit him. They said that he might not be able to fight the illness. "Janie fooled around outside awhile to try and to think it wasnt so. If she didnt see the sickness in his face she could imagine it wasnt really happening." (pg 178) . Later in the story she noticed that Tea Cake wasnt doing so good. They were both getting very agrivated because Tea Cup wasnt getting better. Janie try to take matters in her own hands and decides to take Tea Cup out of his misery and kill him. She didnt do it with bad intensions. she just did what she thought was right.
ReplyDeleteJanie saves Tea Cake. She knows he's sick and knows he's bound to have another episode and it become clear when one reads "Tea cake, you'se sick. You'se takin' everything in de way Ah don't mean it... ah wants yuh tuh git well, honey. Dats all." (Pg 182) and proceeds to clean out the bullets and the guns. She kills him with good intentions. To keep him from suffering and/or keeping him from having to deal with the possibility of HIM killing HER and coming out of an attack and having been left with the harsh reality of what he had done.
ReplyDelete-Alexandra Faith Yrigoyen
In a way Janie and Tea Cake both saved each other. Tea cake saved Janie from getting bit by the dog, and Janie saved Tea Cake from the pain and suffering. Although I think that mainly Tea Cake was the one who saved Janie. Without Tea Cake she would have been bit by the diseased dog and drowned in the storm. For example the book reads " Bout de only thing you can do,Janie, is put him in the County Hospital where they can tie him down and look after him. " , Tea cake sacrificed his own life to save Janie's.
ReplyDelete- Rebeka Servin
In my opinion they both saved each other, but Tea Cake saved Janie's life. When Janie gets blown into rough water she struggles, but she helps herself with a cow, but either way the dog starts to attack her. We can see that Tea Cake helps her and saves her. As it says "Tea Cake dives to the rescue and wrestles in the water with the beast, who bites him on the cheek before he stabs it to death." Because if Tea Cake wouldn't have gotten in, the dog would've have killed Janie. In this case Tea Cake saved Janie.
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