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with something so detrimental to our relationship with God. The Confessions by Saint Augustine, he will embed himself in sin and how Saint Augustine deals with sin throughout his life, by explaining his inner lustful patterns or the incident with the pear tree. Sin is also prevalent in the title Purgatory, which is written by Dante, it also has something to say about sinful experiences. Dante has been placed in Purgatory which is a middle realm between Heaven and Hell. We learn that he has seven…

Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston LAP Topic #3 Emily Padilla Mr. Amoroso Pd 3 Padilla 1 The environment in which surrounds us conduces one to behave in a certain manner. Nature is a great influence regarding how people perform their actions, within whatever we see may we tend to mock and do it ourselves. The actions one takes is usually based on prior knowledge, using common sense they gained on things one may have viewed or experienced. In the novel Their Eyes…

(Doc A) Outside Syvia sees a pear as she was going to head back she sees another pear. She thought of Dora, her sister, quickly grabbed it to her sister. The love that she didn’t only think about herself, but thought of her sister shows a deep bond of love that they care about each other. “Only me and this pear. I take a bite…. I am about to run back, when I spot another pear on the tree….I think of Dora, and I grab it then turn and run back to the building with a pear in each hand.” (Doc B)…

Test subjects 1 and 2 were given the citrus flavors lime and orange consecutively so perhaps the sour taste influenced their taste perception. Pear was the least distinguishable and was associated with a different type of fruit. Experimental group 1 had a significant decrease in taste when vision was removed. None of the test subjects identified the pear flavor and was associated with other fruits such as kiwi and banana. Test subjects 3-5 identified citrus flavors when they were tasting cherry…

Upon first writing and releasing Their Eyes Were Watching God in 1937, Zora Neale Hurston was subjected to a wide array of criticism from famous writers at that time. Most notably was Richard Wright, a powerful African American author amid his time, as he expressed in his audit that the novel "carries no theme, no message, [and] no thought" (Wright). Wright’s criticism shifted people’s attitude towards Hurston, as other critics began to feel that her novel only fulfilled the “white man’s”…

and a passage from the Old Testament in the chapter “Pear Theft”, in which Augustine is persuaded by his friends to steal pears from a local tree. The parallel between Augustine’s retelling and the story of Adam and Eve from the book of Genesis is both evident and purposeful. Adam is persuaded into taking the forbidden apple from Eve, leading to the eventual banishment from the Garden of Eden while Augustine is peer-pressured into stealing pears which signals his metaphorical banishment from…

around Janie and she can’t avoid it, follows her everywhere she goes. The pear tree represents Janie, it reacts to her emotions physically. The pear tree also represents beauty and pleasure,“She bolted upright and peered out of the window and saw Johnny Taylor lacerating Janie” (Hurston 29), Nanny didn’t take it well, that was Janie’s first kiss and sexual desires, but it was also the end of her childhood. After that kiss the pear tree started to wilt, the kiss was a reminder of Nanny and her…

ways of men and sexuality. Janie has her first sexual feelings one afternoon beneath a pear tree. She sees a “bee sinking into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister calyxes arch to meet the love embrace (Hurston 11)” and she comments on how happy the tree must be to have such a feeling. Janie believes she is privy to a “revelation (Hurston 11)” and she thinks “So this [is] a marriage (Hurston 11)!” The pear tree and the bee working together in harmony represent new love and desire for…

have a special talent for applying them. Zora Hurston uses many symbols in her book Their Eyes Were Watching God. I believe her use of living organisms as symbols allows her to convey ideas about people. For example, she uses mules, buzzards, and a pear tree to symbolize complex ideas including her idea of a perfect relationship. To start off, the mule in Their Eyes Were Watching God represents hardworking people who deserve a break in their lives. When Joe Starks and Janie Starks move to…

The pear tree and the bee are introduced early on in the novel in Janie’s youth. It was at a time when “[s]he was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees...” (Hurston 11). Shortly after, the symbol of the bee “[sinking] into the sanctum of a bloom..” essentially depicts Janie’s…