I do not really like this book. I do not like the dialogue at all. But so far, Janie has left her husband, Logan Killicks, and ran off with a new man, Joe Starks, and married him. They went down to a place called Maitland. Here, Joe heard that it was a town ran by blacks where their voice could be heard. Upon arrival, he found that none of this was what it was made out to be. So, Joe went and bought land from a man and started to create a town. The people named Joe the mayor. Joe put in a store and a street lamp (they had a big ceremony over that with a barbeque). Joe and Janie experience a little difficulty between eachother it seems like. He is constantly yelling at her in the store when she makes a mistake. A man named Matt has an old mule that doesn't really want to work for him so Joe bought it from him. Joe free'd the mule and fed it. Eventually, it died which it the townspeople pretty hard. Like I said before, I don't really find this story very interesting to me so it is kind of hard to read. But, I do not see how they could create a town. That seems like it would be hard to do, especially if you were back in their time with everything that was going on.
A simple light signifies the creation of a town.
This resembles the death of the well-known mule.
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