Kerchief

The peasants can be seen wearing hats and kerchiefs, as well as heavy and thick clothing in attempts to shelter themselves from the blatant cold that can be found in their home. The room the peasants are seen in is extremely dark, the only light source coming from a small lamp dangling from the ceiling…

In the 1900’s, women are considered to be incapable to live without a husband. As a child Janie is always told by her nanny that she needs to marry; especially to a decent man. Nanny’s husband material choice for Janie is an older man named Logan Killlicks. However, Logan and Janie’s marriage did not last long and that is when she met Joe Starks. In the story Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. The main character, Janie, gets married three times in her lifetime. Her first husband…

We are taken into each chapter with the date and location listed first, establishing part of the setting. The first chapter details the siege underway that has “the Confederate army, under the command of General Robert E. Lee…pinned inside the city [Petersburg, Virginia] for more than 250 days by Union forces under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant” (O’Reilly, Dugard 4). Grant believes that if Lee’s army is allowed to escape south to the Carolinas “a reunified United States of America” (4)…

In a world filled with constant reminders of Gender roles, Hurston uses them as one of the various themes throughout Their Eyes Were Watching God to add an underlying message to society. Female gender roles include not being as strong as men, never in charge, pretty to look at, and several more. While in contrast male gender roles are typically portrayed as having dominance and being the “hero” to a woman. Hurston expresses the gender roles given at this time in society by displaying Janie…

followed orders from Jody, like a slave would follow orders from their master. In Their Eyes Were Watching God the author shows the readers a description of how Janie is glad to be free from the possession of Jody when he passes away. “She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair. The length, the glory was there.”(87). When reading this passage from the novel the word that stands out is glory when seeing it makes it seem as Janie a now free and can has authorization to…

TE LAP TOPIC #3 A plant is part of nature, it lives and dies like humans. Nature evolves into a greater understanding in life, it has a meaning to why it lives. In The Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, it illustrates how Janie’s life was represented by nature and how her life changed because of it. The changes in life happen for many reasons and are reflected upon nature's surroundings. Nature speaks to Janie in a way that only she understands why it changes the perspectives in…

Freya Stark is a well known British traveler and adventurer (1893-1993) whose work The Southern Gates of Arabia was and still is very popular. She followed the route of the Hadharamaut valley and she sought to be the first westerner to locate the lost city of Shabwa. Born in Paris, she was one of the first European women who traveled and wrote about the Middle East. Through close reading, I believe that Freya added to the feminism individuality of her writing in many ways by being a women with…

life and death because she insists he has seven siblings, although two are dead. Regardless in stanzas 11 and 12 she expresses how their presence is forever with her. Even though she has lost two siblings, she knits stockings with them, hems her kerchief alongside them “And sing a song to them (41, 42, 44). Despite these views on life, her reference to God in line 51 suggests she has a religion. Instead it is her simple view of life and nature that brings her stubborn, unchanging conclusion that…

In the story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” Flannery O’Connor takes the reader on an adventure across the state of Georgia with a disconnected family who is headed to Florida for a family vacation. The story begins with the grandmother is trying to get her son, Bailey, to change his mind and go to Tennessee instead, when she reads a newspaper article about a prison escapee, she begins to try to lay a guilt trip on Bailey but this tactic does not work and the family begins their journey to Florida…

way i would describe the alchemist is that he is like a wise man for in his conversations with Santiago he teaches him many things. He is also dressed in complete black, wears a black turban that covers all of his face except his eyes, and a black kerchief. As i said briefly before, the Alchemist acts as a guide for Santiago and they travel together across the Saharan desert where The Alchemist returns to The Oasis and lets Santiago to continue onto the pyramids himself. But it is what the…