Four events from Janie's life: Nanny arranges Logan, Joe dies, the hurricane strikes, Janie returns to Eatonville. Which comes second?

What event pushes Nanny to arrange Janie's marriage to Logan Killicks?

Why does Janie finally leave Logan Killicks?

When Joe Starks reaches the new Black town in Florida, what does he quickly become?

Which event happens before Janie and Tea Cake move to the muck?

What happens after Tea Cake takes Janie's hidden $200 in Jacksonville?

What leads directly to Tea Cake's fatal illness?

Why is Janie tried in court near the end of the novel?

Logan wants a worker, Joe wants a showpiece, and Tea Cake wants a companion. What does this sequence trace?

What is Nanny's main reason for wanting Janie to marry Logan Killicks?

Joe tells others that Janie should not make speeches. What does this reveal about their marriage?

What role does Pheoby Watson play in the frame narrative?

Why is Mrs. Turner important on the muck?

Tea Cake teaches Janie checkers, fishing, and shooting. What makes these moments different from her life with Joe?

How does Janie's confrontation with Joe in the store mark a turning point?

Janie's pear tree vision includes a bee visiting a blossom. What ideal does that image give her?

The novel opens, "Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board." Which motif is introduced here?

Janie's hair is tied up under Joe, let down after his death, and watched by the porch sitters when she returns. What does it track?

Nanny's "mule uh de world" idea and Matt Bonner's mule both develop which motif?

What does the Eatonville porch most often represent in the novel?

When Tea Cake starts courting Janie in Eatonville, why do the townspeople disapprove?

In the hurricane, "their eyes were watching God." What situation does that title line name?

The street lamp ceremony in Eatonville mainly helps characterize Joe Starks as what?

What makes Their Eyes Were Watching God a frame narrative?

How does Hurston's use of vernacular dialogue affect the novel?

The narration often moves from lyrical third-person prose into Janie's inner experience. Which craft choice best names that blend?

Why does the novel begin with Janie returning before telling how she got there?

The narrator's language is often poetic, while porch and muck conversations use dialect. What is the effect of this contrast?

Why is Pheoby, not the whole town, Janie's direct audience at the end?

Nanny wants safety for Janie, but Janie keeps seeking the life imagined under the pear tree. Which theme fits that contrast?

Joe gives Janie status as the mayor's wife but silences her in the store. What theme does that contradiction support?

What theme is clearest when Janie survives Tea Cake's attack by choosing to shoot him?

The porch judges Janie before hearing her, but Janie tells her own story to Pheoby. What theme does this contrast develop?

Janie's first two marriages fail to match the pear tree vision. What theme does that pattern support?

What idea does the hurricane most strongly develop?

At the end, Janie says she has been "tuh de horizon and back." What has she gained?

Janie is denied a speech at Joe's mayoral moment but later speaks in court after Tea Cake's death. What connects the scenes?

Joe buys Matt Bonner's worn-out mule so it can rest instead of being worked to death. How does Janie respond?

Joe makes Janie cover her hair; the porch later judges her overalls when she returns. What links these moments?

Janie hides $200 in her bosom before running off with Tea Cake. What does this money best symbolize?