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” Near eleven o’clock she remembered a  piece of pound cake she had put away. Tea cake went out to the lemon tree at the corner of the kitchen and picked some lemons and squeezed them for her. So they had lemonade too.”

Although Hurston may not have meant to do this, this quote is very comical. Janie is talking about pound cake and in the next sentence about tea cake, and although Tea Cake is a real person, if someone had just read it without knowing the story they might have been a bit confused. This quote stood out to me because it was quite comical.

I thought that it was a little suspicious of Tea Cake to be asking Janie if she wanted to go fishing late at night,  in fact he was acting a little strange in chapter 11. I personally wouldn’t like to awaken to someone scratching the dandruff from my scalp, but maybe Janie would.