Zora Neale Hurston Scene Response
When Janie responds to Joe's choice pertaining to Matt's donkey, she gives a speech all of the townspeople find remarkable. Joe decided to buy Matt's donkey to put it down because it had been malnourished. As Janie said in her speech it was an act, "...Like George Washington and Lincoln..." She compared Joe to the two presidents in taht he had control of an area so he freed what needed to be freed in that area. The last speech that Janie made, she was denounced for since it hurt Joe's reputation, but this one since she helped Joe she was praised. It goes to explain their relationship further.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
[14]numberfourteen
Zora Neale Hurston quote response.
1. "Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly."
Men react to what's around them. They see oppurtunities as they come and go. To take these oppurtunities is to take a risk. These are the ships that contain wishes. Each oppurtunity will bring you somewhere new but only some will take you to your goals. If the ships aren't boarded then they sail on. Their goals cannot be accomplished since they are not willing to take chances.
Women react on their thoughts and what has happened in the past. They have their judgements and react according to those but their judgements are affected by what they sense regardless of fact. Their instinct is their main source of reaction.
2."[Janie] was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation. Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid."
Janie feels love and concentrates on it, so that is what she begins to see all around her. Her feelings are directly connected with what she thinks about and senses. These feelings are so strong that other things begin to get blocked out. All of her worries are gone because she is not at a place where she needs to focus on them.
1. "Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly."
Men react to what's around them. They see oppurtunities as they come and go. To take these oppurtunities is to take a risk. These are the ships that contain wishes. Each oppurtunity will bring you somewhere new but only some will take you to your goals. If the ships aren't boarded then they sail on. Their goals cannot be accomplished since they are not willing to take chances.
Women react on their thoughts and what has happened in the past. They have their judgements and react according to those but their judgements are affected by what they sense regardless of fact. Their instinct is their main source of reaction.
2."[Janie] was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation. Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid."
Janie feels love and concentrates on it, so that is what she begins to see all around her. Her feelings are directly connected with what she thinks about and senses. These feelings are so strong that other things begin to get blocked out. All of her worries are gone because she is not at a place where she needs to focus on them.
Friday, November 2, 2007
numberthirteen[13]
Huckleberry Finn Quotes.
"So I reckoned I wouldn't bother no more about it, but after this always do whichever comes handiest at the time."
This quote is Huckleberry Finn denouncing organized forms of religion. He decides not to put himself into a group that he might not wish to belong to later on. While Huck is presented between the two groups of the educated and the un-educated. I would argue that he is more on the educated side of things than he thinks because he understands that not every situation is the same, therefore the same reasoning would be obsolete.
"And did young Stephen sicken/ And did young Stephen die?/ And did the sad hearts thicken/ And did the mourners cry?"
I couldn't find another quote that really stood out to me so I am going to respond to the main topic of this one which is escape and death and the relation between the two. I have come to the conclusion that there is no way to escape anything apart from death. While one is still alive, if they try to escape from anything, it will continue to live on either physically in front of them or mentally in their head. It will not cease to bother them until they forget about it or embrace it. If they forget about it, it will continuosly be brought out from the depth of their mind and continue to bother them. Embracing is the only real solution. When they embraced the issue, they would resolve it and it would be put to rest. If they want to get away from it so bad that they cannot embrace it, then death is the only escape, but not only is it escape from the bad it is also escape from the good. As Emerson said, "good and bad are but names". They both exist so they should not be ignored.
"So I reckoned I wouldn't bother no more about it, but after this always do whichever comes handiest at the time."
This quote is Huckleberry Finn denouncing organized forms of religion. He decides not to put himself into a group that he might not wish to belong to later on. While Huck is presented between the two groups of the educated and the un-educated. I would argue that he is more on the educated side of things than he thinks because he understands that not every situation is the same, therefore the same reasoning would be obsolete.
"And did young Stephen sicken/ And did young Stephen die?/ And did the sad hearts thicken/ And did the mourners cry?"
I couldn't find another quote that really stood out to me so I am going to respond to the main topic of this one which is escape and death and the relation between the two. I have come to the conclusion that there is no way to escape anything apart from death. While one is still alive, if they try to escape from anything, it will continue to live on either physically in front of them or mentally in their head. It will not cease to bother them until they forget about it or embrace it. If they forget about it, it will continuosly be brought out from the depth of their mind and continue to bother them. Embracing is the only real solution. When they embraced the issue, they would resolve it and it would be put to rest. If they want to get away from it so bad that they cannot embrace it, then death is the only escape, but not only is it escape from the bad it is also escape from the good. As Emerson said, "good and bad are but names". They both exist so they should not be ignored.
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