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What is the Everglades in Their Eyes Were Watching God?
The Everglades provide the necessary setting for the hurricane—a force of nature, destiny, and God—to interrupt Janie and Tea Cake’s utopian life and bring tragedy upon them. The central urban setting, Eatonville, is a center of vice and corruption.
What is special about the Everglades?
The Everglades is a unique treasure found in South Florida. The Everglades is the largest remaining subtropical wilderness in the United States. It consists of 1.5 million acres of saw grass marshes, mangrove forests, and hardwood hammocks dominated by wetlands. It is home to endangered, rare, and exotic wildlife.
What do the Everglades represent to Janie and Tea Cake?
This place is so stable that even after Tea Cake dies, Janie returns to Eatonville to her old house. On the other hand, the Everglades represent discovery and love. It’s in the ‘Glades that Janie discovers her true self, working on the muck wearing overalls. She’s happy there and enjoys what she does.
What is Janie’s impression of the Everglades?
Describe Janie´s first impression of the Everglades. She thought it was big,different,and new.
What does the Friends of the Everglades actually do?
Friends of the Everglades is a conservationist and activist organization in the United States whose mission is to “preserve, protect, and restore the only Everglades in the world.” The book Biosphere 2000: Protecting Our Global Environment refers to Friends of the Everglades as an organization that has fought to …
What do these ideas represent to Janie?
What do these ideas represent to Janie? It represents what Janie has dreamed of. She is in-love and happy to do whatever, even working with Tea Cake. When Janie starts working their relationship gets much stronger.
What does the town think of teacakes?
The people in town never realize that Starks is slowly killing Janie by trying to force her into a role which she never wanted. So, when she starts to see Teacake, the town sees this as a betrayal.