Journal 5

Literary Devices

Metaphor: pg.116, "Hurry up and come because he was about to turn into pure sugar thinking about her." This metaphor is used to emphasize how much Tea Cake is in love with Janie. Hurston uses sugar to show that it is more of a sweet love than a passionate love

Imagery: pg. 120, "Janie dozed off to sleep but she woke up un time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark." Hurston usually used the sun to symbolize Janie's relationship with her past husbands. Lately she has been using the moon or night time to represent Janie and Tea Cake. This imagery and personification gives the reader a picture in thier head of light coming over the horizon. This shows that Janie is about ready to take it for what it is and call her and Tea Cake another failed relationship where he has taken advantage of her. This is shown through the imagery of light leaking into night and soon it will dominate over all.

Personification: pg. 128, "Her soul crawled out from its hiding place." Hurston uses this personification to emphasize Janie becoming her old self again. Using "hiding place" shows that it was once there but had to hide because of something or someone. Crawling gives the reader the image of being apprehensive but also willing to do it. This also gives Janie a big dynamic.

Journal 4

What is Janie's motivation?

Janie's motivation is life. She talked about how she had lived her grandmothers way, where she got up on the stool just to be there, which was like being married to Logan. She married Logan for the sake of marrying him, there was no love to it. Also, with Jody, she never got to live. She talked about folding her hands and sitting in the store all day. With Tea Cake she goes out of the town, she enjoys doing things and having fun. Now she is sure she will marry him and be able to love and live.

How does Janie change?

In chapter 11 Janie is still a bit apprehensive about spending time with Tea Cake. She sees the same thing happening to her that happened with her last two marriages. It will be fine until he shows a different side to himself. By the end of chapter 12, Janie is completely sure of Tea Cake. She knows that things will be different with him and the things that happened in her last two marriages will not happen again.

Literary Terms Journal

1. pg.26, Dynamic: "Long before the year was up, Janie noticed that her husband had stopped talking in rhymes to her." The author uses this dynamic with Janie's husband to emphasize a change that he had gone through in the past six months. This obviously affected Mr.Killicks, but it will also affect Janie. Before she was ready to love her husband eventually, but she can see now that that cannot happen because he does not love her the same way that she thought he would back.

2. pg.28, Dialect: "Janie pumped it off until she got a good look at the man. He talked friendly while he drank. Joe Starks was the name, yeah Joe Starks from in and through Georgy. Been workin' for white folks all his life."
In this passage the reader experiences a sudden change in dialect. This brings us out of the world of painting the picture for the story and back into the actual story.

3. pg.28, Foreshadowing: "Joe Starks was the name, yeah Joe Starks from in and through Georgy."
We know from the beginning of the book that Janie's name is eventually going to be Starks. So this sets up the reader for the future of the story. Yes, we know that she will eventually marry Starks, but that intrigues the reader to read on and find out how that takes place.

4. pg. 32, Epiphany: "A feeling of sudden newness and change came over her."
This sudden realization or mood shift by Janie, also causes a mood shift in the story. The mood was slightly angry, and annoyed before the epiphany. Then after the mood shifts into free and hopefull, getting the reader more excited to find out what happens next.

5. pg. 31, Imagery: "The sun from the ambush was threatening the world with red daggers, but the shadows were gray and solid-looking around the barn. Logan with hes shovel looked like a black bear doing some clumsy dance on his hind legs."
The authors use of imagery in this passage helps to highlight Janie's mood at the time. The red daggers and the solid shadows show that she's angry and maybe a little sad. While the image of Logan looking like a bear dancing on his hind legs shows her resentment towards her husband by making.