Eyes Journal 4

Read Chapters 7-10

Your journal for tonight is to write a pastiche of Hurston's style.  Using the paragraph on page 84 that starts with, "So Janie began to think of Death [...]," please write a pastiche of the paragraph that shows your understanding of the techniques present.  For example, you will change the character from Janie to someone else and you will choose an abstract noun to personify.  Halfway through the paragraph the narration switches from first person to third person - you should do this too.

Example:

So Lydia started to consider Jealousy.  Jealous, that small creature with the sharpened nails who danced in the shadows of each man's heart.  The deceptive one who spied on your dark thoughts like an opera attender without monocles, and without a seat.  Why would jealousy want to sit, and what secret thought wouldn't reach her...