Lit.+Anallys

Ramon- Chapter 1 This book, "Their Eyes Were Watching God", is very unique, in the sence of how its written. The auther Zora Neale Hurston uses the technique tought to most of us by Mrs. Ruu as "show and not tell". For those of you that are struggling to remember when we learned this, think back to when we sat in the hallway quietly, like fools lol. But educated fools!! Yea remember now?? Thats what the author is doing, SHOWING us the story through words. //"The sun was gone, but he had left his footprints in the sky."// This is a perfect example of "show and not tell". Not onle does it give us the readers a vission, but it uses personification. Look closely at the sentence and you notice that Hurston uses the word "he" for the pronoun for the sun, making it stand out more. The footprints in the sky would be the very bright and colorful trail the sun leaves as it sets. Now i dont want to go on and on about the same sentence, just showing you how to break them down and how to relize how much "stuff" can be put into a simple sentance. Here are some more examples in chapter 1 //"These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long." "They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs." "Words walking without masters...."//

Ramon Chapter 2- This chapter begins with a very powerful and word filled sentence. “Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches.” Page 8. This is once again showing how the author can capture the reader’s attention. Another statement that caught my eye was on page 10 where the author writes ”….while all around the house, the night time put on flesh and blackness.” Well obviously, night can’t have flesh, but he gives us a feel of how quickly and deep colored the sky is becoming outsider of the house. In any book I’ve read or in movie that I’ve seen, I have never heard the coming of spring as such.. “It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again.” Now for some that might not evan sound like it makes any sence, but read on to what I have to say and I can break it down for my readers. Everybody knows the enjoyment of spring and summer time. The warm weather, the opened windows, the feeling of freedom. Then as soon as winter comes, it feel all lost, like winter will never end. Then before you realize, we are once again in spring. This is what the author means by a forgotten song. More examples of lit language: //“With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!” “Nanny’s head and face looked like the standing roots of some old tree that had been torn away by storm”//

Ramon Chapter 3- You have to love chapters like this. Short yet filled with action and a vision. How true is this statement?: “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” Page 20. This is so true in the sense that I’ve experienced this first hand for many years. One year your asking questions about the meaning of your life, and the next there all getting answered. I’m glad the author saw to put that statement in this book. “…He’s kissin’ yo’ foot and ‘tain’t in uh man tuh kiss foot long. Mouf kissin’ is on uh equal and dat’s natural but when dey got to bow down tuh love, dey soon straightens up.” Page 22. WHOA WHOA WHOA!! Red flag! How many of you just read through this like is was nothing?? Let me show to you what I see in this statement. First of all we have what Nanny says in the beginning, “.. He’s kissin’ yo’ foot and ‘tain’t in uh man tuh kiss foot long. “ What I see is she saying that us as men will love our women and treat hem like queens, but for a short while. Until it gets old if I may. (now just for the record, I am not this way) “…Mouf kissin’ is on uh equal and dat’s natural but when dey got to bow down tuh love,…” This here is great the way its put. Kissing on the mouth, your eye to eye, no effort is involved, but to kiss her feet requires work, an effort. Other examples in this chapter, //“Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.”// Page 23

Ramon Chapter 4- This chapter begins with a sad, hatefilled spirit about it. Janie's husband begins to show that he is loosing interest in Janie as the young beautiful wife she is. He begins to work janie as if she is a man! The author gives you the feeling of hopelessness as were sure janie feels. Then the mysterious handsome man appears to change Janie's life forever. Some qoutes in this chapter with lit. elements, //“The sun from ambush was threatening the world with red daggers but shadows were grey and solid looking around the barn.”// Not only does this sentence talk about the coming of darkness, but look closely!! Its describing the situation going on in the beginning of this chapter. "red daggers" red, the color of hatetred, daggers, a weapon for death, gray- the color of hopelessness. The author did an amazing job putting just that one simple sentence together.

Ramon Chapter 5- In this chapter, Jody is showing us the reader his power and authority as a wealthy black man in that era. He quickly buys more land for the town of Eatonville and becomes mayor, leaving Janie as the looked apon mayer's wife. This chapter was so great because its showing us (more show and not tell) that maybe Janie hasn't found true love yet, that maybe Janie hasn't found herself yet. Jody uses his wealth and newly found authority as mayor to keep Janie as a little worker, if i may. He hides her beauty under rags. Now this is very interesting, if he loves his wife so much, and finds her to be so beautiful, why does he hide her beauty which is her hair. In my own opinion, i see that Jody wants to make Janie feel and look unattractive, because he's afraid that he will become submisive to beauty if she is allowed to reveal it. Now back on the subject of Jody's wealth and power, this qoute from the book proves my point that he wants to feel all powerful, even to his own people. //“It had two stories with porches, with banisters and such things. The rest of the town looked like servants’ quarters surrounding the “big house”. And different from everybody else in the town he put off moving in until it had been painted, in and out. And look at the way he painted it-a gloaty, sparkly white. The kind of promenading white that the houses of Bishop Whipple, W.B. Jackson and the Vanderpool’s wore. It made the village feel funny talking to him- just like he was anybody else.”// Please dont miss what is happening!! Im not sure, but to me im getting the picture of a plantation house. If Mr. Jody if black himself, why would he do such a thing to make his people of his town feel inferior to him? That can be answered in a few simple words, Mr. Jody wants power, and lots of it.

Ramon Chapter 6- //" Worser'n dat. De womenfolks go yo' mule. When Ah come round de lake 'bout noontime mah wife and some others had 'im flat on de ground usin' his sides fuh uh wash board."// Haha, i find this to be very humerious. This is a qoute found on page 49 where the men are joking Matt's mule saying that the women are using his skinny body to wash their clothes. Even in chapter 6 of this book, the author is still finding way to make simple sentences more unique, and imiginative!

Ramon Chapter 7- //"You big-bellies round here and put out a lot of brag, but 'tain't nothin' to it but yo' big voice. Humph! Talkin' bout me lookin' old! When you pull down yo' britches, you look lak de change uh life."// In this chapter, page 75, Janie finally stands up for herself and says something back to Jody when he disrespects her. Janie is saying in this quote that Jody talks a lot of "smack" about himself, but its all talk, and only talk. She says that under his clothes, he's showing true signs of aging. //"Then Joe Starks realized all the meaning and his vanity bled like a flood. Janie had robbed him of his illusion of irrestible maleness that all men cherish.."// This was stated after Janie shut down Joe, he is saying that he has relized what janie just did, she imbarrased him in front of all the men who look up to him as the "big man" in town, the mayor.

Ramon Chapter 8- //"A little sack hung from the corners of his eyes and rested on his cheek-bones; a loose-filled bag of feathers hung from his ears and rested on his neck beneath his chin. A sack of flabby something hung fro his loins and rested on his thighs when he sat down. But even these things were running down like candle grease as time moved on."// Here Janie is describing how Joe is beginning to look. She says that his face is having a droopy, sickly look to it, as if one had been up for many nights due to an illness. Just as candle wax melts and droops, as his Joe's face and overal appearance.

Ramon Chapter 9- //“Janie starched and ironed her face and came set in the funeral behind her veil.”.... "She did not reach outside for anything, nor did the things of death reach inside to disturb her calm."// Wow! What language is used here!! The author made something as dreadful and heart breaking as death, and made it into something that can be so emotionless. This is saying that Janie went into the funeral thin a calm, emotionless face, neither showing that she was hurt or glad. She didnt reach out to seek support and comfort from friends, and she didnt let his death affect her.

Ramon Chapter 10- //"Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of day."// Ok, now i dont know how many of you have stayed up all night, and watched the sun rise, but i have, and this captures it soo perfectly! When the sun beginns to rise, it gives of the most distinct color of red, pink, and orange, amber color. While watching this its gives you the feeling, and the sure knowledge, that in just a few moments, the sun will engulf the sky with brightness.

Ramon Chapter 11- //“It feels jus’ lak underneath uh dove’s wing next to mah face.”// Here Tea Cake is describing the feeling, the softess of Janie's face against his own. For a better idea of when a person would say something like this, it would be the quote "s smooth as a baby's bottom." So if you have ever said something like this, then you can imagie how Janie's face must feel to Tea Cake.

Ramon Chapter 12- "Bet he turn over in his grave every day." This was said about Jody, in refrence to how Janie has been acting. Her husband has been dead less then nine months now, and already she's on this man Tea Cake like she never had a husband. Th people of this town are finding it a discrase to dead Jody beacuse Janie was, and is known as the mayor's wife, and now she's messing with a young poor man with not anything to his name.

Ramon Chapter 13-

Hey guys this is Kelsey. I put together a small slide show for you, but I couldn't find pictures for all my quotes so I tried my best to explain them for you.

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CH. 5 //“//// The rest of the town looked like servants’ quarters surrounding the “big house”.” // // This is saying that Jody and Janie’s home made them look like they were the masters and everyone else’ homes around them looked like servants homes. They looked powerful and rich compared to everyone else. //

CH. 6 " Worser'n dat. De womenfolks go yo' mule. When Ah come round de lake 'bout noontime mah wife and some others had 'im flat on de ground usin' his sides fuh uh wash board."

This is explaining how skinny Matts mule is. The boys are saying that he is so little that you can see his ribs and use them to wash your cloths.

CH. 7 "You big-bellies round here and put out a lot of brag, but 'tain't nothin' to it but yo' big voice. Humph! Talkin' bout me lookin' old! When you pull down yo' britches, you look lak de change uh life."

Janie is talking back for the first time [finally!] telling Jody that she is not the one getting old, he is. She is pointing out how he has become saggy and wrinkly and how he is not the attractive young man that he used to be.

CH. 8 "He had crawled off to lick his wounds."

Jody was hurt inside, but he didn't want Janie to know. He wanted to look like a strong, tough man so he took he things and moved into a room downstairs...but really that was his way of retreating and pittying himself without letting Janie know.

CH. 9 “Janie starched and ironed her face and came set in the funeral behind her veil.”

This is showing that Janie came in strong; she did not show any emotion. If she was emotionally hurt, it did not show in her face at all.

CH.10 “He broke the pack and thrust one between his full, purple lips.”

This is just a simple description of Tea Cake’s lips and him smoking a cigarette.

CH. 11 “It feels jus’ lak underneath uh dove’s wing next to mah face.”

Tea Cake is simply saying how soft and beautiful Janies hair is.

CH.12 // “Ah just like a chicken. Chicken drink water, but don’t pee-pee.” // // Hahaha… =] I thought this was a funny was of telling someone that you know how to keep things to yourself and not go around telling everyone else. // // CH. //// 13 // // “The train beat on itself and danced on the shiny steel rails mile after mile.” // // This is a simple description of the train moving down the rail road track, but it makes it seem really pretty. // // CH. //// 14 // // “Some came limping in with their shoes and sore feet from walking. It’s hard trying to follow your shoe instead of your shoe following you” // // This is saying how tired the men are from walking all day and explaining how they’ve walked so much that they’ve worn out the bottom of their shoes. // // CH. //// 15 // // Whut would Ah do wid dat lil chunk of a woman wid you around? She ain’t goof for nothin’ exceptin’ tuh set up in uh corner by de kitchen stove and break wood over her head. You’se something tuh make uh man forgit tuh git old and forgit to die.” // // Aww! Tea Cake is so sweet! He is telling Janie that no other women is as good as her and he would never leave her for someone else. // // CH. //// 16 // // “Before they realized it the sun was cooler and the crowds came pouring onto the muck again.” // // This is explaining how the seasons had changed, I believe that they are trying to say that it is now spring time. // // CH. //// 17 // // “But when Ah git tuh peepin’ through mah likker, dey tell me Ah’m uh mess.” // // This is just saying that when Coodemay starts drinking he starts to act up. // // CH. //// 18 // // “They seemd to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.” // // Wow, I don’t know about many others, but this is a strong line to me. It may have been a hard time and they might have been a bit worried, but they put their trust in God and knew that He would take care of them. // // Ch.19 // // “She looked ard at the sky for along time. Somewhere up there beyone blue ether’s bosom sat He.” // // Janie was sitting looking up at God and wondering if he saw her and what she was going throught. // // CH. //// 20 // // “She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.” // // This is so beautifully described. This is explaining how in her life she has been through so many different things and made so many different memories that she never wants to forget, so she takes them and puts them in her soul so they will be forever with her. //

Chpt 1: hey yall this is mary aka mharie aka the picture girlie "the great rope of her black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume" This shows the beauty of Janie how the men looked at her a show and not tell

chapter 2: "In the air of the room were flies tumbling and singing, marrying and giving in marriage".

Nannys head and face looked like the standing roots of some old tree that been torn away by storm. (MARY PRIMM)

Chapter 3: "you come heah wid yo mouf full uh foolishness on uh busy day"

"Datz how come de ole folks say dat bein uh fool dont kill nobody. It jus' makes you sweat".

"Cause ah hates de way his head is so long one way and so flat on de sides and dat pone uh fat back uh his neck".

(MARY PRIMM)

CHAPTER 4: "De day you puts yo' hand in mine, Ah wouldnt let de sun go down on us single". (MARY PRIMM)

CHAPTER 5: "It takes money tuh feed pretty women. Dey gits uh lavish uh talk."

They tried hard to hold it in, but enough incredulous laughter burst out of thier eyes and leaked from the corners of thier mouths to inform anyone of thier thoughts (MARY PRIMM)

CHAPTER 6: Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.

Her hair was NOT going to show in the store. It didnt seem sensible at all. That was because Joe never told janie how jealous he was

"Naw it aint its nature, cause nature makes caution. It's de strongest thing dat God ever made, now. Facts is it's de onliest thing God ever made. He made nature and nature made everything else. (MARY PRIMM) CHAPTER 7: Mostly she lived between her hat and her heels, with her emotional disturbances like shade patterns in the woods-- come and gone with the sun. His prosperous-looking belly that used to thrust out so pugnaciously and intimidate folks, sagged like a load suspended from lions. It didn't seem to be a part of him anymore. Eyes a little absent too. Janie had robbed him of his illusion of irresistible maleness that all men cherish, which was terrible. (MARY PRIMM)

CHAPTER 8: A little sack hung from the corners of his eyes and rested on his cheek-bones; a loose filled bag of feathers hung from his ears and rested on his neck beneath his chin. A sack of flabby something hung from his lions and rested on his thighs when he sat down. But even these things were running down like candle grease as time moved on.

Always talking in low tones when she came near, or hushed altogether. She didnt know that he was drivn by a desperate hope to appear the old-time body in her sight.

So janie began to think of Death. Death, that strange being with the huge square toes who lived way in the west. (MARY PRIMM)

CHAPTER 9: All things concerning death and burial were said and done. Finish. End. Nevermore. Darkness. Deep hole. Dissolution. Eternity. Weeping and wailing outside. Inside the expensive black folds were resurrection and life. She did not reach outside for anything nor did the things of death reach inside to disturb her calm.

She hated her grandmother and had hidden it from herself all these years under a cloak of pity.

These men didnt represent a thing she wanted to know about. She had already experienced them through Logan and Joe. She felt like slapping them for sitting around grinning at her like a pack of cheesy cats, trying to make out they looked like love. (MARY PRIMM) CHAPTER 10: She looked him over and got little thrills from every one of his good points. Those full, lips lazy eyes with the lashes curling sharply away like drawn scimitars. The lean, over padded shoulders and narrow waist. He was jumping her king! She screamed in protest against losing the king she had grabbed his hand to stop him. He struggled gallantly to free himself. That is he stuggled, but not hard enough to wrench a lady's fingers. (MARY PRIMM) CHAPTER 11: Janie wanted to ask Hezekiah about Tea Cake, but she was afraid he might misunderstand her and think she was interested. They played away the evening again. Everybody was surprised at Janie playing checkers but they liked it. Three or four stood behind her and coached her moves and generally made merry with her in a restrained way. (MARY PRIMM)

CHAPTER 12: "Its somebody cause she looks might good dese days. New dresses and her hair combed a different way nearly every day. You got to have something to comb hair over. When you see uh women doin ' so much rakin in her head, she combin ' at some man or nother."

Janie acted glad to see phoeby, then she broached her with, "janie evrybodys talkin bout how dat Tea Cake is graggin you round tuh places you aint used tuh."

"Folks seen you out in colors and dey thinks you playin' de right amount uh respect tuh yo' dead husband. (MARY PRIMM)

CHAPTER 13: "Hurry up and come because he was about to turn into pure sugar thinking about her. Janie drank her coffee and sankled on back to her room without asking her ladlady anything. Tea Cake must be hunting all over the city for that fish. She kept her thoughts in front of her in order not to think too much.

CHAPTER 14: To janies srange eyes everythig in the everglades was big and new. Big beans, big cane, big weeds, big everything went wild.

Day by day now, the hordes of workers poured in. Some came limping in with their shoe and sore feet from walking.

CHAPTER 15: Janie learned what it felt like to be jealous. a liitle clumsy chunky girl took to picking a play out of tea cake in the fields and in the quarters. If he said anything at all, shed take the opposite side and hit him or shove him and run away to make him chase her. (MARY PRIMM)

CHAPTER 16: "You 'se different from me. ah cant stand black niggers. Ah dont blame de white folks from hatin em' cause ah cant stand em myself, said Mrs. Turner." (MARYPRIMM)

CHAPTER 17: Tea Cake had a brainstorm. Before the week was over he whipped janie. Not beacuse her behavior justified jealousy, but it relieved that awful fear inside him.

He just slapped her around a bit to show he was boss

"Lawd! wouldnt Ah love tuh whip uh tender woman lak janie! Ah bet she dont even holler. She jus' cries, eh Tea Cake?"

CHAPTER18: Morning came without motion. The winds, to the tiniest, lisping baby breath had left the earth. Even before the sun gave light, dead day was creeping from bush to bush watching man.

That night the palm and banana trees began that long distance talk with rain. Several people took fright and picked up and went in to Palm Beach anyway. A thousand buzzards held a flying meet and then went above the clouds and stayed

CHAPTER 19: Houses without roofs, and roofs without houses. Steel and stone all crushed and crumbled like wood. The mother of malice had trifled with men.

Way in the midnight he woke janie up in his nightmarish struggle with an enemy that was at his throat. janie struck a light and quieted him.

But the demon was there before him, strangling, killing him quickly. It was a great relief to expel the water from his mouth.

CHAPTER 20: Dey gointuh make miration cause mah love didnt work lak they love, if dey ever had any. Then you must tell 'em dat love aint somethin' lak uh grindstone dats de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch.

There was a finished silence after that so that for the first time they could hear the wind picking at the pine trees. It made pheoby think of sam waiting for her and getting fretful. It made janie think about that room upstairs--her bedroom. Phoeby hugged janie real hard and cut the darkness in flight.

Then Tea Cake came prancing around her where she was and the song of the sigh flew out of the window and lit in the top of the pine trees. Tea Cake, with the sun for a shawl.

(MARY PRIMM)

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