Journal #7

1. "So Janie began to look around and see people and things she hadn't noticed during the season" (TEWWG, pg. 139).
It feels as if she is starting in the middle of a thought. It leaves the reader wanting to know what exactly was the beginning of this thought that brought her to this. The author uses hadn't which is a contraction which is not formal writing. This leads one to believe that this is in fact one of Janie's thoughts. There is this idea of looking that plays throughout the book. The people look to God. The people look and watch as people go down the road. People give looks of judgement. There is also this idea of people throughout the book, and it makes me wonder if Zora Neale Hurston is trying to make some connection between people, looking, and God.

2. "Janie spread herself between him and the wind and he closed his eyes and let the tiredness seep out of his limbs" (TEWWG, pg. 165). The word and shows up in this sentence 3 times, and it is a fairly short sentence. This gives a sense that Janie is recounting the story and is trying to remember everything. The wording used in this sentence is rather intriguing. Hurston uses the phrase "let the tiredness seep out of his limbs". This phrase could be foreshadowing for when she shoots him because the blood seeps out of his body.

3. "...Sop-de-Bottom spoke out anonymously from the anonymous herd" (TEWWG, pg. 187). The word anonymous is used two times in a row. It is repetitive and gives ambiguousness to the sentence. It makes me wonder if Janie really knew that it was Sop-de-Bottom talking, or if that's just who she guessed it was. I also think that Sop-de-Bottom is an interesting name. It is very unusual, and I would like to know why Hurston decided to call him this. It reminds me of a sponge soaking up the water in the bottom of a bucket, but that's just me.