Journal #12

Just got home from work....Will finish tomorrow

Journal #11

At the beginning of the play the chorus seems to be a side character in the play that does what a narrator does but with a little more emotion. As you get into the play you start to see how the chorus could change its role and start taking sides with one side or the other and have some sort of bias towards some character. When the chorus has lines on page 23-24 you really start to see that the chorus does in fact have a bias and is trying to show the reader that he has clearly taken a side. The tone of the chorus changes great from the beginning to page 23, he seems to know what he is speaking and is speaking his mind without holding back. He shows this bias and doesn't hold back in the sack of protecting everyone.

Journal #10

Read Anouilh's Antigone pages 3-19 + Journal #10 (two parts - list of events + reflection):

Topic Sentence

Leonardo is seen as abusive towards his horse and has no respect to its well being. This cruelty towards animals show the passion and desire he has to be with the Bride.

Journal #9

Death
-Although we know that a lot of these plays are tragedies from this time period, death is still a main theme or under lying message in Lorca's play Blood Wedding. Right from the beginning of the play we see death was very part of the Bridegroom's family, and that his Mother was always afraid of her boys dieing, and wished that she had a daughter that would stay at the home and not have the risk of dieing for unknown and for the most part dumb reasons.

Children
-Both the Mother and the Father talk about children and wished they had more so there lands could be work and they could be much wealthier. But the difference in the two is that the Father would rather have more sons that could improve his land and the Mother does not want to risk a son being lost during his life to death and would rather have a daughter that would stay in the home and do things around the house. But they both do agree that the Bride and Bridegroom should have many children together.

Lying
We see lying in many cases during the course of the play, the two characters that are seen lying the most are Leonardo and the Bride. The Bride will lie to peoples faces about how happy she is but once they leave the room she is not afraid to say what she wants to the Maid and discuss why she is not happy with her situation. We see Leonardo also lying to his wife, and saying that he does not have and passion for his old lover but we really know that he still wants to be with the Bride. These characters are the two that lie the most and Lorca made the obvious to allow the reader to understand why the two wanted to be together so much.

Journal #8

How does the set change between acts and what effect does the set have on the atmosphere?

The first two acts have stage settings that are mostly set around inviting building and the homes of the characters. While in the beginning of act 3 it starts in a dark forest where no one really knows where. The change in settings contributes to the mood of the play. As the play moves along we start to notice a tragedy may occur and it does finally in the last act. I Believe Lorca changes the different scenes in the acts to match the tone and feeling of what was going on in the play, to help the reader visualize and understand what was going on.

Journal #7

There are a variety of youth in the second act. Why? How does Lorca use the youth to affect the themes of the play?

I believe there is a variety of youth in the second act because the Bride is coming to realization that she is getting married and has to decided what is best for her and her future. She knows the two men and understands they are different. Leonardo is a youthful young man that is willing to have some fun and risk a lot of things, we see this when he is rushing to the church before the marriage, he goes extremely fast to be the first one there. Whereas the Bridegroom is a hard working serious man that does not seem to have much fun and follows traditional rolls that a man takes part in. I believe Lorca does this in Blood Wedding because it gives a stronger meaning to why the Bride is questioning getting married to the Bridegroom. Without this added detail we could not understand what the Bride wants and we would be left to assume things that she was thinking.

Jorunal #6

Which characters appear to be miserable in the play and why?  When and how do the characters express their misery? What do the characters desire and what stops them from going after what each desires?

I see the Bride to be the most miserable character in the play, this is due to the fact that she is being torn apart because of the relationships she has with the men around her. The Bride never directly shows here misery to Leonardo, her Father, or the Bridegroom. Rather she expresses her misery to the Maid of the house. I think she shows this misery to the Maid because she knows the Maid will never say a thing to anyone else and that she has power over her. The Maid is seen as a way for the Bride to express herself and to talk about things that she would be unable to, to others. The Bride desires Leonardo but is not able to do so because she is about to get married with another man, she talks about the promise she made and that she had to go through with the wedding or she will be looked down upon. The social standard of the time definitely takes an enormous roll in the way the Bride acts and shows her emotions.

Journal #5- Blood Wedding

Journal #5 Examine how Lorca characterize the archetypes of the play.  Does Lorca embrace or reject the archetype?  What is the effect of the characterization?

I believe Lorca rejects archetypes throughout his play Blood Wedding. The one character that we see going against the common views of society is the Bride. She is seen as rebellious and against the normality of what a bride should act like during the time of her wedding. Society wants to sugarcoat relationship and try's to make them perfect when in real situations this is not true. There is always going to be small snags in relationship and these characters have to face them even when they are about to get married.

Journal #4 Blood Wedding

Right from the beginning of the play we see Knives as the most dominate symbol in the book. This is true from start to end.
Bridegroom: "Never mind. I'll eat some grapes. Give me the knife."
Mother: "What for?" (5)

The mother in this part of the story is very protective of her son and does not want to lose him. Very soon after this conversation we learn that his father had died from a knife so the only reaction his mother has is to be defensive and want to protect him. Mother does not want to lose his last son to a weapon of any sort, she is only being protective and wants to know why in fact he really needs the knife. She is always afraid he is going to get into some trouble and use the knife and end up hurting himself.

The second symbol that comes up in the first scene of the book is the vineyards and the land the own. Bridegroom had just bought land to start himself out on, but soon later in the book we would learn that both sides of these families had a lot of land but no quite enough to please themselves. The father of the Bride offers to but the land between the two estates to make there "empire" bigger and that they would all gain great wealth by this move. But the Mother in the other hand has no interest in expanding and is very satisfied with what she has now.
 

Wild Duck #3

Consider which characters are at fault for the events that are unfolding and why? Is there a character without blame?  Why or why not? Is there a character who should carry more of the blame?  Do any of the characters take responsibility?

I feel that Gregers is the character at blame because he is the one that was digging up all the evidence of the affair between Gina and Werle. Werle did not understand why Werle's cared so much about the Ekdal family and wanted to discover the true meaning of the families connections.

The one character that no one really blames for the situation is Gina. Gina is never directly blamed for what was going on, the only thing that happened was Hjalmar got very upset but during that entire time he never directly blames her. He never came out and blamed her. This leaves us to believe that she wasn't really blamed for the situation that she was put in.

Werle should have taken more of the blame. No one ever faces him in the story and blames him for all the situations he had created. When Gregers starts to discover everything between the two families he never once discusses it with his father. This is why he was never blamed and in the end he was the one that created all the different situations.

I feel that Hjalmar takes most of the responsibility that his family started to fall apart. But there was nothing he could have done to prevent what had already happened. He feels that he was placed in a home that was funded by a man that was the father of his child and he did not know this so he feels that he was not smart enough to figure this put himself. Gregers would be the only one that was able to unravel the mystery and Hjalmar felt he should have been the one that could have figured it out on his own.   

Wild Duck #2

 Ibsen uses the motif of decay, he uses eyes. Eyes are well know to be one of the things in your body that fails first and tend to get worse as you age. Ibsen uses eyes in his play to show use how similar the characters are to one another. The thing that seems very wired is that Hjalmar is preventing Hedvig to go to school because he is afraid that she will loose her eye sight. Now knowing that Hedvig is Werle's child, it is very coincidental that Hjalmar is doesn't want her eyes to go.

"Werle: I have to spare my eyes, Gregers; they're beginning to fail me" (Ibsen 133).
Werle knows his eyes are failing him and they are beginning to go on him so he wants to settle down and live his life without having to risk loosing all his sight.  
"Werle: You've seen me with your mother's eyes.  (Drop-ping his voice.) But you should remember that those eyes were-clouded at times" (Ibsen 135).

"Hedvig: No, not anymore. Daddy's afraid I'll hurt my eyes" (Ibsen 162).

These quotes effect the way you look at the characters and you are able to better understand what they are going through or what they are seeing through there eyes.

Wild Duck #1

Hjalmar is a character in the book is a man that isn't facing his problems. Hjalmar never really wanted to face how he was able to get through schooling for photography. He only faced the fact of how much in debt his family was when Gregers brought up the fact. This is when Hjalmar first started to face his life and realized things that he was unable to see because he was in such denial. He finally wanted to take his debit seriously and take over all financial affairs. Of course Hjalmar was not the only character that faced a barrier during the play. We see right from the beginning that Gregers is one that wants to know everything and will do everything to find things out about others. Gregers is a character that faces boundaries and tries to do everything to get around them. I personal seem he as an investigator that is trying to get to the bottom of a problem.

Hjalmar and Gregers are two different people that come from different backgrounds, but both are struggling to figure things out in there lives. Both approach a situation differently but seem to get to the bottom of there problems. Because Gregers and Hjalmar were trying to get to the bottom of a mystery between the two families it creates a situation that would end up being a tragedy.

Journal #3 1984

"What are your true feelings toward Big Brother?"
"I hate him,"
"You hate him. Good. Then the time has come for you to take the last step. You must love Big Brother. It is not enough to obey him; you must love him."
He released Winston with a little push toward the guards.
"Room 101," He said. (Orwell 282).

This part of the book O'Brien is forcing Winston to love Big Brother, the leader of this government. This quote from the book at the entire section connects greatly to the setting, language, and to cultural connections.

Setting: The part of the book where all this interrogation is taking place is in the Ministry of Love. Love would not be the best name for this building but it is what it is because it is a place of exact opposite. O'Brien wants Winston to love Big Brother and he will do whatever he needs to, to force Winston to be brain wasted. For the most part Winston has held out and kept to his beliefs and not giving in to O'Brien's tactics. The setting of this part of the story is very interesting. When we think of love, the first things that come to our minds is peace and living life to the fullest. One thing the Ministry of life does is cut off all these things and sticks you inside a building with no windows and tortures you till they make you say things that are in line with the party.

The language in this part of the book is that of an interrogation. For the most part O'Brien is calm and is driving the ideas of the part down Winston's throat till Winston is forced to follow the party rules. The language of the book has change from previous sections of the story. At first the books language is that of a thinker that is describing the situation he is living in and pointing out things that were not working. Then as we get towards the middle of the book it becomes more of a secret game of hid and seek where to party members are getting together to think and act out against the part without getting caught. That part of the book the language changes greatly because they are trying to sneak around and lot of the things they are doing gets Winston thinking against the party, where as before all he was trying to do was to keep to himself and make sure no one knew his real beliefs.

The cultural connections in this part of the book are connected to war time in modern times. Many countries during World War 2 and The Cold War, used interrogation tactics to get information out of there enemies to know more about them and what they were planning. But in 1984 it is the exact opposite, O'Brien is trying to install the ideas of the part into Winston rather then getting information out of him. The book connects a lot to what was going on during WW2, where there where countries that controlled every aspect of its citizens lives but In the book 1984 they took it to the next level and controlled everything that thought and edited there language to force them not to have the ability to talk or act out against there government.

A new motif appears in the last part of the book and more so towards the end of it. That Winston is more willing to take risks to get what he wants. When he rented the apartment he was talking a huge risk as a party member but he was willing to do so to be with another person that shared the same beliefs as him. He wanted to take the next step in his crime and go further then he had ever been.

Journal #2 1984

Motifs-The days following his first iterations with Julia and receiving the note that said "I love you", Winston is tormented by the fact that it was so hard to be with people and that even in his own home he was not able to think about anything or speech out loud to himself.The only time Winston is able to think about things is in bed while the lights are off. As long as he does not make any sound the telescreen will not know what he is doing. "It was not till twenty-three hours, when he was home in bed-in the darkness, where you were safe even from the telescreen so long as you kept silent-that he was able to think continuously" (Orwell 109). So far through the book the motif of darkness or lack of light has come up. In this case the lack of light is helping Winston hid a crime. It is giving him the ability to think about Julia and what he is planning to do.

Setting- The setting of the book continues to break Winston down as a character. He is well aware that he is being watched at all times. From the first third of the book to the second third, Winston still has the scene of being watched and sort of tracked. "In any case they had been standing straight in front of a telescreen when the thing happened" (Orwell 106). This was part of the book when Julia slipped him the note that said 'I love you', he was not able to determine if it was a trap or if it really had a meaning. The use of the setting created many different situations that Winston could have gone through. Throughout the book so far the setting has created many options for Winston. It is hard for him to see a clear answer for his solutions. He always has to be on his toes in order to stay undetected by the thought police. This is why the setting of the book alters the way Winston lives his life.

Language-
"'What time do you leave work?'
 'Eighteen-thirty.'
'Where can we meet?'
'Victory Square, near the monument.'
'It's full of telescreens.'
'It doesn't matter if there's a crowd.'
'Any signal?'
'No. Don't come up to me until you see me among a lot of people. And don't look at me. Just keep somewhere near me.'
'What time'
'Nineteen hours'
'Alright'" (Orwell 113).
This was the first real conversation that Julia and Winston exchanged. It was straight to the point so they would not be detected by the thought police. A lot of the characters conversations have to be simple so not to be thought as of a thought criminal that was talking against the government. Throughout the first two thirds of the book conversations between Winston and others seem all to be the same but in this case it has a real meaning and unlike the others it is a plan. For the first time we see Winston truly interacting with another person within his society. 

Journal #1 1984

Setting: The setting in 1984 contributes a lot to the way people live there lives in the book. Winston is living in Airstripone, which was once know as London (But no one really knows this), in the empire of Oceania. The part of the city he lives in is falling apart all around his. Nothing is clean and everything seems to fall apart and not work. But propaganda makes the citizens feel that life has never been better and the standard of living has improved from one year prior. The setting of the book contributes greatly to our view on how there society runs and how we understand them.

Language: The language in 1984 is always evolving. There are many members of there society that it is there job to publish new versions of there language. They have been working on the 11th editions of what they call newspeak, this edition is trying to limit the number of words people know so they can not have the ability to even come up with words that would produce thoughts. The government is doing this to control there people by limiting the amount they could learn. The main character Winston is against the controlling government and through language he shows us the world he is living in and how messed up it is. Without the different uses of language the reader would not be able to differ who is for or against the government.

Motif's: From the beginning of 1984 motif's appear, the most apparent motif is censorship, this is where the government that controls Winston and his fellow citizens by altering article and everything around them to make the government look good. Winston is in the department that alters everything that goes against the governments thinking at that time. They are altering the past to make it look like they have always been right. By doing this the government has a very firm grasp on there citizens and they have complete control over them and what they think. This leaves no room for anyone to rebel or to speak out against the government because if they did so they would not have any evidence to support there claim.

Journal #5

You make the decisions-

1. Learn from experiences : Learning from past experiences is the best way to improve life, learning from mistakes or good experience will aid you in a successful life. With out past failures you will never know what to expect and how to handle difficult situations. * I feel in my life the best way to get through it is to learn from your mistakes and others.

2. Live life to the fullest: Never take advantage of life and live life likes its your last day. There are no second chances and every moment is important. Although you may not think this is important it is vital to being successful and happy. * I feel with out this whats the point of life, if you are just going to observe life and not plan and want more there is no point.

3. Be prepared: Always prepare yourself for what life throws at you. If you enter a situation knowing you are not prepared you have a chance of failure. Take advantage of opportunity's to prepare yourself. If its preparing for a test or a job interview, know what you need to do for you to succeed.*Without being prepared for certain things I feel I am always set for failure and this is why it is part of my philosophy.

4. Family: Family is your life line. Without them we are nothing never take advantage of them because some day you will need there help. Don't abandon family, they are the same as you and they will always be there to help and in return you should be ready to do the same for them when need it. *The most important part in my life is being with my family. It is hard for me to be away from family for to long so this is why I believe this should be important for everyone's morals.

5. Be who you want: Although family should be a big part of your life and they should influence some of your decisions, live life like its yours and make decisions that will benefit you. You don't have to live in the shadow of others, make a name for yourself for you actions and make sure people notice that you are who you want to be and you create your future. *I see a lot that people follow others and they stay in the shadow's. I feel if you are living in the shadow of others you aren't really living.

6. Respect others: This is a well know thing but it is not always done. Respecting others will give you respect in return. Respect is the first footstep in a good relationship with everyone around you. If its for a close friend or just some one in the street it is always good to give respect because one day that stranger may be your future boss. *Respect in my life is something me and my family strives for. There is no point in disrespecting anyone in any situations it only causes more problems.

7. Be there for others: Be the person that others can rely on in times of need. Strive to be the person that people look up to for advise and help.*My parents have always been there for me and I hope I can be there for others and be someone that others look up for as a get older.

Journal #4

At the end of The Stranger Meursault finally comes to a conclusion of his life. Knowing that he is sentenced to life he realizes that all people at some point are going to die at one point. Meursault seems not to be afraid of death and this was probably the best choice he could have made to calm himself before his execution. I don't believe Camus was trying to make us all feel that death is normal but that we need to prepare for it if we get the chance. He wants to show us that death is a normal part of life and at some point we will have to face it. There are many different translations of what people could get from Camus, I just see it as a warning that death is normal.

Journal #3

I think Camus divided The Stranger into two parts for a few reasons. The most apparent reason that shows up is the way the plot is set up. The first half of the book in mostly describing the situation that Meursault is in and giving some vital information about him as a character. Then the second part of the book seems to be more action filled and a lot more happens to Meursault that affects him. To support this idea there seems to be a very great shift in amount of dialogue used in the book. In the first part of the book barely any dialogue was used and most of the time Meursault just restated or described what other characters discus with him. But once we get into part two of the book a lot of the characters are quotes and Meursault has a lot more conversations.

Part 1 use of dialogue:  "Raymond called me at the office. He told me that a friend of his (he'd spoken to him about me) had invited me to spend the day Sunday at his little beach house, near Algiers." (Camus 40)

Part 2: "'You see, you see!' he said. 'You do believe, don't you, and you're going to place your trust in Him, aren't you?' Obviously, I again said no." (Camus 68)

Meursault in the first part of the book is living life and not really taking the time to look at his life. But as soon as we get into part two of the book we see Meursault looking back on what he had done in his life and reflects a lot on his decisions and his relationships with some of the characters.(Marie and his mother 'Maman')

Stranger #2

 Option 2:

I think Camus uses the first person point of view very well throughout the entire book. Although there is very little dialogue in the book, Camus is able to use Mersault to give great detail of the things around him. Most of the conversations that Mersault has with other characters don't end up being in dialogue but more as summary from Mersault's view. I think Camus did not use third person because it may have altered Mersault and would have made it difficult for us to understand what Mersault is thinking throughout the book. This could have effected the meaning of the story and mad it a little bit hard for the reader to understand what Camus is trying to show us. I think Camus's use of point of view is very relevant to the themes he portrays and the characters he uses throughout the story. If Camus would have used the third person we would not get as much detail about Mersault's life as we do when it is in first person.

Jorunal #1 The Stranger

1. Marie- Marie is an old friend of Meursault's. When they bump into each other while taking a swim, Meursault instantly thinks back to the old days when he had a thing with her and he never knew if she had a thing for him. Quickly there relationship gets better and most of there weekends are spent together at Meursault's home. Marie often asks Meursault deep questions, like "do you love me", and Meursault never really answers her with a straight answer. He always seems to avoid the question. I think Camus is trying to reveal that Marie is there to be with Meursault, but that Meursault doesn't always need her and has lived most of his life alone.

2. Ramond right from the beginning is seen as a man that can get any type of women. He seems to be wild and wants his old girlfriend to respect him after she cheated on him. Many times Ramond asks Meursault if he wanted to go to a club or go out on the town but he always rejects his offers. I think Camus uses Ramond to show Meursault that there are different ways to live your life during this time period. Meursault is always viewed as being alone, where as Ramond has to always be with different people and is considered in many eyes a "pimp".

3. Salamano is an old man that has a dog that matches him to the 't'. The dog has a disease that doesn't allow him to grow hair. Salamano for the most part seems harsh on the dog for simple things that he himself could have prevented. He also reminds me of Meursault because he is a lonely man that does not have many friends. When Salamano loses this dog he is very upset, although he was always mean to the dog he he loved him in a different way that many others could not see. Not many people could see this but Meursault could, and Meursault understand that Salamano was missing a part of himself when he loses the dog and he does not know what to do with his life without a dog. I think Camus uses Salamano as a character that represents Meursault and shows a foreshadow or something that may happen to Meursault, that Meursault does not understand what Marie really means to him until she is gone.

Journal #8

1) I think the title Their Eyes Were Watching God fits the book well. I think Hurston chose this title for the book because of the major and apparent theme throughout the whole book, although it was not the only one it did come up throughout the main parts of the book. The theme of God is always in control in some way and that the people at some points may think they have the power but they don't because he can take it away at any one moment. The word "Watching" in the title I think greatly adds to what she was thinking when she made the title, that they were watching and waiting what would happen next and they had no control over it.

2) They Look Towards The Sun could be an alternate title for this book Caucasus Hurston uses the sun in many parts of the book and probably it is used as much as the theme of "god". This could effect your reading because it would make you focus more on what the meaning of the sun is on the book. For many books the title can say everything about what to look for.

3) The title of my pastiche is "A Far off Schoolhouse". I use throughout my pastiche the symbol of a school house where the character is slowly losing the ability to see it due to conflict between her husband. I could have used any object but I chose the school house and the playground of a scene of happiness and good memories.

Journal #7

1) “Often now, Tea Cake and Janie stayed up so late at the fire dances that Tea Cake would not let her go with him to the field. He wanted her to get her rest.” (Hurston 154)

I noticed a scene of syntax in this quote from Their Eyes Were Watching God. Hurston could have made the second sentence in this quote and add it to the first line, but Hurston and so did I felt that making it into two different lines added to the story.

2)   “Fifteen dollas? I god you’se as crazy as uh besty bug! Five dollars.” (Hurston 57).

 Hurston could have just made this a part of the narrators lines, but she decided to make it into dialogue and give it more meaning towards the story. I saw this as a form of dialogue.

3) “They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged.” (Hurston 33)

Hurston used the technique of imagery to portray a meaningful scene. I think Hurston used this to get the reader to understand the tone and setting of the story in a different and in more depth way.     

Journal #6

I started my revision by reviewing what my reader had said to me. I took a lot of what she said and tried my best to improve the things she thought needed work. I started off by adding more dialogue and creating a better background to where the characters had come from. From there I improved my grammar and edited any misspellings that my partner had noticed in the first draft. The only thing I was having a problem with was including a good ending, I am not sure if I will leave the story open or conclude it. Other then these few problems my pastiche is coming along pretty well. I hope to revise this part a few times before a final draft.

Journal #5

      But Jill wasn't ready for death. Death was the end to a long lively life.  A long life on a broad a vast horizon. Why does death need to come so soon, to those that haven't done a thing? He waits peacefully as he looks towards the west. Waiting with his harpoon drawn and poised towards the breaking waves. Waiting for something that may never been or never will. She waits for the day to come, where the man brings her the letter. Always anticipating but never was she ready. Bob! There was no need for you to sail towards the end. She wanted one more opportunity to speak to her beloved but there was no time. He was taken out to sea by the gods. He would come back to live the rest of there lives together. There is no chance for death on this voyage. That's what she believed. But if he has, she would know by the next mornings sun and by the feel of the town. People began to gather like never before. Waiting as the sun began to rise. Something that never will be has come.

I used the word "Death" to surround my pastiche just as Hurston did on page 84 of Their Eyes Were Watching God. I changed the characters around and made Bob the person that was soon to die as a sailor and Jill the wife that was wishing he wouldn't go. I tried to stay with-in the guide lines of page 84. Hurston used the letter "w" as an alliteration in the second line where i used the letter "L" as my alliteration. For the most part i used the same format as her's, like using a question and using exclamation points. 

Journal #4

Chapter 8 page 85

Syntax: In this part of the chapter Janie addresses Jody pretty much on his death bed about there marriage. The sentences and dialogue seem to get longer and into more detail the longer the conversation went on. Unlike most of the books dialogue, most of this page seems to be long more thought out sentences.

Word choice or diction that Hurston uses on this page gets further way from the normal southern talk that she used throughout the book. I believe she did that so the reader can get a better sense of what is going on. Janie and Jody aren't talking casually, but with more meaning, so this could be the reason for her change in diction.

The tone of the passage starts off very tense and becomes more meaningful as the conversation continues. Towards the end of the conversation Jody seems to become upset that Janie is talking to him about there siuation. "Dat's right, blame everything on me. Ah wouldn't let you show no feelin'!"(85) While Janie is trying to be more sympathetic and caring. "'Tain't dat, Jody. Ah ain't here tuh blame nobody.

Hurston uses sound devices to add more detail and feeling to the conversation between Jody and Janie. "He gave another ground grumble and eased over on his back." The sound made the tone of the passage more meaningful and dramatic.

Journal #3

1) "Ah wuz speakin' jus' all right befo' you stuck yo' bill in." Page: 42 Diction

2) "All we can do, if we want any light after de settin' or befo' de risin', is tuh make some light ourselves. So dat's how come lamps was made. Dis evenin' we'se all assembled heah tuh light uh lamp." Page: 45 Symbol

3) "Brother Davis, lead us in a word uh prayer. Ask us blessin' on dis town in uh most particular manner." Page: 45 Dialogue

4) "They had murmured hotly about slavery being over, but every man filled his assignment." Page: 47 Allusion, to slavery.

5) "Speakin' of winds, he's de wind and we'se de grass. We bend which ever way he blows." Page: 49 Comparison, Joe Starks to the towns people.


 1) The words that Zora Neale Hurston used in this situation added to the scene. They are not quite challenging words but her choice of words gave you the ability to visualize what was going on in the scene. This is Hurston's form of diction in her book and it reoccurs over and over through the course of the story, were different word choices could have made the story a little different.

2) The lamp in the story is just one of many symbols in Their eyes were watching god. Many of the towns people felt like the lamp was a waste and there were other things Jody could have spent his money on. But Jody felt that without light at night in the streets a town wasn't a town. That it was to be the beginning of a great town and the start to a new type of society that could be compared to a white community. This is one of many examples of light in the book that aids to the story line.

Journal #2

    This is an example from page 128 of Their eyes were watching god.

     "Wher' ah come frum pees don't talk like yee do, we cal' our selves southern folk and we proud of it. To be honest with yee, your pees sound so strange and we can hardly understand a word that comes from yo mouth"
     "What are you talking about?"
      Bob and Billy had just met on a train headed to the west coast. They both don't really understand one another. Billy is from the deep south and has lived there all his life. Where as Bob is from California and is heading home after a business trip to the south.
     "Well Billy you will soon know what real people sound like when they talk."
     "What yee mean 'real people', the only real pees are from the south and no place else."
     "Well I guess you live in a box then, because there are many different types of English and everyone pronounces it differently."
    Billy and Bob part ways once the train reaches Los Angeles, California. No one knows if the two will ever meet again. But one thing is sure, that not everyone talks the same and most don't realize they talk differently.

1) "Where" is changes to "Wher'" with and apostrophe at the end.
2)  For the word "I" it is changed to "Ah"
3) The word "from" is just slightly changed and it is shown as "Frum"
4) "Pees" means you guys or you people.
5) "Yee" = "You"
6) "Cal'" = Call
7) "Yo" is the same as "your" is some situations.

Journal #1

1) How do you perceive Janie?
2) How do you perceive the narrator?

1) Janie is perceived at the beginning of the book as a quiet person that keeps to her self but is the focus of all the local towns people's talk. "...You know if you pass some people and don't speak tuh suit 'em dey got tuh go way back in yo' life and see whut you ever done."(5) I also perceive Jania as a person that many don't know as well as they should to make judgements about her. She has not been given the chance to give here side of the story of what happened with Tea Cake and this leaves the towns people to assume the worst has happened to her.

2) Right from the beginning of the story the narrator give you great deal about what is going on. But really does not give you much background information about the character. This leaves you to have to connect the dots as more information is presented to you. " So the beginning of this was a woman and she had come back from burying the dead. Not the dead of sick and ailing with friends at the pillow and the feet." (1)

Post #4- Literary Terms Test

1. Janie is know as the ________ in Their eyes were watching god.

2. "Janie, where's dat last bill uh ladin'?" (pg. 70 Their eyes..) is an example of__________.

3. Words like "Evnin'", "Whut", and "Ah" are used in Their eyes were watching god. This is the authors choice of words better know as __________.

4. Janie's hair is a ______ in Their eyes were watching god.

5. The _______ of 1984 was when Winston was being tortured.

Post #3- Oxymoron

Definition- A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

Oxymoron is just another form of a paradox. Most commonly seen when two words contradict each other in a sentence. "War is Love" this is an example of oxymoron in the book 1984 . In a normal situation the two words would not go together because they basically mean the exact opposite.

I thought this was funny and a good image of  an oxymoron. (hope this was Photoshopped)