“Janie was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation. Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid” (Zora Neale Hurston).
The battle disputing who is stronger and who is suppose to assume a submissive role for countless ages have been battled and for countless ages continues to be fought as no solid answer has been provided. Whoever reins superior and who assumes a bigger role lies completely within every individual mind set and their form of perspectives. However, when you put aside this battle of who is the paramount and who is not, you can come to the conclusion that there are some roles that men are meant to assume based on nature’s course, and then there are some roles women are naturally suppose to assume based on nature’s gift bestowed upon there. No matter the argument, there is no way around this concept. However, the primary focus is ranges with the ideal that women’s course with nature show more evidently and obviously than that of the male. For example, when it comes to child bearing, men have no will to say no but to establish credibility for women that only their natural God given nature of child bearing is in their hands. In Zora’s Neale’s Hurston’s selection, “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, the authors also accompanies this notion by exemplifying one of her main characters Jamie, to accomplish the tone and illustration that there are some roles that just rapture around women more beautifully than they do so for men.
There are some things that when trying to describe, no amount of words than compare. Sometimes, creating a vivid image is the best way to get a message across, and Hurston does so in creating the nature surrounding women, through her use of imagery. Women are must definitely not born nor created. They develop from infancy and as nature takes its course, they decide what it is they want to be before blooming into a woman. Not every female can be considered to be women, but all female’s go through the same process and ability to process as such. “She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom” (Hurston). Developing as a young woman, changes begin to occur within Janie, as she searches for what love truly is. Rather than bluntly coming out and saying it, the author uses the aid of imagery. The scene in which this concept is idealized sets place in an environment where nature naturally has a place. As Janie lies down, she notices a bee, come to rest on a flower. This imagery pronounces an example of love and how Janie herself visualizes it to be. This imagery of the bee and the flower also sets a course of enlightenment and oneness. A life for a bee without flowers proves impossible, just like the flowers also need the bee. Together the two take a course in nature that is expected. This kind of nature love exists between a man and a woman when it comes to marriage and love. When a male and a female decide to join in matrimony, the two then become one, and together paint a perfect picture. As the bee nectar’s the flower, the flower produces a powerful and beautiful scent. Just like when a marriage prevails a accordingly, those who watch it can tell that indeed love exists between the man and the woman. This imagery that the author sets is very powerful as the audience can see; it sets as the cover of Hurston’s novel.
Nature does not heed to the warning neither to the demands of any man. It simply just takes it course and does as it pleases. Though, it is true that men and women have the capability to take on the tasks that the other can do, there are just some roles that men cannot take, nor can women assume for men if it is not permissible by nature. By the end of everything, nature determines who it is does what in existence.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Persuasive
For children in third world countries, they are often told of the beautiful heaven which was America. I exist as one of those children. The land was described to be equivalent to heaven on earth and at some point a place better than the land overflowing with milk and honey. And yet, for the largest time, I believed in this promise land. What made it all so very exceptional was the vivid description given by the adults of a money tree. It was often said that this tree just shed down the money like leaves fall to the earth during autumn. Best part was that this money tree always produced and never ceased and not once did they ever run out. This so called money tree turned out to be a very a rude awakening when I landed in America myself and discovered that there was no such thing as having everything in life for free. From the food you buy in the store to the air that you breathe, free money is definitely not part of the American language. The American dream has often been expressed to be exhilarating for those who can think about but never truly touch it with their hands. In Lewis Lapham’s selection, the author implies that the American faith is placed in money. His assumption proves accurate for here in the United States, money is the living source of this nation, and it is valued more than any scarce resource. For many, this reasoning is false to them as they believe in something better than money and have wrapped their minds around the concept that it is not their deliverer. However, for those who have experienced and believe in the rough life, speaking a language aside from money loses their attention. With attention gone, then an individual can lose most Americans.
Faith has been expressed as what a person believes, and believes is the strongest attainment of any living thing. The ability to believe in something is what causes life to exist, thus, for those who believe in money as everything, taking it away from them also cuts of their life supply. Faith develops when life is placed into a particular belief, and through the author’s text, readers can realize that money has taken bigger hold on individuals than it use to in the past. “Against the faith in money, other men in other times and places have risen up countervailing faith in family, honor, religion, intellect, and social class.” Fact is that not everyone has fallen to the will of money. There are those who value other things than the taint that accompanies with money. Other men and other times survived their day and time without placing all their hopes and dreams with the aid of money. Their ability to do so prove that it is very possible so succeed in life without following what everyone believes is a living source. Evolving time is what seems to make money more significant than it needs to be. And the fact the spread of money causes so many to believe that it’s a living resource proves that minds are very powerful. In reality, money has no life; it is just as dead and lifeless than any other object in life that has no power. Its humans that bring money to life. It’s the thought that they place on it that causes money to feel like it is everything.
There were times where money had no value or significance. One must remember that in the past, things were bought, sold, used and received without the use of any note. The fact that it has gained so much territory is evident that the faith individuals express, must be placed and put into the right things. Otherwise, it becomes highly valued and the American dream (if it exists) will no longer flow with milk and honey, but rather on false practiced believe.
Faith has been expressed as what a person believes, and believes is the strongest attainment of any living thing. The ability to believe in something is what causes life to exist, thus, for those who believe in money as everything, taking it away from them also cuts of their life supply. Faith develops when life is placed into a particular belief, and through the author’s text, readers can realize that money has taken bigger hold on individuals than it use to in the past. “Against the faith in money, other men in other times and places have risen up countervailing faith in family, honor, religion, intellect, and social class.” Fact is that not everyone has fallen to the will of money. There are those who value other things than the taint that accompanies with money. Other men and other times survived their day and time without placing all their hopes and dreams with the aid of money. Their ability to do so prove that it is very possible so succeed in life without following what everyone believes is a living source. Evolving time is what seems to make money more significant than it needs to be. And the fact the spread of money causes so many to believe that it’s a living resource proves that minds are very powerful. In reality, money has no life; it is just as dead and lifeless than any other object in life that has no power. Its humans that bring money to life. It’s the thought that they place on it that causes money to feel like it is everything.
There were times where money had no value or significance. One must remember that in the past, things were bought, sold, used and received without the use of any note. The fact that it has gained so much territory is evident that the faith individuals express, must be placed and put into the right things. Otherwise, it becomes highly valued and the American dream (if it exists) will no longer flow with milk and honey, but rather on false practiced believe.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Triffle's Response
The little things that are expressed or not expressed are sometimes the key vital aspects that shape an individual and who they are. Sometimes, it is the things that are not spoken that reflects and impact the most. Little things can never be disregarded as useless. What proves to be nothing to one individual means everything to another. In Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles”, the author exemplifies that the little things are what mean the most and leads to determine who a person truly is. The plot of her play illustrates a woman put on trial for supposedly killing her husband. As the characters search for evidence around the house which will to lead to the motive murder, readers are given the impression by the author that sometimes it is the little things that are ignored and neglected that leads to the mysteries and truth about a person’s feelings when it comes to certain actions and events.
In her selection, “Trifles”, the author sets in the places, events, elements, and props, based on the mood of the scenes being acted out. Each characters behavior and movements attributes to the message the author is attempting to portray. In her story line, as the men go upstairs to search for evidence, the author changes tone where readers get a glimpse of the women’s thoughts about the occurrence of events. “Starts to speak, glances up, where footsteps are head on the room above in a low voice” (Glaspell). As Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, wait for their husbands, they begin to talk among themselves about the unfortunate event that has taken place. Though the women are down stairs, the author’s use of stage directions gives a glimpse into the role of women and place of women during the time period this selection was set for. The men are upstairs about their business, and though downstairs, the women still have to whisper. The way the author sets this scene ultimately places women in an inferior role. Their intelligence and input is not valued which exemplifies why the men are able to be upstairs. Readers must also take close not of this scene because the men brought the women along with them. During the course of investigation, it seems rather irrelevant to bring the women to the crime scene and just leave them downstairs. Readers must take not why the author chose to include them in this scene. It is not directly voiced, but women really are under dominant rules which are the men. Also, the fact that these women are whispering proves highly that the intelligence of a woman is considered an insult compared to thus of a man’s. Mrs. Hale, and Mrs. Peters are both use low voice, and the author stages them in the lower part of the house. This scenario should say something to readers about the roles of women and what is expected of them. “She puts her hand on the dish towel which lies on the table, stands looking at the table, one half of which is clean, the other half messy, makes a move to finish work, then turns and looks at loaf of bread outside the breadbox. Drops towel. In that voice of coming back to familiar things” (Glaspell). Glaspell’s use of actions and visual elements play a key role in understanding this scene very well. One significant aspect of this scene is the stage which is a kitchen. With ideals and perspective of some individuals that a kitchen is the place for women and that is the exact place that we find our characters Mrs. Hale, and Mrs. Peters. Also, as these women are in the kitchen, their actions become easily noticeable for readers. Mrs. Hale begins to clean the kitchen, put things in place and tidy it up a bit though it is not her house. It is so intensely placed in these women where their place is that even when they don’t have to, they are still playing the part that was instilled in them. A dirty kitchen suggests that a woman is not assuming her domestic duties, and that definitely make for a good woman. Another illustration, the author makes evident is Mrs. Hale’s sudden drop of the towel when she heard the voices of the men upstairs. Throughout this selection, whenever the men make a movement, there is a different tone and behavior within the women. Nothing paints the perfect picture that indeed, these women have to know and assume their place based on the authors use of visual elements and actions.
In her selection, “Trifles”, the author sets in the places, events, elements, and props, based on the mood of the scenes being acted out. Each characters behavior and movements attributes to the message the author is attempting to portray. In her story line, as the men go upstairs to search for evidence, the author changes tone where readers get a glimpse of the women’s thoughts about the occurrence of events. “Starts to speak, glances up, where footsteps are head on the room above in a low voice” (Glaspell). As Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, wait for their husbands, they begin to talk among themselves about the unfortunate event that has taken place. Though the women are down stairs, the author’s use of stage directions gives a glimpse into the role of women and place of women during the time period this selection was set for. The men are upstairs about their business, and though downstairs, the women still have to whisper. The way the author sets this scene ultimately places women in an inferior role. Their intelligence and input is not valued which exemplifies why the men are able to be upstairs. Readers must also take close not of this scene because the men brought the women along with them. During the course of investigation, it seems rather irrelevant to bring the women to the crime scene and just leave them downstairs. Readers must take not why the author chose to include them in this scene. It is not directly voiced, but women really are under dominant rules which are the men. Also, the fact that these women are whispering proves highly that the intelligence of a woman is considered an insult compared to thus of a man’s. Mrs. Hale, and Mrs. Peters are both use low voice, and the author stages them in the lower part of the house. This scenario should say something to readers about the roles of women and what is expected of them. “She puts her hand on the dish towel which lies on the table, stands looking at the table, one half of which is clean, the other half messy, makes a move to finish work, then turns and looks at loaf of bread outside the breadbox. Drops towel. In that voice of coming back to familiar things” (Glaspell). Glaspell’s use of actions and visual elements play a key role in understanding this scene very well. One significant aspect of this scene is the stage which is a kitchen. With ideals and perspective of some individuals that a kitchen is the place for women and that is the exact place that we find our characters Mrs. Hale, and Mrs. Peters. Also, as these women are in the kitchen, their actions become easily noticeable for readers. Mrs. Hale begins to clean the kitchen, put things in place and tidy it up a bit though it is not her house. It is so intensely placed in these women where their place is that even when they don’t have to, they are still playing the part that was instilled in them. A dirty kitchen suggests that a woman is not assuming her domestic duties, and that definitely make for a good woman. Another illustration, the author makes evident is Mrs. Hale’s sudden drop of the towel when she heard the voices of the men upstairs. Throughout this selection, whenever the men make a movement, there is a different tone and behavior within the women. Nothing paints the perfect picture that indeed, these women have to know and assume their place based on the authors use of visual elements and actions.
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