Chapter 10

“No suh! Not my king. You kin take another one, but not dat one.”

I think that Janie was actually taking up for Joe Starks. Janie had been asked to be partners with someone else, since he didn’t know how to play the game. So, she took up for him by saying that she wasn’t going to switch partners with no one, but she is going to stay with him. And that they could find another partner because she was staying with him. (Chapter 10, pg. 96)

“Tea Cake! So you sweet as all dat?”

Janie was surprised when Tea Cake was telling her about himself.. Janie didn’t give herself enough time to get over her past relationships and that’s why it didn’t work out the way that she wanted, and planned it to. (Chapter 10, pg. 97)