Hi! Welcome to the English 4 blog. This is an opportunity for you to continue our discussion away from the classroom, share links that are related to our topics, or ask the classroom community for help with your writing.
Next year many of your college courses will require online participation, so this is good practice.
This first post is about you Hurston essay. I'd like for you to share some ideas that you'd like to write about in your essay. A good place to start would be parts of the novel that you found intriguing and parts of the novel that you found problematic.
Let's hear what you're thinking about!
Next year many of your college courses will require online participation, so this is good practice.
This first post is about you Hurston essay. I'd like for you to share some ideas that you'd like to write about in your essay. A good place to start would be parts of the novel that you found intriguing and parts of the novel that you found problematic.
Let's hear what you're thinking about!
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ReplyDeleteI'd think about writing about voice. After watching the documentary, I was struck by how Hurston's strength came from her voice--and how her academic work and her fiction was focused on learning about other people's voices. This would be cool to explore.
ReplyDeleteIm interested on writing about "love", the different relationships Janie goes through with her husbands. The differences they had with Janie and also the similarities. Including how serious she took the relationships and how she felt about them.
ReplyDeleteKimberly Ortiz
Well I am also thinking about writing about Janie's love experience aswell, and how it helps her grow and gain selfawarness. I will dicuss her view on love and her relationships with each husband.
ReplyDeleteJhovana Barriga
The topic I was thinking writing about was Janie's interpretation about love. I also was thinking of speaking about each one of her relationships with her husbands, and the affect it took upon her. For instance the relationship Janie had with one of her husbands, Tea Cake, made her get a sense of awareness, and so I will go more in to detail about this in my paper.
ReplyDelete* Jhovana Barriga*
I think that i will write about gender because in the book Nanny thinks that Janie has to be with a man her whole life, that she needs to depend on a man but Janie doesn't have the same view. Janie thinks she can be successful by her own. I would like to learn more about this more.
ReplyDeleteI was also interested on writing about Janie's' experiences with love in all of her three marriages and how she felt about her three husbands
ReplyDeleteAs i read the book i found more interest on how the role of Janie as a women is portrayed. I found it to be portrayed as if it is written by Zora so that women that read the book can see how Janie's character is shaped by her experiences and to see that women have an authority figure as well if they speak out.
ReplyDelete- Oscar P.
Was Janie praised for who she was or for the actions she took that helped her realize who she really was???
ReplyDelete-Oscar P.
I agree with Sergio, i think i will write about her role as a women in the book. i think at the beginning of the novel she doesn't know how much power she has, and at the end she realizes that she is as important as men.She gains her spot in society and gains her freedom thanks to the relationships she has with all her different husbands. I think it is interesting how she acts in each relationship.
ReplyDelete-Yamileth Rodriguez
what was very interesting in this novel was how Janie burn al1 her hair rags to illustrate a new beginning and the freedom she was going to get.
ReplyDeleteVirginia Lara
I think that Their Eyes is an ok book but I don't see what the big deal about it is. It's true that when it was first published it was probably more ground breaking but now, in the time I'm growing up in, I fail to see much value int it.
ReplyDeleteCelia
Something else that bugs me about the book is that I can't understand why Hurstin chose to write in the way that she did. I don't mean the dialect because I know she did that to try and make the book seem more aproachable towards African-Americans. But, her writing style and the actual plot of the book just bugs me.
ReplyDeleteCelia
Can anyone give me feedback on the way i set up my essay. I set up my essay on the intro to be just summary about the book and what gender role is. First, second and third paragrah are just two quotes from different authors and what the quotes mean and my opinion. the conclusion is putting everything together and give my opinion.
ReplyDelete-Ricardo Lopez.
@Ricardo, I would start the essay with a something a little more concrete--maybe give us a scenario/hook to help us connect with the concept of gender roles. This could be from "real life," your experience, or from the novel. Then in the next paragraph you could define gender roles and your thesis. Your ideas for your body paragraphs sound like they'll work, but for a 3-5 page essay you'll probably need more than 2 body paragraphs.
ReplyDeleteSo the essays are due Friday right Mr. Anderson. Will we be working on them during the week? Also, will you be willing to sit down with me someday during lunch to go over my essay?
ReplyDeleteDanny Moran
How many quotes do we have to get?
ReplyDeleteWho are some critics that i can use that talk about love in the novel?
Does Janie shooting Tea Cake show her independence, or how she could do niothing to save him but end his life and put him out of his and her misery?
ReplyDeleteDanny M.
I would want to write my topic based on jaines relationships such as the realtions she has had with her past husbands and how it transformed with tea cakes relationship
ReplyDelete-Alex U.
I chose to write about the perspective on "love" because I wanted to talk about the different relationship's Janie has had. The struggles she had to go through. How each husband made her feel and what she got out of each relationship. I also wanted to talk about how love changed her as a human. How it made her more wise and aware of what she really wanted in life. Although her relationships were not as successful as she had expected them to be, or at least with Tea Cake, who was her true love I decided this would be a very good topic.
ReplyDelete-Miriam Ortiz
I agree with Virginia about the rag burning to indicate a new beginning. I also thought that was pretty interesting. I thought that was sort of emotional too.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Oscar about how towards the end of the novel, Janie found her voice and became more of an authority figure.
ReplyDelete-Miriam Ortiz
For my Their eyes were watching God, I decided to write mines about "Love" because Janie I wanted to know why Janie left Logan and why she felt like she was free to do whatever she want. Something I found interesting about the book is: John Parson was looking for clues to figuring out who killed the Yaller Mule. Something that was difficult was why Janie couldn't go to the mule's funeral. Overall It was a great topic to talk about.
ReplyDelete-Brandon Brumfield
One of the quotes I found that was important was on page 9 "Yes, for sure, our Dede here is going to be the millionaire in the family. I find this quote important because Dede and her need money to buy stuff that they need
ReplyDelete"There are the three pictures of the girls, old favorites that are now emblazoned on the posters every November, making these once intimate snapshots seem too famous to be the sisters she knew." (5) I chose this quote because I thought it was interesting how Dede sees her past. She sounds objective almost as if her family no longer belogs to her, rather it belogs to society and how they have chosen to remember her family.
ReplyDelete"Before she knows it, she is setting up her life as if it were an exhibit labeled neatly for those who can read: THE SISTER WHO SURVIVED."(5)
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think that Dede sees her life as an "exhibit"? What does her attitude towards her life seem to be from this quote?
Also the previous quote was mine. "There are the three pictures..."
-Celia M.
ch3
ReplyDelete"DOnt tell anyone:i dont like it here that much.But after we talked Mama into letting me board, i have to pretend." (32). this quote was significant because is shows how she kinda regreat going away with her sister to the school.
it seems like she didnt had no friends and had to write in her diary..
-Valeria Rico
Ch 5
ReplyDelete"For after finding out who Lio was exactly, MAma had forbidden Minerva to bring him into the house." (75) This qoute was significant because it shows how religion is a problem when it comes to love because MInerva is been ask to not see Lio do to the fact that he is ah enemy of the country (state) and is a communist.
THis chapter made think that no matter what your parents tell you to not do you always find the way to see that person you like.
Valeria RIco