Post by Megan Carazolez on Sept 20, 2012 10:56:55 GMT -5
1: Janie seems to have had a very tough childhood that then evolved in to a difficult adulthood. She depended on her grandmother to take care of her all throughout her life. Her grandmother was pretty harsh on her, and always wanted to her to marry for money and not for love.
2: By Hurston using her hometown as the setting for her book she was able to accurately depict the people and the character of the people in her book. She knows how people in her hometown would act and talk, so she could be confident in her writing by using something familiar.
3: Something in between, Nanny wants her to marry a man that has money, someone who she believes would be able to take care of her. Its pure of her to want her granddaughter to be taken care or, so she doesn't have to worry about her, but marry is usually done out of love, not money. So, if Janie married for money she would be marrying for the wrong reasons.
4: African Americans could of had a negative response due to the fact that they might have not liked the way they were being represented in her book. The book showcases blacks as being uneducated and lacking intelligence.
5: The dialect of the book, Janie's entire persona, who she is. The ways she talks, acts, is something that may have created a bad judgement when it came to other African Americans.
6: The chapters start of somewhat, not necessarily positive, but not negative. Just, average, happy, and stress free. As you continue on in the reading, the tone seems to drop into a darker, more stressed one. Problems start to arise, Janie's seems to be pressured and stress and that where the tone starts to go as well.
7: There are many diffident things that Hurston uses to set the tone of the book. How Hurston describes her childhood in great detail sets a semi-depressive tone early on in the book. Janie's depressing childhood then progresses into a depressive and stressful adulthood. Seeing as these things set a pretty depressed tone, Hurston goes farther into that tone by then having Nanny die, which was the last thing that Janie needed happening to her, seeing as her life was already tragic as it was.
8: Joe is like Janies only escape, he is what she always wanted out of a man, but never really dreamed possible. He was her way out of a abusive relationship that she was not happy in, she wanted out and Joe was that way out. This was her chance to make a decision that was all her ow, and not influenced by someone else.
2: By Hurston using her hometown as the setting for her book she was able to accurately depict the people and the character of the people in her book. She knows how people in her hometown would act and talk, so she could be confident in her writing by using something familiar.
3: Something in between, Nanny wants her to marry a man that has money, someone who she believes would be able to take care of her. Its pure of her to want her granddaughter to be taken care or, so she doesn't have to worry about her, but marry is usually done out of love, not money. So, if Janie married for money she would be marrying for the wrong reasons.
4: African Americans could of had a negative response due to the fact that they might have not liked the way they were being represented in her book. The book showcases blacks as being uneducated and lacking intelligence.
5: The dialect of the book, Janie's entire persona, who she is. The ways she talks, acts, is something that may have created a bad judgement when it came to other African Americans.
6: The chapters start of somewhat, not necessarily positive, but not negative. Just, average, happy, and stress free. As you continue on in the reading, the tone seems to drop into a darker, more stressed one. Problems start to arise, Janie's seems to be pressured and stress and that where the tone starts to go as well.
7: There are many diffident things that Hurston uses to set the tone of the book. How Hurston describes her childhood in great detail sets a semi-depressive tone early on in the book. Janie's depressing childhood then progresses into a depressive and stressful adulthood. Seeing as these things set a pretty depressed tone, Hurston goes farther into that tone by then having Nanny die, which was the last thing that Janie needed happening to her, seeing as her life was already tragic as it was.
8: Joe is like Janies only escape, he is what she always wanted out of a man, but never really dreamed possible. He was her way out of a abusive relationship that she was not happy in, she wanted out and Joe was that way out. This was her chance to make a decision that was all her ow, and not influenced by someone else.