Journal #3

Five quotations
1. "Yeah, Matt, dat mule so skinny till de women is usin' his rib bones fuh uh rub-board, and hangin' things out on his hock-bones tuh dry"(pg 52) Hyperbole

2. "Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun" (pg 51) Imagery and maybe personification?

3. "Nobody had ever thought of street lamps and some of them said it was a useless notions" (pg 44) The street lamp is a symbol (human power over god)

4. "You'se uh stinkin' lie, Sam, yo' feet ain't mates. Y-y-y-you!"(pg 52) Dialogue that aided showing that the character was upset

5. "Five dollars" Joe rolled his cigar in his mouth and rolled his eyes away indifferently. "If dat mule is wuth somethin' to you, Brother Mayor, he's wuth mo' to me" (pg 57) foil

Analysis
3. The third quotation is important to the book because the street lamp acts as a symbol for human's and an individual's power over god. Later in the text Joe gives a speech about how the sun goes up, and down, as a result of the "sun-maker's" actions, which I think is a symbol for God. This process is entirely out of the individuals control and in a larger sense out of human control. The street lamp acts as humans taking that power back from God, seeing as the sun provides light, but now humans don't need to sun to have light. This plays into the recurring struggle with God that the characters in this book have. Especially Janie, so I think it is interesting that Joe is the builder of the street lamp and symbolically defies God while Janie is on her own journey to defy God and take back control. I think Zora Neale Hurston put this in as to contrast the two journeys

5. The fifth quotation is important because the foil shows the difference between Joe and the rest of the people that live in the town. Cigars are generally associated with class, and in this case serves as evidence that Joe is on a different level than the rest of the people. I think Zora Neale Hurston put this in to show that when certain people get some power back from God, they themselves believe that they are more powerful than others. Basically they forget where they came from, their roots. I also think that Hurston put this interaction specifically to show that when people let power go to their head bad things happen, for example Janie enjoys talking with the people in the town and Joe doesn't want her because he thinks they are better than them and then Joe dies.