1. "She couldn't make him look just like any other man to her. He looked like the love thoughts of women. He could be a bee to a blossom-a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung about him. He was a glance from God." (101) This quote takes place recently after Janie has met Tea Cake and they have been spending time together. Janie has been working in the house and the store and she can not stop thinking about Tea Cake. In this passage, I believe that Hurston is using figurative language. She is using figurative language to personify Tea Cake and also to change the atmosphere of the passage. The figurative language that Hurston uses is romantic and that is the atmosphere that is made by this figurative language.
2. "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." (105) This passage occurs after Tea Cake and Janie go to the picnic. The town started noticing them together and began to got mad. Tea Cake and Janie are spending more and more time together, doing everything together, and not caring if anybody else was watching. In this passage, Hurston is using short sentence structure or syntax. She uses these short sentences to give us quick details about Tea Cake and Janie and to also show how much time they are spending together. When I read these sentences, Tea Cake and Janie are repeating subjects, so it helps me to see a point or subject more clearly. It helps me to see how much Tea Cake and Janie's relationship has grown from the first day they met because of how much time they spend together. It also helps me to see that this relationship is better then Janie's previous 2 marriages.
3. "De men wuz talkin' 'bout it in de grove tuhday and givin' her and Tea Cake both de devil. Dey figger he's spendin' on her now in order tuh make her spend on him later." (106) Sam Watson is talking to his wife Pheoby about the gossip. He heard the men from the town judging and gossiping about Tea Cake and Janie. Then he went back home and talked to Pheoby about it. Hurston is using motifs in this passage. The motif that Hurston is using, is the motif of judgement. This motif is seen through out the book, and once again it is seen here in this passage where the men are jumping to conclusions about Tea Cake and Janie. The men are judging the realtionship that Tea Cake and Janie have. This helps me to see the motif of judgement because it is a reoccuring subject in Their Eyes Were Watching God. It affects how I read it because when I see a reoccuring subject, it makes me think more about the subject and try to find out what the author might be trying to say about that subject.
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