AP Lit

3/6/2012
Time Write tomorrow! Continue reading, you need to be through chapter 6 for Thursday and chapter 9 for Friday.

"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."-Hurston

My challenge to you is to try to get off the ground everyday!

3/5/2012
Schedule change for this week: Timed write review today and tomorrow 3/6 and then Time Write on Wednesday 3/7. Stay on track with your reading. For tonight's blog, share something you learned from one of the dialectic journals you have completed this far.

"With him on it, it sat like some high, ruling chair. From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything."

Just before this quote, Janie has been giving a "talking to" by Logan. She is feeling the resolve of her loveless marriage as he leaves. Once outside, she is once again renewed, as seen in previous chapters, by nature. "The morning air is like a new dress..." Janie puts aside the conversation with Logan and resolves to have have "flower dust and springtime spinkled over everything." Life is what you make it and your attitude is in essence clothing you put on everyday. By resolving to make the best of a situation and choosing to be happy, ou can be happy.

2/29/2012
“I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.” -Z.N. Hurston

How do you define living?

2/28/2012
Read Chapter 3
Though for the night..."There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you."-Z.N. Hurston...what untold story is inside you?

2/27/2012
AP Lit: Read Chapter 1 and blog: Why would Hurston use Southern Black idiom to tell her story?

Their Eyes Were Watching God begins with an almost transcendental third-person narrator describing in the beautiful Janie Mae Crawford as she returns to the town of Eatonville. While Hurston keeps the narrator's language almost sympethic and vivid, she switches to Southern Black idiom or dialect when the people of the town begin to speak. The importance of the use of Southern Black dialect to this story is in the image it brings of the people of Eatonville. The language puts the reader in the town, on the porch with the ladies as they speculate as to why Janie has returned. The language enables the reader to conjure a truer vision of the time and the people of the early 1900's Eatonville, FL. "Gal, it's too good! you switches a mean fanny round in a kitchen" brings the image of Phoeby swaying around her kitchen cooking and the loving friendship between these two women as Janie eats the meal Phoeby brought her.