Each chapter of TEWWG incorporates a different theme into the story, and all of the themes contribute to a few central subjects in the story. In your assigned chapter groups for chapters 10-14, please find as many meaningful quotations per chapter that contribute to and explain that chapter's theme as you all can.
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 w/ Tea Cake:
ReplyDelete"Dis is de last day for dat excuse. You got uh board round heah?" "Yes indeed. De men folks treasures de game round heah. Ah just ain't never learnt how."
Foreshadowing of Janie's future w/ Tea Cake
"Tea Cake wasn't strange. Seemed as if she had known him all her life."
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ReplyDeleteSubjects and Themes for Chapter 12 in TEWWG
ReplyDelete-Role of 3rd person narration/voice
"All the men that she could get, and fooling with somebody like Tea Cake!" (Page 110)
-"Class Off"
"You always did class off."
"Jody classed me off. Ah didn't. Naw, Pheoby, Tea Cake ain't draggin' me off nowhere Ah don't want tuh go." (Page 112)
-Janie's rejection of Nanny's vision
"Ah done lived Grandma's way, now Ah means tuh live mine." (Page 114)
-Foreshadowing at the end of the chapter
"Some of dese mornin's and it won't be long, you gointuh wake up callin' me and Ah'll be gone." (Page 115)
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Imagery of the Muck
ReplyDelete"Dancing, fighting, singing, crying, laughing, winning, and losing lover every hour. Work all day for money, fight all night for love, The rich black earth clinging to bodies and biting the skin like ants."
Tea Cake's house vs. Joe's house
"Teak 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 an listen and maybe disappoint the jook for that night. He was always laughing and full of fun too. He kept everybody laughing in the bean field."
Janie's life with Tea Cake vs. Janie's life with Joe
"Ah'll have tuh tell yuh de real truth, so yuh can know. Janie, Ah gits lonesome out dere all day 'though yuh. After dis, you betta come get uh job uh work out dere lak de rest uh de women-so Ah won't be losin' time comin' home."
The Muck vs. Eatonville
"What if Eatonville could see her now in her blue denim overalls and heavy shoes? The crowd of people around her and a dice game on her floor! Only here, she could listen and laugh and even talk some herself if she wanted to. No matter how rough it was, people seldom got mad, because everything was done for a laugh."
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Cameron, Anna, Hannah N.
ReplyDeleteSimiles and figurative language- "It was so crazy digging worms by lamp light and setting out for Lake Sabelia after midnight that she felt like a child breaking rules." Pg. 102
3rd person- "At the newel post Janie whirled around and for the space of a thought she was lit up like a transfiguration... Getting ready to laugh at me for an old fool." pg. 105
Nature/pear tree imagery- "Look lak we done run our conversation from grass roots tuh pine trees." pg. 106
Personification of doubt- "In the cool of the afternoon the fiend from hell specially sent to lovers arrived at Janie's ear. Doubt. All the fears that circumstance could provide and the heart feel, attacked her on every side... He did not return that night nor the next and so she plunged into the abyss and descended to the ninth darkness where light has never been." pg. 108
Metaphor- "Janie, Ah hope God may kill me, if Ah'm lyin'. Nobody else on earth kin hold uh candle tuh you, baby. You got de keys to de kingdom." pg. 109
the role of doubt(117)
ReplyDelete-"Tea Cake was Spending and doing out of his own pocket, so Janie never told him about two hundred dollars she had pinned inside her shirt next to her skin "
-"things might not turn out like she thought. Every minute since she had stepped off the train she had been laughing at phoebes advice"
meaning behind who Flung and Annie Tyler(118-121)
-"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 two whole days. Then she woke up to find Who Flung and her money gone."
-"There was the little cloth purse with the safety pin on the chair beneath her clothes and the money wasn't nowhere to be found."
symbolism of gambling(125)
-"It's big pay day dis comin' saturday at de railroad yards.ah'm gointuh take dis twelve dollars in mah pocket and win it all back mo'."
-"You dont married one uh de best gamblers God ever made. Cards dice either one. Ah can take a shoe string and wih uh tan-yard."
team work and unity(128)
- "Ah no need no assistance tuh help me feed mah woman."
- Folks don't do nothin' down dere but make money and fun foolishness. We must go dere."
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10: "Somebody wanted her to play. Somebody thought it natural for her to play" (96) "He was jumping her king!" (96)
ReplyDelete11: "He looked like the love thoughts of women. He could be a bee to her blossom-- a pear tree blossom in the spring" (106).
12: solid
13: "When Ah got nothin' you don't git nothin'" (128). "So her soul crawled out from its hiding place" (128).
14: need example of description of Joe's house