Homework Due 10/26

Read Chapters 8 -10 answer the following questions according to your period: Yes, there will be a quiz

1st period

1. Explain Janie’s split consciousness: How does one part of her stay in the store and the other lie under a shady tree?
2.  How does Joe react to growing older? Discuss Janie’s consciousness of Joe’s aging.
   
3. What prompts Janie to remark, "When you pull down yo’ britches,you look lak de change of life." How do the men respond? How does Joe respond? Why?
   
4. Explain the following simile: "Joe’s vanity bled like a flood."
   
5. What does the phrase "the sleep of swords" indicate about the atmosphere between Joe and Janie after Joe is publicly embarrassed by her?
   
6. Janie describes Joe’s face as having "a look with all the unthinkable coldness of outer space." How does this contrast to the way he looked when they first met?
   
7. Why does Joe choose a voodoo doctor instead of a medical doctor when he is ill? Be clear and specific.
   
8. Explain Janie’s concept of Death. Again, clarity and specificity count!
   
9. In Janie’s final conversation with Joe, she says, "Mah own mind had tuh be squeezed and crowded out tuh make room for yours in me." Why did she wait twenty years to say this to him?
   
10. Janie’s reaction to Joe’s death is, "Poor Joe! . . . Jody is dead. Mah husband is gone from me." Why does Janie refer to her husband with two different names?
    
11. What is the difference between Janie’s thoughts and actions when Joe is buried?
    
12. What does Janie’s burning of the head rags symbolize? Why is this important?
    
13. What memories of Nanny does Joe’s death trigger in Janie? How is this important?
    
14. What do the townspeople assume will happen to Janie after Joe’s death? Why?
    
15. Why does Hezekiah imitate Joe and what does Janie think about it?
    
16. Explain Janie’s confidence to Pheoby that "mourning oughtn’t tuh last no longer’n grief." Be Clear and Specific
    

    2nd period -

    Chapter 8 

    
    
    
    1. What do the following metaphors that begin Chapter 8 suggest? “He had crawled off to lick his wounds.” “But the stillness was the sleep of swords.” “Well, if she must eat out of a long-handled spoon, she must.” (77)
    2. How did Janie feel after the big argument in the store? (78)
    3. What does the narrator reveal about Jody that Janie does not know? (78)
    4.  What did Janie tell Joe just before he died? (82) and why?
    5. How is the couple’s situation ironic? What type of irony is it?
        6. Explain Janie’s split consciousness: How does one part of her stay in the store and the other lie under a shady tree?
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Chapter 9
    
    
    1. What was the only change that people saw in Janie after Joe's funeral? (85)
    2. Why does Janie burn her head rags? (85)
    3. Why does Janie hate her grandmother? Why is this important?
    4. Explain what Hurston means by saying that Nanny choked Janie with the horizon. Did Nanny intend to hurt Janie? (85)
    5. What did Phoeby and the other townspeople think Janie should do? (86)
    6. How does Hurston weave folklore into this chapter? (85-86)
    7.  What did Janie think of the idea of remarrying? (87)
    8. What did Janie say about mourning and grief? (89) and why is this significant?
    9. Why does Janie discourage all of her suitors? (89)
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Chapters 10
    
    
    

    1. *How did Janie meet Tea Cake? (90-91)
    2. Why is the checker game between Janie and Tea Cake significant? (91-92)
    3. What is Tea Cake’s real name, and what does he look like? (92-93)
    4. Describe the overall tone of this chapter. How do the attitudes of Janie and Tea Cake affect the tone? List 6 words that create the tone and say why you chose them (use text support).

     

    3rd period-

    1. Explain Janie’s split consciousness: How does one part of her stay in the store and the other lie under a shady tree?
    2.  How does Joe react to growing older? Discuss Janie’s consciousness of Joe’s aging.
       
    3. What prompts Janie to remark, "When you pull down yo’ britches,you look lak de change of life." How do the men respond? How does Joe respond? Why?
       
    4. Explain the following simile: "Joe’s vanity bled like a flood."
       
    5. What does the phrase "the sleep of swords" indicate about the atmosphere between Joe and Janie after Joe is publicly embarrassed by her?
       
    6. Janie describes Joe’s face as having "a look with all the unthinkable coldness of outer space." How does this contrast to the way he looked when they first met?
       
    7. Why does Joe choose a voodoo doctor instead of a medical doctor when he is ill? Be clear and specific.
       
    8. Explain Janie’s concept of Death. Again, clarity and specificity count!
       
    9. In Janie’s final conversation with Joe, she says, "Mah own mind had tuh be squeezed and crowded out tuh make room for yours in me." Why did she wait twenty years to say this to him?
       
    10. Janie’s reaction to Joe’s death is, "Poor Joe! . . . Jody is dead. Mah husband is gone from me." Why does Janie refer to her husband with two different names?
        
    11. What is the difference between Janie’s thoughts and actions when Joe is buried?
        
    12. What does Janie’s burning of the head rags symbolize? Why is this important?
        
    13. What memories of Nanny does Joe’s death trigger in Janie? How is this important?
        
    14. What do the townspeople assume will happen to Janie after Joe’s death? Why?
        
    15. Why does Hezekiah imitate Joe and what does Janie think about it?
        
    16. Explain Janie’s confidence to Pheoby that "mourning oughtn’t tuh last no longer’n grief." Be Clear and Specific

     

    Station work and Tone Vocab from 10/22 Due at beginning of class