"She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from the root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation. Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid."(writes Hurston, 10).

This quote shows how young Janie came to the realization of her sexuality as she masturbated under a pear tree. The pear tree represen

"[Tea Cake] was chopping down that tree that she never really did like by the dinning room window,"(Hurston writes, 105). Since the death of Starks, many men had paid visits to Janie trying to get the better side of Janie and her properties. The tree in the quote above illustrated Janie's connection to Joe, and since Tea Cake was cutting down the tree, that meant that she was no longer tied to Joe, but instead was beginning a new life with Tea Cake. A new life filled with possiblity.

However, Janie felt confined under her grandma's beliefs. "Where were the singing bees for her? Nothing on the place nor in her grandma's house answered her," she feels (11). Janie could not find answers of sexuality in her grandma's house as her grandma had very different views.

However, when Tea Cake came, Janie's world turned upside down. They talked and talked, Janie fell hopelessly in love with Tea Cake. "Good night, Mis Janie. Look lak we done run our conversation from grass roots tuh pine trees. G'bye."(he says, 101). The grass roots and pine trees here were depicted as life; thus, it meant that Tea Cake and Janie not only talked about everything but also everything intimately. "He could be a bee to a blossom, and pear tree blossom in the spring,"(Hurston explains, 101). In this context, the pear tree once again represents Janie's sexual desire, and thi

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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)