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.