Teresa Chacon

[Juan Jaimez]

@ Crystal Ruiz

I find your responses really insightful and some what similar to mine. I did not add the negative slur to the reasons why black critics did not like the book, didn't catch it. Good job on pointing that out though, that's a really good reason to dislike something. I do agree that there is a longing feeling to be loved throughout the story so far, but I feel that an oppressed feeling is more dominant in the story.

[isaiah cortez]

1) janie had made an appearance after she had been gone for along time with a man, and even worst she came back looking like a beggar in dirty overalls. Her neighbors obviously do not like her but one of tJhe main reasons why is because she was with a man who was about 10 years younger
2) Hurston’s use of dialect in the story implies that she had either grew up in the time of her novel, and Jamie is probably based on a character in her own life
3) Nanny believes that love is supposed to be like it is in fairy tales. Nanny believes that love comes after marriage when couples learn to love each other. Nanny wants Janie to have a partner so that in case anything happens to her she can be taken care of.
4) Black people of our time may have been offended after looking at their portrayal in this book. women also would have been offended after being described as gossiping women
5) The parallel in the story is that black kids were jealous of her for having nice things that they have never seen black kids have before.
6) I think that Janie’s tone is saddened, she acts as if she never has enough she constantly wants more and more but does not know what she wants exactly.
7) The tree in the story plays a big role because it grows strong and strait the same as love does
8) Joe represents the pear tree, he represents aspirations and determination, and love that she has always wnated