Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Beverly hills chicago
They walk around like they run the whole school. they are trashy, filthy, have no sense of style, but yet think that they are unique in their ways, fights, violence, and revenge is what they believe in.but yet they are still so highly commended.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Their eyes Were Watching God Analysis Quote/Essay!!!!!! The Pear Tree!!!!!!!!!!!
In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston exemplifies the troubles of love and a person’s self awakening through the protagonist Janie. Janie has three relationships in her life, all of which teach her something about herself. This expedition through life ultimately determines the tragic fate and self-discovery that awaits her. Although others try to alter Janie’s path in existence, Hurston uses the pear tree imagery to show Janie’s own commencement, journey, and discovery in life.
Janie’s life commences when she is lying under the blossoming pear tree at her grandmother’s house. When Janie views the tree passively wait for the aggressive male bee to penetrate its flowers, she concludes that this is the role that should be taken when it comes to love. Janie comes to the realization of what true love should look like. The woman should wait for the man to come, but the love embrace should be reciprocal. The pear tree shows this to Janie, “the thousand sister calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree…” (Hurston 11) Janie realizes that she wants a male identity to complement her identity, creating a perfect union in mutual embrace. At this point in time, Janie sees her ideal relationship in the distance, and wants nothing else but to obtain it. On the other hand, Nanny feels that relationships are meant to give shelter and offer security, and are not meant to be about this so called, “true love”. Only wanting the best for Janie, she tries to hold Janie back from achieving Janie’s own sense of self discovery by setting her up with someone who could fulfill Nanny’s ideals. With this first obstacle in place, Janie needed to find a way around her awful relationship with Logan Killicks.
Janie’s journey throughout her life is full of difficulty and it only begins with Logan Killicks. Janie obviously wants something more out of her relationship with Logan, “The vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the pear tree…” (Hurston 14) Janie is yearning to capture the moment she saw with the pear tree for herself. She is searching for more fulfillment than she has; one that offers both physical passion and emotional connection. Janie feels no connection whatsoever with Logan, “Ah’d ruther be shot wid tacks than tuh turn over in de bed and stir up de air whilst he is in dere. He don’t even never mention nothin’ pretty.” (Hurston 24) Without this connection, Janie hopes that her marriage will create the love she is looking for, “Did marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the unmated? Did marriage compel love like the sun the day?” (Hurston 21) Janie soon learns though, that the title of a marriage does not evoke feelings between people. The only way she will grasp these feelings is with true love. Nanny and Logan both try to keep the relationship alive, but Janie learns to listen to her heart. She states, “Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. Ah…” (Hurston 24) The pear tree is obviously still in Janie’s mind, and she wants to complete this idealistic relationship by finding the man who will complement her completely. When Janie finally leaves Logan for Jody, she feels as though she has finally found her true love, “From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything. A bee for her bloom.” Jody treats her like a lady, unlike Logan, and she finally feels appreciated and loved. Even though Janie has these emotions initially, by the end of their marriage, Janie feels as though Jody never lets her speak her mind, or express her opinions.
Janie’s discovery takes her the entirety of the novel to determine. Janie believes that she has found her “soul mate” when she finds Tea Cake. Their relationship is reciprocal such as the pear tree and the bee, and it finally makes Janie happy. Tea Cake is the only man she has met who wanted to play checkers with her as an equal and she respects this. Her previous two relationships made her feel as though anyone could take her place as Logan or Jody’s wife. Tea Cake on the other hand makes her feel special. “She couldn’t make him look just like any other man to her. He looked like the love thoughts of women. He could be a bee to a blossom-a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs were every step he took.” (Hurston 106) Janie returns back to the pear tree imagery because she again feels as though she has found true love. Janie has journeyed enough in her life to realize that Tea Cake is the man that will finally make her happy, and completely fill her ideals of the pear tree. Even when Janie feels another girl is flirting with Tea Cake he states, “Whut would Ah do wid dat lil chunk of a woman wid you around? She ain’t good for nothin’…You’se something tuh make uh man forgit tuh git old and forgit tuh die.” (Hurston 138) When Tea Cake dies, his legacy still remains with Janie, “He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking.” (Hurston 193) Janie has to put up with the ridicule she receives when she returns to Eatonville, but her self discovery keeps her strong. She has come to the realization that she truly has achieved the unity with nature that she sought so long ago under the pear tree. When she, “pulled in her horizon…” (Hurston 193), it shows the harmony she has finally settled with herself and with nature.
Overall, Hurston uses Janie to show the difficult expedition one has to travel on to find agreement within themselves. Even though others may try to stand in the way, Janie achieves her self awakening through her commencement, journey, and discovery as seen through the pear tree imagery. Everyone should model Janie’s actualization and try to achieve it as so.
Janie’s life commences when she is lying under the blossoming pear tree at her grandmother’s house. When Janie views the tree passively wait for the aggressive male bee to penetrate its flowers, she concludes that this is the role that should be taken when it comes to love. Janie comes to the realization of what true love should look like. The woman should wait for the man to come, but the love embrace should be reciprocal. The pear tree shows this to Janie, “the thousand sister calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree…” (Hurston 11) Janie realizes that she wants a male identity to complement her identity, creating a perfect union in mutual embrace. At this point in time, Janie sees her ideal relationship in the distance, and wants nothing else but to obtain it. On the other hand, Nanny feels that relationships are meant to give shelter and offer security, and are not meant to be about this so called, “true love”. Only wanting the best for Janie, she tries to hold Janie back from achieving Janie’s own sense of self discovery by setting her up with someone who could fulfill Nanny’s ideals. With this first obstacle in place, Janie needed to find a way around her awful relationship with Logan Killicks.
Janie’s journey throughout her life is full of difficulty and it only begins with Logan Killicks. Janie obviously wants something more out of her relationship with Logan, “The vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the pear tree…” (Hurston 14) Janie is yearning to capture the moment she saw with the pear tree for herself. She is searching for more fulfillment than she has; one that offers both physical passion and emotional connection. Janie feels no connection whatsoever with Logan, “Ah’d ruther be shot wid tacks than tuh turn over in de bed and stir up de air whilst he is in dere. He don’t even never mention nothin’ pretty.” (Hurston 24) Without this connection, Janie hopes that her marriage will create the love she is looking for, “Did marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the unmated? Did marriage compel love like the sun the day?” (Hurston 21) Janie soon learns though, that the title of a marriage does not evoke feelings between people. The only way she will grasp these feelings is with true love. Nanny and Logan both try to keep the relationship alive, but Janie learns to listen to her heart. She states, “Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. Ah…” (Hurston 24) The pear tree is obviously still in Janie’s mind, and she wants to complete this idealistic relationship by finding the man who will complement her completely. When Janie finally leaves Logan for Jody, she feels as though she has finally found her true love, “From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything. A bee for her bloom.” Jody treats her like a lady, unlike Logan, and she finally feels appreciated and loved. Even though Janie has these emotions initially, by the end of their marriage, Janie feels as though Jody never lets her speak her mind, or express her opinions.
Janie’s discovery takes her the entirety of the novel to determine. Janie believes that she has found her “soul mate” when she finds Tea Cake. Their relationship is reciprocal such as the pear tree and the bee, and it finally makes Janie happy. Tea Cake is the only man she has met who wanted to play checkers with her as an equal and she respects this. Her previous two relationships made her feel as though anyone could take her place as Logan or Jody’s wife. Tea Cake on the other hand makes her feel special. “She couldn’t make him look just like any other man to her. He looked like the love thoughts of women. He could be a bee to a blossom-a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs were every step he took.” (Hurston 106) Janie returns back to the pear tree imagery because she again feels as though she has found true love. Janie has journeyed enough in her life to realize that Tea Cake is the man that will finally make her happy, and completely fill her ideals of the pear tree. Even when Janie feels another girl is flirting with Tea Cake he states, “Whut would Ah do wid dat lil chunk of a woman wid you around? She ain’t good for nothin’…You’se something tuh make uh man forgit tuh git old and forgit tuh die.” (Hurston 138) When Tea Cake dies, his legacy still remains with Janie, “He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking.” (Hurston 193) Janie has to put up with the ridicule she receives when she returns to Eatonville, but her self discovery keeps her strong. She has come to the realization that she truly has achieved the unity with nature that she sought so long ago under the pear tree. When she, “pulled in her horizon…” (Hurston 193), it shows the harmony she has finally settled with herself and with nature.
Overall, Hurston uses Janie to show the difficult expedition one has to travel on to find agreement within themselves. Even though others may try to stand in the way, Janie achieves her self awakening through her commencement, journey, and discovery as seen through the pear tree imagery. Everyone should model Janie’s actualization and try to achieve it as so.
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