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.

2 comments:

  1. The importance of the 10 dollars you picked out is interesting, and I like the link you drew between her being hurt by her money being taken. Perhaps it suggests that she feels insecure if she is not financially accomplished?

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  2. I agree with you, where the sun is being symbolic of Tea Cake being a new beginning for Janie. New beginnings and the sun (horizons) have been repeated in this way through out the book. When the passage notes "the sun sending spies", do you think this is symbolic of Janie's past relationships or as if the rays were spies, spying on Tea Cake making sure he does nothing wrong and brings him home safely? Great job noticing all the literary elements in the passage.

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