Their Eyes Were Watching God

In Chapter 18, How does the comparison between Tea Cake and Big John de Conquer foreshadow Tea Cake's death?

from chapter 18 of their eyes were watching god

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Tea Cake's death is heavily foreshadowed in this chapter. At the beginning of the chapter, he is compared to John the Conqueror, who went to heaven playing a guitar and then went to Hell and gave water to all the sufferers. The reader knows that Tea Cake's death will come soon.

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