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- Roots of Trees- African people without any roots
- Pear Tree- Janie's budding womanhood/ coming of age
- The Mule- the black woman's experience. She does the worst jobs for white people and black men. She gets "walked on." Logan buys Janie a mule to represent how he is tired of treating Janie like a princess or white woman, and now he wants her to do the heavy labor jobs around the farm.
- The Gate and the Road-opportunity; Related to the metaphor at the beginning. The Gate is the shore and the Road represents the waves as Janie looks down the road to find a new dream.
- The New Horizon- Janie is constantly looking over the gatepost, down the road, to a new horizon (a dream or new start).
- The Eatonville general store- represents the center of this first all-black town.
- The illumination of the lamppost represents the start of a new all-black town. It also shows that Joe Starks is all-powerful and likes others to bow down to him, including Janie.
- Joe and Janie's two-story house- seems to represent his similarity to a plantation owner, while the hard-working townspeople live in a small shack-style homes like servants' quarters.
- Tobacco spittoon- This represents again how wealthy Joe is.
- Janie's head rag- bondage to Joe
- Guitar-playful side of people
- Overalls- working side
- Packet of seeds- new life, rebirth, remembering
- Janie's long braid- freedom
- Color blue- Tea Cake and Janie's proof of love for each other
- Fish- sharing relationship
- Checkers- Janie's equality with Tea Cake, but not Joe
- Booker T/Ms. Turner- racism within a race
- Muck- the rich dirt, working class, growth
- Hurricane- God's almighty power
- Rabid dog- when good things happen, life changes
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