Read aloud- Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Young Adult (18-35)Transcript
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janie turned from the door without answering and stood still in the middle of the floor, without knowing it. She turned wrong side out, just standing there and feeling when the throbbing calmed a little, she gave Logan's speech a hard thought and placed it beside other things where she had seen and heard. When she had finished with that she dumped the dough on the skillet and smooth it over with her hand. She wasn't even angry. Logan was accusing her of her mama, her grandmama and her feelings, and she couldn't do a thing about any of it. The sow belly and the pan need a turning. She'll flipped it over and shoved it back, a little cold water in the coffee pot to settle. It turned the whole cake with the plate and then made a little laugh. What was she losing so much time for a feeling of sudden newness and change came over her. Janie hurried out of the front gate and turned south. Even if joe was not there waiting for her. The change was bound to do her good the morning road. There was like a new dress, then made her feel that apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flooding on a low bush beside the road and walked on picking flowers and making a bouquet. After that she came to where joe Starks was waiting for her with a hired rig. He was very solemn and helped her to her seat beside him, with him on it. It set like some high ruling chair from now on until death. She was going to have a flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything a b for her bloom. Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but the new words would have to be made and said to fit them green cove springs, he told the driver so they were married there before sundown, just like joe has said, with new clothes of silk and wool. They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged on the train. The next day joe didn't make any speeches with rhymes to her, but he brought her the best thing. The butcher had like apples and a glass lantern full of candies Mostly. He talked about plans for the town. When he got there, they were bound to need somebody like him. Janie took a lot of looks at him and she was proud of what she saw, kind of portly like a rich white folks. Strange trains and people and places didn't scare him. Neither where they got off the train at Maitland, he found a buggy to carry them over to the colour town right away. It was early in the afternoon when they got there. So joe said they must walk over to the place and look around. They locked arms and strolled from into end of the town, joe noted the scant dozens of shame faced houses scattered in the sand in palmetto roots and said, God, they call this a town. Well, it ain't nothing but a raw piece in the woods. It's the whole he, little than I thought, Janie admitted her disappointment. Just like I thought, joe said, a whole heap will talk and nobody doing nothing. Ah God! What? The mayor? He asked. Somebody I want to speak with the mayor. Two men were sitting on their shoulder blades under a huge live oak tree, almost set up right at the tone of his voice. They stared at joe's face, his clothes and his wife.