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.
Chapter 5
ReplyDelete- "Jody told her to dress up and stand in the store all that evening. Everybody was coming sort of fixes up, and he didn't mean for nobody else's wife to rank with her. she must look on herself as a bell-cow, the other women were the gang"(41)
- "Thank yuh fuh yo' compliments, but mah wife don't know nothin' 'bout no speech-makin'. Ah never married her for nothin; lak dat. She's uh woman and her placeis in de home." (43)
- Joe will lead the way with his leadership.
- "The rest of the town looked like servants' quarters surrounding the "big house".
"something else made men give way before him. He had a bow=down command in his face, and every step he took made the thing more tangible."
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-Changing view of Joe- "One day she noticed that Joe didn't sit down. He just stood in front of a chair and fell in it. That made her look at him all over. Joe wasn't so young as he used to be. There was already something dead about him." PAGE 77
ReplyDelete-Figurative language- "She was a rut in the road." PAGE 76
-Issue w/ manhood- "Then Joe Starks realized all the meanings and his vanity bled like a flood. Janie had robbed him of his illusion of irresistible maleness that all men cherish, which was terrible." PAGE 79
-Changing role in town- "It got to be more terrible in the store." PAGE 78
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significance of Joe's funeral:
ReplyDelete"She would have the rest of her life to do as she pleased."(89).
Janie's realization of the horizon/Nanny's advice:
"Here Nanny has taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon -- for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you."(89).
The battle of the sexes (roles of men/women subtext):
"'Uh woman by herself is uh pitiful thing,' she was told over and again. 'Dey needs aid and assistance. God never meant 'em tuh try tuh stand by theirselves'"(90)
Janie's new outlook on life/freedom:
"'let 'em say whut dey wants tuh, Phoeby. To my thinkin' mourning oughtn't tuh last no longer'n grief.'"(93).
1. Janie's question to the mule: "De womenfolks got yo' mule. When Ah come round de lake 'bout noontime mah wife and some others had 'imflat on de ground usin' his sides fuh uh washboard," (52).
ReplyDelete2. Joe's gesture to the mules: "Didn't buy 'im fuh no work. I god, Ah bought dat varmint tuh let 'im rest," (58).
3.the role of voice/narration change in the chapter
4. the head rag as a symbol: "This business of the head-rag irked her endlessly. But Jody was set on it. Her hair was NOT going to show in the store. IT didn't seem sensible at all. That was because Joe never told Janie how jealous he was," (55).
5. buzzard ceremony symbolism: "They (the buzzards) were holding a great flying-meet way up over the heads of the mourners and some of the nearby trees were already peopled with the stoop-shouldered forms," (61).
6.Janie's realization about her marraige/the birth of her voice: "She wasn't a petal-open with him anymore," (71).
Joe and Janie State of Marriage:
ReplyDelete"After that night Jody moved his thing and slept in a room downstairs." (pg.81)
"He didn't really hate Janie, but he wanted her to think so."
(pg.81)
Joe's relation to Matt Bonner's Mule:
"Through the counterpane she could see what was left of his belly huddled before him on the bed like some helpless thing seeking shelter."(pg.85)
Personification of Death:
"Death, that strange being with the huge square toes who lived way in the West." (pg.84)
Janie's changing role/realization of power:
"She didn't want to live like that. Why must Joe be so mad with her for making him look small when he did it to her all the time"
(pg.81)
"But ah aint goin' out here and ah aint month hush. nae, you gointuh listen tuh me one time befo' you die."
(pg.86)
The Role of Death
"You changes everything but nothing' don't change you- not even death."
(pg. 86)
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