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.
Macy, Anna, and Cameron- chp. 7
ReplyDelete"Joe wasnt as young as he used to be, there was already something dead about him." pg.77
"But Janie had doen worse, she had cast down his empty armor before man and they had laughed, would keep on laughing." pg.79
"When he paraded his possessions hereafter, they would not consider the two together. They'd look with envy at the things and pity the man that owned them." pg.80
'...sagged like a load suspended from his lions." pg.77
Hannah, Darius, and Alex - Ch. 8
ReplyDelete"You changes everything but nothin' don't change you - not even death." pg. 86
"Why must Joe be so mad with her for making him look small when he did it to her all the time? Had been doing it for years. Well, if she must eat out of a long-handled spoon, she must." pg. 81
"Then too she noticed how baggy Joe was getting all over... But even these things were running down like candle grease as time moved on." pg. 81
"The great one who lived in the straight house like a platform without sides to it, and without a roof.... She was liable to find a feather from his wings lying in her yard any day now." pg. 84
"Ah'm just tryin' tuh make you know what kinda person Ah is befo' it's too late." pg. 85
"A sound of strife in Jody's throat, but his eyes stared unwillingly into a corner of the room so Janie knew the futile fight was not with her." pg. 87
TEWWG Subjects and Themes for Chapter 5
ReplyDeleteJanie's changing status at home/ in the public eye-
"She must look on herself as the bell-cow, the other women were the gang." (Page 41)
Janie's roles in life/marriage-
“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 place is in de home.” (Page 43)
“De mayor of uh town lak dis can’t lay round home too much. De place needs buildin’ up. Janie, Ah’ll git hold uh somebody tuh help out in de store and you kin look after things whilst Ah drum up things otherwise.” (Page 43)
The significance of the street lamp (subtext)-
"He unwrapped it and had it wiped off carefully and put it up on a showcase for a week for everybody to see. Then he set a time for the lighting and sent word all around Orange County for one and all to come to the lamp lighting. He sent men out to the swamp to cut the finest and the straightest cypress post they could find, and kept on sending them back to hunt another one until they found one that pleased him. He had talked to people already about the hospitality of the occasion." (Page 44)
Joe's power over the town/Racism-
“De mayor of uh town lak dis can’t lay round home too much. De place needs buildin’ up. Janie, Ah’ll git hold uh somebody tuh help out in de store and you kin look after things whilst Ah drum up things otherwise.” (Page 43)
"There was something about Joe Starks that cowed the town... He had a bow-down command in his face, and every step he took made the thing more tangible." (Page 47)
"It's uh sin and uh shame runnin' dat po' man way from her lak dat. Colored folks oughtn't tuh be so hard on one 'nother" (Page 48)
CJ, JL, RD, MLS
"Joe's funeral was the finest thing Orange County had ever seen with Negro eyes." pg. 88
ReplyDelete"Safe in the Arms of Jesus" pg 88
"Her Nanny had taken the biggest thing GOd had ever made, the horizon - for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you" pg 89
"and pinched it in to such a little bit of thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter's neck tight enough to choke her." pg 89
"Uh woman by herself is uh pitiful thing." pg 90
"When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over."
'Womenfolks is easy taken advantage of." pg 91
"Besides she liked being lonesome for a change. This freedom feeling was fine." pg 90
"'Tain't dat Ah worries over Joe's death, Phoeby. Ah jus' loves dis freedom." pg. 93
HL, RL, KB
Sarah, Patrick, Rachel
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March 1, 2011
TEWWG Subjects and Themes for Ch. 6
Janie’s connection to Matt Bonner’s mule:
“Up there, mule -angels would have people to ride on and from his place beside the glittering throne, the dear departed brother would look down into hell and see the devil plowing Matt Bonner all day long in a hell-hot sun and laying the raw-hide to his back.” Pg. 61
Joe’s gesture to the mule (subtext):
“ Didn’t buy ‘im fuh no work. I god, Ah bought dat varmint tuh let ‘im rest. You didn’t have gumption enough tuh do it.”
Pg. 58
The role of voice/narration change in the chapter:
“Less ketch Matt's mule fuh 'im and have some fun." "Now, Lum, you know dat mule ain't aimin' tuh let hisself be caught. Less watch you do it.”
The head rag as a symbol:
"that night he ordered janie to tie up her hair around the store. that was all she was there in the store for him to look at, not those others.”
Buzzard ceremony symbolism:
“After more shouting of advice and orders and useless comment, the town escorted the carcass off. No, the carcass moved off with the town, and left Janie standing in the doorway.”
Pg. 60
Janie’s realization about her marriage/the birth of her voice:
“Times and scenes like that put Janie to thinking about the inside state of her marriage. Time came when she fought back with her tongue the best she could, but it didn’t do her any good. It just made Joe do more.”
Pg. 71