Journal #2 (Analytic): Pick a passage from your reading (between one paragraph and half a page). Copy the passage onto your blog and make a list of the decisions that Hurston made in writing that passage. What techniques, what patterns, what questions, what tone, what word choice, etc.
"It was a spring afternoon in West Florida. Jamie had spent most of the day under a blossoming pear tree in the backyard. She had been spending every minute that she could steal from her chores under that tree for the last three days. That was to say, ever since the first tiny bloom had opened. It had called her to came and gaze on a mystery. From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom. It stirred her tremendously. How? Why? It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep. It connected itself with other vaguely felt matters that had struck her outside observation and hurried themselves in her flesh. Now they emerged and questioned about her consciousness."
This passage is written in third omniscient because the narator is talking about Janie and her inner feelings. I think the blossoming pear tree relates to Janie because she to is blossoming. Maybe the pear tree also symbolises God or a higher being because she is so captivated by it, it is almost like it is trying to talk to her or tell her something important. The blossoming leaves foreshadow the rest of the book because Janie is also growing throughout the book. The singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears could also maybe be God. The rose of the world that was breathing out smell: this is a cool sentence because it uses verbs that you wouldn't think of using to describe smell. It is a personification of the roses and again referencing the higher being. The last sentence, Now they emerged and quested about her consciousness, could mean that the blossoming tree is what caused her to start thinking about herself and what she wants to do, pulling her out of an unconscious way of life that a lot of people live in. The pear tree caused her to question life in ways she hadn't before.
"It was a spring afternoon in West Florida. Jamie had spent most of the day under a blossoming pear tree in the backyard. She had been spending every minute that she could steal from her chores under that tree for the last three days. That was to say, ever since the first tiny bloom had opened. It had called her to came and gaze on a mystery. From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom. It stirred her tremendously. How? Why? It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep. It connected itself with other vaguely felt matters that had struck her outside observation and hurried themselves in her flesh. Now they emerged and questioned about her consciousness."
This passage is written in third omniscient because the narator is talking about Janie and her inner feelings. I think the blossoming pear tree relates to Janie because she to is blossoming. Maybe the pear tree also symbolises God or a higher being because she is so captivated by it, it is almost like it is trying to talk to her or tell her something important. The blossoming leaves foreshadow the rest of the book because Janie is also growing throughout the book. The singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears could also maybe be God. The rose of the world that was breathing out smell: this is a cool sentence because it uses verbs that you wouldn't think of using to describe smell. It is a personification of the roses and again referencing the higher being. The last sentence, Now they emerged and quested about her consciousness, could mean that the blossoming tree is what caused her to start thinking about herself and what she wants to do, pulling her out of an unconscious way of life that a lot of people live in. The pear tree caused her to question life in ways she hadn't before.
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