Laughing at him, and now putting the town up to do the same. Joe Starks didn’t know the words for all this, but he knew the feeling. So he struck Janie with all his might and drove her from the store.
She decided to hit jani as he was made fun of and the way or tone that jani speaked to him as she finally had enough of it
He felt like rushing forth with the meat knife and chopping off the offending hand. That night he ordered Janie to tie up her hair around the store.
It shows how he’s very strict of Janie and how he got angry at the fact that some other guy was touching her hair so because of that he got more strict.
liver-lipted nigger ain’t done took and beat mah baby already! Ah’ll take a stick and salivate ’im!”
Talking about how they got into a argument and are maybe now fighting each other or the man is.
Brother Starks our Mayor until we kin see further.”
This part talks about how they made Joe the mayor as he’s the one that’s the most powerful as of right now until further notice.
Ah thought you would ’preciate good treatment. Thought Ah’d take and make somethin’ outa yuh. You think youse white folks by de way you act.”
Joe sees how Logan is to her and how he acts towards her and how Joe can treat her better
Us lived dere havin’ fun till de chillun at school got to teasin’ me ’bout livin’ in de white folks’ back-yard.
This part is important as it shows how she was raised in a white family back yard and didn’t even realize she was black until she was six and when they started teasing her at school for it.