"[Janie] was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. 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 a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation. Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid." (page 11).
Here, Hurston is showing the transcendental qualities that Janie has. The way Janie appreciates nature is just one example I have noticed so far. Janie also seems to have given up a life of luxury, to a life of poverty. Janie also said that "[The members of her black comunity] don't know if life isn't a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt". This shows that Janie, as opposed to the women of her community, tries to appreciate life for more than what she was tought growing up. When she admires the tree in full bloom in the same way that Thoreau admired different aspects of nature. Thoreau spoke about the epic battles that the ants took place in "Walden Pond". Janie referrs to the bee sucking the nector from a flower as a marrage between the flower and the bee. They are both greatly fascinated by these different aspects of nature, and they both appreciate the events in the same way that others may appreciate certain objects of luxury such as a brand new BMW.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
1. "Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly." (page 1).
This quote talks about dreams, and how people choose to persue or not persue thier dreams. The begining of this quote says that all people can see theier dreams. The author then says that some people let thier dreams sail away, while others let thier dreams slip away from them. The author said that other people leave thier dreams un attained forever even though they are within reach. Then the author talks specifically about women and how they persue or dont persue thier dreams. Some women force themselves to forget about thier dreams because they care too muc habout what other people think about them. So women instead to do what they are soposed to. The author wants people to realize thier true dreams and to persue them untill they are trully happy.
This quote talks about dreams, and how people choose to persue or not persue thier dreams. The begining of this quote says that all people can see theier dreams. The author then says that some people let thier dreams sail away, while others let thier dreams slip away from them. The author said that other people leave thier dreams un attained forever even though they are within reach. Then the author talks specifically about women and how they persue or dont persue thier dreams. Some women force themselves to forget about thier dreams because they care too muc habout what other people think about them. So women instead to do what they are soposed to. The author wants people to realize thier true dreams and to persue them untill they are trully happy.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Huck Finn #6
“I think they are a pack of flat-heads for not keeping the palace themselves ’stead of fooling them away like that…”
Here Huck is arguing with Tom about genies. Tom was telling Huck how if you rub a bottle and a genie comes out he has to do anything you say, even build u a castle made out of diamonds before the next sunrise. Huck thought this was stupid how the genies didn’t keep the castles and do favors to themselves. Twain could be speaking out about slavery, and how we make people do all of our work for us without any compensation. The role of the slaves and the genies are the same. Huck feels that tits unfair for the genies to do all the work. This shows is a metaphor that tells me Huck thinks slavery is unfair, possibly this could come up later in the story.
Here Huck is arguing with Tom about genies. Tom was telling Huck how if you rub a bottle and a genie comes out he has to do anything you say, even build u a castle made out of diamonds before the next sunrise. Huck thought this was stupid how the genies didn’t keep the castles and do favors to themselves. Twain could be speaking out about slavery, and how we make people do all of our work for us without any compensation. The role of the slaves and the genies are the same. Huck feels that tits unfair for the genies to do all the work. This shows is a metaphor that tells me Huck thinks slavery is unfair, possibly this could come up later in the story.
Huck Finn #5
“And she took snuff, too; of course that was alright, because she’d done it herself”
Here Huck is talking about how much he wanted to smoke from his pipe at that moment. He wanted to but the widow told him that its an unclean practice and she should stop. Huck notices that she is contradicting herself because she takes snuff. He doesn’t say this out loud because he didn’t want a flogging but he doesn’t like how people can tell you what to do and what not to do regardless of whether they know anything about it or actually experienced it themselves.
Here Huck is talking about how much he wanted to smoke from his pipe at that moment. He wanted to but the widow told him that its an unclean practice and she should stop. Huck notices that she is contradicting herself because she takes snuff. He doesn’t say this out loud because he didn’t want a flogging but he doesn’t like how people can tell you what to do and what not to do regardless of whether they know anything about it or actually experienced it themselves.
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