What Is Art? by Leo Tolstay

Art is what the common man as well the rich man can dwendle on in the future. Everyone has their own way of looking at art and decoding what they love, also what they are most interested in. The art of the future is nationwide, expressed in many ways, and has many techniques or forms that are used to create the art. In the future an artist may have a hard time understanding what he or she creates at times. The art museums of the world will be where all the future artistic works of unfamous artists will be one day or another.

Cathedral by Raymond Carver

The narrorator, the husband has become uncomfortable with his wife and her visitor she invited over. The husband also is jealous of his wife as well. He isnt satisfied with his work, and doesnt want to make small talk with the blind visitor. He would rather sit back, keep to himself and observe everything and everyone in the household. He feels left out of his wife's part of life when she had begin to know the blind man, the visitor. He feels alienated, lonely, and unable to communicate with his wife. Overall he is a man who needs help and he needs to talk to his wife about his feelings that have to do with her previous life without him. If he doesnt get any help he probably will end up hurting himself, his wife or both at the same time somehow. When the blind man assists the husband in drawing he still didnt feel confident as of yet.

Relationships in " A Thousand Acres" by Jane Smiley.

Bernadette Miner Miner 1
20th Century Fiction
Mr. Joyce
November 18, 2007

Relationships in A Thousand Acres

There are relationships everywhere you look. Events, personal friends and family, or accidental occurrences create or enhance the relationships and effect how it goes throughout relationships. The relationships may be friendly, romantic, or companionship ( for many reasons ) . In Jane Smiley’s novel A Thousand Acres, the relationships that are created have some dysfunctional value involved. When Ginny, Rose, and Caroline Cook’s mother passed away from cancer, their closeness with their father changed due to the sexual and mental abuse preformed on Caroline’s older sisters. Many of the memories that was finally revealed from the unconscious state of mind was so unbearable to remember that they brought out the truth the sisters were looking for. The truth was to remember what their father really had done to them, to close the circle of destruction and let them move on with new relationships or the reconciliation of the old ones.

Ginny had problems with her marriage right from the start. She had so much anger that she let life turn into a series of guilt-ridden events that she was not remorseful for. These events were her childhood raping by her father Larry Cook, the affair with Jess Clark, the five miscarriages, and finally the separation from her husband Ty. She unlike Rose was only cold toward herself and could not fight back. Ginny tries to reason with everyone, be forgiving to all and use all points of view in any situation. She became angry when she realized what she had endured as a child from her father. Over and over again her rage toward her father turned into self doubt and guiltiness with the failure of her fathers expectations. An instance of this was when on a stormy night Ginny stood mute and without resentment despite her father cursing her. Another instance was when Rose was talking to Ginny and saying, “ That was his goddamned hold over me, Ginny” (228). Ginny still refused to admit the sexual abuse felt, “ I’ve still got to hear what he says” (229). She refused to believe she was raped at any time until she lay on her childhood bed and having flashbacks from the past. The flashback was so shocking and disturbing “ That was the only memory I could endure before I jumped put of the bed with a cry” (247).

With all the sexual abuse and waiting on her father for many years, Ginny had a belief that pleasing her father at any or all costs was determined by his acceptance of her. For instance, “ It’d be nice if you’d stay” as she thought to herself, “ I always said this, and he never actually answered, but I was given to believe that he might stay the next time” (52). She being powerless, not able to endure and realize the trauma done to her made her take the easy way out in everything she had done. When Ginny went to her father and said, “ I don’t think you ever think about anything from our point of view” (188). Her father become furious and replied. “ I bust my butt working all my life […] and you think I should be stopping all the time and wondering about your, what did you call it, your ‘point of view” (188)? At the end of the conversation she sighed, “ When my father asserted his point of view, mine vanished. Not even I could remember it” (190).


Rose had traumatic events also. She was hit hard with the childhood rapings and breast cancer which brought on shock, grief and emotional imbalance. With the news of the accident of Harold with the anhydrous ammonia, she showed no emotion. She admitted that, “ Weakness does nothing for me. I don’t care if they suffer. When they suffer, then they’re convinced they’re innocent again” (253). She wanted him to die before her so revenge would be sweet when it happened, but irony set in. Angrily she said, “ I can’t accept that this is my life, all I get. I can’t do it . I thought I would fucking outlive him and he could have that, half my life, half my own” (258), referring to her father.

All the trauma she endured made her feel no guilt, no shame, and no remorse, just anger. The anger effected how her life turned out and also made her realize how powerless she still was. She pretended to act calm for most part. An example was when she was talking to Ginny saying, “ I am calm. If you say so. But it isn’t a surprise to me. I’ve thought about it for years” (207). Her feeling of little emotion had effected her state of mind with acknowledgement of it. An instance was when Rose said, “ Don’t make me feel sorry for myself. That’s the hardest. The more pissed off I am, the better I feel” (207). Rose never second guessed her thoughts and spoke her mind whenever, wherever she felt. She liberated herself doing this since she could not fulfill her revengeful fantasy on her father. For instance while angrily shoving in her chair at the church dinner, Rose told her father, “Daddy, just shut up. This has gone on long enough (236). Roses marriage to Pete was partly artificial and due to the protection of her daughters, Referring to Pammy and Linda. An instance was when Rose said, “ If daddy did anything to them, Pete would kill him. that’s partly why I stay married to him (207).

Caroline, the youngest daughter was the most beloved by her father. She was the only daughter that wasn’t molested. For instance, “ She climbs into daddy’s lap, and her gaze slithers around the room, looking to see if we have noticed how he prefers her” (331). Another instance was when Caroline and her father sat in the court room fighting to get his land back and Ginny noticed, “She held Daddy’s hand in her lap like a handbag” (345), referring to Caroline. Caroline had only love and devotion for her father. That love and devotion was set deep in her heart, not artificially set there like Ginny and Rose’s was. For instance when Caroline said, “ I’m right here with you, Daddy. You live at my house now. You can live there always. As long as you like” (347). A final instance was when Caroline, Ken, and Larry was headed toward the court doors and Larry was saying, “ She was the littlest thing. Little knobby knees. Little bitty fingers, always braiding her doll’s hair” (348), referring to Caroline.

In conclusion many misfortunes had occurred to the Cook family. The mother, and wife of the Cook family passing from cancer, the child molesting toward Ginny and Rose after their mothers death, Rose being diagnosed and finally losing her battle to cancer also, and the selling of the Cook farm brought the circle of destruction to a close, let Ginny and Caroline move on with their lives, and create new lives from the disrupted ones. The relationships that were is changed forever with the unconscious mind letting memories come alive and let the truth come out so all the family could move on.

A Thousand Acres, book 5 and 6

Ginny finally gets the courage up to press charges against her father as Rose does. They win the court case. Ginny decided that she has had enough of the farm, needs a new change and life. She works and gets her life she has wanted all the time, a life with daily differences and communication with other people, not the same old people she had in the past. Rose doesn't want her two daughters to be abused like her and her sisters were, to go through what they had to endure. Ginny secludes herself in books written by dead writers. Rose finally is beaten by cancer and Ginny is given guardianship of Pammy and Linda. Also the circle of destruction is ended with the bulldozing of the Chelsea, removal of Rose's and Ginny's old houses on the Chelsea property. The sisters still alive can live their lives as a new without the memories that haunted them for years before.

The Nature and Aim of Fiction

According to Flannery O'Conner he believes that you can take all the writing classes and still not get any better at writing, rather you would get better at understanding the limits and possibilities of words and give them the respect they deserve. He also believes that anyone can write forever, but the writer is always continuesly learning how to write. Through education and using your sight sense as well disapline can help anyone write better.
He also believes that anyone who lived through his/her childhood has all the life information that he/she needs to survive and live the rest of their life. I feel that if you had survived a rough and tough childhood, as an adult you can do anything to succeed. What is needed to help us do this is the visions from our eyes, and educational understanding as an individual to survive and write what we know.

Death by Landscape

lois is a art collector of many landscaping paintings and drawings. Most of the landscapes are similar to what she was surrounded by when she was a young girl. I feel that she collects these paintings and drawings due to the memory of her friend from camp, Lucy mysteriously disappearing and never being found. Lois feels that it is her fault somehow this incident happened and she could of done something more to look for her friend. Lois due to this tramatic incident, has suffered long term memory loss.

Research qusetion, progress paragraph

I restructured my research question.
The question I am researching now is How are archetypes used in 20th Century Fiction?
I have pulled up many web pages on my newly restructured question. I have pulled up a web page with the difinition of an archetype both in literary and psychoanalysis areas. I also have been using the books we have read for the class as apart of my research paper that I will turn in to Mr. Joyce. I am using qoutes, phrases, and certain personality standouts in each book. The books i have chosen were " Their Eyes Were Watching God" , " Cannory Row" , " Metamorphisis " , and " Winter In The Blood " .

How I Comtemplated by Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates wanted us to feel that the girl is trying to figure out who she is and that she is feeling trapped within herself, unknown of who she really is. The parents are rich, health freaks, and think they are better than anyone else. Many people and circumstances can alter the state of one or more persons. Places and events, special or not is also physically and mentally altering to a person or persons. Sometimes for the good, other times for the bad. At the end of any altering event, meeting of special people, circumstances, or experiencing places many things and people change positively or negatively.

The Novel byGuy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant feels that in order to write you need to understand and experience events. The writer then is entertained as well the reader. Through suspense the reader will remain interested throughout the novel all the way to the end. The writings has to be understood by the writer and reader of the novel and the phrases are very well described to satisfy the interest throughtout the novel.

A Thousand Acres, book 4

Ginny seemed to be letting her unconscious memories unlock so that she can replay the story over and over until they make clear sense. Not seeing Jess for a long time had the memories of her childhood room, and her father as well. She wants to hold back the memories, but they seem to occur and most of them make her unhappy and unconfortable. Ginny sees Pete in a different point of view after startling him at the old querry. This happened only after a game of monoply they played. Ty was assisting in reconstruction of the old dairy barn for the hog breeding and gestation buildings, when many more bad memories would come up soon after he finds the remains of her 5th miscarriage. Lutheran Minister, Henry Dodges had shown up unexpectedly and soon after the visit began had noticed she was unhappy and was concerned. Many memories good and bad are coming back to her. She is trying to put the pieces together why things are happening to her and her family and eventually after replaying the memories oover and over she will realize what is happening in the present is reflected from the past.

Book 3, A Thousand Acres

It seems that there are many unconscious memories lengering in the minds of the Cooks daughters. Ginny seems to believe that all the days events that has happened in the past and present will take on different points of view if the stories were told by different members of the family. Caroline doesnt want anything to do with the farm and she will tell her father that in her own way, but the two other sisters got what they wanted and finally turned their father out when he needed them the most. He did what he thought he never do, go to caroline for help. Jess Clark seems to be " fond " of Ginny and her plant knowledge. Jess is like an outcast due to all eating meat at the hog roast, and he's eating just non- meat products. The Cooks daughters, Ginny and Rose had finally shown there mean streaks and who they really are. Their father realized it too, and was disgusted over it .

Doris Lessing's To Room Nineteen

When Susan and Matthew was married everyone thought they were the perfect couple. They had 4 children, and had a big house to go along with the family. As the marriage goes on Susan and Matthew wonder if their marriage will survive. Matthew was always working late, so all the chores, and children's events were left up to Susan to handle, as well as the maid. Susan tried to find peace in the top room of the house, but eventually it was a family room, too. Susan lost her independence by quiting work and staying home in the house that was bought in Richmond, England. She finally found peace and quiet time in room 19, at Fred's Hotel. She gradually increased her visits to the hotel room due to not being able to cope with all that is going home anymore. Not feeling that she belongs to her family anymore, she commits suiside by natural gas inhalation. Over time Susan was lost in her own reality of what she is going through at home and also loses her independence feeling and decided to escape the reality by suiside.

summary of A Thousand Acres.

In the novel, A Thousand Acres their are many misfortunes that happen through out book one and two. The misfortunes are,
1. Ginny had many miscarriages and her husband dont want to try anymore.

2. Ginny and Rose would say or do anything to "please" their father and let him hear or do what ever he wanted them to do.

3. Caroline was a stubbern woman that will love her father like a daughter does no more, no less and her truthfulness and love is rare and true from her heart.

4. Rose was diagnosed with breast cancer, which turned into lymphatic cancer.

5. The sisters mother passed away from cancer when Ginny was 14.

6. They had to deal with a father that drank alot.

7. The corn crop in storm county was destroyed by a storm

Through all the misfortunes Caroline really did care about her father, but left it to Ginny and Rose to care for him most of the time, on occations Caroline would care for her father though.

The emptiness in "Winter In The Blood"

Bernadette Miner
Mr. Doug Joyce
20TH Century Fiction
October 20, 2007

The Emptiness in Winter In The Blood.

The main character in Winter In The Blood is a young Native American man who lives with his mother, grandmother and a Cree woman, everyone thought to be his wife. The main character is going through an identity crisis, mainly emptiness. He feels cooped up in his native land that the white man took. The white man also brought vicious destruction and introduced alcohol to his people. James Welch purposely meant to keep the name of the main character from us, the reader, so we could get the feeling that the main character is absent in his own self destructive behavior, because without a defined identity, it shows an emptiness within his soul.

He sometimes lives in the past due to the memories of his father, First Raise and his brother, Mose who are both dead. For instance, “He was around enough- he was on his way home when they found him, too” (19). Another instance was when Teresa was enraged and said,

“ Do you suppose he was happy lying in that ditch with his eyes frozen shut, stinking of beer…” while the main character saw something other than Teresa, “ But that was a different figure in the ditch, not First Raise, not the man who fixed machinery, who planned his hunt with such care that he never made it. Unlike Teresa, I didn’t know the man who froze in the borrow pit. Maybe that’s why I felt nothing until the funeral” 20).

As time passed the main character felt that no consequences had come to him, after ten years when his fathers wandering ended in that ditch. When his father died, the main character always wondered why his father disappeared most of the time. After a conversation with his mother, he realized that she never understood his father either. That’s why his father went to town and made the white men laugh like he did. For instance, “ Despite their mocking way, they respected his ability to fix things. They gave him more that his wife” (21).The only reason the main character’s father stayed as long as he did was “because of my brother, Mose and me”(21). Going against his grandmother’s feelings about his “ wife”, the young Native American man went after her, to bring her back. As he was walking down a street he had a flashback 20 years before while a young boy when his father, brother, and him had done many things together. Those days were the happy times. His brother, and him felt loved and protected by his father while he was alive.

The main character’s so called wife had left him and that incident helped create the emptiness he felt throughout this “heroes journey” to the new world. Some instances was when he had went to town, and a few days later the Cree woman (his “wife”)had left him. “ She left three days ago, just after you went to town”. “It doesn’t matter,” I said (3). He had pulled an invisible shield over his family because he really did care and it did matter that she left him. He decided to go after her even though his grandmother’s feelings toward the Cree woman. For instance, “ The old lady imagined that the girl was Cree and enemy and plotted ways to slit her throat” (5). Another instance is,

“ She was Cree and not worth a damn. Not worth going after. My grandmother, before she quit talking, had told me how Crees never cared for anybody but themselves. Crees drank too much and fought with other Indians in bars, though they had never fought on the battlefield. She told me how frees were good only for the white men who came to slaughter Indians. Crees had served as scouts for the mounted soldiers and had learned to live like them, drink like them, and the girls had opened their thighs to the Long Knives. The children of these unions were doubly cursed in the eyes of the old woman. So she sat in the rocker and plotted ways to kill the girl who was thought to be my wife” (33).

With that judgment she put on the Crees and his “ wife” he decided to locate and bring her back home with him thinking, that make things all better for him and his life as It is in the present.

Finally, there were instances that helped him fulfill his emptiness, become solid and whole again, and find his identity as he desperately needed to move on from his old world and create and live in his new world. For example, he returned home to find out that his grandmother had died, “ The old lady must have died. That’s why the house was so quiet” (131). Another example was when he discovered blood on his shirt, “ I hadn’t noticed the bloodstains on my shirt before-there were five of them, one after another, down the front. I opened a burner plate on the wood stove and stuffed it in” (132). With the digging of his grandmothers grave( on the homeland) and burial of his grandmother, it brought back the memory of how his brother, Mose died. For instance,

“ Dust from the road drifted toward the graveyard. There was a grave I hadn’t looked at yet. It was marked with a wooden cross just tall enough to stand above the weeds which grew up around it. Although I couldn't see it, there would be an unpainted wooden border around the grave. A circle of Styrofoam hung from the top point of the cross. From the bottom of the circle, pointing down, a piece of wire wrapped in green, and , below that, a faded paper flower barely visible in the weeds. There was no headstone, no name, no dates. My brother”(143).

“ It was this necessity, this knowledge of death”(145) helped the main character forgive himself for his brothers death, and realize that his brother Mose, sacrificed himself out of love and protection so that his younger brother could live, “ the smaller figure flying slowly over the top of the car to land with the hush of a stuffed doll”(142). He realized that he needed to change for the better when he finally decided that “This greedy stupid country” (169) was what made him as he is and what he wants to change about himself, “ I crouched and spent the next few minutes planning my new life”(169). when he was wondering whether his brother and father was comfortable where they were now, “I wondered if Mose and First Raise were comfortable . They were the only ones I really loved, I thought the only ones who were good to be with” (172). Finally, the last passage that allowed him to get his reward, actually move on in the new world was, “ I threw the pouch into the grave”(176).

In conclusion, the main character had to understand not only why his brother died for him, but also see his father the way he really was. Also experience the death of his grandmother needed to fulfill his emptiness and become “whole” again. This caused him to want to make a change within himself and move on into the new world. James Welch meant to have the main character nameless to show that he has emptiness within his soul. Also when the white men brought the alcohol, vicious destruction to his native land and took his native land from his people, he feels cooped up.

A summary of D.H. Lawrence's Why the Novel Matters

As a man needs change and continuous moving on by mental and physical ways, a novel needs the characters to "live" in the story. If the patterns of "life" doesn't change and stays the same, life will cease to live within the man, woman, or story.
Also depending on the scenario , life can be good, bad, right, wrong, life , or death. So to live your life and the characters live their life in the story, something in their life or the surroundings involved with the characters need to change whether it be good, bad, right, or wrong. With that said, the change decides who lives the chosen life, and how it is to be lived in a physical way or in a novel so that the reader understands the characters way of life, consistency, and acceptance of life.

Janie's Voice and Identity essay, revised

Bernadette Miner

Mr. Joyce

20TH Century Fiction

September 19, 2007


Janie’s Voice and Identity


In Hurstons novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she used many symbolic descriptions, voices, and identities. Janie Crawford had many voices and identities in the story. Voices can be expressed verbally or nonverbally. Identities are different for all human beings, but involves individuality. Janie has many of them in many events of her life. Hurston used the character, Janie, in such a way that finds a voice that helps her realize that she has the power of intelligence, controlling her own destiny, adjusting the hurt she feels, and places Janie in a place of succession. Through many struggles and tribulations finds, protects, and delivers her voice and identity by the end of the novel.


For instance Janie’s grandmother, Nanny, was a slave and never able to speak. “You

know, honey, us colored folks is branches without roots and that makes things come round in queer ways. You in particular. Ah was born back due in slavery so it wasn’t for me to fulfill my dreams of whut a woman oughta be and to do. Dat’s one of de hold-backs of slavery. But nothing can’t stop you from wishin’.” ( 16 ). Another quote showing this evidence is, “ Ah wanted to preach a great sermon about colored women sittin’ on high, but they wasn’t no pulpit for me.” ( 16 ) She wanted Janie to have a voice and have people listen to her. Janie married Joe Starks, left for EatonVille where Joe became mayor. Eatonville citizens wanted Janie to make a speech, but Joe interrupted by saying,” Thank yuh fuh yo’ compliments, but mah wife don’t know

nothin’ bout’ no speech makin’.. ah never married her for nothing’ lak dat. She uh woman and her place is in de home.”( 43 ). She wanted to speak at another occasion about Matt Bonner’s mule, but was again forbidden to do so, as well as telling stories to other people, which she was good at and liked to do. “ Janie loved the conversation and sometimes thought up good stories on the mule, but Joe had forbidden her to indulge. He didn’t want her talking after such trashy people.” ( 53-54). Eventually she is tired of being belittled and insulted by Joe, that she is less conversational as time goes on and decides to quit fighting back. It wasn’t worth trying anymore. “ Dat’s ‘cause you need telling’,” he rejoiced hotly.” It would be pitiful if Ah didn’t. Someone got to think for women and chillun and chickens and cows. I god, they sho don’t think none

themselves.”( 71 ).


Later on she married Tea Cake. Janie is allowed speak her mind. He wanted and encouraged her to speak what she felt and react to them, as opposed to Joe. In the Ever Glades, Janie feels that she can contribute to the stories other people are telling and she had a voice there.


Hurston used very interesting and different identities in the book Their Eyes Were Watching God. For instance, when Janie has no grip on her identity when she was a girl, until she sees a picture of herself as a young child. “So when we looked at de picture and everyone got pointed out there wasn’t nobody left except a real dark little girl with hair standing by Eleanor. dat’s where Ah wuz supposed to be, but Ah couldn’t recognize dat dark chile as me. So Ah ast, ‘where is me? Ah don’t see me.’( 9 ). “ Everybody laughed, even Mr. Washburn. Miss Nellie, de Mama of de chillun who come back after her husband dead, she pointed to de dark one and said, ‘Dat’s you, alphabet, don’t you know yo’ ownself?’( 9 ). Janie not knowing she was “mulatto” until she found out that her mother and grandmother were both raped by white men. She was
confused and unaware of her identity when everyone called her by many different names. “ Dey all useter call me Alphabet ‘cause so many people had done named me different names. Ah looked at de picture a long tome and seen it was mah dress and mah hair so ah said:” Aw, aw! Ah’m colored!”( 9 ).


Raised by her grandmother, Janie unaware of her family history, and not knowingher father put mental confinement on her own identity. Janie’s identity grew as she become a woman by realizing that love don’t make a marriage, but a wonderful relationship between a couple. “ Ah know all dem sitter-and-talkers gointuh worry they guts into fiddle strings till dey find out whut we been talkin’ ‘bout. Dat’s all right, Pheoby, tell ‘em. Dey gointuh make ‘miration ‘cause mah love didn’t work lak they love, if dey ever had any. Then you must tell ‘em dat love ain’t something’ lak uh grindstone dat’s de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everthing it touch. Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.”(191). For instance when Janie married Logan Killick, so that her grandmother can pass away peacefully and know her wish for her granddaughter was fulfilled. She had no grip on her identity again when Janie married Joe
Starks as he has her tie her hair up in head rags out of jealousy of other men wanting her and not allowing her to be herself. As Joe Starks passes away, her identity grew. She unties her hair, burns her head rags, and decides to do as she pleases, and live her life the way she chooses. For instance her hair became her unique identity and a representation of her power. It also represents her independence and defiance of other peoples’ thinking and symbolize“whiteness”contributing to the normally white male power that she empowers that disrupts the traditional power relationships.” Nigger, whut’s yo’baby doin’ wid gray eyes and yaller hair?” ( 17 ).


She realized her identity changed in a good way, when her grandmother wanted her to search for things, when all Janie wanted was someone to love and someone to giver love back, as Tea Cake achieved. Janie achieved her identity when she has been to the horizon and back, met her dreams, and feels her soul was once separated from her body and now her soul is part of her. All the experienced events, trials, and tribulations help achieve this.


In conclusion, Janie had no voice, no identity when she was younger. As she grew, experienced new events, and lived her life that she had, Janie finally succeeded her voice, identity, and sense of living for the future, what ever it may be.

A Continuity of Parks

The surrealism of A Continuity of Parks is so strong that he, the reader gets into a split screen while reading the story.For instance he caresses the green velvet, just as the lady carresses her secret lover when he arrives. The secret lover is not so interested in her anymore and wants to get away from her somehow, just as the reader has signed over his estate to someone else due to not interested in it anymore either. The unwantedness is unbearable and the reader, as well as the secret lover, the gentleman, wants to escape somehow out of the situation they are in right now.

Winter In The Blood, part 2 summary

In part 2, the nameless narrator has an issue with the emptiness feeling that is haunting him where ever he goes. He seeks women, booze, and fights to try to fill that emptiness. Where he was raised by mostly women, loseing his father and 14 year old brother Moses, and drinking to forget memories he doesnt want to remember causes him to want to lose himself, have his shadow along with himself erased. He is a victim archetype and uses self pity on himself at times he is at his lowest inner conscious.

research question

Where archytypes are used in writing of fiction stories, how many ways are they used in the 20th Century Fiction and what are the ways that they are used?

Summary of Signs and Symbols by Vladimir Nabokov

In Signs and Symbols by Vladimir Nabokav, he is portraying the couples son, as a victim archetype. First he wants no desires like most people. Secondly, he comes from a lower class family.Thirdly, has mental problems. Finally, trys to end his life many times to escape the real world. Some instances were as follows:
" For the fourth time in as many years they were confronted with the problem of what birthday present tdo bring a young man who was incurably deranged in his mind. He had no desires."(659).

" A nurse they knew, and did not care for, appeared at last and brightly explained that he had again attempted to take his life."(660)

"The last time he had tried to do it, his method had been, in the doctor's words, a masterpiece of inventiveness; he would have succeeded had not an envious fellow patient thought he was learning to fly- and stopped him. What he really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape." (660)

"She wore cheap black dresses." (659)
" Her husband, who in the old country had been a fairly successful businessman, was now was wholly dependent on his brother Isaac, a real American of almost forty years standing."(660)

"Four years old, in the park: moodily,shyly, with puckered forehead, looking away from a eagerly squirrel as he would from any other stranger."(661)
" Age six- that was when he drew wonderful birds with human hands feet, and suffered from insomnia like a grown- up man."(661)

His parents saw a bird under a tree and symbolized it as being their son and the way he is having to live right now.An instance would be," A few feet away, under a swaying and dripping tree, a tiny half-dead unfledged bird was helplessly twitching in the puddle."( 660).

summary of Winter In The Blood, part one

To begin with, it seems that the main character, who is nameless, is from a Indian reservation.
He had come home from partying at the town near by, got in a fight, and when he come home his, who everyone thought to be his wife to be, had left him and took his 30-30 gun with her. to me he seems as if he don't care about nobody but himself. For instance, "She left three days ago, just after you went to town." " It doesn't matter," I said. (3). The only one he seemed to care about was his father.An example, "But Ill tell you one thing--Ive never seen a sorrier sight when he did come back." (17). He had many hobbies and they were fishing, drinking, putting Cree women down, and hang in bars. For instance, "She was Cree not worth a damn"(33). Another example of his hobbies were, "I drained off my beer and pointed to the empty bottle. " "Barman!" (45). A final example was when he , the nameless character (narrator) said, "..... picked up my fishing gear and drove away." (45). One final note to part one, is the setting and plot is in the modern days of indians and how they live yet to this day.

An interview with Hemingway

To begin, Hemingway believes that eliminating many titles thought up while writing the story
helps decide the final title of the book.By observing you are constantly writing and sometimes you can observe consciously or unconsciously. For instance, " Surely. If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful" (990). If a writer don't know right from wrong, the writer shouldn't be writing novels at all. Hemingway in his interview said, "A writer without a sense of justice and of injustice would be better off editing the Year Book of a school for exceptional children than writing novels" ( 992). With prior experiences, observation, and knowledge of what you, the writer is writing about , it makes it easier to put things and ideas down, organize, and create a story or novel and bring the novel " alive" and can call your writing your own, no one else's.

Character analysis and archetyps in Cannery Row

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Bernadette Miner
Mr. Joyce

20TH Century Fiction

October 2, 2007
Character analysis and Archetypes in Cannery Row
In Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, he has many different characters with personalities that are unique. Archetypes can be adapted to the characteristic personalities at the same time. Everyone has a personality, whether they have one or multiple personalities. Any one character or person can be one or more archetypes. For instance: in The Grapes of Wrath also by John Steinbeck, Tom Joad had become hero archetype,the one who must tackle obstacles , the prostitute archetype who engages lessons in integrity or negotitiations in integrity or spirit due to fears of physical or financial survival or for financial gain, and the outcast archetype, who was cast out of a social group for crime(s) committed, all in one story. He had a soft, gentle heartedness, but lunging anger personality when tested. Doc, and Mack, characters in Cannery Row have multiple Archetypes, adapting their personality values.

Doc was a calm and collective Marine Biologist. He liked to travel and collect many different species of animal life who owned his own Western Biological Laboratory. “Doc was collecting marine animals in the Great Tide Pool on the tip of the Peninsula” (30). He had many friends, but no female friends. If he had any female friends, the relationship didn’t last long. For
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most part he was lonely. One of Doc’s personalities was sympathy. For instance: “Doc clipped
Frankie’s hair and got rid of the lice. At Lee Chong’s he got him a new pair of overalls and a striped sweater and Frankie became his slave”(58). Doc has adapted his sympathy with his
mentor archetype, one who advises or teaches. For instance, “He wanted to work in the laboratory. He swept out everyday, but there was something a little wrong. He couldn’t get a floor quite clean. He tried to help with grading crayfish for size. There they were in a bucket, all sizes” ( 59).Frankie tried and the perspiration stood on his forehead but he couldn’t do it”, “No,” Doc would say. “Look, Frankie. Put them beside your finger like this so you’ll know which ones are this long. See? This one goes from the tip of your finger down to the same place and it will be right”(59).

He had become angry when he come home from La Jolla where he was collecting baby octopi due to his laboratory torn to pieces like a tornado went through it. The archetype that is connected to this emotion would be the victim. For instance “Doc’s eyes flamed red with anger” (129). “ Did you do this?”, “Well, I and the boys--” Doc’s small hard fist whipped out and splashed against Mack’s mouth. Doc’s eyes shone with a red animal rage” (130). An example to show the victim archetype was, “The lights blazed in the laboratory. The front door hung sideways by one hinge. The floor was littered with broken glass. Phonograph record, some broken, some only nicked, were strewn about. The plates with pieces of steak ends and coagulating grease were on the floor, on top of the bookcases, under the bed. Whiskey glasses lay sadly on their sides. Some one trying to climb the bookcases had pulled out a whole section of
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books and spilled them in broken-backed confusion on the floor” (126).

Doc had another personality value, Loneliness. It seems that he has a lot of friends and is
very friendly himself, but when it comes to lady relationships he isn’t successful. For instance, “ Henri went over the story again and the girl’s eyes sparkled” (138). “ Doc watched them go a little sourly. After all it had been his date” (138). The archetype Doc can be categorized in is
the hero. He finds out about the party and decides to do something to help out without all of the town people catching on. An example of this archetype is, “ The next day he began making his own preparations for the party. His best records he carried into the back room where they could be locked away.He moved every bit of equipment that was breakable back there too. He knew how it would be-- his guests would be hungry and they wouldn’t bring anything to eat. They would run out of liquor early, they always did. A little wearily he went up to the Thrift Market where there was a fine and understanding butcher” (170). Another site of evidence was, “Doc ordered fifteen pounds of steaks, ten pounds of tomatoes, twelve heads of lettuce, six loaves of bread, a big jar of peanut butter and one of strawberry jam, five gallons of wine and four quarts of a good substantial but not distinguished whiskey” (170- 171).

Mack, the second main character in Cannery Row also had many personality values and archetypes that adapted as well. One was Low Self Esteem. For instance, “ Mack’s head jolted but he was braced now so he wouldn’t fall. And his hands stayed at his sides, “Go ahead, Doc,”

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he said thickly through his broken lips.” “ I got it coming” (130). Another example would be, “She got out of hand,” said Mack. “ It don’t do no good to say I’m sorry. I been sorry all my life. This aint no new thing. Its always like this.” He swallowed deeply from his glass. “ I had a wife,” Mack said. “Same thing. Ever’thing I done turned sour” (131).

Mack was a concerned individual for hurt animals and any friends of his that may need help for any reason. For instance, “ Now a genuine panic came over the Palace Flophouse. Darling had come to be vastly important to them”(146). “ Hazel and Jones were chosen to call on Doc” ( 146). “ It’s Darling,” they said. “ She’s sick.” “ What’s the matter with her?” “ Mack says it’s distemper” (147).He also has a “take charge” mode as well, the common courtesy value of life for him and other people around him. He decided for saving Darlings life and ruining Doc’s laboratory, Mack wanted to do something for him. Dora suggested a party. “Well,” said Mack, “ I and the boys thought we’d ask you. You know what we think of Doc. We wanted to ask you what you thought we could do for him that would kind of show him” (150). “ She shook out a cigarette, lighted it and studied. “You gave him a party he didn’t get to. Why don’t you give him a party he does get to”(150)?

An archetype that Mack fits into would be the Child archetype, who is awaken with desire to find path of service to help others, as well as the Scapegoat archetype, who takes the blame for all that has happened. As it suggests in the following proof of evidence. “ Mack came back from the laboratory with his mouth torn and his teeth broken. As a kind of penance, he did not wash his face. He went over to his bed and pulled his blanket over his head and he didn’t get up all day. His heart was as bruised as his mouth. He went over all the bad things he had done in his life and everything he had done seemed bad. He was very sad” (139).

He is a Trickster (one who provokes and cons to get what he/she wants) archetype also. . For instance, “ I and Eddie and the rest heard you own the Abbeville place.” Lee Chong nodded
and waited. “ I and my friends thought we’d ast you if we could move in there. We’ll keep up the property.” He added quickly. “Wouldn’t let anybody break in or hurt anything. Kids might knock out the windows, you know--” Mack suggested. “Place might just burn down if somebody don’t keep an eye on it” (10). “ Good,” said Mack. “ I knew Doc could depend on you” (56). “He turned about to leave. “By the way,” he said. “ Doc’s paying us five cents a piece for those frogs. We’re going to get seven or eight hundred. How about taking a pint of Old Tennis Shoes just ’til we can get back with the frogs?” “No!” said Lee Chong”(56).

In conclusion, John Steinbeck uses multiple character analysis and archetypes in Cannery Row. He uses many characters, but Doc and Mack are the two main characters used. That isn’t to say all the characters in the story don’t play an important role and carry multiple personality values and archetypes. This book is written very well and uses many archetypes and personality values to help us understand the way of living in Monterey, California at the area of Cannery Row. Therefore Steinbeck’s’ use of archetypes through the characters, helps to portray the faces and souls of the citizens around Cannery Row. This leading to an understanding of how they each lived to survive.

Cannery Row, chapters 17-32

Doc seemed to be absesive with alcohol, especially beer. For instance in the quote that Blaisedell, the poet had said to him," You love beer so much, I'll bet some day you'll go in order a beer milkshake." (103). Another example is chapter 23: page 142, Doc is waving with two fingers in the air and smiled saying, "There's nothing like that first taste of beer." He seems to be over all a calm and "collective" guy except on occations. An example of this is on page 130 where Doc says," Did you do this?"and Mack says, "Well, I and the boys--" Doc's small hard fist whipped out and splashed against Mack's mouth.Doc's eyes shone with a red animal rage." Doc liked to eat and most often hamburgers. For instance, on page 103, the sentence," He didn't drive fast and he stopped and ate hamburgers very often." He has friends, and seems ok, but really he is a lonely guy. For instance: in chapter 17, the first sentence of the chapter, " In spite of his friendliness and his friends Doc was a lonely and a set apart man." " Even in the dear close contact with a girl Mack felt tht Doc would be lonely. Doc was a night crawler."( chapter 17, 4th and 5th sentence in the first paragraph). He also didnt let on that he knew about the party being thrown for Doc. In chapter 27, page 170 " Well," said the drunk, " they're givin' him a hell of a party on his birthday." Doc mulled this over. Another instance is on page 183, He stopped and they stood forlornly on the stairs. " Come on in," said doc. "Why--I'm--I'm surprised. I didn't even know you knew it was my birthday."

The one of many interviews with Ralph Ellison

This interview began with Ralph Ellison saying that his writing was not a autobiography. He had many jobs that didnt last long. He reviewed many writers, their techniques, and writing structures. For example: Hemingway was one he studied. He also liked how Malraux wrote about
his real life, but not completely.
He also said that the negros are a minority group and most of the time gets their books critiqued by white people, which creates limitations of the feelings and thoughts of the book. The white people questioned humanity, and wondered how negros can afford to indulge such an issue as humanity. I feel that all people are equal no matter the color of the skin and that all should have the right to indulge in humanity. History will keep repeating its self and so will the limitations of the human condition in certain groups of people no matter who trys and succeeds to change the past, present, and future. All people are human no matter whether they are black, white, orange, or yellow. All groups especially the minority groups, value life and death, as well attempt to humanize the world. No matter who writes a book or story, their writings will be racially critisied somewhere in the world.

Barn Burning summary

As the short story, Barn Burning begins we see a young boy in back of a store, converted into
a court room. Mr. Harris claims that Mr. Snopes burned down his barn. Which he did, but there was no physical proof. Mr. Snopes and his family was told to get out of the county and never to return. They moved on to some land owned by Major De Spain and his wife. Things were going good until Abner Snopes soiled the rug that come from France. Major De Spain demanded that the Snopes clean the rug. When the two daughters (bovines) didn't do a good job, and the De Spains wasn't happy, Mr. Snopes took a stone to it and "cleaned" it and ruined it. Out of anger, he decided to burn down The De Spains barn. Before he could do that Sarty, the young son broke free from his mother, who was holding him from going and telling De Spains of his fathers future doing. They were ready for Mr. Snopes and rather than succeeding he failed and was getting his gun ready. Sartoris decides to leave and make a new life for himself rather than the one his father is providing for him.
In my opinion, Mr. Snopes is a angry,revengeful, abusive, full of himself, and paranoid by hatred for society. Sartoris, his younger son is taking things like a man because he has to. He is loving t0ward his father, but in a way he hates his ways of living and his legacy. The mother is worried about her family and scared for her husbands doings, past and present.

Janie's Voice and Identity

Bernadette Miner

Mr. Joyce

20TH Century Fiction

September 19, 2007

Janie’s Voice and Identity

In Hurstons novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she used many symbolic

Descriptions, voices, and identities. Janie Crawford has many voices and identities in

The story. Voices can be expressed verbally or non verbally. Identities are different for

All human beings, but involves individuality. Janie has many of them in many events

Of her life. Hurston used the character, Janie, in such a way that she finds a voice as

An instrument of injury, salvation, self hood, and empowerment. Better yet places great

Emphasis on the control of language as the source of identity and empowerment. Janie

Through many struggles and tribulations finds, protects, and delivers her voice and

Identity by the end of the novel.

For instance Janie’s grandmother, Nanny, was a slave and never able to speak.

“You know, honey, us colored folks is branches without roots and that makes things

Come round in queer ways. You in particular. Ah was born back due in slavery so it

wasn’t for me to fulfill my dreams of whut a woman oughta be and to do. Dat’s one

Of de hold-backs of slavery. But nothing can’t stop you from wishin’.” ( 16 ) Another

Quote showing this evidence is, “ Ah wanted to preach a great sermon about colored

Women sittin’ on high, but they wasn’t no pulpit for me.” ( 16 ) She wanted Janie to

Have a voice and have people listen to her. Janie married Joe Starks, left for Eaton-

Ville where Joe became mayor. Eatonville citizens wanted Janie to make a speech, but

Joe interrupted by saying,” Thank yuh fuh yo’ compliments, but mah wife don’t know

Nothin’ bout’ no speech makin’.. ah never married her for nothing’ lak dat. She uh

Woman and her place is in de home.”( 43 ) She wanted to speak at another occasion

About Matt Bonner’s mule, but was again forbidden to do so, as well as telling stories

To other people, which she was good at and liked to do. “ Janie loved the conversation

And sometimes thought up good stories on the mule, but Joe had forbidden her to

Indulge. He didn’t want her talking after such trashy people.” ( 53-54) Eventually she

Is tired of being belittled and insulted by Joe, that she is less conversational as time

Goes on and decides to quit fighting back. It wasn’t worth trying anymore. “ Dat’s ‘cause

You need telling’,” he rejoiced hotly.” It would be pitiful if Ah didn’t. Someone got to

Think for women and chillun and chickens and cows. I god, they sho don’t think none

Themselves.”( 71 )

Later on she married Tea Cake. Janie is allowed speak her mind. He wants and

Encourages her to speak what she feels and react to them, as opposed to Joe. In the Ever-

Glades, Janie feels that she can contribute to the stories other people are telling and she

Has a voice there.

Hurston uses very interesting and different identities in the book Their Eyes Were

Watching God. For instance, when Janie has no grip on her identity when she was a girl,

Until she sees a picture of herself as a young child. “So when we looked at de picture and

And everyone got pointed out there wasn’t nobody left except a real dark little girl with

Hair standing by Eleanor. Dat’s where Ah wuz supposed to be, but Ah couldn’t recognize

Dat dark chile as me. So Ah ast, ‘where is me? Ah don’t see me.’( 9 )

“ Everybody laughed, even Mr. Washburn. Miss Nellie, de Mama of de chillun

Who come back after her husband dead, she pointed to de dark one and said, ‘Dat’s you,

Alphabet, don’t you know yo’ ownself?’( 9 ) Janie not knowing she was “mulatto” until

She found out that her mother and grandmother were both raped by white men. She was

Confused and unaware of her identity when everyone called her by many different names.

“ Dey all useter call me Alphabet ‘cause so many people had done named me different

Names. Ah looked at de picture a long tome and seen it was mah dress and mah hair so

Ah said:” Aw, aw! Ah’m colored!”( 9 )

Raised by her grandmother, Janie unaware of her family history, and not knowing

Her father put mental confinement on her own identity. Janie’s identity grew as she

Become a woman by realizing that love don’t make a marriage, but a wonderful relation-

Ship between a couple. “ Ah know all dem sitter-and-talkers gointuh worry they guts

Into fiddle strings till dey find out whut we been talkin’ ‘bout. Dat’s all right, Pheoby,

Tell ‘em. Dey gointuh make ‘miration ‘cause mah love didn’t work lak they love, if

Dey ever had any. Then you must tell ‘em dat love ain’t something’ lak uh grindstone

Dat’s de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everthing it touch. Love is

Lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets,

And it’s different with every shore.”(191) For instance when Janie married Logan Killick,

So that her grandmother can pass away peacefully and know her wish for her grand-

Daughter was fulfilled. She had no grip on her identity again when Janie married Joe

Starks as he has her tie her hair up in head rags out of jealousy of other men wanting her

And not allowing her to be herself. As Joe Starks passes away, her identity grew. She

Unties her hair, burns her head rags, and decides to do as she pleases, and live her life the

Way she chooses. For instance her hair become her unconventional identity and a symbol

Of her power. It also represents her independence and defiance of petty community

Standards and symbolizes “whiteness “ contributing to the normally white male power

That she empowers that disrupts the traditional power relationships.” Nigger, whut’s yo’

Baby doin’ wid gray eyes and yaller hair?” ( 17 )

She realized her identity changed in a good way, when her grandmother wanted

Her to search for things, when all Janie wanted was someone to love and someone

To giver love back, as Tea Cake achieved. Janie achieved her identity when she has been

To the horizon and back, met her dreams, and feels her soul was once separated from her

Body and now her soul is part of her. All the experienced events, trials, and tribulations

Help achieve this.

In conclusion, Janie had no voice, no identity when she was younger. As she

Grew, experienced new events, and lived her life that she had, Janie finally succeeded

Her voice, identity, and sense of living for the future, what ever it may be.

Cannery Row chapters 1 to 16

In the beginning of the book: Cannery Row, Lee Chong was introduced as a grocery store owner. He was tough but soft hearted. Horace Abbeville owed money to him, signed over a fish storage
shed to Lee for payment owed, went home and commited suiside. Mack and his unemployed friends moved in the shed for return of the protection given to Lee Chong's store, because Lee knew no money would ever be seen for rent. Mack and his gang furnited the place and made it home. Most of the furnitings were stolen, painted to disguise the original look, and Mack even chalked out places for the gang to sleep in, designated places that is. Doc, a Western Biology Laboratory owner was a nice guy, so Mack and his gang decide to throw a party for him. It goes terribly wrong. Dora, another character, owns the Bear Flag Restraunt and also runs a whorehouse with 12 girls- very respected, a greek cook, and a bouncer, Alfred. That is after William, the old bouncer, was rejected in joining Macks gang, seen Eva, and commited suiside also. Every day an old chinamen walks to the sea, Andy, a young 10 year old boy from Salinas, taunted him once and never did again. Gay, beaten by his wife moved into the Palace Flophouse (the fish shed of Horace's). Even though he is afraid of water, Henry had been building a boat for 7 years already. Mr. and Mrs. Malloy moved to the boiler in 1935 and 2 years later rented out the large pipes as sleeping quarters. Mack talks about Phyllis Mae's infection from a drunks tooth she knocked out and was enbedded in her fist,which went all the way to her elbow. He also wants to help doc out by getting frogs for him.Frankie befriends doc at the lab, and loves him better than his own mother and uncles at home. Gay gets to work on a model t and eddie and jones air up the tires. Gay takes it to Caramel Hill and it dies on him. Brucia picks him up, celebrates Gays birthday, then Gay gets arrested and 180 days later returns home. Mr. Carriaga sees a boy run from Alverado street with a liver in his hand, which come from the gulge
where a french doctor discards parts of a body from Josh Billings, a writer who was staying at the Del Monte Hotel before he died. Mack discuss what has happened to Gay, Moran, and Mckinley and decide married men can't be trusted. The captain , which owned the land that Mack and his gang were eating on, wanted them off his land. Mack offered to fix his dogs wound from a tick bite, and suggested that they hunt at his frog pond. Two soldiers and two girls wonder into cannery row. Mack medicated Nola, the captains dog wound, and was offered the pick of the litter of hers. They begin to drink corn liquor and hunt frogs, drink some more, and finally after getting so drunk, set the curtains on fire, and left the captain on the floor past out.
Dora is short 3 girls and some more girls come to fill in,the flu starts spreading, and Doc helps out everywhere and Doras' girls also help out where ever possible.

Views on Joseph Conrad

The author Joseph Conrad wants us readers to bring out of this section of reading, the vision of
personality, the hope of coherent, justified personality in its origin and actions, the immediate aim for the record of personal memories by presenting the feelings faithfully and connecting sensations.
All intellectual, artistic ambitions are permissible beyond the limits of prudent sanity as well all ambitions are lawful except those which climb up to miseries and credulity's. The virtue is said to be ambitions with their own reward. Even if we go deeper it isn't considered insensible. As a historian of hearts and a historian of emotions, both aim to reach the same thing, laughter and tears. Laughter and tears descend into snivells and giggles.
To Joseph Conrad all human beings are in pain, are weak, compassionate, but to have all of these emotions all at once is rare. The sight of human affairs shall receive admiration, as well pity,respect worthiness, and isn't insensible. Resignation is the only feeling out of all our feelings, in which
is impossible to become a false front.

The selected letters by Anton Chekhov

On march 28, 1886 Anton Chekhov feels that his writings need justification in the smallest way as well as he feels the lack of confidence in his works and himself.
On October 27,1888, he thinks that an artist or writer (a literary artist) should write with what he understands, and by doing that he or she needs to observe, choose, guess, and compound all that he or she understands to make the question of understanding the origin.
Out of the approach of the solution of a problem and the approach of the correct formulation of a problem, the "artist" should and is required and demanded to use the "the correct formulation of a problem" to write a successful novel or story. Also he feels that slow publications of books, stories, or novels, are equal to the satisfaction that the writer wants to feel when finished. To emphasize the story, the writer needs to use the background and characters strongly and vibrantly.

Final summary for Their eyes are watching god

Starting in chapter 18, the Seminole Indians were leaving the everglades in groups each day.They knew the hurricane was coming. The animals even got the scent of something fishy so they fled also. Even some of the muck workers left. A good friend of Tea Cake and Janie's pleaded for them to go also, but Tea Cake refused. Janie stayed with him, rather than fleeing with their friends. For the people who stayed behind they worked picking beans during the day and gambling,singing, and dancing at night. As the storm worsened they begin to ponder about god and what will happen to them. Tea Cake and Janie leave but it was too late to have any rides, so they walked to a tall house for dry refuge. They and a friend fall asleep but Janie soon woke up to running water, they wake up and the friend decide not to go, so Tea Cake and Janie left and ended up in the water again. Tea Cake was tired and went to sleep. Janie tried to cover him, but instead she fell into the water. She got hold of a cows tail, but there was a "mad" dog on the cows back and tried to attack her, so Tea Cake killed the dog, not before getting bit on the cheekbone though.
They made it to safety and traveled to Palm Beach. Soon after Tea Cake went looking for buddies, and a job. Two white men happened upon him and made him bury the dead bodies, whites in coffins, blacks just thrown in the ditch and buried. He soon ran off and took Janie back to the everglades where their friends were waiting.They soon return to their old way of living, but soon after they do, Tea Cake is getting ill and not getting better, so Janie sends for a doctor, in which the doctor thinks the dog that bit him had rabies. He gave her some pills and told her that he had to send off for the serum to make Tea Cake better. Before that happens he has many rage attacks and Janie finds a pistol under his pillow when she made his bed one night. She "fixed" the gun and had her rifle ready just in case for safety reasons that is. The climax of that night was when he had a rage attack and wanted to know why she don't sleep in the same bed as him anymore!. She was glad she "fixed" the gun, because Tea Cake pointed the gun at her and pulled the trigger two times, but on his second shot, she shot him with the rifle out of self defense. She was saddened for what she had to do and she held him close to her and thanked him for giving her a chance to love him like she did. Janie was sent to jail and tried for murder. She proclaimed her innocence and was found not guilty. At the boarder house , she overheard men saying,"if she killed a white man, she would of been hung". She temporarily lived in the everglades after giving a funeral for Tea Cake. At the funeral she dressed in overalls, not in fancy clothes like she did for Joe Starks funeral. When she leaves the everglades she is lonely due to Tea Cake not with her anymore. Later we are back at the scene where she, Janie, is talking to Pheoby and Janie feels that Tea Cake is with her in spirit all the time, and that she has fulfilled her destiny due to her going to the horizon and back.
I feel that she is a well spoken, well lived, experienced and bright older woman that won't let nothing get past her, go over her head, or stop her from what she wants to do, because she has lived a long experienced life and she would go as far as she can to achieve and succeed in her future life what ever it may be.

Final summary of Their eyes are watching god

my views on Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf

Kew Gardens shows and expresses beautiful scenery and atmosphere. The relationships of the couples seen while walking through the flower covered garden made the voices of the people,animals, and insects without actually having to have the characters saying alot out loud.
The characters linger back to the past and for every character the symbolic event or object is different. Simon had the symbol of his wife and children as he went back to lily and his proposal to her 15 years before. His wife's was the kiss and as she described it as "the mother of all my kisses all my life".Ghosts were used to describe the individual persons' memory, happiness, and reality.The snail toward the end of the story seemed to symbolize Simon's goal, him getting married and starting a family. the colors also described the relaxation, stress, and calmness of the people in the garden and the gardens surroundings.

Their eyes were watching god chapters 7-17

Starting in chapter 7, Joe Starks is continuing to belittle Janie and she is feeling like her marriage to Joe is dieing and so she becomes less and less communicative to others and Joe. But Janie does something very brave and insults Joe in front of his friends on the porch, so that makes him feel like his masculinity was stripped of him. He hits her and makes her go home. As the story moves on she continues to argue with Joe and he decided to sleep in another room for the rest of the marriage, he did still love her, but wanted her not to know that. Janie feels that her marriage is getting worse and called upon her best friend Pheoby to discuss her problems. Joe is getting Ill and ill er, and without his permission,Janie had a friend send for a doctor from new Orleans. The doctor had told Joe and Jane that he has kidney failor and don't have much time to live. He don't allow Janie to come into his "sick room",but she disobeys him anyway and goes in. They argue more and she told him that she never had a chance to show what she could do because he didn't give her opportunity to. He eventually dies, and she feels sad, but also free from him. She lets her hair down out of the head rag and feels freer than ever. So the funeral happened, she then over the few months later men started coming around. There was one man, Tea Cake, he swept her off her feet and eventually she closed and sold the store, left with Tea Cake, married him, and made a home on the muck with him in the everglades.For a while things were good until Mrs. Turner showed up and told her she needed to leave Janie's husband and marry her brother.Janie realizes she is "IN LOVE" for the first time and she loves him just as she use to love to sit under the pear tree at her Nanny's. He even taught her to shoot better than her with a gun. She loved the everglades and it was so exciting, work in the day, play at night.
Tea Cake and his buddies, but Janie wasn't allowed to go to Mrs. Turners restaurant for some fun and a fight breaks out. Finally Mrs. Turner, who thinks she is more white than black, got mad and said she is going to Miami where people are civilized, unlike here in the everglades.

Raymond Carver views on writing.

Raymond has a hard time concentrating his attention on the long narrative fictions. He had no long attention span and patience to try to write novels, but he knows that is why he writes poems and stories. Every writer makes the world over his or her specifications. It is the writers unmistakable signature on all he or she writes and it is his or her world and no one Else's. His or her world is what makes the writer different from another writer. The writers usually don't need gimmicks or smart people to help write a story. At times experimentation is given as a license to be careless and unique in the writing, also to alienate the reader. The actual experiments in fiction is original, earned, and cause for jumping for joy. Its also very possible to make common places and things using precise language to make the places and things or objects become what the reader sees with so much power. Reading, rewriting, and re punctuating is a way to write a successful short story. Satisfaction is the what we get when we did our best. There is some menacing in a story to make a good reading story and also has to have tension or there is no story created, it will be a boring one. Language is used to light up the suspense of the story for the reader and the details of the language has to be accurate and precisely given. If the words are used just right, the reader can really hit and understand the story without being lost from the beginning.

Raymond Carver views on writing.

Their eyes were watching god chapters 1-6

Janie crawford was walking down the road toward her home in coveralls and all the porchsitters were gossiping because she isnt wearing fancy clothes and why she wouldnt say anything to them, even a hi how you doing. Some of the porch sitters even thought she was high and mighty, self- centered. Her best friend Pheoby Wilson finally got upset with all the gossip and took Janie her supper. In chapter 2 she , referring to Janie, reminessed to some flashbacks of when she was young and living with her "nanny", who had raised her from a wee little thing. her parents wasnt around so she could not remember her mother and father. one day she was caught kissing Johny Taylor through her nannys fence and her nanny told her it was time for her to be married and to Logan Killicks.Janie begged but her nanny seen to it that she married him. Her nanny told janie that one day she would fall in love with him.she never did.
In the 3rd chapter she doubted and asked about how to love and when will i love him. Her nanny was very protective over her, Janie that is .Janie felt that she had failed all who loved her and the things she loved also. Finally she realized that love dont make a marriage and she was forced to grow up even more than before. In chapter 4, Janie felt as if and knew that she was not being treated like a new bride so she got upset about that and one day Logan Killicks told her, Janie that no man would want you, take care of you or feed you and that was the last straw, she hung up her apron, and left to go to florida with Joe Starks.They made a small town into a big town and at first Joe treated her well. Eventually she was told what to do and not allowed to speak much. Joe Starks was jealous over other men staring at his wife,Janie. She hated being stuck running the store and post office and also hated having to keep her hair up in a head rag.
Joe had bought a mule from Matt Bonner and it lived a peacefull life and when the mule died,Joe denied Janie from going to the funeral and said you dont do things "normal" people do.Finally the insults got so bad from Joe to Janie that one day Joe said,"you need to told what to do because she is no smarter than a chicken or a cow".When supper one night didnt turn out right, Joe slapped her across the face and she finally realized that the marriage was over and that he wasnt what she wanted in a husband. Also when a lady asked for money to feed her children and he gave her a small piece of pork she complained that it was too small, she left the store and all the porch sitters made fun of the lady.Janie got mad and spoke out, Joe told her she was getting too mouthy.
The dialect and voice used was hard at first to understand, but when you read on more and more the wordings were easier to understand. So far this is a VERY interesting and involved story that i would recomend everyone read, it puts some reality of life back then and helps understand what the colored people had to deal with and without throughout their lives.

why do you write summary

with the little few paragraphs we read for class i found that we learn to write by reading and writing repeatedly. the teachers we use on writing may be deceased or living also we receive our vocation by passing it on by your work,education,etc.
writers are apart of a special community filled with writers and storytellers that go back a long way the society of humans.being apart of the human society we seem to agree and disagree to it depending on the situations. whether you agree or disagree the pressures that you have to put with will be strong and intense and sometimes fatal. in the third paragraph they have in quotation :for women and other groups the writer Margaret Atwood is trying to get us to understand that some who are feeling like they are getting kicked down by others agree and disagree with some situations, or try to run your life and tell you what to say in your or their way.if you fall for the commands and obey them, you become like them. basically you do or say what you want to say, and let them do or say what they want to.

the dead by james joyce

The dead by james joyce is all about a husband names gabriel conroy who is married to gretta. The story began with the preparation of the morkan sisters annual dinner and dance that is always taken place at their home in the early wintery season. guests begin to arrive and thats fine, but the sisters are concerned due to mr and mrs. gabrial conroy is late showing up. eventually they show up and mr. conroy basically blamed his wife for being late. Gabriel went to put their coats up in the coat closet when he made a remark to the maid, lily by basically saying any marriage purposals or any interests in any men? she got upset and not happy with what gabriel said. later when he had to make a speech he was in self awareness of a poor speech and no one understanding it. also succeeding due to being the favorite nephew of the morkan sisters. later in the story he became aroused by seeing his wife at the top of the stairs(after finally recognizing her) and when they get back to the motel he started caressing her and she was seemingly distant from him as if she was in another world from the past. And she was actually , back in her young years when she lived with her grandmother before going to the convent school. what brought the memories back was the song mr. d'varcy sang back at the party. finally the story ended with gabriel thinking about him, his wife, her story from the past with michael passing when she was young, the living and the dead.

Mythological Criticism

With what i read about mythological criticism i am understanding that it tries to bring out cultural myths and also identify what is in literature to create deep universal responses from the readers. Writers demonstrate many varieties of mythological criticism through the certain parts of the text. Myths are reflections of a profound reality, represent our instinctive understandings, and are collective and communal that bring the sense of wholeness and togetherness to social life.

talking about fiction

with talking about fiction i feel that cassille and bausch is saying that fiction is eventually coming apart when it is instantly experienced. every reader sees a differant aspect of a setting,character,plot,theme,image, and point of view. there are 6 parts of a fiction story or book. they are 1. the character and setting,2. action, plot, and complication 3. point of view 4. indirection 5. the part and the whole and last but not least 6. coherence. the character and setting is very important in creating a good fictional story or book by choosing a theme, background, and characters. the actions of the characters as well as the plot of the story is also important to keep the readers on the edge of their seats in suspence to find out what will happen next. the complication is when the writer mixes the actions, attitudes, and interactions of characters to keep the story going right from the beginning. the point of view is needed for the reader to have an individualized vision, attitude, and interpretation of each book or story he or she reads. indirection helps build up and guide the imagenation of the reader to the extent of all the information in the story or book comes together to better understand what is going on in the story and/or book. the part and the whole of a fiction story or book helps comprehend the relationship of the single word or phrase and with all of the actions and situations all in one understanding. finally the last thought and important part of the fictional story or book is coherence, in which they say a well made fiction has one situation or thing that continues from another situation and/or thing in the fictional story to create a natural and personal meaning to be easily understood by the reader and writer as well.

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