Nanny
page 14-"De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see. Ah been prayin' fuh it tuh be different wid you. Lawd, Lawd, Lawd!"
-Beast of burden
-Nanny has experience with slavery and economic and emotional bondage
-Forced to bear the weight of slavery and of the fruits of labor of her rape
-Mule/Owner relationship
Logan
page 27- "Naw, Ah needs two mules dis yeah. Taters is goin' tuh be taters in de fall. Bringin' big prices. Ah aims tuh run two plows, and dis man Ah'm talkin' 'bout is got uh mule all gentled up so even uh woman kin handle 'im."
-Janie being silenced and turned into mule Nanny warned her about
-Jody plants seed of not being Logan's mule
Eulogy
page 60- "It made him more solid than building the schoolhouse had done. He stood on the distended belly of the mule for a plat form and made gestures. When he stepped down. they hoisted Sam up and he talked about the mule as a school teacher first. Then he set his hat like John Pearson and imitated his preaching. He spoke of the joys of mule-heaven to which the dear brother had departed this valley of sorrow; the mule-angels flying around; the miles of green corn and cool water, a pasture of pure bran with a river of molasses running through it; and most glorious of all, No Matt Bonner with plow lines and halters to come in and corrupt. Up there, mule-angels would have people to ride on and from his place beside the glittering throne, the dear departed brother would look down into hell and see the devil plowing Matt Bonner all day long in a hell-hot sun and laying the raw-hide to his back."
-"Departed citizen... people loved his speech"
-Janie being silenced by the world
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Nanny
page 14-"De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see. Ah been prayin' fuh it tuh be different wid you. Lawd, Lawd, Lawd!"
-Beast of burden
-Nanny has experience with slavery and economic and emotional bondage
-Forced to bear the weight of slavery and of the fruits of labor of her rape
-Mule/Owner relationship
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Logan
page 27- "Naw, Ah needs two mules dis yeah. Taters is goin' tuh be taters in de fall. Bringin' big prices. Ah aims tuh run two plows, and dis man Ah'm talkin' 'bout is got uh mule all gentled up so even uh woman kin handle 'im."
-Janie being silenced and turned into mule Nanny warned her about
-Jody plants seed of not being Logan's mule
Eulogy
page 60- "It made him more solid than building the schoolhouse had done. He stood on the distended belly of the mule for a plat form and made gestures. When he stepped down. they hoisted Sam up and he talked about the mule as a school teacher first. Then he set his hat like John Pearson and imitated his preaching. He spoke of the joys of mule-heaven to which the dear brother had departed this valley of sorrow; the mule-angels flying around; the miles of green corn and cool water, a pasture of pure bran with a river of molasses running through it; and most glorious of all, No Matt Bonner with plow lines and halters to come in and corrupt. Up there, mule-angels would have people to ride on and from his place beside the glittering throne, the dear departed brother would look down into hell and see the devil plowing Matt Bonner all day long in a hell-hot sun and laying the raw-hide to his back."
-"Departed citizen... people loved his speech"
-Janie being silenced by the world
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