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﻿**__MARCH 16th__** When I opened the book and read the first couple paragraphs, I thought to myself that I may just like this. However, whenever the characters actually started talking it confused me. I was sitting in my room reading this out loud and sounded so dumb. But it helped me understand what they were saying a lot better and it grew on me. I really liked the beginning of chapter 2, "Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches." (pg.8) I like how Hurston uses the metaphor of Janies life to a tree.
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I think this tree is going to be a conceit we will see again and again throughout the novel. I like the quote you chose because I want to know what "dawn and doom was in the branches" foreshadows.(Domenico)

﻿**connection:** "Seeing the women as she was made them remember the envy they had stored up from other times....They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive. Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song." (pg.2) I'm connected the women sitting on the porch to the movies Mean Girls. Just like in the movie women are constantly being talking about and viewed in negative ways out of pure jealousy.



**__MARCH 17th__** I really liked these two chapters! I liked how she's actually standing up for herself and realizing that her marriage was forced and her dreams were crushed. "Logan was accusing her of her mamma, her grandmama and her feelings, and she couldn't do a thing about any of it."(32) She finally got the courage to do what she felt was right in her heart and leave him for Joe.
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So I'm choosing to connect these chapters to the Titanic. Just like in the movie Rose is pressured into marrying Cal since he's financially stable but Rose doesn't truly love him. Whenever she boards the ship she meets Jack and falls in love with him. She realizes that she's happy with Jack and isn't with Cal and chooses to leave Cal and be with Jack. Just like in the novel Janie is faced with the same problem.
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﻿**reflection:** This chapter actually made me kinda mad. I didn't like the fact that Joe took Janie's courage away from her. She ran away with him to fall in love but really she was just a model wife for his new upcoming town. "Joe spoke out without giving her a chance to say anything one way or another that took the bloom off of things." (43) I don't like how he thinks he can control her and her every move.
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So I'm choosing to compare this chapter to the movie, Enough. In the movie, the main character thinks she finds love but it was a set up. She gets married to him and he starts to reveal his true personality. He emotional and physical abuses her and tries to control everything she does. Even though Joe doesn't physically abuse her, he emotionally does.
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__**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">﻿MARCH 23 **__ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">So i really didn't like this chapter. First of all, it was super long and I hated how Joe degraded not just Janie but women in general. "Janie loved the conversation and sometimes she thought up good stories on the mule, but Joe had forbidden her to indulge."(53) Joe is constantly tyring to have complete control over her and doesn't like her speak her mind, look how she wants too, or even do what she wants. " So when the bread didn't rise, and the fish wasn't quite done at the bone, and the rice was scorched,he slapped Janie until she had a ringing sound in her ears and told her about her brains before he stalked on back to the store." (72) He went to the extent of hitting her over dinner. Are you kidding???!
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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Most of you probably dont know this movie because its a lifetime movie, but its called Shattered Dreams and its about a woman who is a wife of a Washington official. But behind closed doors he has anger problems and hits her. She ends up standing up to him and going public with her story. Hopefully Janie will do the same thing.
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__<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">MARCH 24: __<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> chapters 7-10 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">﻿**reflection:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">So I really liked this chapters. Even though Joe dies, I'm kind of happy for Janie. She's finally starting to realize that she wasn't living her life and wanted to find herself again. I really liked seeing her interact with other people. Like in chapter 10, "Seemed as if she had known him all her life. Look how she had been able to talk with him right off!"(99) She's letting people in and trying to live her life again.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Okay so I'm comparing these chapters to the movie, Practical Magic. Yes I know this movie is about witchcraft but that's not the point. The love part is what I'm talking about. Sally and Gillian's parents past away and lived with their aunts (Janie's parents are gone and she lived with her Nanny). Anywho, Sally gets married then her husband dies. After that she gives up on love, however she meets a guy who makes her feel like she's known him forever. In the end she lets herself fall in love. Just like Janie she meets Tea Cake and says that she feels like she's known him all her life.
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MARCH 29
 * reflection:** So I actually enjoyed these past chapters. "She couldn't make him look just like any other man to her. He looked like the love thoughs of women. __He could be a bee to a blossom-a pear tree blossom in the spring__. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps." (106) These couple lines show how Janie is starting to let herself love again. It's almost childlike to see her crushing on someone so bad.

So going along with that quote made me think of the movie Juno. Now I know you all are probably saying no. But I'm not talking about the whole teen pregnancy thing. "As far as boyfriends go, Paulie Bleeker is totally boss. __He is the cheese to my macaroni__. And, I know that people are supposed to fall in love before they reproduce, but... I guess normalcy isn't really our style." Both quotes use similes to describe their feelings toward their crushes. In the movie Juno puts up a guard and tells Bleeker she doesn't want anything from him. He listens to her and then she finds herself falling for him. They listen to their hearts and end up being together. Just like Janie she had a guard up and now she's willing to let love in.
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<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">﻿MARCH 31:
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">reflection: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I am so mad Ms. Ryce. Tea Cakes really disappointed me! It's like a repeat of over of the other guys in her life. "Before the week was over he had whipped Janie. Not because her behavior justified his jealousy, but it relieved that awful fear inside him. Being able to whip her reassured him in possession."(147) Like come on! What's up with all of these guys hitting her. I hate how him and his friend were talking about how lucky he was that he could hit her and she didn't say a word. Like that's not okay. I feel like her talking to Mrs.Turner makes her start realizing that maybe she's just settling. However, she defends Tea Cakes.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">So I'm connecting this section with the movie, Monster-In-Law. Now not all of this movie fits but here I go. In the movie, there is a girl named Charlotte who has gone on lots of blind dates and they were all ending up failing (just like Janie's marriages) and then finds the perfect guy (Tea Cakes). She meets his mother and she tries her hardest to change her mind and break up with him. Just like Mrs. Turner she is trying to convince Janie that she should meet her brother and get rid of Tea Cakes.
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__**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">﻿APRIL 4 **__
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">reflection: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">I feel like this chapter tied the whole book together. "They sat in company with the others in other shanties, thier eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against. His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God." (160) This chapter showed the true love between Janie and Tea Cakes. I actually started to like Tea Cakes again. He would do anything for her and she would do anything for him.


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">connection: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">I'm connecting this chapter to the Proposal. In the Proposal a boss is threatened to lose her job and get deported. Even though she knows this is bad idea and can face going to jail she forces her assisant to marry her. They spend the weekend with his family and are forced to deal with eachother they end up falling for eachother. In the the novel, Tea Cakes knew that it was a bad idea to stay they risked their lives but during the storm they reveal how much they truly care for eachother.



__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">April 6th **__ **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">reflection: **These chapters were crazy! I didn't even put it together that he had rabies whenever he got bit by the dog. And whenever she switched the bullets to the last three whole I was like pooping my pants. Smart first of all. Overall I just really liked these last chapters. **connection:** I'm connecting these last chapters to the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. One of the best friends stays home that summer and works and works on film. At work she hears and finds a little girl Bailey passed out on the ground and she had wet her pants. The little girl gets attached and Tibby acts like she doesn't want her around. She later finds out that she has cancer and Tibby's heart breaks. She tries her hardest to make her last days memorable. Before she died they laid in the hospital bed together talking. Then the next day she gets a phone call that she had passed. Just like in the novel, Janie does whatever it takes to try to make Tea Cake get better and feel better. She doesn't want to believe that he was going to die. Whenever he dies she holds him in her arms just like Tibby and Bailey. The death made both Janie and Tibby realize how much Tea Cake and Bailey really meant to them and how much they would of done anything for them.