Pear tree

Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, the pear tree to Janie represents all of her dreams, hopes, and plans for the future. The pear tree is the exemplary love for Janie in her lifetime. Janie grows throughout the book and her life is shaped around finding true love and finding herself through love. The pear tree is a reoccurring symbol in the book. The first instance of the pear tree in the book is when Janie watches a bee pollinate from a blossom. The pear tree represents what Janie thinks marriage

Josie Atkinson Full Circle The pear tree that Janie sits under is a metaphoric representation of the cycles of her life: budding, growing, dying, and being reborn. Each relationship represents another cycle that she faces, and it is also the catalyst for her pursuit of self-discovery. She is captivated by the way the bee interacts with the tree and identifies it as an ideally harmonious relationship. Janie is “stirred tremendously” by the tree because it intoxicates her with the beautiful interactions

Topic 3 All forms of life commence as a seed, hoping to grow into a mature tree with a solid foundation, firm limbs, and distinctive leaves. In order to reach desired growth, one must be watered with the earth’s nutrients and acquire the sun’s vital rays. These paramount provisions symbolize nurture, independent or parental, and allows an individual to learn, experience, to flourish. The trunk of the tree, our flows, links to the branches, our paths and experiences. The leaves are a series

also does not want Janie to end up like her mom. So she sends him off to a kind and old man, Logan Killicks. Before marrying Mr.Killicks, Janie goes back to the pear tree many times. The pear tree helps to represent her life. It is part of the bildungsroman theme. The tree is blooming, as is Janie’s life. So when Janie looks at the tree, it allows her to think about her life and how it is just getting started. Logan Killicks is a hard working man. So when Janie gets to his house she is immediately

The topic that I chose to do my writing analysis on is the pear tree incident which happened in Book II of Augustine’s Confessions. Augustine and a few of his friends go out at night and like normal teenage boys that are prone to getting into trouble. The friends that Augustine associates with influences Augustine to do immoral acts with them. Augustine felt that he needed to construct stories of the wrongful acts he has committed in his youth for the soul purpose to impress and be accepted by

Well I think the pear tree has two real significant meanings. The first being an allegory on how humans are so easily tempted by sin, and the other relates back to Adam and eve the first sin. Throughout St. Augustine’s’ confessions he places a great reembrace on his sins. He looks back on them all, even going so far back to his baby years when he would sin by crying and fussing disrupting his mother and father. But the reason it the pear tree is significant is because it is Augustine’s first sin

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 be herself, there’s no Nanny telling her to do the dishes or

Hurston’s description of Janie’s vision under the pear tree conveys the ideals of love and intimacy. As shown by the follow description: “She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation. Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp

relationship that Janie is involved in blooms and withers away like the pear tree that symbolizes Janie's life. Janie's grandmother, Nanny, is the first bud on her tree. Nanny raised Janie since she was a little girl. Her grandmother is like a gardener, pruning and shaping the future for her granddaughter. When Nanny sees Janie kissing a boy for the first time, the narrator says "Nanny's head and face looked like the standing roots of some tree that had been torn away by storm. Foundation of ancient power

strength and serve their own individuality. “Two-Part Pear Able”- “ And someone says how horrible... there will be revulsion won’t there?... demand for expulsion..” ( Swenson 88-97). The non-pear tree represents the individual in this part of the poem. The tree has nothing wrong with it, infact its only difference is that it has no pears. “ It is fairly tall tree sturdy, capable looking… exceptionally pleasing,” ( Swenson 9-14). Because the tree is different from its surroundings, it is faced with