Read the excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God. The season closed and people went away like they had come-in droves. Tea Cake and Janie decided to stay since they wanted to make another season on the muck. There was nothing to do, after they had gathered several bushels of dried beans to save over and sell to the planters in the fall. So Janie began to look around and see people and things she hadn't noticed during the season. Which aspect of early twentieth-century society in the South is illustrated in this excerpt? Laborers enjoyed traveling for pleasure. Laborers traveled to find work opportunities. People valued employment over friendship. People feared the changing of the seasons.

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Braylen Sosa

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21 January, 10:43

Read the excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God. The season closed and people went away like they had come-in droves. Tea Cake and Janie decided to stay since they wanted to make another season on the muck. There was nothing to do, after they had gathered several bushels of dried beans to save over and sell to the planters in the fall. So Janie began to look around and see people and things she hadn't noticed during the season. Which aspect of early twentieth-century society in the South is illustrated in this excerpt? Laborers enjoyed traveling for pleasure. Laborers traveled to find work opportunities. People valued employment over friendship. People feared the changing of the seasons.

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Branson · Answer 1

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This selection illustrates how laborers traveled to find work opportunities. Such work was seasonal, so when the seasons changed, they had to move to find more work.