Janie Timeline and Summary

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Janie Timeline and Summary

  • Janie, age four, is sharp-tongued and disrupts her adulterous mother's parties.
  • She befriends the twins a year later.
  • Playing with the twins shapes her whole life; it's a transcendent time of belonging.
  • She runs away from home when her mother insults the twins.
  • Janie lives with the twins in Mr. Kew's abandoned mansion.
  • She and the twins move into the shelter with Lone.
  • She lives well in the shelter as part of Lone's gestalt.
  • Janie moves with the rest of the gestalt to Miss Kew's once Lone dies.
  • She helps Gerry defend the gestalt from Miss Kew by helping desegregate the twins.
  • She helps Gerry defend the gestalt from Miss Kew by scaring her into getting Baby back.
  • After Gerry murders Alicia Kew, Janie moves with the gestalt back to the Kew mansion.
  • She assists Gerry with going to college.
  • Not knowing the plan, Janie helps Gerry sabotage Hip's efforts to get the anti-gravity generator.
  • She decides the second time Gerry hurts Hip is the final straw.
  • Janie rescues Hip from the jail cell and patiently helps him recall his memories to heal.
  • She takes Hip to Gerry, hoping to teach the head to feel ashamed and become more ethical.
  • After Hip succeeds in converting Gerry to goodness, she invites Hip to join the gestalt.