Journal #3

I meant to post this last night, but ran out of time due to my finger.

1. "On the train the next day, Joe didn't make many speeches with rhymes to her, but he bought her the best things the butcher had, like apples and a glass latern full of candies."
Possibly speaks to the ideals of Janie's grandmother: money confused for love because you need the security of the money.

2. "Where they got off the train at Maitland he found a buggy to carry them over to the colored town right away."
Uses the word colored instead of dark, black, or African-American. Speaks to the possible theme of Janie is "looking through love's rose colored glasses".

3. "'A whole heap uh talk and nobody doin' nothin'. I god, where's de Mayor?' he asked somebody. 'Ah want tuh speak wid de Mayor.'"
God is not capitalized, but Mayor is. Speaks to recurring idea of atheism or a sinister feeling toward religion.

4. "Two men who were sitting on their shoulderblades under a huge live oak tree almost sat upright at the tone of his voice."
Recurring symbol of the tree

5. "So the put on one of her bought dresses and went up the new-cut road all dressed in wine-colored red. Her silken ruffles rustled and muttered about her. The other women had on percale and calico with here and there a headrag among the older ones."
Talking about Janie's beauty and making her sound like the queen among the peasants.