Class Notes 2/6/13

Class Notes

February 6, 2013

*Study for Parts of Speech Quiz

*Going forward use track changes when revising your essay instead of highlighting

Concision:

·      Repetition- sentences, words

·      Information the reader already knows

·      Quotations- many of the same, try incorporating them into sentences, cut down to only necessary information

o   Janie was disloyal to her husband because he “made her wrap her hair” (12).

·      Filter Words- Janie was able to leave her house after this conversation. Janie left her house…

o   There are many ways to interpret the language that Tannen uses. –This days nothing

o   Change to: When Tannen says “marked she might be referring to social markings or individual marks

Sense and Sensibility (Chapters 1-3)

·      Monthly allowance/yearly worth- multiply what your worth is by .05

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Family Tree 

Old Mr. Dashwood (Norland) (Old and dies)

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            Mrs. Dashwood ---------Mr. Henry Dashwood ---- Old Wife (deceased)

                                                       (Nephew/Dead)                

 Marianne, Margaret, Elinor                                John Dashwood---- Fanny

(Unwelcomed guests)                                              Norland            Son (Harry)

·      Old Mr. Dashwood leaves the estate to John Dashwood and his wife and only gives the three daughters 1000 pounds each

·      Fanny has two brothers: Edward Ferrars and a younger brother

·      Fanny tries to convince John Dashwood not to pay the three sisters- goes all the way to having the sisters pay them instead of John taking care of the sisters

·      First three chapters set up how ridiculous it can get with the will

·      Austen- setting up complex problems to show how greedy and rich the people can get- she wants the reader to confuse the names

Chapters 19-20 ML, Juliette, Kate Broc

                                                            Chapters 19 and 20

Test on Wednesday!!

Guest from Quinn on Monday

REREAD CHAPTER 20!!!!

Was this a feminist novel or not?

What were we supposed to learn from Janie’s story

General Reactions to the end-

·      Ended and rapped up nicely

·      “soul crawled in to meet her”

o   finally accepted herself by herself, no need for anyone else

·      Totally forgot that it was framed

How did her spirituality evolve?

·      She finally accepted who she was

·      Janie accepts that death is inevitable

o   Maturity evolves—asks WHY does it happen?

How did God/Death try to punish them for seeing?

·      Eyes were open, they died with their eyes open

·      Inappropriate respect for God and Death

o   Tried to find too many answers

o   Tower of Babble.

Gossip Motif

·      Janie doesn’t want people gossiping and talking about her even though she has evolved.

·      “Their tongues were cocked and loaded, the only real weapon left to weak folks” (186).

·      “It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding” (188).

Quotations

·      “God made it so you spent yo ole age first wid somebody else, and saved up yo young girl days to spend wid me” (181).

o   Hurston’s view on youth?-

§  A mindset- age/youth is dependent on who you are with

Debate Time!

Feminist Side-

·      Not common for women to stand up for themselves during the time period

·      She outlives all of her husbands and virtually have no faults except for her beauty.

·      Stands up for herself against Logan (pg 31) and against Jody (pg 79).

o   “When you pull down yo britches you look like da change of life”

Non Feminist Side-

·      She only wore blue because TC liked her in it

o   Identity changes every time she has a new realationship

o   Depends on a man to identify herself

o   Goes with the flow- male voice

·      Janie was never on a lower then men, never higher then men.

o   She thought she was equal but no she never really was

·      TC beat her up, never raised her hand against him

·      Pg 71- men have to speak for women because they have no brain

·      TC posses Jaine- got her from a house- uses possessive diction

·      Was originally hiding from Jody, had to crawl away from him

o   Abuse

·      Relationship with TC was more detrimental than reviving.

Questions

How would a woman’s dreams be attained if it was not a feminist novel?

·      Women’s dreams change with surroundings and she must conform,

o   She must shoot her dream (TC), relies on other people for happiness

If Janie had such a voice in her marriage why would she run away?

End Debate

3 Minute Supplemental Teaching

Page 193 last 4 sentences- allusion to Hindu Indra’s Net

Process of reflection is infinite.

Interconnectedness of all things

·      When any jewel is touched, so is every other jewel in the net- the brightening of one jewel brightens all other jewels

However, there is a lack of individuality-

·      Every node or individual reflects the surrounding nodes or individuals – represents mirror like nature of mind.

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

1-17-13 TEWWG

Chapters 10-13 

Chap 10:

The Ball Game- represents Town unity/how Janie and Tea Cake don't quite fit in.

Tea Cake- youthful, very humorous (except for page 95), mysterious, unconventional view to life. 

Motifs: self-expression, economic class, dreams. 

Later in chapter focuses on Tea Cake/ Janie interactions, she gradually releases. 

Chap 11:

bonds with Tea Cake- indulges (new experiences)

rebirth

loves her for herself 

hair- dandrift=affection (pg 103)

Hurston- anthropology work- primal life- growing affection

Chap 12:

-tells phoebe she's running off

-blue (pg 110,113) 

-not following 'mourning rules'  

-how is Tea Cake different from Jody? 

^Is it because he really cares for her and her wishes, unlike Jody. 

-class issues 

^Pheobe discusses (pg 112) Janie should not be with TC because he is in the lower class, who Jody should not want her to associate with. 

female dreams: Pheobe tries to ground Jamie when she is in love with female realism. Jamie is in a male dream because she thinks her marriage will be perfect (example 113). Phoebe describes from female. 

Chapter 13:

-running away with TC

-Color Blue: her rebirth 

-Janie wants to forget her past

-Mrs. Tyler: struggling with her age and self image

-Pg 20: dialect has appeared into narration

-class issues: struggling with equality in relationship. 

-Did activity answering questions about books and each group stating what their opinion was. 

1/16 Notes

-Read packet by next wed. and make questions

-Imagery Paper
-is experience connected to imagery
-parallelism in sentence structure
-thesis with 3 ideas
-70 (image) / 30 (experience)
-at least 3 senses

-Poetic Style in Paper
-easier to pick up on the emotions they were trying to portray and gives you a range for what you are trying to discuss
-easier to communicate with images with complicated ideas
-allowed for a depth in the paper through the imagery
-was frustrating when the images are repeating and you want them to vary or the exact emotion
-you can understand more in TEWWG because of the imagery, even if you hadn’t had the life experiences yet
-”mind pictures” are worth 1000 words
-hard to maintain your story to the image without stretching
-explores past basic emotions
-less stereotyped

TEWWG Lesson

-Page 10-11
-experience and then blossoming imagery - puberty, “buds”, “blossoms”, “snowy virginity of bloom”, really she is talking about flowers but metaphorically she can be talking about a developing maturity
-the feeling has been there forever “forgotten flute song”, but now it is coming up in her life
-movement from body terms to tree terms
-Deep images and words
-This page is not just an image - there is flower diction but also sexual diction
-Final connection is to a marriage, natural cycle to a bigger concept
-Janie has her sexual awakening under the tree, literally, new feelings and thoughts

-Imagery in ch. 4-9 about Janie and Jody

January 14, Quinn, Catherine, and Sharon Notes

Chapter 5

• Pg 50-”Basket full of feelings”
• Power goes to those who take and not deserve
• Didn’t know anything different
• Paradox cycle, shaped by expectations--contribute to them
• Influence/ power over
• Town light shining  
• Light=eyes of God, he is watching over bearing
• Lamppost-Showed existence wasn’t anything before Jody
• Christianity-God & Masculine

Chapter 6

• Quick change of judgement (mule & woman) 
• Jokes and games, porch=human nature
• Conformity, follows Jody the mayor
• Climb later to top of the ladder to put others down to make yourself better
• Doesn’t talk much-voice still lost
• Deserves better

Chapter 7

• Refusing to acknowledge Jody 
• Tricked her? 
• Honeymoon phase ended-shattering glass
• 5 signs of abusive relationship
• Jody-similar to Nanny? 
• Protected her, look like Nanny didn’t listen 

Chapter 8/9

• Growing older + intelligent = maturity
• Women not allowed jealousy but man allowed
• Whenever Janie speaks out to someone that person dies
• People get hurt when she asserts her independence 
• Is not a feminist novel 
• Her attempts to independence fails 
• Independence bad? Or good

Notes: How It Feels to Be Colored Me

How It Feels to Be Colored Me                                                           11 January 2013

·      Paints jazz in a very savage manner (tone)

o   Renaissance artists trying to get away from animalistic view

o   Reinforcing racism

·      Hurston reminds us of Janie

o   Recognition of colored self

§  Seeing a picture/hearing yourself

o   Finding identity through voice (power and silence)  

o   Identity by hair

§  Racial genes: noticing it because it’s different

§  Identifies her as a woman and a biracial

·      Thought she was white, until she finds out she’s not

·      People in Eatonville classify her as not black

·      What does she identify as? Does she have a choice?

·      “I have no race, I am me”

o   Labels lose identity OR strengthen

§  In the minority? Fitting in one place or another?

§  Gender/biological sex is a continuum

·      Think of a time you were in a minority

o   Did you sensor yourself? What would you say? What would you keep to yourself? Edit outer behavior?

o   Society cannot sensor your thoughts

§  Me that is colorless (label)

§  Me that is religion-less (label)

§  “I am me.” (no label)

·      Don’t need to explain or label

·      Title

o   It’s not about being able to label

o   The purpose is to recognize labels and that they do not necessarily make anyone similar or different on the inside

o   We exist in an outer superficial world, but we cannot asses the mind and the thoughts of people based on labels that society puts upon them

o   Takes a deep conversation to understand

§  Removes “us” from us

o   Willingness to wrestle with inner thoughts and opinions