Transcript Their Eyes Were Watching God

Vocabulary Ch 1-4
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crumple: to wrinkle; to crush; to cause to collapse
resignation: patient acceptance
abrupt: sudden or unexpected
mien: way of acting and looking, especially as
expressive of attitude and personality
expound: to explain in careful often elaborate
detail
Chapter 1 Objectives
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Interpret the author’s imagery
Analyze an author’s characterization
Analyze audience
Chapter 1- Ships at a distance have
every man’s wish on board.
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Read the first two paragraphs of Chapter 1. What
distinctions do the they make between men and
women?
What questions do these paragraphs raise for you?
Males respond to 1st paragraph and females to the
2nd paragraph
Chapter 1-Porch Sitters
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As Hurston describes the woman, where she has been,
and the people who see her return, she uses evocative
imagery.
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several of the images and the senses they appeal to.
 How do these images impact the reader?
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How does the porch serve as a metaphor for judgment?
What do the porch sitters and Pheoby want to know?
What does Janie want to tell them about?
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is her direct audience?
 Who is her indirect audience?
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What is a framed narrative?
Chapter 2: Janie saw her life like a great
tree in leaf with the things suffered …
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Examine figurative language and motifs
Recognize the frame story as a
structural/organizational pattern
Distinguish among varying points of view within the
text
Academic Vocabulary
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Framed narrative: a story within a story
Motif: a recurrent theme, subject, character type, or
image that becomes a unifying element in a text
Aphorism: is a terse saying that embodies a
general, more or less profound truth or principle.
For example: “An envious heart makes a treacherous
ear” (5).
The Tree Metaphor
Explain the opening Chapter 2 “Janie saw her life like
a great tree in leaf with things suffered, things
enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom
was in the branches.
Why do you think Hurston chose to juxtapose
opposing images as she presents the central simile?
The pear tree imagery that begins, “It was a spring
afternoon in West Florida”(10) will be the symbol
of Janie’s ideal of love and marriage
Activities for Chapter 2
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Write down all the figurative language found in Ch 2
Find at least three literary elements/techniques found in
Ch2 – comment on their purpose.
Chapter 3&4 Objectives
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Analyze characters, plot and irony
Identify the effect of diction on tone
Differentiate between different points of view
Recognize motifs and their purposes
Chapter 3: There are years that ask
questions and years that answer.
Quick Write: Write a speculative response on what
the upcoming year will hold for Janie. Will this
year be the year that asks questions or one that
answers them? Will this be the year that does
both?
Noteworthy: Chapter 3
Significant quotes:
“She began to cry. ‘Ah wants things sweet wid ah marriage
lak when you sit under a pear tree and think’ ” (24).
“She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first
dream was dead, so she became a woman” (25). Dreams
- reality
“She hung over the gate and looked up the road towards
way off” (25). - horizon
“So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time, and an
orange time”(25).
Chapter 4: Long before the year was up, Janie noticed
that her husband had stopped talking in rhymes to her.
How do the motifs of the horizon, the pear tree and
the bees factor into Janie’s leaving?
Noteworthy quotes Chapter 4
“Janie pulled back a long time because he did not
represent the sun-up and pollen and blooming trees
[her ideal] but he spoke for the far horizon” (29).
“The morning road air was like a new dress. That
made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She
untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road
and walked on, picking flowers and making a
bouquet”(32).
Noteworthy Chapter 4
“The sun from ambush was threatening the world with
red daggers, but the shadows were gray and solid
looking around the barn”(31).
“Logan with his shovel looked like a black bear doing
some clumsy dance on his hind legs’(31).
Noteworthy Chapter 4
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“From now on until death she was going to have
flower dust and springtime sprinkled over
everything. A bee for her bloom” (32).
“Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now,
but new words would have to be made and said to
fit them” (32).
“Green Cove Springs” (33). starts her new life
Summary of Ch 1-4
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Janie does not care about how other’s judge her.
Janie was unaware of racial differences that would
limit her (as a child and teenager)
Nanny felt that Johnny Taylor would kill her dreams
of a better life for Janie. Logan at least would
protect her, provide for her, and make her
respectable.
Janie hoped that marriage would bring love.
Realizing that it does not kills her dream but makes
her become more realistic.
Chapter 1-4
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Joe Starks holds out the promise of a better future
than Logan Killicks does, but he is not her romantic
ideal.
Janie give up domestic life with Killicks, adjusts her
dream, and begins a new life with Joe Starks.