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and place it in a pear flask. Figure 4 – Different kinds of pipets 2. Add 15 cm3 of 2m sodium hydroxide and a spatula tip of boiling stones (anti-bumping granules) to the pear flask. 3. Assemble a reflux setup well. Inspect your wire gauze to make sure that it does not have holes in the fire proofing that will allow the flame to reach the pear flask. (Ask your gauze to be replaced if broken). 4. Bring the mixture in the pear flask to boil. CAUTION! The bottom of the pear flask may…

Within the novel, the image of a pear tree blossoming excites Janie of an overwhelming yet sexual feeling. She had lay “under a blossoming pear tree in the backyard” and “ever since the first tiny bloom opened” it had left a “snowy virginity of bloom” and “caressed her in her sleep” (p 10). Hurston uses the pear tree as a symbol for pleasure as its leaf buds’ stroke Janie in her sleep and leaves her wanting for more. The…

The writer Zora Neale Hurston was born in Alabama, 1891. Hurston later moved to New York City and attended Columbia University where she received a degree in anthropology. She wrote African American folktales with inspiration from her hometown and having them set in her hometown as well. The novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, follows the story of a character named Janie, as she tells her friend Phoeby about three marriages that she went through with men named Logan, Joe, and Tea Cake. Through…

Saint Augustine was a young man of sixteen years when he and his companions decided to commit the wicked action of stealing pears from a tree. After committing this act during the nighttime, the boys threw the pears to the pigs. "Wickedness filled me. I stole something which I had in plenty and of much better quality" (Book 2, section 9). In this quote Augustine describes his motive for his actions. He writes that the act was done out of pure wickedness and adolescent ignorance. "You had pity…

common mistakes teenagers make through the eyes of Janie Crawford as Janie sets off to find her own independence. One scene that I related to was the Janie’s first kiss with a local boy named Johnny Taylor. “She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom;…

Janie Crawford, the protagonist of the novel, has a vivid relationship with the nature. As “nature is de first of everything” (Hurston 65), it is used as fundamental symbols and motifs, resembling different parts of Janie’s life. The usage of the pear tree, mule and horizon represent Janie’s coming of age, which eventually awakens her true self that is trapped within her because of race and gender roles of the society. Living in a white-dominant society, Janie and the other “colored…

the pear tree. She still has doubts about their relationship based on their age difference however she can not stop thinking about him. He is not just attractive to her he is beautiful and alluring in her eyes that he makes women already think of romance at first glance as mentioned in the quote how he looked like the love thoughts of women. She then connects Tea Cake with the romantic scenery she gazed upon in her younger days. The metaphor used to associate Tea Cake with the bee in the pear…

stories to get the reader(s) thinking. In “The Hollow Men” T.S. Eliot uses a recognizable children’s song and transformed it into a horrific melody. The song “The Mulberry Bush” is replaced with “Here we go round the Prickly pear Prickly pear Prickly pear here we go round the Prickly pear at five o’clock in the morning.” The thought of running around a sharp, serrated fruit at risk of getting severely injured while thinking of the pleasant tune a Mother may sing to her Child creates a harsh…

beliefs because they symbolize their views and inner feelings. In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston uses many symbols throughout the story. One symbol that continuously appears throughout the story is the blossoming pear tree. The pear tree…

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…