"[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.
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