Thursday, March 10, 2011
TEWWG Chapters 15-20 Quotations
Please enter what you consider to be the most important quotation--pertaining to the subjects and themes on the handout I gave you--per chapter, from chapters 15-20. Therefore, each of you will enter 6 quotes (1 per chapter) of your choice, with page number after the quote. Write the subject/theme you are covering, and then write the quote with page number. Try to be unique in your quotes, though they will inevitably overlap. Leave your initials at the end of your entry. Thank you!
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Janie's true, lustful love with Tea Cake pg 137
ReplyDelete"They wrestles on until they were doped with their own fumes and emanations; till their clothes had been torn away; till he hurled her to the floor and held her there melting her resistance with the heat of her body, doing things with their bodies to express the inexpressible; kissed her until she arched her body to meet him and they fell asleep in sweet exhaution," (137-138).
class[ing] off on 141
"'If it wuzn't for so many black folks it wouldn't be no race problem. De white folks would take us in wid dem. De black ones is holdin' us back,'" (141).
Teak Cake's abuse of power and literal abuse of Janie on 147-148 (reasoning behind it)
"Before the week was over he (Tea Cake) had whipped Janie. Not because of her behavior justified his jealousy, but it relieved that awful fear inside him. Being able to whip her reassured him in possession. Not brutal beating at all. He just slapped her around to show he was boss," (147).
biblical allusions on 156-157
"... Then everybody but God and Old Peter flew off on a flying race to Jericho and back and John de Conquer won the race; went on down to hell, beat the old devil and passed out ice water to everybody down there..." (157)
personification of death
"And then again Him-with-the-square-toes had gone back to his house. He stood once more and again in his high flat house without sides to it and without a roof with his soulless sword standing upright in his hand. His pale white horse had galloped over waters, and thundered over land," (168).
"Death had found them watching, trying to see beyond seeing," (170).
horizon imagery.resolution.closure.realization of life
"She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see," (193).
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Janie's true, lustful love with Tea Cake on 137
ReplyDelete"They wrestled on until they were doped with their own fumes and emanations; till their clothes had been torn away; till he hurled her to the floor and held her there melting her resistance with the heat of his body, doing things with their bodies to express the inexpressible; kissed her until she arched her body to meet him and they fell asleep in sweet exhaustion" (137-138).
description of Mrs. Turner on 139-140 (race issue?)
"But Mrs. Turner's shape and features were entirely approved by Mrs. Turner. Her nose was sightly pointed and she was proud. Her thin lips were an ever delight to her eyes. Even her buttocks in bas-relief were a source of pride. To her way of thinking all these things set her aside from Negroes" (140).
Turner's verbal abuse of her husband
"What kinda man is you, Turner? You see dese no count niggers come in heah and break up mah place! How kin you set and see yo' wife all trompled on? You ain't no kinda man at all" (152).
personification on top of 167
"Havoc was there with her mouth wide open" (167).
Janie's attire on bottom of 189 (symbolic of relation w/ Tea Cake?)
"No expensive veils and robes for Janie this time. She went on in her overalls" (189).
Janie's advice to Pheoby in middle of 192
"It's uh known fact, Pheoby, you got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo' papa and yo' mama and nobody else can't tell yuh and show yuh. Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves" (192).
15- “She cut him short with a blow and they fought from one room to the other, Janie trying to beat him, and Tea Cake kept holding her wrists and wherever he could to keep her from going too far” (137).
ReplyDelete16 - “Mrs. Turner was a milky sort of woman that belonged to child-bed” (139).
17 - “The way he petter and pampered her as if those two or three face slaps had nearly killed her made the women see visions and the helpless way she hung on him made men dream dreams”(147).
18 - “They huddled closer an stared at the door. They just didn’t use another part of their bodies, and they didn’t look at anything, but the door”(159).
19 - “Death had found them watching, trying to see beyond seeing”(170).
20- “Of course he wasn’t dead. he could never be dead until she herself had finished felling and thinking”(193).
Janie's true, lustful love with Tea Cake (137-138)
ReplyDelete"They wrestled on until they were doped with their own fumes and emanations; till their clothes had been torn away; till he hurled her to the floor and held her there melting her resistance with the heat of his body, doing things with their bodies to express the inexpressible; kissed her until she arched her body to meet him and they fell asleep in sweet exhaustion."
Classing Off (141)
"You'se different from me, ah cant stand black niggers. ah don't blame de white folks from hatin' 'em 'cause ah cant stand em mahself. noter thing, ah hates tuh see folks lake me and you mixed up wide em. us ought class off"
Tea Cake's abuse of powerful and literal abuse of Janie (147-148)
"He just slapped her around a bit to show he was boss."
"Janie is wherever ah wants tuh be. Dat's de kind uh wife she is and ah love her for it."
Foreshadowing (154)
"They were headed towards the Palm Beach road and kept moving steadily."
"Going to high ground. Saw grass bloom. Hurricane coming."
Total Contrast to Nanny'a Mule Statement (189)
"Well, you known whut dye say 'uh white man and uh nigger woman is de freest thing on earth."
Horizon imagery/resolution/closure/realization of life (193)
"He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking."
15----janie and joe's love:
ReplyDelete"you'se something tuh make uh man forgit tuh git old and forgit tuh die."(138)
16---racism and reverse racism:
"Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altard and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. real gods require blood." (145)
"...- a heaven of straighthaired, thin-lipped, high nosed boned white seraphs" (145)
17---reason for whipping:
"Janie is wherever Ah wants tuh be. Dat's de kind uh wife she is and Alove her for it. Ah wouldn't be knockin' her around. Ah didn't wanna wants to whup her last night. but ol' Mis' turner done sent for her brother tuh come tu bait Janie in and take her way from me. Ah didn't whup Janie 'cuse she done nothin'. Ah beat her tuh show dem Turners who is boss." (148)
18--- "eyes watching God" & realization on racism
"The time was pats for asking the white folks what to look for through that door. Six eyes were questioning God" (159)
19--- revert back to the grief of jody but different
"No expensive veils and robes for Janie THIS TIME. She went on in her she was to busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
20--- horizon
"She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see."
15-Janie's love for Teacake: "Whut would ah do wid dat lil chunk of a woman wid you around? (138)
ReplyDelete16- Description of Mrs. Turner: " Mrs. Turner was a milky sort of woman that belonged to child-bed." (139)
17- Tea Cake's verbal abuse of power and literal abuse of Janie: "Before the week was over he had whipped Janie." (147)
18- Personification: "Havoc was there with her mouth wide open." (167)
19- Total contrast to Nanny's mule statement: "Yeah de black woman kin kill up on all de mens dey want to , but you bet not kill one uh dem." (189)
20- Nature/ imagery/ symbolism: "Love is lak de sea." (191)
Well-done, people! Many of these quotations will help in forming your essays.
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