They put her to bed and sent for her married daughter from up around Ocala to come see about her. The daughter came as soon as she could and took Annie Tyler away to die in peace. She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
The thing made itself into pictures and hung around Janie's bedside all night long. Anyhow, she wasn't going back to Eatonville to be laughed at and pitied. She had ten dollars in her pocket and twelve hundred in the bank. But oh God, don't let Tea Cake be off somewhere hurt and Ah not know nothing about it. And God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.
Janie dozed off to sleep but she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red. But pretty soon, he laid all that aside and went about his business dressed all in white. But it was always going to be dark to Janie if Tea Cake didn't soon come back. She got out of the bed but a chair couldn't hold her. She dwindled down on the floor her head in a rocking chair.
- Forshadowing for her dying
- Emphasizes married daughter as in she may be more busy, and therefore she would not be as likely to come see her mother, but does anyway.
- She took her away, but to where? Where could be more peaceful than her own home with her daughter? (Ambiguity)
- Personification to show that her life was not very fulfilling until the last minute.
- She uses "the thing" to show that Janie does not want to think about it, like it is some kind of monster.
- Contrast of laughing and pitying shows that she doesnt want to face the fact that they told her it would happen and admit the people of Eatonville were right.
- Shows her contemplating her options and her changing of thoughts from one thing to another.
- Shows that she is praying to God, and talking directly to Him.
- She is accepting of her mistakes and is willing to give credit to the townspeople.
- Saying that she had been waiting for a long time to be happy and now she doesnt want it to all go away.
- Represents the return of Tea Cake and how she skeptical of Tea Cake at first but then comes to forgive him.
- Imagery of the sun being very colorful at sunrise but then just becoming a bright light as it rises.
- Janie would be very depressed if Tea Cake had left her.
- Janie was too nervous to even sit down
- Shows Janies head was spinning with thoughts and worries
Thomas Woodward.
ReplyDeleteFor your bright yellow highlight about a peaceful death, I think the answer to your question might be that the porch sitters would have talked about how they knew they were right and how Annie Taylor was wrong about going out with all those young men. I think Annie Taylor was ashamed about what happened to her and wanted to escape Eatonville.
I like your analyzation of the last line of the text. I didn't think anything of it but it makes sense that she would be worried. It also supports that she is very worried about Tea Cake
I see what you mean when you say the daughter might be busy but I thought it was comparing the mother and the daughter instead. The mother has jumped from man to man and never seemed to settle. The daughter on the other hand has a husband and has settled. Her daughter also becomes an insult to Annie because her supposedly more successful daughter has to help the Annie out of an unpleasant situation. Also another interesting thing to think about is how old is Annie and how many men has she been with? How many men was the daughter with before she married?
ReplyDeleteI liked how you noticed the part were Janie gives credit to the townspeople, I never noticed that. You had a really good overall analysis of the passage. I never noticed how the rocking chair could be linked to her spinning thoughts. I really like how you came up with that.
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