Eyes Journal 5

“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 or 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 uf fool, Lawd, lad 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.”

Point of view: I feel like the point of view is third person limited because you know a lot of Janie’s thoughts but, not about anyone else’s thoughts.

Characters: Janie- she is worried about Tea Cake for she hasn’t seen him in a few days and thought either he died or ran off with another women. Tea Cake- during this passage isn’t actually with Janie but he went gambling to make some money for both of them. Annie Taylor- a wealthy lady who married a younger man and that man took her money and ran off and Janie thought she was going to become like Annie Taylor in this passage.  

Figurative Language: When Hurston put the line saying “the sun sending….through the dark.” She is talking about there is a new day and is literally talking about a sun rise and how there are little bits of light coming up before you can actually see the sun.

Syntax/ Punctuation Effect: Hurston uses a lot of commas and descriptive words to get across what she it trying to say and the feeling of importance in the passage.

Organization: Hurston organizes her sentences with short and sweet sentences in the beginning of the passage and longer ones with descriptions broken up with commas later on.

Allusion: Hurston puts in the passage a reference to Eatonville and how Janie didn’t want to go back because she didn’t want to get “pitied” or “laughed at.” I think that is so interesting because when Janie was seeing Tea Cake in Eatonville she didn’t care what others thought and now she is.

Repetition Effect: Hurston repeats “God” and “Lawd” which has the effect of feeling that she is desperate for Tea Cake to come back and that she is very religious.

Sensory Details: During this passage Hurston uses colors in the end to describe how Janie feels. When she uses red it means she loves tea cake and she is mad that he is gone. When Hurston uses white, Janie just wants Tea Cake to come back and be safe and sound. When Hurston uses “chair couldn’t hold her” and “dwindled down” I got images in my head of weakness.

Mood and Atmosphere: For mood I get the feeling that Janie is almost depressed because Tea Cake isn’t back and she thought he has left her for good.

Diction:  Throughout this passage Hurston uses some dialect like “suh”, “uf fool” and “dey”. Using dialect helps make it understand who is actually speaking (narrating) and helps keep you in the story.