Orchard Road

Janie’s Idea of Love Following Tree Imagery in Their Eyes Were Watching God To many, nature is closely associated with the beauty and fertility within mother earth. Trees in general are a symbol of permanence, longevity and its firm base symbolizes the concept of ‘roots’ and the ongoing relationship of trees with their natural surroundings. Trees are apparent in common metaphors such as the tree of life and ancestral heritage depicted in family trees. In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by

The metaphor of the horizon and the sun follow Janie’s exploration of herself and her search for true love. In the novel, Janie swiftly moves through three marriages, but only finds love in her final marriage to Tea Cake. When Janie is first talking to Jody she is hesitant because “he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees" (29). Nature, especially pollen and bloom time, has come to represent love in this novel while the sun represents happiness and cheeriness and that is what Janie

Diagnostic essay: The Important Message from The Giving Tree This year marks the 54th anniversary of the unforgettable, controversial, and heartbreaking book, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. The simplicity of the illustrations and words has had lasting impressions on countless readers from numerous generations. This easy to remember book has been embedded in my memory from the first time I read it in elementary. The Giving Tree was about the relationship between a boy and a tree that was personified

Janie chooses to tell her story only to her best friend Pheoby because Pheoby represents the average, everyday person. Pheoby cannot do the adventurous things that Janie does because of the responsibilities for her marriage. The last chapter of the novel is where Janie's story ends. Pheoby tells Janie, “‘ ah done growed ten feet higher jus’ listenin’ tuh you, Janie. Ah ain’t satisfied wid mahself no mo’ ’” (Hurston 192). Pheoby tells Janie that she is now inspired to be more adventurous with her

Behind the Scenes at the Museum is a novel taking place in 1951, where Ruby Lennox, the narrator of the story, gives a play by play of her life starting with conception and ending with the death of her mother. When Ruby is conceived she believes she understands how her mother thinks and feels toward the life she has. As Ruby gets older her ability to know how her mother thinks and feels is fading making Ruby believe her mother doesn't love her. Ruby, the protagonist, is a witty girl who can understand

In Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston uses the changes in Janie’s to show that there is always good to be found, even in a negative situation. Janie walked into the town like nothing happened. After she lost her third husband she went back at the start of her second marriage “Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with th things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone.” (8) Be a person means that not everything going to go perfect in life. Janie lived it an knew that sometimes

The senses engaged by the sensory details in this passage include sight, touch, and hearing. Hurston utilizes color symbolism in order to express Janie’s transition from childhood into womanhood. Janie waited for “a green time and an orange time” where she would fall in love (25). The color green is associated with fertility and safety, while orange is associated with joy and warmth. Thus, Hurston chooses these colors to express Janie’s longheld desire to experience both love and marriage simultaneously

Paragraphs for Drawings Turtle With Tree: This picture is trying to portray not only how colourful the world can be but also giving a visual on what the iroquois thought that the world looked like. The tree is a symbol of life often found in other myths such as in Norse mythology with Yggdrasil but I thought it might give more meaning to the words in the myth. The iroquois believed that without the animals, humans and the earth would not be here today so the animals of the world deserve our respect

The Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov 's last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements of farce; however, Stanislavski insisted on directing the play as a tragedy. Since this initial production, directors have had to contend with the dual nature of this play. The play concerns an aristocratic Russian woman and her family as they return

the roads. Where will each road take me? David Hockney’s painting from the series Bigger Trees Near Warter takes the viewer on a poetic journey. The road that seems to be straight also seems full of life with vibrant colors. The trees are a beautiful rosy purple and the grass is a bright and almost nearly neon green. Also, through Hockney’s use of line, the viewer's eye is pulled across the painting in the direction of the unwaveringly straight road. The viewer can clearly see where the road is heading