theisis.Thesis: Ever since Janie was a child she has had many influences in her life urging her to live a certain lifestyle, such influences have help

Thesis: Ever since Janie was a child she has had many influences in her life urging her to live a certain lifestyle, such influences have helped her shape herself and figure out what kind of person she wants to be.

Scene: tea cake

a scene that i feel has great importantce to this part of the book is the scene when tea cake is introduced. all of a suddden you can tell that janie andd him get along very well. after janie first met with tea cake she sort of put of a wall against him because she found herself liking him alot and she did not want that to happen. though, as time progressed she began to become quite fond of tea cake. Tea cake is a man with no money, no really high important job, and most of all no special social class. she is very intrugied by tea cake becasue he counts her as an equal and that was the first thing that attracked her to him right of the bat. janie has come from to completely oppisite marriges, first a hard ass who expected work out of her as if she was mule, then somebody who treated her like a trophy wife and would not let her do anything but sit and be admired. tea cake is just a normal guy who is loving and hey may not be the richest or the most popular but he treats her like an equal and is genuinly kind.

scene

the scene or topic in this book so far that has some meaningful value is when the men are outside the store talking about the mule that was not doing much work and fought back when tied to a plow and it was not getting fed enough. i think that the mule is a symbolization for Julie. with julies first husband he asked alot of her and she pushed back alot and did not to all the work that he expected her to do. when the men are talking about the mule because the mule ran away, just like julie. also, joe bought the mule and then let it sit around becasue it was working to hard. it looks like joe has a knack for that. the mule ended up dying around the same time that julie starts to get a little antsy and does not like the way joe is condecending (vocab word) to her.

their eyes quote response

for my quote response i did quote #2.
this quote is significant to this part of the book becaue it is when janie is reflecting on her child hood. she has been going though a rough patch in her life with her significant other. she goes back to her happy and sad child hood memories. she subconciously connects these feelings of lonleyness because of tea cake leaving to those of when she was a child and she first found out she was black and how all her black freinds made fun of her because she was hanging out with white kids. she creates this picture that is a product of all these memories. a dream.

emily dickinson

due to the passages i have read i would not call emily dickinson a trancenedentalist writer. she has very insighful thoughts about nature and the human mind but i do not think that she has the same feal as the transendentalists do. She has a more harsh tone to her, speaking about "funeral in my brain" and "my letter to the world that never wrote to me". my favorite poem in this set is the last one, xvii, she talks about how she has never seen the sea but she still knows about it. this is a metaphor for how just because people cant see things doesnt mean that they know nothing about it. i do not think that dickinson is a trancendentalist but she does have some very valuable insights on life.

"and to such as it is to be of these more or less i am, and of these one and all i weave the song of myself"-the whole entire had me very very confused but this last sentence ties it all together in a way that clears up my confusion. the whole entrie is talking about different people doing different things, dind the end i came to the conclusion that these were people that he had come in contact with one way or another that had an impact on him that helped shape him because in the end in the last sentence he pretty much says these things make up me.

"in the past and present wilt-i have filled them,emptied them.and proceed to fill my next fold dof the future" - i like this quote because in my words it says, ive have done all that i need to do with the past and present and now i need to focus on the future, i like the idea of keeping your head facing forward and never looking back.

"I bequeath myself to the dirt and grow from teh grass i love, if you want me again look for me under your boot-soles"-this is my favorite quote from these three selections. this is talking about how he is going to biodegrade into and become a part of the world he loves in a very literal sense.

"i should be pleasedd to meet a man in the woods i wish he were to be encountered like a wild caribous mouse'"-this quote is completely beyond me and i have absolutely not idea what he is talking about. usually i am into insightful things like this but i feel that this quote reallly describes these journal entries, confusing random thoughts.
the rest of these entires have not changed, boring, random, the usuall

journal entrie response 2

my favorite entrie in this selection was the very first one, "all this worldy wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man" i see this quote as a way of saying that every great think in this world starts with an idea and grows into something more. once again i find it hard to dicifer the way he writes, very old english and metaphoracly. these entries did no get any better, i find them all very alike in the way that they are just random thoughts of this guy.

Journal entries

the journal entries that we just read were probably the least favorite thing that i have read in this class. i think that the journal entries that we read were boring and not very intruiging, i found some of them to be interesting, for example the entry when he talks about nature and how nature never makes hate but he also writes in an old,weird way that takes me a while to figure out. i am having a hard time deciding when and why he would write a journal entry, is it when he has a random thought or insight, or is it when he just feels like writing something . all in all i did not enjoy this reading as much as i enjoyed the others.

paper

1. Comparison: The thoughts and writings of Benjamin Franklin with that of Emerson and Thoreau. Each of these writers and thinkers are considered to be great and greatly influential Americans; However, Emerson and Thoreau’s Transcendentalist beliefs are very different from those of Franklin. Compare and contrast how these influential writers beliefs promote a competing and sometimes contradictory vision of the “American Dream.” In the process, you should arrive at a clearer understanding of Transcendentalism, Franklin’s message, and the writings of each of these men. In order to write this paper, you may want to take some time and read through the selection of Franklin’s Autobiography starting on page 7 in your reader.

Where I lived, And What I Lived For, response

I went into this reading thinking that i would not like it half as much as i did but after reading the first sentence of this selection i knew that this would be my kind of reading. I think that my favorite part of this selection is the theme of awakeness. "The millions ared awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake for effective intellectual expertion", this is my favorite quote in this section because it sheds light on the truth of life in todays society and that truth being the amount of time somebody can honestly say that they are truly focusing on the task at hand (whatever it may be). My other favorite theme in this book is simplicity. He regonizes another honest truth in this chapter when he says, "our life is frittered away with detail", i find this to be possibly the biggest truth of all time. We spend so much time with every little thing, getting frusturated, and sad over the smallest things and if we stepped back and took a look at the big picture 95% of the time we would realize that what we are stressing about is a very small detail of our life. All in all i really enjoyed reading this chapter.

emerson quotes

Quote #1-Self Reliance- "what have to do with all the sacredness of traditions , if i live wholly from within"- In this quote he is explaining how he does not bother with traditions because they are not his own, and if they are not his own then why should he bother with them in the first place? i like this quote because it explains how something like religion wont mean a thing unless it is within your core values and beleifes.

Quote #2-Self Reliance- "truth is more handsome than the affection of love. your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none". This may be my favorite quote so far because it make so much sense, if you are always happy go lucky never mad angry or sad then you are not a real person and somebody who is not a real person cannot have real person felings. i think that the meaning of this quote is to not be fake becuase it is not you.

Quote #3- Natue- "The stars awaken a certain reverence, because they are not always present they are inaccessible;but all natural objects make a kindred impression when the mind is open to their influence". i think that this quote is using the stars as a metafore for other things, sort of saying when you are really phyced or sad on something that its not just that one moment it is there, it is always there, but when the mind is open to it thats when it can make its impression.

Quote #4-"....The lover of nature is he whos inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each othere;who has retained the spirit of infancy into the era of manhood" the way i see this quote is like the only person who can be in tune with nature has to be in tune with himself, in and out and in tune with all stages of his life, he must be true to hiimself and only himself and not let other people shape him in any way shape or form.

things i want to get out of this course

I would like to get as many things out of this course as i can. The number one thing that i would like to get out of this course is more intellect and expirience in reading things then summarizing them. I would also like to improve on paper writing and grammar. And last but not least i would like to gain a greater vocabulary from this class.