Post Chapter 6 Breakout Discussion

Discuss each of these questions in your breakout group and then write out your ideas
and the ideas of other group members. Turn in your answers at the end of class.

1. Map out a timeline of Janie’s relationship with Logan. What were her early hopes? How did things
deteriorate? Describe their relationship.
This marriage to Logan was arrange by her Nanny(grandmother), to keep her safe from the harsh world. At
the beginning of the relationship, it was decent. After, a few months, the relationship was toxic. Logan
wanted her to work hard labors, just like him. Without a care in the world about her feelings, but she had
enough of that, and left him to go back home to find her dream life with a person she truly loves.

2. Map out a timeline of Janie’s relationship with Joe. How was it different from her relationship with
Logan? How did it start? What caused it to deteriorate? Describe their relationship.
She saw Joe as an ambitious man and put her goals with him. But the relationship was never equal in the
matter. Joe would always talk down to Janie, and never seeing her point of view. Always, stopping her for
achieving her dreams for a better life.

3. At the beginning of each relationship’s deterioration, the Narrator refers to the disappearance of rhymes
from their conversations. What does this mean? Why does it happen with both men?
Janie soon realizes that both men, that she has married were stopping for accomplishing her dreams of a life
that is best suited with the right person. Nether of the men Joe, or Logan were the right men to achieve a
happy life with Janie, and so the love between them all was lost, and with it a future with either of the men.

4. What does the mule-baiting incident show you about human nature? Can you think of something in your
experience as a human to compare it to?
These people try to understand the role that they are living in right now in the world, and now that
everyone is laughing at the poor mule, dying of old age. It’s the dark side of humanity, and how the people
see things that are underneath them, by showing the people laughing at the mule.

Go back and review the following ideas from these two chapters. Discuss them in your group.

Chapter 5

1. the comment about Janie and a fish sandwich

2. Jody’s statement about being a “big voice.”

3. power, property, and hatred

4. the town, joe, and power

Chapter 6

1. Janie, mathematics and the rock

2. “She wasn’t petal-open anymore with him.”

3. “Something fell of the shelf insider her.”

Consider Janie’s disillusionment with love and relationships. Choose one of these 7 to write a written
response of a paragraph or two. Mention any rebounds/recoveries she makes.

“Something fell of the shelf insider her.”. This quote show that Janie realizing that she does not love Jody,
only the goal that he had. Seeing that he was an ambitious man, and thinking that, she could accomplish her
dreams though Jody. That Jody is actually slowing her down and stopping her from achieving her goal. At
the end of chapter six, Janie soon realized that her dream of a life worth living is right in front of her, and
that she only needs to get away from Jody, and his controlment issues to achieve it.