Write out your chapter's assigned theme(s); then, write each quotation, and--using MLA, parenthetical citation--cite each quotation.
At the end of this blog post, we should have a bank of useful quotations to discuss and use later from the novel.
Be sure to include each group member's initials at the end of the post for full credit.
-symbolism of Janie's checkers game with Tea Cake
ReplyDelete"He set it up and began to show her and she found herself glowing inside. Somebody wanted her to play... He was jumping her king!"(95-96)
-Foreshadowing of Janie's future with Tea Cake
"Seemed as if she has known him all her life. Look how she has been able to talk with him right off!"(99)
BP and AI
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ReplyDelete- "The rich black earth clinging to bodies and biting the skin like ants"(131)
- "Tea Cake's house was a magnet, the unauthorized center of the "job". The way he would sit in the doorway and play his guitar made people stop and listen and maybe disappoint the jook for the night. he was always laughing and full of fun too"(132
Sometimes Janie would think of the old days in the big white house and the store and laugh to herself(134)
- "Then Tea Cake would help get supper afterwards"(133)
- "only here, she could listen and laugh and even talk some herself if she wanted to"(134)
Betsy and Kelly
THE ROLE OF DOUBT (PG.117)
ReplyDelete"Janie never told him about the two hundred dollars she had pinned inside her shirt next to her skin. Pheoby had insisted that she bring it along and keep it a secret just to be on the safe side."
Who Flung and Annie Tyler symbolize Janie and Tea Cake
"Who Flung had taken her to a shabby room in a shabby house in a shabby street and promised to marry her the next day. They stayed in the room for two whole days then she woke up to find Who Flung and her money gone." (119)
Gambling (125)
"And honey, don't worry 'bout yo' lil ole two hundred dollars...ah'm gointuh take dis twelve dollars in mah pocket and win it all back and mo'."
"You done married one of the best gamblers God ever made."
Team Work and Unity (128)
"From now on, you gointuh eat whatever my money can buy yuh and wear da same. When i aint got nothin' you don't git nothin'."
"Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place."
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Chapter 11:
ReplyDelete-similes/figurative language on page 102
"It was so crazy digging worms by lamp light and setting out for Lake Sabelia after midnight that she felt like a child break the rules."(102).
-role of the 3rd person narration/voice on page 105
3rd person selected
"At the newel post Janie whirled around and for the space of thought she was lot up like a transfiguration."(105).
-Nature/Pear tree imagery on pages 106-107
"He could be a bee to a blossom -- a pear tree blossom in the spring."(107).
-Personification of doubt on page 108
"In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specially sent to lovers arrived at Janie's ear."(108).
-Metaphor on page 109
"'You got de keys to de kingdom.'"(109).
10: solid
ReplyDelete11: "He looked like the love thoughts of women" (106).
12: re-type, ?
13: solid
14: solid
**need to find examples of 3rd person omniscient narration taking on Janie's conscience or the town's conscience**