Post by Juan Jaimez on Sept 18, 2012 15:05:55 GMT -5
1. Janie appears to be a modest, reserved girl. She has a yearning for love and is desperately trying to find it. I think the only reason why she was relentlessly trying to attain love was because she never received the love of her true mother and father as a little child.
2. Hurston gives the setting a more intimate feeling by placing her protagonist in Eatonville, Florida, Hurston's hometown.
3. Hurston reveals Nanny's motivation for forcing Janie to marry through a conversation in which Nanny tells Janie that she does not want her to be sad and suffer the same woes as she did when she was younger. Nanny wants to protect Janie, but by forcing her to marry with someone she does not want to be with will cause her to be sad because she wants to be with someone she loves, not someone she is supposed to love.
4. I believe that the black community and critics harshly criticized Hurston's work because of the prominent Southern dialect.
5. When Janie was younger, she used to be teased about her appearance by other little girls. Now, Janie is gossiped about by older black women because she has a body that they no longer have and are envious with that.
6. The story, so far has an oppressed tone.
7. Janie not being allowed to marry someone she wants, the tormenting and teasing that Janie suffered during her childhood, all of these details help develop and support the tone of the story so far.
8. Joe Starks represents hope to Janie. She sees him as an opportunity to actually find love.
2. Hurston gives the setting a more intimate feeling by placing her protagonist in Eatonville, Florida, Hurston's hometown.
3. Hurston reveals Nanny's motivation for forcing Janie to marry through a conversation in which Nanny tells Janie that she does not want her to be sad and suffer the same woes as she did when she was younger. Nanny wants to protect Janie, but by forcing her to marry with someone she does not want to be with will cause her to be sad because she wants to be with someone she loves, not someone she is supposed to love.
4. I believe that the black community and critics harshly criticized Hurston's work because of the prominent Southern dialect.
5. When Janie was younger, she used to be teased about her appearance by other little girls. Now, Janie is gossiped about by older black women because she has a body that they no longer have and are envious with that.
6. The story, so far has an oppressed tone.
7. Janie not being allowed to marry someone she wants, the tormenting and teasing that Janie suffered during her childhood, all of these details help develop and support the tone of the story so far.
8. Joe Starks represents hope to Janie. She sees him as an opportunity to actually find love.