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Vocabulary Ch 1-4. 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.
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Vocabulary Ch 1-4 • 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 • 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. • 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 • As Hurston describes the woman, where she has been, and the people who see her return, she uses evocative imagery. • List several of the images and the senses they appeal to. • How do these images impact the reader? • 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? • Who is her direct audience? • Who is her indirect audience? • What is a framed narrative?
Chapter 2: Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered … • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • “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 • 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 • 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.
