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Entries from December 2008

Their Eyes Were Watching God

December 21st, 2008 · No Comments

So Ah’m back home again and Ah’m satisfied to be here . Ah done been to tuh the horizon and back and now Ah can set heah in mah house and live by comparisons.
As soon as I read this quote which is located on page 191 an image of Gatsby looking at the green light [...]

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Their Eyes were watching god

December 21st, 2008 · No Comments

I have recently been reading the news,but all that I am noticing is that there is so many things wrong with this world. For example there are so many wars, there are so many people dying, and diseases killing people, basically our world is a mess. And through all this I have to wonder where [...]

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Chapters 11-13

December 15th, 2008 · No Comments

In these few chapters Janie once again marries another man, but this time it isn’t for money or any material position. This time Tea Cake represents something she hasn’t had in many years Tea Cake represents change but most of all freedom. And it is this freedom that makes Janie fall in love with Tea [...]

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Chapters 6,7

December 10th, 2008 · No Comments

At first I thought that Chapter six had nothing of significant importance. But after I reread it I noticed that the free mule could symbolize the free blacks. The thing that made me realize this is how Jody is compared to LIncoln and other great heroes. And then the whole mule part of the story [...]

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Their eyes were watching god chapters 3-5

December 9th, 2008 · No Comments

In these few chapters Janie is victim to bad relationships. And what Hurston is trying to show in these relationships is that there needs to be true love in order for a relationship to succeed. For example even if Logan spoils her, there is no chemistry between them; Janie was forced onto him. And then [...]

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their eyes were watching god

December 7th, 2008 · No Comments

I don’t mind the language at all I got used to it. And I feel that it adds meaning to the book and to the words that are spoken. I admit that in Chapter one it tool me a while to get used to the language, I had to read a few sentences over, but [...]

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