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    Their Eyes Were Watching God In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, I want to inform reader’s that Janie's "home" is the pear tree. In the story when Janie was under the blossoming pear she explains how the pear tree was blooming. Janie sees a bee pollinating a pear blossom and that made her come to a realization of love and marriage. Janie’s home; the pear tree represents Janie's way of maturing into a woman. Whenever Janie was under the pear tree she feels like she could

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    The Metamorphosis of Bertha in Katherine Mansfield’s Bliss Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss” is quite an interesting story full of underlying meanings and themes. Upon a first reading, it seems to be a simple story of a woman who feels uncontainable bliss one day, only to have it end when she discovers her husband is having an affair. Although this is a correct interpretation, after a second reading, much more is apparent. “Bliss” is a story of the revelation of a vibrant young woman, of criticism

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    In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie Crawford, the protagonist in the novel, returns home after a long period of time. She is welcomed back by unfriendly faces and vicious rumors and gossip about her past relationship with young Tea Cake, her third husband. The novel continues with Janie telling her friend, Pheoby Watson, her story in flashback form starting from when she was younger and lived with her grandmother. Janie retold her story about her three marriages with

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    In the book A Separate Peace by John Knowles there are several biblical archetypes. These biblical archetypes give the reader an insight into the deeper meaning of the text. This adds a greater significance to the story, and gives the reader a greater understanding. Some examples of these biblical archetypes are the garden of Eden, baptism, and Judas and Jesus. The garden of Eden is a paradise, in which there is the tree of the knowledge of good in evil. Adam and Eve both live in Eden, and God tells

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    location for the pick-your-own apple orchard is on the south side of Route 12 near the hiking trail. This would encourage hikers to partake in picking apples, and allow seasonal tourists to simultaneously

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    “It was a spring afternoon in West Florida. “First Janie is exploring the nature of spring. Spring as being part of a season. A season that seems to her like a regrowth of flowers and life. “Spending every minute that she could steal from her chores. “Janie has being putting aside her chores to explore nature. “It had called her to come and gaze on a mystery.” Jamie felt that there was something that nature or the blooming pear tree want to teach her. Janis’s attraction with the pear tree blooms

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    Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

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    Sumer Muqbil June 1, 2018 Chapters 3-5 Text Evidence Analysis Effect “Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon. He spoke for change and chance” (Zora Neale Hurston 29). The characters involved in this are Janie and Joe Starks. Janie believes that sun-up and pollen and blooming trees are familiar and what she knows about love as well as her “ideal” love. They also represent sexuality, and Joe Starks represents

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    Speak has a bunch of themes and symbols. A tree is what represents the main character, Melinda. Melinda goes through a lot throughout her freshman year and learns a lot with it. A tree grows and has its moments and that is what Melinda story is life. The tree is a perfect way to represent her in the book and show how she deals with school, her family, and her own daily problems she encounters. Why I think the tree represents her is because like every person we face battles and we need to outgrow

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    1.) The interaction Janie sees between nature under the pear tree is a life-changing moment for her as she grows into a young woman seeking to discover the ways of harmony and passion that come along with falling in love. In the scene, Janie witnesses the “dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom” and “the thousand-sister calyxes arching to meet the love embrace”, the bee and bloom taking on gender roles to imitate a sexual springtime relationship. The most notable aspect of this moment

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    In the romantic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God written by Zora Neale Hurston, theme whispers through Janie’s story. According to An Introduction to Fiction, theme is “ generally recurring subject or idea conspicuously evident in a literary work” (K+G 726). Janie feels the need to begin her story from the start of her life’s journey. As a teen, Janie is always outside with the birds and the bees. Finally one day she sits down in the grass realizing something she has never concluded before.

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