Journal Blood Wedding

To what extent would you agree..

I think that plot should be more valued than style in the work. To me the plot of the story or play is important because it is what the whole concept of the idea revolves around. Without a plot I doubt the story would be well written and had any meaning to it. Style does come into play to give the story or play it's own individual feel to it. Like in Wild Duck the whole plot of past events effecting future decisions seems to be key throughout the play which gave the play a meaning and with style element it helped the play evolve and become more elaborate. With just style it seems to only give the play a concept but no real idea behind it all. In Blood Wedding it seems plot does have a key role throughout the play. The whole play revolves around a plot which sets the story and gives it something to revolve around. It doesn't just set an idea and just use  style to make it up. I don't know to me it seems that plot does have a big role in plays or stories. Style does come in to play to help evolve and make the play more elaborate but plot does seem to be the key in it all.

Journal 4 TWD: Responses

Kevin Li:
I have to say this is deep. To me, you seem to be giving insight on the daughter being blind and how happiness and the good of the situation should be achieved rather then seeing the burden that she maybe in the end if she does go blind... The daughter will be protected no matter what the consequences maybe. Her life is important to them so what needs to be done will be done.

Tania Predovic:
I agree that so far there seems to be just a 3rd person narrative going on through out the play. Do you think that if the audience didn't know specifically each scandal that was going on in the book, but we some what had a vague concept of them, do you think that it would change our perspective on each character? Ibsen seems to give a lot of foreshadowing throughout the play. You think that possibly this foreshadowing helps clarify and solidify each character?

Ben Webster:
I like your ideas and concepts here you got Ben. It has made me start thinking now about other concepts we have gone over in the book and maybe that they each have a deeper meaning to them then what meets the eye. It makes me want to dig deeper and discover what other context could what I have read possibly mean.

Journal 3 TWD

Themes and ideas

So for in the wild duck there are a few reoccurring themes/motifs and ideas that are repeated. The first one being lies. It seems that throughout the play so far, lies tend to be kept from one another to either protect a person or use that lie to use against someone. Lies to me tend to be seen as something that are bad something you would use to make someone happy because you don't want to see them sad or just to keep something really hurtful away from them. Also with the theme of lies there are secrets which could be related to that also. There is the reoccurring motif of a wild duck. This could probably show how Hedvig is isolated off from the world just like the wild duck because her parents want to protect her because of her eyesight. Isolating her allows them to manipulate and condition her the way the want to but the main reason they keep her so coped up is to protect her in general.  Also there is water. Water could represent and relate to like a sailor out at sea. Like the family they are like a sailor at dock. They seem to be isolated which could be a good or bad thing depending on the situation. Anyway by being isolated it allows them to solve all their problems right then and their without causing other reprocutions from anything. So as a sailor moves out to see I see that as the family having to let go of their lies and secrets and finally come clean of what they done. Finally when the sailor is out and sailing across the ocean it shows how the family is free and careless of what has happened in the past but now they are looking into the future.

Journal 2 TWD

Personal convictions

The Wild Duck seems to touch on secret and lies that are kept from family members. Not exactly sure if the question is asking this but I think that play seems portray kind like today in society how people lie and keep secrets either to hurt someone or just to keep for themselves cause they know that that secret could ruin them. Not really sure if this is correct at all but In the Wild Duck secrets seem to be kept cause the father doesn't want to let the son know what he is doing. Like when his friend gets married or paying for his photography school its all a secret. In society secrets seem to be used to bring someone down or ruin them permanently. Like with embarrassing videos and pictures ect. Secrets come out to ruin, blah. But the thing is I guess the play is trying to portray how secrets seem to have a snowball effect on what is going to happen next in the play. It seems that from one small thing kept from another person may cause a huge scandal that may tear apart everyone and just make everyone split or not trust anyone anymore. It may even just ruin someone. So from this prompt not exactly knowing if I answered the question correctly The Wild Duck seems to show how secrets and lies maybe the downfall of someone if the trust is not outspoken first and revealed to everyone

Journal 1 TWD

"Visual action"

I agree that visual action is important on the stage and in speech. On the stage visual action allows the audience to see physically what is happening throughout the story. In speech the visual action allows the reader to imagine what may be going on during that time in the play or what is happening.

In Oedipus there is a lack of stage direction which lets the reader imagine on what, where and when specific events maybe happening through out the play. Descriptive visual occurs though, for example when Oedipus pokes his eyes out, one is able to visually see what even is occurring and able to cringe from the action that is read.

In The Wild Dick there is a lot of stage direction going on that allows the reader to specifically know every little detail of when, what, and where the event may be occurring. These stage directions help visually allow the audience know where everything seems to be taking place and not have to exactly use their imagination to know what is going on. In the text there isn't so much of visual speech but the constant stage direction seems to make up for the fact that you don't need visual speech in speech to know what is going on I don't know.

Journal 3 Oedipus

Diary Entry

Dear Diary,

   At the moment I can not see what I am writing so what ever appears on this piece of paper I hope it does make sense to whoever finds this and reads it. It has a been a day or so now, I'm not exactly sure since both night and day have blended together into one now, that I have been blind and been relying on nothing but my other 5 senses and the help of servants around me. This week has just been a grand week you know? I find out that my prophecy has come true. I killed my dad, slept with my mom, and had my sister. It's pretty great you know? I mean, who would have guessed that this I mean all of this would come true? I tried so hard and to believe that this and the prophecy would never come true. It seems that it all just slipped right under my nose. I don't see how I was able to miss all of this and be blind to the reality of what was in front of me. Earlier today I asked Creon to banish me from the kingdom I can't stand being here and remember all the things I have done. I wish that I could kill myself but I just can't seem to bring myself to do such a thing. Banishment seems to be the better option and a way to cope with what I have done to myself. Oh how I wish that I may just forget all of this. As leave and head out of the kingdom I begged to see my daughters for the last time. I will miss them so dearly, they were honestly the jewels to my heart. I will never forget them not until Zeus finally takes my soul. So before I part from the city I decided to write this to make some of the emotions flee away but I fear that I have just written jibberish on a piece of paper that will not make sense to those that have sight. I am off now to leave and be gone with this city. Farewell and may whatever the prophecy holds for me in the future let it be known that nothing is worse than what has happened to me thus far.

With love,
Oedipus

Journal 2 Oedipus

Readers are attracted to moments of intensity in a writer's work.

In Oedipus The King there are a number of moments of intensity throughout the play. The part that caught my eye was when Oedipus believed that he should not see anymore and jabs his eyes out.

"He rips off her brooches, the long gold pins holding her robes---and lifting them high, looking straight up into the points, he digs them down the sockets of his eyes, crying..."

So from this entire passage. Oedipus has finally found about the whole prophecy and how he has been doomed from the beginning. Having incest and killing his father really takes a toll on him. It effects him so much that he stabs his eyes out cause he feels that his eyes have been tainted from what he has seen and experienced that he should no more, see what goes on around him. By making this scene so emotional it shows how tragic the actual situation is. It gives the emphasis on how Oedipus may in the beginning known what was going on but never actually thought twice about it. When the event and prophecies actually come true and pass right under his nose, he is ashamed in what he has done and gorges out his eyes. From there on emotions seem to be feeling sympathy for Oedipus but at the same time you may feel he deserves it cause he acted arrogant because he was able to solve the riddle of the sphinx which made him feel like a god. Anyway from this passage the other has conveyed emotionally how the blinding of Oedipus is key and a climax to the whole play.

Questions:
1) Why did Sophocles reveal the truth way before the end?
2) Does the interpretation of the author of knowing how much Jocasta knows about the prophecy effect or mean anything significant.

Journal 1 Oedipus

Point of View/Characters

In Oedipus The King Sopheocles seems to use 3rd person narration throughout the first part of the play. By using this 3rd person perspective it shows how the characters are speaking indirectly to the audience but not to each other. Using 3rd person speaker there doesn't seem to be a narrative voice to it in the background. It's just blunt straightforward text between the people who are talking to one another. In the first part of the play the characters get to know a little bit about each character who show up. Each are presented in a different way. One may be introduced through dialect of a character who describe them or they just up and one must assume who the character is and the main role they play throughout the play. Through the tone that each character presents I think that is how the author tries to convey them to us on whether we should like or not like them. Depending on our first impression of them, if we decide to like or hate them that is completely our opinion due to the context of the book. What the author writes and how we may interpret it, one person may like, for example, Oedipus as being King and others may say why is Oedipus King? I don't even like him the way the author is trying to convey him.

Journal 1 Brave New World Topic C

In Brave New World, the author sets the story as everyone is made artificially. Everyone is a perfect replica of everyone else. There are certain rankings and specific jobs and places that each person is given but everyone in general can not function without each other. Special medicine is given to keep everyone happy and free of any other human emotions. People are conditioned to certain extents and are taught values which makes the perfect society. Some hope that the author gives? There is the The Savage who has a completely different mind set then those of the Dystopian society. He has different morals and different perspectives on his own ideas. Such as love, when him and Lenina are together love is defined as two different meanings between the two. Or the fact that God is some old thing locked up and put away and a new religion is formed to stay with the present. All these new ideas from being out in the open on a reservation to being brought back to the perfect society and having to become accustomed to the different way of life style is a big leap and challenge for the Savage.

Journal 2 Brave New World Topic B

    Bernard feels like his trapped in the society. Being to perfect, Bernard wants to break out of the boundaries and be a normal person and a complete robot and a made human organism. What Bernard does to break away from the pack is, he stops taking the medications which allow a person to be constantly happy and worry free. With this medication it makes the person a complete android having no other emotions which leads to being perfect. By not taking the meds it allows him to be normal which is a plus but during the ceremonial events he doesn’t experience any of the “happenings” like the rest of the Alphas. Also by not taking the meds, Bernard tends to lash out more and act out on his emotions instead of being able to control and handle them on his own. In the end since Bernard doesn’t take his meds he eventually is told and threaten that he would be shipped off to Iceland because he is a not a perfect replica in the dystopian society.

Journal 1 Brave New World

Topic A

    “The swiftest crawlers were already at their goal. Small hands reached out uncertainly, touched, grasped, unpetaling the transfigured roses, crumpling the illuminated pages of the books. The Director waited until all were happily busy. Then, “Watch carefully.” he said. And, lifting his hand, he gave the signal.
    The Head Nurse who was standing by a switchboard at the other end of the room, pressed down a little lever.
    There was a violent explosion. Shriller and ever shriller, a siren shrieked. Alarm bells maddeningly sounded.
    The children started, screamed; their faces were distorted with terror.
    [...] The nurses obeyed; but at the approach of the roses, at the mere sight of those gaily-coloured images of pussy and cock-a-doodle-doo and baa-baa black sheep, the infants shrank away in horror; the volume of their howling suddenly increased...” (21)

From this passage it shows how at an early age, babies are conditioned to like or dislike certain things resulting in no originality. With the lack of individuality, children are more likely to be one in the same causing no hassle of trying to be different and unique. Without the uniqueness of individuality, the perfect society is formed. Being the same everyone has no reason to be raised or demoted in the standards of society. It allows the society to put you in a specific class, place and leave you there without you being able to do anything about it. Once you are made and put into that standard that society has stereotype you as, you will not become anything better or worse. What it reveals though is that being conditioned to be afraid of certain things, they won’t be able to become smarter, if afraid of books, and rebel and try to cause a riot of how this perfect society isn’t all that it seems to be. Conditioning breaks the whole idea of uprising and seeing how what’s in front of you isn’t as beautiful as once thought.

Journal 8 The Stranger

In my opinion at first I have to say, I literally had to force myself to read this book over the summer. I did not enjoy reading this book at all. It was boring and to straight forward. While reading it over the summer I had no idea what to mark cause it was hard enough to just even read it. When I reread it in class again and went into a deeper analysis of the book, it kind of rubbed off on me. I don't hate the book but yet I don't like it. Would I read this book again? Probably not but it was some what interesting to a certain extent.

Journal 7 The Stranger

Personal indulgences and how Mersault changes.

Quotes:
"I smoked a couple of cigarettes..." (22)
"... I'd drunk too much wine, and I woke up." (26)
"...I went downstairs to buy some bread" (24)
"I really thought we would get married" (50)
"She lay down right next to me and the combined..." (51)
"I've got some blood sausage." (28)
"No there was no way out..." (81)
"I didn't even have to think." (88)
"I had the urge to be on..." (76)
"But another, it killed time." (77)
"There were the cigarettes, too." (78)
"Little by little..." (79)
"I wanted to squeeze her shoulders..." (78)

Journal 6 The Stranger

1. Why does Mersault always get dizzy or tired when he is in some kind of situation?

2. What is the meaning of cigarettes and alcohol in the book?

3. Do women in the book represent some kind of symbol throughout the story?

4. Why does Camus use different sentence structures in part 1 and part 2?

5. Does the color red, as its shades get darker and fills the whole sky throughout the story, represent how his past maybe taking over or something else?

Answered:
1. Camus uses the significance of Salamon's dog to show and analogy of how society restrains Mersault in life. Maybe?(Taylor F.)
2. Camus separates the book after he shoots the Arab to show how while he is in jail he develops and loses his indulgences and changes as a person. (Tania P.)
3.Camus uses short, choppy sentences to show how Mersault is not able to comprehend with his emotions. (Matt M.)
4.Mersault's pointless lifestyle could be seen as him just preoccupying himself from the world and just filling it with sex, alcohol and drugs. A distraction of what is really in front of him. (Anothony N.)
5.Camus shows how without motivation, human experience can seem meaningless and lead to the killing of a human being. (Tanner B.)

Journal 5 The Stranger

I think Camus splits the novel in two because it shows how at first in the beginning what Mersault was like and then after while he was in jail. In the beginning he was a blunt straight forward guy. He was into sex, drugs, and alcohol. In other words he would always have indulgences preoccupying him. He never was decisive about anything and he usually just went with whatever happened. During the second part, Mersault loses those indulgences. He is gradually taken away from them. What he has left is just thoughts and memories and with those he ponders. Sentences become longer, they are not as blunt but a little more descriptive. Both parts do include him not believing in God and more in the last part of the book he tells how life is really meaningless as he gets closer to death

Journal 4 The Stranger

6 Questions

1. Those the beach and the water represent an escape from reality?
2. Why those Mersault always regard the sun over head?
3. Can the bus represent something?
4. What does it mean when he says "they didn't check my statement?"
5. Why shoot the Arab when he didn't provoke at all?
6. Why does Marie all of a sudden talk about time while they are eating lunch?

Journal 3 The Stranger

Metamorphosism

1. The change in one person from birth until death
2. Life is a journey, and through that journey one must grow, change, and develop into something significant
3. To not change would result in being the same and not developing in oneself
4. You create your own journey in life. What ever your actions are you must be ready to fend off what life has to give you back as a consequence
5. Life has meaning but it is unknown
6. There is no higher power that toys with you, you decide what you do with your life
7. Take a hold of what you do with your life, you are the one who controls your destiny

Journal 2 The Stranger

In my opinion I would say the Matthew Ward translation has more literary value. He uses words that relate to Mersault and the reader for example the very first word, "Maman." Using words like maman, mom, momma makes it feel like there is a connection between Mersault and his mom. Rather then saying mother which seems to formal and there doesn't seem to be a son and mother connection. What Ward also does is use more of complete sentences then short blunt straight to the point sentences like in the other translation. There is also a change in metric system, maybe used to relate more to the readers who are not familiar with using kilometers.

I would change the title to more of like Evolving. At first Mersault in the beginning is some what indecisive and is usually fulfilling himself with all of these indulgences. As part 2 comes around the indulgences go away and he is able to decide things. He is more focused on his memories and thoughts rather then trying to fulfill himself.

Journal 1 The Stranger

Symbols/motifs

Characterization

Setting

Repeating literary techniques

Anything I find to be notable that does not fit into the previous categories

Journal 10

  In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Hurston shows how men use physical and verbal abuse against the protagonist to assert their dominance.

"Aw you know Ah'm gwine chop de wood fuh yuh. Even if you as stingy as you can be wid me. Yo' Grandma and me myself done spoilt yuh now, and Ah reckon Ah have tuh keep on wid it." (26)

"Thank yuh fuh yo' compliments, but mah wife don't know nothin' 'bout no speech-makin'. Ah never married her for nothin' lak dat. She's uh woman and her place is in de home." (43)

"Don't aim tuh tell yuh! Ah aims tuh keep yuh in de dark all de time. If you'se smart lak you let on you is, you kin find out."

"If you'd git yo' mind out de streets and keep it on yo' business maybe you could git somethin' straight sometimes." (70)

"Dat's 'cause you need tellin'," he rejoined hotly. "It would be pitiful if Ah didn't. Somebody got to think for women and chillun and chickens and cows. I god, they sho don't think none theirselves." (71)

"Aw naw they don't. They just think they's thinkin'. When Ah see one thing Ah understands ten. You see ten things and don't understand one." (71)

" I god almighty! A woman stay round uh store still she got old as Methusalem and still can't cut a little thing like a plug of tobacco! Don't stand dere rollin' yo' pop eyes at wid yo' rump hangin' neraly to yo' knees!" (78)

Before the week was over he had whipped Janie. Not because her behavior justified his jealousy, but it relieved him in possession. No brutal beating at all. He just slapped her around a bit to show he was boss. (145)

journal 9

  Screams rang throughout the house, the pounding of foot steps echoed against the wall, and cries for help were muted by the air. Mary tried to run around the house, avoiding the consequences of her actions and trying to make everything all right. Expensive china flew beside her and barely missed shattering against her head. "I am zick and zired of you nou lisening to me and sass talking me zack every time I zalk to you. Do you znot realize what I have to do zor you, to give zou everything that zou need?" Mark screamed while flipping the coffee table against the wall. "Mary come zere znow, stop zunning away and growz a pair." Mary stopped in her tracks, tears streaming down from her eyes and her make up smeared everywhere. Turning around she says, "Mark I am zone with all zhe crap that you zave given me for the last 5 years, if you zan't handle me leaving zou that's not my problem it's zours." Boiling with anger Mark starts walking towards Mary. Backing up slowly Mary tries to reach for the knife on the kitchen counter, "Mark zou think that by hitting a woman zou can be all zhigh and mighty zhuh? Well guess what, zou're wrong."Mark screams and runs towards Mary with his fist held high, Mary lashed out with her knife and stabs Mark in the chest. Shocked, Mark looks down in awe not able to comprehend on the even that just occurred. Surprised herself Mary looks at Mark with bulging eyes, tears streaming down her face, and collapses on the floor. "Zoh my god Mark... Zi'm..." Words couldn't form from Mary's mouth, Mark fell to the ground next to Mary weeping and sobbing and regretting what she had done.

Theme: physical abuse from the male to show dominance over the female figure.
I used tone I believe at the beginning of the pastiche where I explained what was going on in the scene. I used some dialect to let the characters explain on what they are going through, just like Hurston to show some life and explain the character a bit. I used setting to explain where and what was going on. Just like Hurston she gives a setting to tell what and where the story is happening.

journal 8

"Janie wanted to ask Hezekiah about Tea Cake, but she was afraid he might misunderstand her and thing she was interested. In the first place he looked to young for her. Must be around twenty-five and here she was around forty. Then again he didn't look like he had too much. Maybe he was hanging around to get in with her and strip her of all that she had. Just as well if she never saw him again. He was probably the kind of man who lived with various women but never married. Fact is, she decided to treat him so cold if he ever did foot the place that he'd be sure not to come hanging around there again."
Looks like Hurston is using simple sentences, showing Janie's inner thoughts on what she wants to say. This technique shows how she wants to get to know more about Tea Cake. Possibilities on what kind of person he could be and some crush she has on him? A clear idea on what is going on.

"So he didn't come that night and she laid in bed and pretended to think scornfully of him.  'Bet he's hangin' round some jook or 'nother.  Glad Ah treated him cold.  Whut do Ah want wid some trashy nigger out de streets?  Bet he's livin' wid some woman or 'nother and takin' me for uh fool.  Glad Ah caught myself in time.'  She tried to console herself that way."
Hurston uses apostrophe, insight on thinking? Janie is talking to herself and we as the readers can see what she is thinking. This allows a better connection with the reader and the character with the story.

"Tea Cake and Janie gone hunting.  Tea Cake and Janie gone fishing.  Tea Cake and Janie gone to Orlando to the movies.  Tea Cake and Janie gone to a dance.  Tea Cake making flower beds in Janie's yard and seeding the garden for her.  Chopping down that tree she never did like by the dining room window.  all those signs of possession.  Tea Cake in a borrowed car teaching Janie to drive.  Tea Cake and Janie playing checkers; playing coon-can; playing Florida flip on the store porch all afternoon as if nobody else was there.  Day after day and week after week."
Hurston uses short sentences here in this passage. By using short sentences it gives detail on both Tea Cake and Janie. It gives a some what clear view on what they are doing together and how they are spending their time together?

Journal 7 (...This sounded better in my head)

Then Edgar began to think about Life. Life, that mysterious spirit which holds an endless amount of surprises living up North. The unsuspected one who lives up all high and mighty like a skyscraper. Who says that Life has limits to it? He stands in his high house that looks over the world. Standing tall and mighty waiting to manipulate those around him and ready to change any course of action. Standing there watching over before there use to be a before and after. He had seen the leaves all scattered across the yard. He was excited and intrigued too. Oh Edgar! He ought not to have to deal with this himself. He send Sally to come play, but Edgar said No. No one could understand something as complex as this. He'll be alright as soon as this passes over. He wasn't going to pass out like he thought he would. He wasn't going to do anything like that at all. Well that was what he thought. Sally told him different, so he knew. If she hadn't, he would soon figure it out, people were going to see all the leaves scattered everything. Those who would never step forward, came through and played around. Laying down and waiting. Seeing that death loomed over their heads, and at any moment it would strike.

"Death, that strange being with the huge square toes who lived way in the West. The great one who lived in the straight house like a platform without sides to it, and without a roof. What need has Death for a cover, and what winds can blow against him? He stands in his high house that overlooks the world. Stands watchful and motionless all day with his sword drawn back, waiting for the messenger to bid him come. Been standing there before there was a where or a when or a then. She was liable to find a feather from his wings lying in her yard any day now. She was sad and afraid too. Poor Jody! He ought not to have to wrassle in there by himself. She sent Sam in to suggest a visit, but Jody said No. These medical doctors wuz all right with the Godly sick, but they didn't know a thing about a case like his. He'd be all right just as soon as the two-headed man found what had been buried against him. He wasn't going to die at all. That was what he thought. But Sam told her different, so she knew. And then if he hadn't, the next morning she was bound to know, for people began to gather in the big yard under the palm and china-berry trees. People who would not have dared to foot the place before crept in and did not come to the house. Just squatted under the trees and waited. Rumor, the wingless bird, had shadowed over the town."

~ Death is perceived as a bird (a crow possibly) or probably a god who is able to go anywhere and everywhere with no protection needed. It watches over waiting to strike and take those who are about to die. Death has no boundaries so nothing is able to leave his sight of judgment.

~Jody is the only one stated "that said", to remind the reader maybe that she is the one telling the story.

There is the capitalization on No to emphasize emotion portrayed from Jody

~Uses dialect of "wuz" to show that this passage is mostly narration?

~Personifies death as maybe a character creating a erie feeling in the passage?

~trees is used again in this passage to maybe symbolize how it is used as protection to hide oneself from death approaching?

Journal 5

In There Eyes Were Watching God,  Zora Neale Hurston uses the plot of telling the story from ending to finish to show how personal development is gained through oneself.

Journal 4

Pattern #1
Trees: I've noticed that trees have been a reoccurring pattern. They could symbolize like a superior power that is watching over them or it could be a sign of protection or a sign of how Janie could be branching out.

Pattern #2
Sun: Sun is also a reoccurring pattern I noticed. The sun could represent a higher power that is watching over her like God. Something that just hangs over her like a superior power, having dominance over her.

Pattern #3
Flock of birds (ravens): Something I noticed, a flock of birds. Not sure if it's something that is actually reoccurring. It could stand for the town people? Something about a group of people riot or what not?

Journal 3

 Part 1
William "Count" Basie

 William Basie was an award winning jazz pianist and composer. He won up to four Grammy Hall of Fame Awards and formed the famous band Count Basie Orchestra. He helped bring a few stars into the spotlight and was an actor in a few movies such as Sugar Chile Robinson and Billie Holiday. William Basie was an important jazz band leader of his time.

Part 2
Asian Dialect

Pronunciation:
~er---> ah
~ i ----> y
~the ---> da

Words:
~ incorrect spelling
~present tense use of words
~not specific

Grammar:
~ fragment/choppy sentences
~stuttering
~dropping letters and adding random letters in its place

Part 3
William Basie and Miss Swan...

One day William Basie invited Miss Swan to take a walk on the beach, "why don’t we go to the beach and take a stroll?" With a delighted look in her eyes Miss Swan replies, "AYE we go to beach and walk."
After awhile William suggest that they grab a bite to eat, "How about after we grab a bite to eat?" With a dissatisfied look her eyes Miss Swan says, "Go eat now, I don’t care you hungry or not we go eat ."
Grabbing a quick bite of ice cream and pretzels William and Miss Swan head back on to the beach and start walking together. "You enjoying our time together?" William asks, " I like when we spend da time togethahhh" Miss Swan replies happily.
Seeing the pier up ahead William asks, "How about we go to the pier and ride the roller coaster?" Ecstatic Miss Swan jumps for joy and says, "Go pier now and go on da rollah cohster."
After riding multiple times on the roller coaster William asks if Miss Swan would like to play a carnival game, "Oh look lets play that game and win a stuffed animal." Being all proud Miss Swan says, "I play, you watch, I get you stuff animal."
As the day was ending William decides its time to take Miss Swan home. "Time to take you home now," William says. Exhausted Miss Swan agrees, "We go home now i go take nap."
Being a gentleman William walks Miss Swan to her front door and bids her a farewell, "I hope you enjoyed this wonderful time we had together cause I know I did." Satisfied with her day Miss Swan replies, "When we spend da time together my heart go BOOM BOOM BOOM ... I like you."

THE END

Journal 2

"She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. 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 form 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 and languid"


~how is a bee getting nectar related to getting married?
~metaphoric with nature and marriage?
~very descriptive in the first sentence, not too vague like the first paragraph in chapter 1
~bee, flower, and tree as symbol of matrimony?
~why so descriptive of the bee going into the flower?
~some foreshadowing of weddings?
~Janie isn't referred till the last sentence
~relaxed, calm writing
~some passion?
~lots of "B" words: bee, breeze, bearing, bloom. ect
~paragraph shows Janie innocence?
~bees could be a symbol of people
~strong emotions shown throughout paragraph
~tree could show Janie branching out
~who summoned her to behold the revelation?

Journal 1

  If I could tell my life story to someone, I would tell it to someone who I was close to personally but they in general don't me on a personal level... if that makes sense? The only reason I would tell them though is, I believe that they can handle on what I've been through and can see that there is more then meets the eye for to me. To tell my story I would start from the very beginning, unlike Zora Neale who starts it from the end, and work my way to what I am today. I would go through each life event that has happened to me, describe what I have been through in my life and how it has effected me to become the person I am. I start from the beginning because, for me I can never start a story from the end and work backwards to the very beginning. Where would my end be anyway? My story begins as me being a teenager in high school as a junior... that doesn't really work out for me. My life is still not complete to start off with a story from the end. Maybe when I'm old and have grand kids, that's when I'll start off my life story from the end and work my way to the beginning. Very repetitive answer but like I said I would tell my story to someone who I was close to on a personal level but they in general don't know me on a personal level. I would start form the very beginning and work my way up to the end instead of the opposite where I start from the end and work my way backwards to the beginning.