# Cane — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Cane by Jean Toomer.

- [Epigraph](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/epigraph.md): A brief, evocative epigraph that sets the tone for the work, using imagery of dusk, fermenting syrup, and deep-rooted cane to suggest a rich, complex, and perhaps painful Southern landscape.
- [Karintha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-karintha.md): Karintha is a woman of extraordinary beauty, compared to dusk, who from childhood has been desired by men. She is a wild, vivid presence in the Georgia landscape. As she matures, she is exploited by older men and pursued
- [Reapers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-reapers.md): A brief, vivid poem depicting Black reapers sharpening scythes and silently swinging them, while a mower driven by black horses cuts through weeds, causing a field rat to be injured and bleed. The blade continues its wor
- [November Cotton Flower](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-november-cotton-flower.md): A poem depicting a harsh winter and drought that devastates the cotton crop and landscape, culminating in the miraculous bloom of a cotton flower. The event startles the old folks and is interpreted through superstition 
- [Becky](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-becky.md): Becky, a white woman ostracized by both white and black communities for bearing two Negro sons, lives isolated on a narrow strip of land between the railroad and the road. The community secretly provides for her but refu

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- [Face](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-face.md)
- [Cotton Song](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-cotton-song.md)
- [Carma](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-carma.md)
- [Song of the Son](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-song-of-the-son.md)
- [Georgia Dusk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-georgia-dusk.md)
- [Fern](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-fern.md)
- [Nullo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-nullo.md)
- [Evening Song](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-evening-song.md)
- [Esther](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-esther.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-iii.md)
- [Conversion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-conversion.md)
- [Portrait in Georgia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-portrait-in-georgia.md)
- [Blood-Burning Moon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-blood-burning-moon.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-i-iii.md)
- [Seventh Street](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-ii-seventh-street.md)
- [Rhobert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-ii-rhobert.md)
- [Avey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-ii-avey.md)
- [Beehive](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-ii-beehive.md)
- [Storm Ending](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-ii-storm-ending.md)
- [Theater](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-ii-theater.md)
- [Her Lips Are Copper Wire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-ii-her-lips-are-copper-wire.md)
- [Calling Jesus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-ii-calling-jesus.md)
- [Box Seat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-ii-box-seat.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-ii-i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-ii-ii.md)
- [Prayer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-ii-prayer.md)
- [Harvest Song](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-ii-harvest-song.md)
- [Bona and Paul](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-ii-bona-and-paul.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-ii-i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-ii-ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-ii-iii.md)
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-ii-iv.md)
- [Kabnis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-iii-kabnis.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-iii-i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-iii-ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-iii-iii.md)
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-iii-iv.md)
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-iii-v.md)
- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cane_se/chapters/part-iii-vi.md)

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