Eyes Journal 5 and 6

Good class discussion today. 

Please read through chapter 9 tonight.

In lieu of our conversation about Joe's motivation today, consider how Hurston characterizes Joe in the last vignette in chapter 6.  What does Hurston suggest about Mrs. Tony Robbins?  How does Mrs. Tony Robbins compare to Janie?  What about Joe and Tony?  How should we perceive the men on the porch? What do the men seem to be concerned with?  Does Hurston accuse the men or excuse them or something else?

Also,  I won't be in class tomorrow, but Ms. Hutanu will.  She knows the text, so don't be afraid to ask questions.
Please be prepared to discuss the journal, and examine Hurston's personification of abstract nouns. 

Journal 6 for Thursday due Friday
Part A:  Using the passage and notes from class, identify two to four techniques with which to create a thesis. 
What - technique + how - how Hurston uses the technique = effect - what do we learn from this


 Create topic sentences that support the thesis by specifying your argument.

Part B:
Also, write a pastiche of Hurston's style of the personification of death passage.  A pastiche is an artistic work that imitates another work or artist.  For your pastiche, you will be using the paragraph in chapter 7 that starts with, "So Janie began to think of Death [...]" (84).  Please make note of Hurston's stylistic choices (techniques, sentence structure, dialect...) as you read and then write a pastiche of the entire paragraph.  It needn't be perfect, but your reader should hear an echo of Hurston's style from your creative passage.  I find it easiest to go sentence by sentence for this.  To get started, consider the the sentence structure of the first sentence -will you keep the conjunction?  Change the character and choose an abstract noun to personify.  You will also need to give your character a dialect later in the paragraph.

 Example:

So Lydia started to consider Jealousy.  Jealousy, that small creature with the sharpened nails who danced in the shadows of each man's heart.  The deceptive one who spied on 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?  She peers through the facades that everyone creates.  Peers directly and intimately never resting with her nails clicking, searching for the first crack to let her in. 

Abstract nouns you could consider using:

Revenge, giggles, time, escapism, lust, morale, pride, or any other that strikes your interest.


Have fun with the creative writing.