Film Analysis

Throughout history, war has caused war upon war. Although we have recorded these instances of one war causing another, and nothing really being solved, we continue to kill one another, torture one another, and threaten one another as a global problem solving technique. In Pink Floyd's movie, The Wall, this recurring motif of mankind is criticized. The example that they show is post-World War I Germany coming to life and rearing its ugly head in Europe. Through the metaphor of the cat preying on a dove and the peace symbol of the dove, this scene conveys the message that when faced with fear and oppression, the worse is brought out in humankind, thereby falsifying the myth that terrorizing and killing people is a solution to conflict.
At the beginning of the scene, a cat is shown eyeing a dove. This cat symbolizes the Allies after World War I. After World War I, Germany was heavily punished for supposedly starting the war, although they did not. Other countries demanded reparations and Germany was put heavily into debt, which only got worse when hit with the great Depression. The dove is then shown looking up at the cat, and as the cat approaches, it flies away. This symbolizes the Germans recognizing the injustice that they had been faced with. As it flies away it is separating itself from the the Treaty of Versailles and no longer obeying the limitations the Allies had put on them. The dove then becomes a surreal cartoon burst into blood, and a Nazi Eagle replaces it. The dove, a renowned symbol of peace suddenly becomes the symbol of hate. The Nazi's then take fear, oppression, and war as their path to solve their crisis. This cycle of the “oppressed becoming the oppressor” or the “hunted becoming the hunted” is evident through all human history, achieving very little social progress.
The dove is the symbol of peace throughout the scene. It shows how fragile peace is because of mankind's instinct to solve problems through violence. At the beginning, the dove is seen being confronted by the cat. The cat is the evadable predator. It stands for forced reparations and demilitarization of Germany. As the dove flies into the sky it is torn apart by the Nazi Eagle. The machine like Eagle is a symbol for hate, the biggest predator of peace. The dove is torn to shreds by the Eagle and that is the death of peace. Lastly, the dove is shown flying through the skeletons and rubble of Britain after the bombing. When it flies past the skeletons the skeletons turn into crosses, it symbolizes that the only peace that is reached during wartime is in death. The afterlife is the only place that man, woman, or child can achieve peace as long as this cycle of hatred, war, and discrimination continues.
With the metaphor of the cat preying the dove and the dove symbolizing peace, Pink Floyd is able to communicate that fear and oppression only bring out the worse in people. Imposing fear on people and murdering people achieves nothing but more fear and murder in the future. Violently solving conflicts has caused crisis and disaster throughout the world indefinitely. In this scene this cycle of humanity is shown as something to be avoided at all cost, for it only brings about nightmarish consequences. This truth will plague mankind with discontent forever.

Film proposal

Movie: The Wall
Scene: Like halfway through the movie, I can't remember exactly.
Scene Running Time: 2:08


Description of the Scene (This scene is very abstract, so its kind of difficult to describe.): The scene begins with a cat's face. Then it shows a dove, which the cat is eyeing. The dove then flies into the sky. The scene then turns into a cartoon and the dove transforms into a Nazi Eagle. The birds flys around the country side of Britain and swoops down and rips a large piece of earth with its talons, which leaves a trail of blood. It flys over Britain menacingly, then a giant beast is shown standing over a city and it turns into a big hall and bomber planes fly out. Gas masked figures are shown crawling around hopelessly on the ground and in bomb shelters. The planes are shown again and they turn into crosses. Then a skeleton fully dressed is shown falling to the ground. The British flag is shown falling apart and blood dripping from it. The Nazi Eagle is show again tilting its head and it turns into a destroyed building in a wasteland. The skeleton is shown getting up and four other skeletons appear. The rubble is shown again and a dove flys through, which then flys by the skeletons and they turn into crosses. A single cross is then shown bleeding into a sewer. That is the end of the scene.

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Anouilh's Antigone

When Creon says life is nothing but the happiness you get from it this raises a much deeper concept than what one might think. The concept that there is nothing deeper to life but the pleasureful aspect of it could totally change the way you live. Antigone wants to believe there is something more. She believes in her own pride. She believes in order and that if she breaks the law she should pay the consequences. Creon sees no value in this. Even though he is at the top of the society he does not care about the strictness of the law. His only reasoning for life is if it will bring him happiness or not, which is completely self-indulgent. Antigone is willing to sacrifice her life or her a brother who is already dead. In a way, Antigone and Creon are polar opposites. The death of Antigone will not increase Creon's happiness in anyway, so it means nothing to him. Antigone believes she must die because simply that's what the law says. Because the situation is so pointless to Creon, he gives into Antigone. This means that Creon's life philosophy loosens his own self control on his life. Whether this is bad or good is a question that will be asked forever.

Jocasta

The character I am acting is Jocasta. The motivation of her actions is the shock when she realizes the situation she is in. She attempted to kill her son earlier in her life. Little does she know, Oedipus is that same son. When this reality begins to come to light, she loses her mind. The prophecy that said that her son would kill her original husband then marry her had already come true. She is on the verge of suicide when I am acting her character.

Antigone New Version

During the 1940s Europe was engulfed in the bloodiest war in history. Also, Facist dictators were in charge of Germany, Italy, and Spain. Basically Europe was torn apart by totalitarianism and war. Millions of innocent people were dying. This sparked a wave of Existentialist writers in France. They considered the idea that life was without any deeper meaning. I think that this play will have existential themes, as well as tragedy.

Antigone

Knowledge Level: Who is Antigone's father? How is Ismene related to Antigone?

Medea #3

In both Medea and Oedipus the catharsis changes but it is there at the beginning of the play for both. At the beginning of Medea pity and fear is felt for the nurse and all those who face the wrath of Medea. By the end of the play pity and fear is felt for Medea and Jason both. Each of them has lost all that have and both of them kind of brought upon themselves. In Oedipus we feel pity and fear for the people of Thebes who are suffering from a plight. By the end of the play this catharsis is narrowed down to Oedipus, who realizes the truth of the conflict, which leads him to gouge his eyes out and his wife/mother to kill herself.

Medea #2

Jason seems to expect the gods to always help him. However, he also mentions their help in his life. He says that Aphrodite saved him in his voyage. This means he is willing to put his whole life in debt to one goddess. This also symbolizes how he fell in love with Medea, because Aphrodite is often associated with love and beauty.

Medea speaks to the gods on a personal level. She is the granddaughter of Helios, which establishes her relationship with the gods. She speaks to Zeus as a "friend", and talks as if they are on her side. Although she does very morally questionable things.

Medea #1

In Oedipus the chorus plays the role of citizens of Thebes. They addressed that problems facing them at hand. They summarized the plot of the play and made numerous references to gods. This chorus lacked an influence on the characters within the play.

In Medea, the chorus are personal friends of Medea. They are sympathetic to Medea, and express sorrow for her. They go deeper into the essence of the play and bring light to the situation. They also have some influence over Medea's actions.

Oedipus Journal #5

Sophocles evokes fear and pity from the audience throughout the whole play. At the beginning the rage of Oedipus after he is accused by Tiresias of murdering Laius makes us fear what Oedipus is going to do. Also since the audience knows the result of the play, they feel pity for Oedipus because of the tragic truth of the situation. When Oedipus begins to accuse of Creon of treason and wants to execute him, is the climax of fear in the audience. When Oedipus finally realizes the truth and his whole life comes crashing down, pity reaches its highest point. This makes the audience feel a connection with the play. If the audience saw no emotional value in the play it would not be tragic.

Oedipus #4

Oedipus Journal #3

The woman, Jocasta, in the play just goes along with whatever is told to her. She basically sides with Creon, then when Creon leaves, she sides with Oedipus. This is kind of a warning to woman. She takes everything involving her men for granted, and never claims her own point of view. Contrasting with this, Creon and Oedipus are both extremely self-conscious and defensive. Oedipus threatens to kill Creon on a thought that has absolutely no proof. Creon is able to defend himself in a rational manner. The men expect the women to agree with them, as if her own opinion is of small significance.

Oedipus Journal #2

Oedipus seems like a deficient leader. He is paranoid and unwilling to hear other people's statements. At the beginning Oedipus seemed like a noble leader. But as the reading progresses it seems that he is losing his good qualities to anger and pride. I think that he has a quick temper which lead to much bad decisions on his part. Creon seems like an honest man. He speaks very rationally. Tiresias, although he is speaking the truth, seems like he enjoys taunting Oedipus in a way. Dramatic irony is created by him, because you know that everything he is saying is true, yet no one believes him.

Oedipus Journal #1

Page 159: Oedipus wants to know the reason why people are at his alter praying for him.
Page 160: The priest tells Oedipus that him and others have come because their city, Thebes, is distraught.
Page 161: The priest tells Oedipus that he has faith in him and believes he can act to save the city and its people.
Page 162: Oedipus tells the priest he knows of the troubles and has sent his wife's brother Creon to the oracle at Delphi to find a way to save the city, then Creon arrives.
Page 163: Creon says he has good news and Oedipus says to tell it to him right there in front of the priest.
Page 164: Creon says they must pay the killer of the prior leader Laius back.
Page 165: Creon tells Oedipus that Laius was killed on his way to see the Oracle.
Page 166: Creon says that thieves killed Laius, and the Sphinx kept them from investigating the murder further.
Page 167: Oedipus says he will find and kill the murderer of Laius.
Page 168: Citizens of Thebes are praying to the gods for help.
Page 169: The same citizens are telling of the death of Thebes and continuing their pray for help.
Page 170: The citizens address each god that they want help from to stop the god of death.

1984 Journal 3

George Orwell criticizes many different aspects of society and government in 1984. One trend that he was really focusing on was totalitarian governments, such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini. Although, the aspects of these societies has been seen in countries such as the U.S. and it serves a warning call. For example, the Espionage and Sedition Act of 1917 in the United States during World War I gave the U.S. Government the right to imprison anyone who spoke out against the government. Also in the U.S. during World War I a government organization for "Public Information" was created. It's main job was to spread misleading propaganda about the barbarity of Germans and the importance of reporting dissent. This proves that George Orwell is not just a sending a warning out about Communism and Fascism. In times of war ANY government might take way our civil liberties as human beings. 1984 is a criticism of any centralized power that exerts its control over the people both mentally and physically. 1984 criticizes both Capitalism and Communism as well. It doesn't matter whether you are enslaved by the government or by the rich. Any source of power which is able to control your mind or forces you to think a certain way, must be avoided. Orwell saw a problem with the social classes in his own country of Great Britain, and he realized the lowest class was the only one's who could make a just change, but they weren't capable of it. This is relates to the Proles in 1984, and their inability to make a change, although they are the only hope.

1984 Journal 2

"On the sixth day of Hate Week, after the processions, the speeches, the shouting, the singing, the banners, the posters, the films, the waxworks, the rolling of drums and squealing of trumpets, the tramp of marching feet, the grinding of the caterpillar of tanks, the roar of massed planes, the booming of guns-after six days of this, when the great orgasm was quivering to its climax and the general hatred of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium that if the crowd could have got their hands on the two thousand Eurasian war criminal who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of the proceeding, they would unquestionably have torn them to pieces-at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally." - Orwell 148

In Orwell's nightmarish society, the people are controlled completely by propaganda. Hate Week is propaganda at its worse. The people are convinced by the media and their peers that one country and its people are the worst people on the planet, and should be killed. This detracts any other emotion out of the people, so they cannot aim it at anything else in their lives. They are so emotionally controlled that when they are told that someone else is actually the enemy, they have no problem is turning their hate instantaneously. This whole frenzy is leading to Winston's reading of Goldstein's book. In the book Winston finds out the true meaning behind Hate Week and the wars, although he already does know himself. The wars and the hate are simply a way of keeping the people under control. With the only emotion in their minds being hate towards are certain country, they are no longer able to make rational thought processes, destroying the possibility of resistance to their own government. He also finds out that the wars are endless. There is no true ally or enemy, and it is constantly switching, just as he has witnessed. The war is simply a way of keeping the people down.

1984 Propoganda

This propaganda is aimed at women during World War II. It is saying that the women need to work the jobs that men would normally be working, because the men are at war. Being as their was a huge jolt of patriotism because of Pearl Harbor and the other horrors of World War II, this piece of propaganda seems pretty reasonable. Women working in factories and other jobs of that sort was unheard of until now, but being as the biggest, most violent war of all time was going on, I'm sure women found this socially acceptable. The phrase is catchy and I'm sure that it did help get some women to work, because tons of women were working during World War II.

1984 Imagery

In 1984 George Orwell uses very descriptive and complex words to create the image of a horrific future society and world. For example, Orwell paints a mental picture of a futuristic community cafeteria, that is poor and uncomfortable; "In the low-ceiling canteen deep under ground, the lunch queue jerked slowly forward. The room was already full and deafeningly noisy" (Orwell 43). The first point he makes in this passage is that it is a low-ceiling room and deep underground. This paints us a picture of an uncomfortable place, as well as raising questions in our minds. When I first read this, I wondered why the room was underground, then I came to the conclusion later that it was because of the constant bombing that the city endured. Also the fact that the place is deafeningly noisy and already full tells us that it is crowded and overpopulated, and the government cannot support its people with enough shelter.
Along with describing the terrifying aspects of an extreme totalitarian, communist society, Orwell uses vivid descriptions to paint a picture of the hidden places in the corrupted world that are beautiful. "It seemed to him that he knew exactly what it felt like to sit in a room like this, in an armchair beside an open fire with your feet in the fender and a kettle on the hob, utterly alone, utterly secure, with nobody watching you, no voice pursuing you, no sound except the singing of the kettle and the friendly ticking of the clock" (Orwell 82) He talks about how alone and secure one would be in an "old-fashioned" home. How nice it would be to have no voices following you, and calls the sound of a kettle "singing" and calls the ticking of a clock "friendly". This is calling the old way of life and homes much more peaceful then the new futuristic society.

1984 Journal 1

Topic B: Winston

Winston is constantly questioning what is going on in his country. From everything from the constant surveillance of the people to the poor tasting food, Winston is in struggle. His act of revolt is writing in his diary. This is a crime in his society, so he is rebelling by doing so. He even write "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER" in his diary. Among listing out things that are very disturbing, such as a bunch of people getting joy out of watching woman and child being torn apart by a machine gun. Winston sees that there is something terribly wrong with the society in which he lives and wants desperately to find out about the past. Contrary to other people in the society, Winston vaguely remembers a time when things were different. Since he has these memories to compare the present too, he is able to see that something is wrong. He also picks up on things that others don't. Such as when the chocolate ration is lowered and but is said to be raised, Winston realizes it was lowered. Winston's ability to remember things and independently think about his quality of life turns him into a rebel in his society, wanting to escape the totalitarianism that plagues his every move.

Stranger Journal 9

At the end of the text Meursault realizes that he can apply his train of thought that he uses to the rest of his life to everything. His indifference towards his mothers death, or his lack of love for Marie, can be used to just the same towards the fact that he will die himself. He sees that the meaning that the prosecutor uses for his murder, to make him have the death penalty, is completely untrue. People search to much for the meaning of life, while all the while there is none. Camus wants us to come to this conclusion as a reader too. He lets us know that our lives being meaningless is not a depressing thought, but a refreshing one. There is nothing for us to achieve, no goals that we must complete before we die. We just die, and thats the end of it. Camus sees this as a way to come to peace with yourself and your own life. I believe that Meursault is a much more content man by the end of the novel. He seems worked up about execution, but he comes to terms with it and begins to understand that there is no reason to be worried, because there is no reason to live anyway.

Stranger Journal 8

Through Meursault's mother's funeral and his murder trial, Camus explains that when others try to judge an individuals personality through his or her actions, the conclusions that the evaluator will come to are both false and absurd.

Stranger Journal 7

I think he creates the two different parts to show that being a prisoner is just the same as being a free man. During Meursault's trial, you get a sense that he is isolated from everyone around him. You get this exact same sense during his mothers funeral. I think that his mother's funeral and his trial are parallel in a Meursault's overall feeling towards them. He does not feel any remorse for anyone at the funeral or the trial. He feel's only irritated and sad about how things are for him. The trial is merely an inconvenience to him, just like his mother's death. The two scenes are very different, but Meursault's attitude is exactly the same.

Stranger Journal 6

1. Word Choice
The language if fairly basic. It is very straightforward.

Why does Camus use such basic language to get across the points of such complex philosophy?

2. Sentences
The sentences range, but most of the time they are pretty short. They usually make one point. There are not really any run on sentences. The narrator makes one point after another, but the are all separate thoughts.

Why does Camus never use compound sentences in the narration of The Stranger?

3. Images
The sun is often mentioned. The narrator mentions that it is hot a lot. He also describes of the look of people a lot, such as Marie's "Sun-tanned face". This shows his tendency to care about more the physical than the mental/emotional.

Why does Camus describe the appearance of people so much more than anything else?

4.Symbols
There are objects such as the sun that are repeated throughout the book. However, I don't believe it is meant to symbolize anything. The sun is simply there, and Meursault notices it. I dont think there is one thing one thing in this book that is supposed to symbolize anything.

Why would Camus not use any symbolic figures or objects in his text?

5. Figures of Speech
Some would find it ironic that people in the book are constantly trying to get Meursault to care. Or are trying to find a reason behind his murder. But there simply is no reason.

Why does Camus make Meursault, the protagonist, such an indifferent character?

6.Rhetorical Devices
The dialogue of the story shows very well how the character interacts with others. His narration tells us why he says what he says, such as agreeing with someone just so they will quit talking.

Why does Camus tell us in the narration why Meursault says what he says?

7. Patterns
There are no patterns in this book. The actions of Meursault are based on whatever he feels like at the time he commits them.

Why is there no pattern to anything in The Stranger?

8. Narrator
The narrator is the protagonist, Meursault, himself. It looks into his mind and you get a look at every other character from the book through his eyes. This ends up exaggerating the emotions of the other characters, because they contrast so much with Meursault's way of living.

Why did Camus choose to make the narrator have no insight on other's minds?

9. Structure
The structure is chronological. It is all written in the past tense, as if Meursault is the one writing it, later on in his life. Time passes faster at different points of the book. A chapter can cover just a day or a whole month.

Why did Camus choose to write the story in the past tense?

Stranger Journal 5

My philosophy as a reader makes me love Meursault. I believe that everyone should act in the exact code of what they believe. They should not be influenced by any man-made outside force. Meursault does not base any of his own views on anything except his own life. However, I do have a moral code myself, though its based all on my own mind, not any religion. Also, I am not as indifferent about things as Meursault. It makes me laugh when he is completely emotionless about certain things, because I would get pretty worked up about some of the things that happen to him. These differences between me and his character don't make me biased against the book though. I completely understand why Albert Camus created such a character.

Stranger Journal 4

Sun

Stranger Journal 3

Emancipationism

• True mental liberty cannot be achieved a in modern society, however, one should take the measures to reach a state of mental freedom that satisfies them.
• To attain this the closest thing to freedom that we can, we have to remove ourselves of the mental shackles that society places on our minds. These include, but are not only:

1. Racism
2. Sexism
3. Corporate Advertising
4. Political Parties
5. The Media

• Self-expression is the ultimate form of mental liberation, this is why art and music is seen as secondary in our education system and often underfunded by both the State and Federal Government.
• We must always question authority, laws, and any opinion or fact that we read or hear.
• If we see authority being unjust we must take necessary action to change it.
• Pacifism is the ideal and most logical way to make a political change, however, in extreme cases it becomes useless. (I.E. the Holocaust in the 1930s and 40s and African-American Slavery in the 1600s-1800s)
• If our main incentive to live is to make capital, we have failed as a people.
• Too not care about your fellow human beings of the world is arrogance, which is bad for your own self, and the rest of the planet.
  

Stranger Journal 2

Many would say that Meursault's activities are impure and sinful. Such his encounter with the woman at the beach, or his cynical tone during his mother's funeral. This is simply because society always teaches us to think that way. However, there is no proven "impure" or "sinful" action. Meursault's way of living is based on pure reality. He doesn't see a "deeper" meaning to his actions, or any encounter that occurs in his life. The only meaning to the things that he does and the things that happen to him are the meanings that he himself creates. Albert Camus creates this protagonist as an anti-hero that helps get across the ideals of existentialism. His hero lives a life with no deep universal meaning. Albert Camus convey his idea that everyone on the planet lives the same way. Our "deeper meanings" to things that happen to us are simply an attempt to make the absurd world we live in a little easier to accept.

Stranger Journal 1

The first translation seems to be more a translation of the content, while the second translation seems to be translating each word directly. The character is the first translation gives off more of a personality then the other one as well. Such as how it says "That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday." While the other one reads "Which leaves the matter doubtful, it could have been yesterday." The second translation doesn't mention if the day that matters or not. From this small detail the first translation kind of gives an aggression of the narrator/protagonist. He just says flat-out, "that doesn't mean anything", setting us up for his attitude for the rest of the story.

Journal 9

The story begins with Jodie re-entering Eatonville, the place she had left with Tea Cake from. Everyone watches her wondering what had happened. This raises the question of "what has this woman done?" in the readers mind. The story of her past unfolds throughout the whole book. In the last chapter, we see the state that she is in after the first chapter of the book. In the first chapter, we wonder who this woman is and what she has done. In the last chapter we know everything that has ever happened to her and how she feels about her life and other people. This gives us an insight on life that we can gather from the fictional character, Janie, herself.

Journal 8

The title Their Eyes Were Watching God suggest the lack of control the characters of the story have over their lives. As blacks in the south of the time period, they really hardly had a grasp on their lives, because they were so oppressed after Reconstruction ended. God is their only form of hope. They watch him to see what path he will send them on next, and if he will be help them or not. The relationship between the characters and God is one of hope but also fear. They fear God because of sin, and the oppression and slavery they have faced, without any help from a higher spirit.

Journal 7

Mrs. Turner has a poor relationship with her husband. They have no say in what each other do, and it seems like Mr. Turner could care less about his wife. This has developed a racism inside of Mrs. Turner against her own race. She believes that the darker a black person is, the more stupid and lazy they are. It is strange, because she herself is black. She is also constantly bugging Janie, trying to get her a better husband because she hates Tea Cake for racist reasons. She has the poorest relationship of any characters in the story. Janie's relationship with Tea Cake shows everything that Mrs. Turner wish she had, and I think that she is bitter.

Journal 6

Page 116 - "Hurry up and come because he was about to turn into pure sugar thinking about her." Metaphor.

Zora Neal Hurston uses a metaphor here to describe just how much Tea Cake loves her. A man and pure sugar have very little in common, but the sweetness or Tea Cakes love is just the same. The effect of this metaphor is that is tells you just how their relationship is at this point, and the saying fits the dialect of the characters.

Page 119 - "Hair all gray and black and bluish and reddish in streaks. All the capers that cheap dye could cut was showing her hair." Motif.

Although in this case, it is not Janie's hair, hair the used to represent that status of someone else. In this case, Annie Tyler, a woman who ran off with a young man just as Janie has. Her hair became dirty and aged when she came back to her town. This may be foreshadowing Janie's fate, or just a way of planting worry into her mind. Regardless, hair is used to show the status of a person in this quote.

Page 129 - "Big Lake Okechobee, big beans, big cane, big weeds, big everything." Parallel Strcture.

Parallel structure is used by Hurston to describe this new landscape in Janie's eyes. Everything is big. The use of the word big on each noun gets the point across better. The image of the big beans, and big cane, and big weeds, and big everything helps paint a picture in your mind of how the fields must have seemed to Janie. Along with the fact that the place is called Big Lake Okechobee, so "big" is the perfect adjective to describe everything there.

Journal 5

The motivation behind Janie is both her love for Tea-Cake and the yearning she has to be free. From the moment that they play checkers Janie finds out another side of her. A part that we have seen all throughout the story that she finally is able to let out at Jodie's death bed. She wants to be free to do as she likes. She is not materialistic, she cares not for having lots of property and land. She was previously only living her Grandmother's dream of wealth. It has been many years now since her grandmother died and she can live her own dream. She will live life to its fullest, doing whatever she likes, however she likes, until the day that she dies. Tea Cake has the open mind that Jodie did not, that allows Janie to be herself around him.

Journal 4

So Conrado began to conceive liberty. Liberty, the Golden Eagle that did not need talons, who resided far into the heavens. The most confident being, who perched itself upon the highest branch of the tallest tree. Why would anyone watch over Liberty, and what man would hunt such an exquisite beast? It sits upon its branch and is unseen to the naked eye. It rests cautiously and alert infinitely, its eyes moving side to side, watching out for its predator's next attack. It began resting there only when it began to be envisioned by mankind. He was sure he would see the bird in all its glory perched on his shoulder soon. He was ecstatic and overwhelmed. Long live Guillermo! He ought not to live his dream of freedom on his own. He cried Liberty to every man, woman, and child of the world, and Guillermo welcomed them. The previous government knew how to deal with a small group of revolutionaries, but they did not know what to do about somebody like him. He'd put an end to oppression as soon as the corrupted business tycoons were exiled. He would never let down his cause. Much of the world told him different, but Conrado knew. If he was not positive, he would know in several hours, for the people had began gathering together from all over the country. Men who never once would have thought of such a cause slipped into the crowd and watched Guillermo. Revolution, that hissing cobra, slithered towards the capital.

Journal 3

Page 26: Metaphor - "Long before the year was up, Janie noticed that her husband had stopped talking in rhymes to her."

As the first sentence of the chapter, this metaphor foreshadows the whole chapter, and perhaps the rest of the book. She lets us know through a metaphor and Janie's relationship with Logan Killicks is getting worse, and that he is not treating her as nice as he did at first.

Page 27: Simile - "Logan held his wad of tobacco real still in his jaw like a thermometer of his feelings while he studied Janie's face and waited for her to say something."

This simile is used to describes Logan's face at that moment. When you hold a thermometer in your mouth you hold it real still and don't move a muscle. He holds the tobacco in the mouth just as still as he studies Janie in a pause of their conversation.

Page 27: Imagery - "It was a cityfied, stylish dressed man with his hat set at an angle that didn't belong in these parts. His coat was over his arm, but he didn't need it to represent his clothes. The shirt with teh silk sleeveholders was dazzling enough for the world. He whistled, mopped his face and walked like he knew where he was going. He was a seal-brown color but he acted like Mr. Washburn or somebody like that to Janie."

Zora Neale Hurston uses this imagery to describe a most incredible man. Janie is from the country and she has not seen a man of this sort. He even has his "hat set at an angle that didn't belong in these parts". Right of the bat you can tell this is going to be an important character in the story from his long, elegant description. It also shows that Janie is instantly attracted to him.


page 30: Situational Irony -
"'S'posin' Ah wuz to run off and leave yuh sometime.'
There! Janie had put words in his held-in fears. She might run off sure enough. The thought put a terrible ache in Logan's body, but he thought it best to put on scorn."

This moment is when Janie wants to see what Logan would think about her running off. Little to his knowledge, she is planning on it. This whats going on in each of their heads and how bad their relationship is at this point.

Page 31: Personification - "The sun from ambush was threatening the world with red daggers, but the shadwos were gray and sollid-looking around the barn."
She personifies the sun by saying it is threatening the world with a dagger. This description tells us that it is uncomfortably hot outside and is going to get worse. Logan is telling her to come out and work, raising the problem of their relationship.

Journal 2

The setting affects the text by taking you to the world that the characters are in. The atmosphere is dirty, poor, and of course, rampant with anti-black racism. The characters give you that of uneducated and oppressed African - Americans. Motivation is seen in the both the grandmother and Janie in trying to make the best out of their lives. This set the text up for the reader by showing you what kind of people the characters are, and what kind of world they are living in.

Journal 1

In the book, their Eyes Were Watching God, the narration differs from the dialect of the characters greatly. The narration is written in very good English obviously by a well educated person. The dialect of the characters is that of poor, uneducated African-Americans from the south. This contrast in language has a very powerful effect. The narration gives you an very clear view at the scene and an insight on the people's minds and personalities. The dialect however, presents the characters in their real form - poor and uneducated. The narration reminds you that these people have the same feelings and thoughts and looks that we all know, while the dialect helps you hear them talking and what kind of culture the characters are a part of.