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How do you feel about Janie's final confrontation with Joe and her reaction to his death? Was she right to confront him on his deathbed? Do you feel sympathy towards either character? Explain why. The figure of speech "Janie starched and ironed her face" is used on both page 87 and 88 in the novel. A few lines later, Hurston writes "She sent her face to Joe's funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world." Explain how this observation explains why Janie needed to "starch and iron" her face. Later in chapter 9 Janie comes to the realization that her values are different from Nanny's. Explain how they are different. How did Janie see the world compared to how Nanny saw it?
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TEWWG chapters 4 and 5
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In Chapter 4 of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie meets Joe Starks, who is unlike any black man she has ever met. Describe her impressions of him. How is he different than Logan?
Chapter 5 focuses on Joe and Janie’s new life in Eatonville. Joe puts his plans concerning
the town into action. What are some of the things he does when he gets to Eatonville?
How would you characterize Joe on the first two pages of chapter 5? How is he viewed
by the people of the town? An emotional divide starts to show between Joe and Janie in
this chapter. Re-read this quote from chapter 5 “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.” In what context is this line delivered?
What’s Janie’s emotional reaction to that line? How does this symbolize Joe and Janie’s
relationship and his ideas about her worth? Describe their different approaches to their
new position in town. Describe the scene around the lamplighting. Does it remind you of
anything? By the end of chapter 5 there is a shift in the way the town perceives Joe and
his possessions. How do the people of the town come to regard him? Re-read the last
paragraph of chapter 5. How does that paragraph summarize the relationship between
Joe and the people of the town?
the town into action. What are some of the things he does when he gets to Eatonville?
How would you characterize Joe on the first two pages of chapter 5? How is he viewed
by the people of the town? An emotional divide starts to show between Joe and Janie in
this chapter. Re-read this quote from chapter 5 “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.” In what context is this line delivered?
What’s Janie’s emotional reaction to that line? How does this symbolize Joe and Janie’s
relationship and his ideas about her worth? Describe their different approaches to their
new position in town. Describe the scene around the lamplighting. Does it remind you of
anything? By the end of chapter 5 there is a shift in the way the town perceives Joe and
his possessions. How do the people of the town come to regard him? Re-read the last
paragraph of chapter 5. How does that paragraph summarize the relationship between
Joe and the people of the town?
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