Several factors determine the time it will take honey to crystallize. First, there are the conditions of the room where the honey is stored. Hot conditions protect honey from crystallizing, but they also degrade the honey and make it vulnerable to yeast and bacteria.
Joe tells Janie that he wants to buy land in Eatonville, a new town that is run entirely by black people. Joe asks Janie to leave Logan and marry him. One afternoon, when Janie and Logan are fighting, Logan threatens to kill Janie with an axe.
The beginning of chapter five is similar to chapter four. Both begin with the fact that neither Joe Starks nor Logan Killicks speak in rhymes to Janie. This similarity foreshadows Janie's dissatisfaction with her relationship with Joe. Janie's problems with her first relationship are repeating themselves in her second.