Journal #7: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Symbol:  Me: “The Box behind the couch that everything was hiding in” (1) Hurston: She founds her sitting on the steps of the back porch with the lamps all filled and the chimneys cleaned” (4).   In my story, the box symbolizes the lies that Anna has been hiding for all of these years. When it explodes, it symbolizes her thoughts finally admitting everything he has done to her.  In Hurston's writing, She uses the porch to symbolize power and when Janie is sitting on the steps of the porch, she is not quite high enough to have power but she is on her way to growing her own power. 

Simile: Hurston: “The morning road air was like a new dress” (32) Me: She bought a dinner as good as she had ever had” (3).   In Hurston's quote, the air is surrounding her like a dress. it is covering her completely, making her feeling comfortable. 

Onomatopoeia: ME: “Bump-you are free. Bump- no more lies. Bump-free” (2).     Hurston:  “Den, one night Ah heard the big guns boomin’ lak thunder” (18). Hurston uses very loud words in this line. She uses words like "big guns", "boomin'"and "thunder" which all sound loud. Their connotations help her make the grandma's  point by expressing how really loud it was.