Orchard House

Seeing love as a goal, a great achievement, at a young age Janie believed in love and pursued it. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston a woman's obsession to express sexuality evolves. The main character Janie begins her adventure into womanhood at the age of sixteen, unwillingly leaving her innocence behind when she sees a significant correlation with a bee and a pear blossom to sex but mostly love. On a search Janie makes decisions that don’t help her to reach her…

Time also by Robert Frost is about an obstinate cow that breaks through a wall to escape her pasture for an apple orchard where she devours apples until she feels agony and reaches her inevitable end. Robert Frost uses multiple images of a wall and a cow as extended metaphors to develop various themes. In Mending…

“Love” portrays Janie’s wants and need from loving someone. Prior to Janie’s marriages, she found herself under a pear tree, and “From then on [she] knew that by [it] being in [her] life things were destined to change 'cause love”. Subsequently, Johnny Taylor appears, who she was never attracted to, suddenly, was tempted by his appearance and kissed him. Under the pear tree she received a ideal of what her future lovers should live up too. The lines,“The world looks so brand new to me now that I…

The pear tree and its blossoming buds resemble her first sexual and emotional fulfillment with the young boy. The bees pollinating the tree made her wish upon her body being caressed and loved the way a woman feels when she gives herself to a man. Janie is naïve and immature about love; she has no idea of what real love is; she spends all her time under the tree envisioning what love looks and feels like. The pear tree represents the good, bad, growth, and different stages of her life (Hurston…

At a younger age Janie was curious about the idea of relationships and love, but her grandmothers strict view, as well as society's negative view on the subject, made it hard for her to understand what love really is. Janie views her grandmother as a very strong important figure. Hurston writes “Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon-for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you,” (89) which portrays Nanny's view that dreams can never be obtained…

Hurston uses the imagery of the inside of Janie’s mind to display Janie breaking through a wall of sorts and displaying that one must go search for their lost objects if one wants to find themselves again. Some of the men were talking near Janie about what they would do had a women embarrassed them in front of people and that is when “Janie did what she had never done before, that is, thrust herself into the conversation”. (75) The word never means that an event or action will at no time occur…

As time passes, many factors change a person. Things such as the nature of their environment, people come and go, to dreams one might wish to pursue. Janie grew from a young bud to a beautiful tree, despite her environment being cruel to her. The people in Janie life and the nature of her circumstances influenced her growth from a naïve girl to a strong woman. Janie had a dream so far into the horizon that many people today have trouble achieving it; a harmonious love. A love that is…

The Almond Tree Essay Martin Luther King once said, “We must accept finite disappointment, but never never lose infinite hope.” This is a very strong theme conveyed throughout The Almond Tree. It teaches how hope must never be forgotten while withstanding trials. This theme is seen several times throughout the book as a young boy, Ichmad, and his family as they go through many trials that they must overcome. Michelle Corasanti is able to display this by the use of symbols. One of the most…

between Prospect and Cox. When Saratoga incorporated, everything up to Prospect was included in Saratoga. Our summer home became our residence and my dad commuted by train to San Francisco. After the war, Dad retired and in 1951 he completed building a house across the street. In 1956 my husband and I purchased the home and my parents moved to Santa Cruz, selling the rest of the…

The Big Move After what felt like a lifetime of planning, our family was finally making the big move from New York to Texas. The house we lived in was my childhood home and my husband and I shared it for fifteen years together. This was not going to be an easy task. Our first hurdle was preparing for this huge adventure. Secondly, we needed to drive both cars down. That meant that we would not have the other person to take over driving when our eyelids became as heavy as weights over our…