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Essay Questions (from previous Paper 2 exams)…you will get two of these questions on your exam (and then you'll be choosing one from those two):

1. A narrator may be close to, or even part of, the action in a work of fiction, or distant in time and/or space. What is the effect of either the closeness or distance of narrators in two of the works you have studied?

2. Discuss the means by which authors endeavor to control our sympathy in two of the works you have studied.

3. “Successful characterization involves taking the reader to the heart, to the inner core, of an imagined person.” In two of the works in your study, discuss by what means and with what degree of success authors have tried to “take you to the heart” of their characters.

4. If one of the roles of literature is to provide insight into human nature, by what techniques and to what degree do two of the novels you have studied offer such insight?

5. We often talk of characters arriving at some moment of epiphany; with reference to two of the works you've studied analyze the means by which our attention is drawn to these moments and the impact within the novel.

6. Discuss the importance of the journey as an organizing structure in two of the works you've studied.

7. It is said that writers are the conscience of the world. In what ways have two of the works you've studied encouraged you to appreciate or question this assertion?

8. “Art is a lie that makes us realise the truth.” Discuss two of the works you've studied in light of this statement and explain how far you agree with it.

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https://padlet.com/abbi8cheese/xzvyegnwat1b

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"Every morning thw world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun" (51) [begining of the 6th chapter]

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"Every morning thw world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun" (51) [begining of the 6th chapter]

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"He drifted off into sleep and Janie looked down and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place" (122).

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"He drifted off into sleep and Janie looked down and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place" (122).

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"..and said 'our beloved Mayor' it was one of those statements that everyone says buy nobody actually believes like 'God is everywhere'" (48)

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"..and said 'our beloved Mayor' it was one of those statements that everyone says buy nobody actually believes like 'God is everywhere'" (48)

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"it is a liitle dark right long heah" (44)

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"it is a liitle dark right long heah" (44)

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is is italicized

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janie in refrence to joe cutting her off from the speech

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"Mah wife don't know nothin' 'bout no speech-makin'. ah never married her for nothin' lak dat. she's uh woman and her place is in de home. Janie made her face laugh after a shoer pause, but it wasnt easy" (43)

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"Mah wife don't know nothin' 'bout no speech-makin'. ah never married her for nothin' lak dat. she's uh woman and her place is in de home. Janie made her face laugh after a shoer pause, but it wasnt easy" (43)

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aint it obvi? jody a rude boi

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The image of the mule first appears when Nanny tells Janie that black women are the mules of the earth, meaning that they are the lowest creatures, used by others. It then appears again when Logan Killicks goes to buy a mule for Janie to use when working behind a plow; his forceful attempt to make Janie work makes her feel as though she herself is being treated as an animal. Finally, the mule reappears once again when the townspeople of Eatonville make fun of Matt Bonner's sad looking mule, which Janie pities. When Jody purchases the mule to appease Janie's sense of pity for it, the town regards Jody as a savior and adopts the freed mule as a kind of emblem. Throughout the novel, the mule symbolizes victimization, a theme that appears throughout the novel in various ways.

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Tea Cake invites Janie to play checkers when they first meet, making Janie feel equal in power to a man she is interested in for the first time in her life. The game of checkers symbolizes the way in which Tea Cake establishes a new romantic dynamic with Janie that allows her to find a voice and feel empowered – it is a relationship that is completely different from that which she shared with her previous husbands. The game of checkers places Janie in an equal position to her lover and symbolizes Tea Cake's fun-loving, playful worldview that excites and enlivens Janie's life. However, in checkers there is potential for cheating, showing the dangerous side of such a fun-loving approach to life, that ultimately brings upon Tea Cake's death in his decision to remain in the muck during the hurricane.

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"Isaac and rebecca at de well, else it don't show de love between 'em if you don't" 

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"Isaac and rebecca at de well, else it don't show de love between 'em if you don't" 

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About a speach for jody becoming mayor, irony about lack of love.

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Discussing the town lot before the town

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"Janie dipped up the lemonade like he told her. A big tin cup full for everyone" (41)

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"Janie dipped up the lemonade like he told her. A big tin cup full for everyone" (41)

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"Jody told her to dress up and stand in the store all that evening. Everybody was coming sort of fixed up, and he didn't mean for nobody else's wife to rank with her. She must look on herself as the bell-cow, the other women were the gang." (41)

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"Jody told her to dress up and stand in the store all that evening. Everybody was coming sort of fixed up, and he didn't mean for nobody else's wife to rank with her. She must look on herself as the bell-cow, the other women were the gang." (41)

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jody objectify and minimalizes Janie's abilities and worth

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To Janie, the horizon symbolizes the realm of the possible. During her arranged marriage with Logan Killicks, Janie remarks that the stylish and ambitious Jody Starks shows her a glimpse of the horizon, meaning that he provides her with a vision of what her life could be like. Though after Jody turns out to treat Janie poorly and stifle her voice, it is Tea Cake who ultimately provides Janie with access to the horizon: in her marriage with Tea Cake, Janie is able to find love, sexual satisfaction, independence, and self-expression all at once, that which she has always dreamed of. For that reason, even after Tea Cakes death, Janie feels that she still has and always will have access to the metaphorical horizon.

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Janie has her first experience of sexual awakening under the blooming pear tree in spring, just before her first kiss with Johnny Taylor. Throughout the novel, the pear tree symbolizes for Janie the feeling she experienced directly while sitting beneath it – the sense of possibility in life for a connection between the self and the natural world, and the feelings of sexual desire and love. Janie's confliction between sexual desire and marriage is an idea that is eventually debunked for Janie by her experiences with Jody but is reinvigorated when she meets Tea Cake and finds that her marriage to him allows room for both sexual fulfillment and love.

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"The morning road air was like a new dress. That made herfeel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung iton a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowersand making a bouquet. After that she came to where Joe Starkswas waiting for her with a hired rig. He was very solemn andhelped her to the seat beside him. With him on it, it sat likesome high, ruling chair. From now on until death she was goingto have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything. Abee for her bloom. Her old thoughts were going to come inhandy now, but new words would have to be made and said tofit them" (31)

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"The morning road air was like a new dress. That made herfeel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung iton a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowersand making a bouquet. After that she came to where Joe Starkswas waiting for her with a hired rig. He was very solemn andhelped her to the seat beside him. With him on it, it sat likesome high, ruling chair. From now on until death she was goingto have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything. Abee for her bloom. Her old thoughts were going to come inhandy now, but new words would have to be made and said tofit them" (31)

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- iimportant part of bee/springtime/flower motif
- again consanance and alliteration adds rhythm

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"Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon. He spoke for change and chance. Still she hung back" (28).

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"Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon. He spoke for change and chance. Still she hung back" (28).

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"The familiar people and things had failed herso she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards wayoff. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's firstdream was dead, so she became a woman" (24).

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"The familiar people and things had failed herso she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards wayoff. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's firstdream was dead, so she became a woman" (24).

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- Ties back to first passage about boats and dreams
-gate as a symbol (seen in the quote under this one about waiting by the gate), she's behind the gate, can't get to what she wants
- consanance adds rhythm to this, "familiar" and "failed", "knew now", "dream" and "dead"

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"Ah don't want yo' feathers always crumpled by folks throwin' up things in yo' face. And Ah can't die easy thinkin' maybe de menfolks white or black is makin' a spit cup outa you: Have some sympathy fuh me. Put me down easy, Janie, Ah'm a cracked plate" 19)

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"Ah don't want yo' feathers always crumpled by folks throwin' up things in yo' face. And Ah can't die easy thinkin' maybe de menfolks white or black is makin' a spit cup outa you: Have some sympathy fuh me. Put me down easy, Janie, Ah'm a cracked plate" 19)

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-I don't have a ton to say about this rn but this feels very important...especially the last line, put me down easy, im a cracked plate

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The fact that Tea Cake is introduced like halfway through the novel keeps the reader engaged...we know from the start that he was the last one with Janie, meaning that at some point her life changes. The reader keeps watching and waiting for Tea Cake, also watching and waiting to see how he "goes"... does he leave her? cheat on her? die?

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The fact that Tea Cake is introduced like halfway through the novel keeps the reader engaged...we know from the start that he was the last one with Janie, meaning that at some point her life changes. The reader keeps watching and waiting for Tea Cake, also watching and waiting to see how he "goes"... does he leave her? cheat on her? die?

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"The vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the pear tree,but Janie didn't know how to tell Nanny that. She merelyhunched over and pouted at the floor" (13).

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"The vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the pear tree,but Janie didn't know how to tell Nanny that. She merelyhunched over and pouted at the floor" (13).

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- TREE MOTIF
- foreshadow- we already know this wont go well...especially bc we hear about Tea Cake in the opening...causes reader to question and also piques interest...who is this Logan guy? Does he somehow become Tea Cake? Does Janie cheat on him?

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"She was sixteen. She had glossy leaves andbursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed toelude her. Where were the singing bees for her? Nothing on theplace nor in her grandma's house answered her" (11).

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"She was sixteen. She had glossy leaves andbursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed toelude her. Where were the singing bees for her? Nothing on theplace nor in her grandma's house answered her" (11).

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-Springtime motif, represents growth and potential, there's so much ready to bloom inside Janie
- "bursting buds"
- Maybe ties in with idea of heroes journey, she needs to go on this "quest" in order to understand life and love

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"Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered,things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was inthe branches" (8).

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"Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered,things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was inthe branches" (8).

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- tree motif, springtime motif (a tree "in leaf)
- repetition of "d" sounds

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Many colloquial sayings and figures of speech

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Many colloquial sayings and figures of speech

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"...you switches a mean fanny round in a kitchen" (5)
"If God don't think no mo' 'bout 'em than Ah do, they's a lost ball in de high grass" (5)
"...mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf" (6)
"Unless you see de fur, a mink skin ain't no different from a coon hide" (7)
(there are many more thats just as far as i'll put up)

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In addition to the questions for HOD, these four are potential for the comparative essay next Thursday

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In addition to the questions for HOD, these four are potential for the comparative essay next Thursday

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1. A narrator may be close to, or even part of, the action in a work of fiction, or distant in time and/or space. What is the effect of either the closeness or distance of narrators in two of the works you have studied?

2. Discuss the means by which authors endeavor to control our sympathy in two of the works you have studied.

3. “Successful characterization involves taking the reader to the heart, to the inner core, of an imagined person.” In two of the works in your study, discuss by what means and with what degree of success authors have tried to “take you to the heart” of their characters.

4. If one of the roles of literature is to provide insight into human nature, by what techniques and to what degree do two of the novels you have studied offer such insight? (I highlighted this one to help me remember i like it)

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https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/bible-stories/2/isaac-and-rebekah/

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Jody was her second husband and seemed to be a dream at first but soon became more ambitious than loving.

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Janie's first husband, an arranged marriage by Nanny to secure Janie's financial future. He wooed her for a year with gifts and sweet talk before he put her to work on the farm. After a while, she feels unloved and like a farm animal and runs away.

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Jody is Janie's grandmother, and She has a strong sense of financial security, partially due to her experiences as a slave. Nanny has an old-fashioned view of respectability which foils Janie's Independence. Nanny raised Janie and was a mother figure.

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Black but white-like/ straight long hair.she is strong, independent and wants to explore the world. She is too big for many of the places she finds. the story focuses on Janie as she searches for her dream and spiritual enlightenment. Janie's voice and dialogue are very important in explaining character development. She doesn't conform to social norms which can be seen early on by her wearing overalls and not a dress. She is very noticed by men for her beauty.

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Quizlet with list of vocab from the book

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Quizlet with list of vocab from the book

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https://quizlet.com/46973687/their-eyes-were-watching-god-vocabulary-list-flash-cards/

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Zigaboo: offensive slur, slang for black person

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Zigaboo: offensive slur, slang for black person

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(exempt chris)

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"So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and anorange time. But when the pollen again gilded the sun and sifteddown on the world she began to stand around the gate andexpect things. What things? She didn't know exactly" (23).

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"So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and anorange time. But when the pollen again gilded the sun and sifteddown on the world she began to stand around the gate andexpect things. What things? She didn't know exactly" (23).

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-nature/ springtime/ blooming motif
-again enforcing Janie's potential...shes destined for greatness but she doesnt know how or what