1. Nanny was chastised by Mistis for getting pregnant, so she ran away in order to avoid getting scolded even more.
2. Leafy’s life came crashing down on her like the Tower of Babel, for she became pregnant and she began drinking liquor.
3. Janie obliquely foreshadows that her marriage with Logan will not work, for she indirectly suggests that she can’t love him because he does not wash his feet.
4. Nanny reproached Janie for kissing Johnny Taylor, but she approved her marriage to Logan Killicks.
5. Nanny ran away with Leafy to regain a tabula rasa, for she needed a clean slate after being impregnated by her white master.
6. Janie was incredulous when she heard that she would get married at the age of sixteen; she did not believe that she would
2. Leafy’s life came crashing down on her like the Tower of Babel, for she became pregnant and she began drinking liquor.
3. Janie obliquely foreshadows that her marriage with Logan will not work, for she indirectly suggests that she can’t love him because he does not wash his feet.
4. Nanny reproached Janie for kissing Johnny Taylor, but she approved her marriage to Logan Killicks.
5. Nanny ran away with Leafy to regain a tabula rasa, for she needed a clean slate after being impregnated by her white master.
6. Janie was incredulous when she heard that she would get married at the age of sixteen; she did not believe that she would