Sunday, September 18, 2011

Journal 5

They put her to bed and sent for her married daughter from up around Ocala to come see about her.  The daughter came as soon as she could and took Annie Tyler away to die in peace.  She had waited all her life or something, and it had killed her when it found her.
      The thing made itself into pictures and hung around Janie's bedside all night long.  Anyhow, she wasn't going back to Eatonville to be laughed at and pitied.  She had ten dollars in her pocket and twelve hundred in the bank.  But oh God, don't let Tea Cake be off somewhere hurt and Ah not know nothing about it.  And God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me.  Maybe Ah'm is uf fool, Lawd, lad dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus.  Ah done waited uh long time.
      Janie dozed off to sleep but she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the darkhe peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with redbut pretty soon, he laid all that aside and went about his business dressed all in white.  But it was always going to be dark to Janie if Tea Cake didn't soon come back.  She got out of the bed but a chair couldn't hold her.  she dwindled down on the floor her head in a rocking chair.




Personification of the sun sending spies, it is also a symbol of the sun rising which means something new is coming/beginning. 
Makes Janie seem weak without Tea Cake around
Personification
Juxtaposition? because taking someone away usually has bad connotations but in peace obviously has a more pleasant image
At first she was waiting for something but in the end it had found her which means at some point in time whatever it was she was looking for had began looking for her
By not using parallel structure the 10 dollars that are in her pocket are more important than the money in her bank probably because Tea Cake can hurt her by taking the money she has on her like he had done before
Different types of the word "wait" are used a lot which gives this a sort of impatient tone
Tea Cake is symbolized as Janie's sun because she had just recently left Jody which makes him a new beginning.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Journal 4

So Emilee started to ponder about love. Love, the elegant soul with the suede jacket that lives just over the hills. The elusive one that lived in the house that seemed to have no entrance. What desire has Love for a hiding place, and what call can alert his ear? He lodges in his impenetrable abode which sits above the rest of the world. Remains inquisitive and statue-like all day with his bow drawn back. She was about to discover a button from his jacket at any given time. She was optimistic yet cautious.

Journal 3

It seems like Jody is being characterized in a way that makes him seem almost like a slave master. His actions towards don't show this but how this communities operates does. In chapter 5 I think it was Coker that was talking about how people feel weird talking to him and they bend which ever he blows. He controls what everybody does but not in a hostile way. He uses smooth words but delivers them with a firm tone which the towns people are influenced by. The one person that is not completely under the influence of Jody is his wife. He controls everything she does, prevents her from mingling with the town's people, and makes her work the shop. This is the main reason that I think Hurston is trying to portray Jody as a slave master figure.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Eyes journal 2

And look at the way he painted it-a gloaty, sparkly white. The kind of promenading white that the houses of Bishop Whipple, W. B. Jackson and the Vanderpool's wore. It made the village feel funny talking to him-just like he was anybody else. Then there was the matter of the spitoons. No sooner was he all set as mayor-post master- landlord-storekeeper, than he bought a desk like Mr. Hill or Mr. Galloway over in Maitland with one of those swing-around chairs to it. What with him biting down on cigars and saving his breath on talk and swinging round in that chair, it weakened people.

Imagery


Allusion to the houses of Bishop Whipple, etc.


Consonnance/alliteration? Cigars and saving


Tone: Envious, judgmental

Mood: Jealousy, animosity

Purpose: These techniques show how the village people pay close enough attention to Jody to realize every little thing he does, but nobody has the courage to say or do anything about it. They respect him but criticize almost every aspect of his life because they are jealous of what he has. Jody lives like a big shot in a small town and to some of the people he could almost be seen as a master to the village people being his slaves.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Eyes Journal 1

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, the author refers to the mouth a lot when describing Janie's return. When the people on the porch remember their envy of Janie they "chewed up the back of their minds and swallowed with relish". Hurston also says they "made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs". The reference to the mouth gives these people a rude and almost evil sense and make their gossip seem to be a terrible thing. After Janie walked by everybody started laughing and Mrs. Sumpkins "sucked her teeth". This makes Mrs. Sumpkins seem like some sort of beat that is cleaning her teeth of her evil gossip.


In this book animals and nature are often connected to love. When Janie was sitting under the tree as a young girl  “She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister–calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was marriage”. Hurston also says "In the air of the room flies were tumbling and singing, marrying and giving marriage in return”.  This is foreshadowing that Janie will spend a majority of her time trying to find the right marriage for her.


The tree that Janie sits under symbolizes her innocence as a young girl. She "spent most of the days under a blossoming pear tree in her backyard". Janie connects the blossoming tree with her dreams of having a life filled with love and a wonderful marriage. When Nanny tells her that she wants Janie to marry Logan Killicks, Janie's dreams are killed right then and there: "Vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the pear tree but Janie didn't know how to tell Nanny that". The unexpected curveball in her dream made Janie grow up rather quickly thus losing her innocence. "She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a women".