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.