...branch with a background of geometric swirling clouds. The pear blossom branch represents the idealized expectations of a fulfilled life many of the characters hold in the book. Janie Mae Crawford, starts out as a black girl in 1930’s Florida forced to marry Logan Killicks by her grandmother. Janie’s grandmother suffered the hardships and brutality of slavery, and she finds a fulfilled life is the security of wealth. Therefore, she extends her hopes and expectations of her fulfilling life onto her granddaughter, Janie. Janie disagrees with her grandmother because she values her absolute independence and the ideal of true love. These...
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