Thursday, January 24, 2013

Chapters 14-17 (Knessy, Ardent, Awalt)


Chapter 14
  • Tea Cake teaches Janie how to shoot
    • Ironic-She shoots Tea Cake in the end 
  • Contrast-societal views 
    • vs. Janie
  • Clarity in seeing her grow through others
  • Janie-less attached, does not care what people think
  • People pleaser-doesn’t care
Chapter 15
She slaps him //
  • Discovers more about her relationship with herself
  • Reversed in her relationships 
    • Older-Younger 
  • Different: Janie not feeding in to it. Tea Cake was feeding into it
  • Words aren’t good enough to get point across 
    • Jody beating Janie 
Chapter 16
  • Race-major part do society 
    • Since there is a majority, they need to embrace it 
  • “God accepts blood”
    • God in heaven-Give wine to blood + blood to master
  • Real God is White
Chapter 17
He attacks her //
  • It is okay that Tea Cake hit her
  • Possessive love
  • Relationship nanny didn’t want becoming the ones that Janie has
    • Normality 
  • Woman dreams-adjusting to fit reality
  • Tea Cake relationship most suppression
  • Balance-Reasons to stay
    • Inner Conflict
  • Humanizing relationships
Water
  • Pg. 166-before Tea Cake saves Janie he waits because he hates the water 
    • Hesitant like Janie in the beginning of love 
  • Emotional waters
Wind
  • Pg. 161-wind looses his chains
  • Foreshadowing
  • Janie lets her suppression go with new marriage
Lake
  • -Pg. 158 lake is Janie’s love
  • Janie can love Tea Cake whole heartedly
  • Monster-Lake
  • Janie lake and Tea Cake the wind?
    • When together brings chaos when apart good
Storm:
  • Title in chapter while watching strom
  • Strom=God’s judgement 
    • Race does not matter 
  • Janie’s awakening
  • Nature’s power>human
  • Pg.166 “common danger makes common friends”
    • Race  
  • Similar to folktale with animals and strom
  • Hurston’s anthropologist background

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