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In These chapters there is a hurricane that devastated Janie’s home. Tea Cake decides to stay instead of flee from the storm, when the storm hits their house they are forced to flee for higher ground. Janie grabs onto a cow that is swimming with a dog on it’s back, the dog attacks her and Tea Cake fights off the dog but is bitten(166). After the storm passed those that fled before the storm began to return home, death was all around Palm Beach. A few weeks later Tea cake complained about having a bad headache. When Janie makes him diner he doesn’t eat, she contacts a doctor and Tea Cake is diagnosed with rabies(176). Later Tea Cake starts to lose his mind from the disease and Janie is forced to shoot him. These chapters can connect to “‘Till

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