ENG 3378 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Formal Language, Nanny, 6 Years

ENG3378- June 6, 2018

Their Eyes Were Watching God

• Loves fishing- get go because she is a women- ot a oe’s plae to go fishig

• Takes it upon herself to say yes rather than no- I will go regardless of your opinion

• Appear to come full circle- but not really full circle if you remain in the same place

• The way a person sounds is how we determine who they really are- this ook does’t egi i

dialet ad does’t last though the etie ook

• She knows exactly what she is doing yet choses not to have the book in dialect

• Why?

• Me’s oie- harsh- unlike you would speak

• Women- softer- more accurate to speech

• Note that it is not a difference of intelligence! Between the genders

• Inverse parallelism of phrasing –not an accident that she does this

• If anything she is saying women have more intellect involved –unassuming

• The o ad so use sas shos a geate o eual authoit  a poe that does’t feel the

need to flaunt it

• Quiet strength- characteristic of female power and strength –female experience

• Unknowable foreshadowing of the end of the book

• What is it that Janie recognizes to even tell her life story to Phoebe

there then it is boring- choosing the highlights- when was the last time you saw someone go to

the bathroom in a movie?

• So what exactly does Janie struggle with? She offers negatives to start rather than positives

• Does’t ko hee to stat ut the stats ith lak of koledge

• Defines herself in the negative as missing parents then positive bouncing baby

• Condition of the first few pages of her life

• “he eeds to fid out ho she is, et he she does she’s peplexed

• Pg.9 raised by the same white family who took her grandmother into slavery after the war-

same thing happened to grandmother- hite a apes ad she gies ith to Jaie’s othe-

when same thing happens to mother difference is she leaves- Janie is left alone