Pheoby doesn’t understand what Janie Starks means by not being able to be happy in the Everglades so Janie recalls her past. Janie’s grandmother raises her, for her mother left and she never knew her father either. Janie and her grandmother, whom she calls Nanny, live in the back yard of a white couple’s house, the Washburn’s. Janie grows up playing with the Washburn’s children, and later finds out that she is colored in a photograph. Nanny and Janie are prompted to their own land when Janie is being made fun of at school for living in the white people’s backyard.

Janie is sixteen and often ponders under a pear tree about life and her blossoming into a grown woman. Nanny wakes to find Janie kissing Johnny Taylor across the g

After Jody’s funeral, Janie begins her time of mourning. Janie’s soul feels free and joyous, but she must remain sad for the outside world to see. Janie wears her hair in a long braid again, symbolizing her freedom. Janie realizes she hates her Nanny for bringing her up how she did, valuing the superficial things in life. Janie is happy being single even though men are trying to pursue her; she has no desire to be tied down with a relationship. Janie begins wearing white after six months to show her availability. Pheoby replies to this action by telling her that the townspeople won’t think she is sad. Janie says she should not appear sad if is she not.

ate, she gets worried and decides it is time to marry off Janie to a wealthy, middle-aged, farmer named Logan Killicks. Though Janie at first protests she agrees to go along with it, all Nanny wants is to see her marry a prosperous and protective man before she dies.

After Janie tells Nanny about her protests, Nanny recounts to Janie her hardships of growing up. Nanny had been born into slavery. Nanny was raped by her master and had her child Leafy, when the master’s wife saw the baby she was furious, knowing it was her husbands she ordered to have Nanny whipped the next day and her baby, Leafy, sold when she was one month old. Meanwhile, the master was fighting in the civil war, and Nanny ran off with her baby until the war was over and went to work for the Washburn’s.

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