ENGL 2802 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Salix Alba, Aspirin, Constipation
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The adventures of a black girl in search god (pt. Soil - pg 19: sugary sweet to rainey. Pg 20: yearns for chalk to dry the blood inside her. Makes a connection between aspirin and white willow bark: makes a connection to a tree growing inside her (suggests fertility), also the holes in her stomach. Constipation: physical problem but also a psychological hanging on to janie. The tree in her stomach: the tree of her heritage and the ancestors. Pg 51: wants to be a willow, an aspirin tree. The willow tree: common at cemeteries, imagery of death. Pg 64: michael suggests that she had an a air which is one of the reasons they split up. Rainey replies that she never had sex with anyone since it"s janie"s home. Janie"s resting place is distinguished by the wild owers, janie"s home is in the womb (where rainey can protect her)
