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"Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches" (8). When Janie was 16 her nanny seen her kissing Johnny Taylor. Then Nanny says that she 's already a woman. In the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” Janie Mae Crawford, who is the main character goes through three different relationships. She also learns some very, very valuable lessons about marriage, integrity, love, and happiness from her relationships specifically with Logan Killicks and Tea Cake.
Janie was forced to marry Logan Killicks by Nanny, her grandmother. She wanted her to get married soon because she was worried that Janie would become “loose”
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Then Janie and Tea Cake got married even though Tea Cake was way younger than Janie. The later on Tea Cake and Janie both left to Jacksonville and that 's where Janie had her first scare. She had waken up Tea Cake wasnt there she went back to sleep and then she woke up and check her “little pocket book pinned to her pink silk vest” and her two hundred dollars were gone janie had tought he ditched her and took the two hundred dollars, the next mornining Tea Cake showed up she told tea cake "Still and all you went off and left me all day and all night."(121) "Ah see whut it is. You doubted me 'bout de money...”(121). Tea cake had actually left his her money because he had a gambling addiction. Then tea cake leaves again and gets Janie 's two hundred dollars and even makes profit. But was stabbed by a guy who had thought he was cheating at dice. They then move to the everglades and find work in the bean field. that where janie finds out about jealousy. She seen Tea cake flirting with Nukie, then nukie and tea cake both go missing and janie finds them play fighting in the cane fields but it wasn 't no play

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