Read the excerpt from their eyes were watching god, in which tea cake is talking about mrs. turner. " ma'am. ah hates dat woman lak poison. keep her from round dis house. her look lak uh white woman! wid dat meriny skin and hair jus' as close tuh her head as ninety-nine is tuh uh hundred! since she hate black folks so, she don't need our money in her ol' eatin' place. we kin go tuh dat white man's place and git good treatment. her and dat whittled-down husband uh hers! and dat son! he's jus' uh dirty trick her womb played on her. ah'm telling her husband tuh keep her home." what do tea cake's words reveal about his intentions?

African-American writer Zora Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God narrates the life of a young girl named Janie, from girlhood into womanhood. Tea Cake is the third husband and first true lover of Janie. Mrs. Turner is white who adores Caucasian features of Janie and doesn't understand how she has been married Tea Cake. Because of that Tea Cake wants to avoid Mrs. Turner and doesn't want to go to her restaurant to eat.            

This excerpt reveals that Tea Cake does not want to have anything to do with Mrs. Turner. Mrs. Turner is a black woman who nonetheless is racist towards African Americans. She likes Janie because she is light-skinned and has Caucasian features. However, she does not like Tea Cake because of his African American characteristics. Tea Cake, therefore, states that he does not want anything to do with Mrs. Turner. He argues that there are many places they can eat at where they would get better treatment.

the rhetoric device being used to persuade the audience is pathos.