Stranger Journal #6b

Thesis Statements:

1 word choice
(Alexander) Why does Camus/Ward (translator) use simple words to describe so formal a book?
Camus use short simple words to create a more indepth relationship with the characters to make them more human.

2 Sentences
(Alexander) Why does Camus vary the sentence length?
Camus varys sentence length to create a very unique picture of Meursault. The difference in sentence length creates a little bit different side of Meursault one he talks long and it flow and the others are short and consice and get the information across.
3 Images
(Rachel) Why does Camus use the image of light always being harsh and unbearable?
Camus use light to show how a nessesity of life can cause pain but Meusault tries to avoid it like emotions and decsions.
4 Symbols
(Alexander) What idea is Camus trying to convey through the sun?
Camus is trying to protray through the sun the nessecity of human aspects of life. Like emotioins, making descions and the frustaion that comes with that. The cause pain and discomfort but the are nessesary for a person to live just as the sun is nessecary.
5 Figures of speech
(Athanasia) Why doesn't Camus create more obvious and deep metaphors?
Camus doesn't create deep metaphors to help show the simplistice approach Meursault has on life and their is really no deeper meaning ot his life.
6. rhetorical devices
(Athanasia) Why doesn't the narrator show more emotion and feeling than the dialogue?
The narrator is Meursault and as a character he lacks emotion but this helps juxtapose him to other characters who show emotion makeing him seem odd.
7 patterns
( Kevin W.) What message is Camus trying to show with the motif of the sun and heat?
Camus use the motif of the sun and heat as a thing that doesn't go away like human emotions that Meursault denies and that the pain they cause does disapear for a time they do come back.
8 Narrators
( Kevin W.) Why does Camus use Mersault as a narrator instead of someone else?
Camus use Meursault as the narrator to give us a deeped insight to why he lacking emotion. The fact that you can see how he feels toward other people when they express emotion helps use connect to him.
9 structure
( Kevin W.) What is Camus trying to say by having time go slower while Mersault is in jail?
Camus does make it seem like time is going slower for Meursault while he is in jail but he actual make months fly by and it makes the changes in Meursault seem likey they are happening really fast. Camus might be showing how changes in people happen over time and you can't expect dramatic results right away.

Stranger #6a

1. Word Choice- Use short simple words that convavy the meaning easily.
Why does Camus make his characters seem so simple?

2. Sentences-Use a lot of long slow sentence. The sentences are simple.
Why does Camus write in this layed back flowing style?

3. Images-Use the contrast of light to dark in sence to create an image also. The image of tempature.
Why does Camus play with Meursaults feeling of tempature so much?

4. Symbols- Camus focus a lot on the sun and heat. He also focus on the sky alot and it color.
Why does Camus focus on things that are out of reach for humans but still affect us?
5. Figurative Language-Use irony a fair bit to almost make some comical scenes.
Does Camus intend for his irony to create comical scenes?
6. Rhetoric devices-Juxputoses his emotions to what he belives others are feeling in a scene.
Why does Camus juxtapose the emotions of Meursault to what other characters are feeling?

7. Patterns-Use repatition of people pauseing and feeling uncomfortable around Meursault.
Why does Camus make Meusault akward around others?

8. Narration-1st person. Gives insight into Mearsault emotions and is very observent to the felling of others.
Why is Camus so observant to the feelings of others?

9. Structure-Very slow time movement at the begining of the story. Toward the end time moves very fastly months at a time and Meursault changes more quickly.
Why does Camus use these different speeds in the passage of time?

Stragner Journal #5

How does your own philosophy affect your reading?

My own personal philosophy affects my reading in first the type of characters i connect with. I usally connect with the more logical and resonable characters but the activiteis of my life also affect my reading as much as my philosophy. Just my general intrests affect the characters I identifiy with. My philosophy affects my reading with what i look for and see as valuable because what my philosophy is.

Stranger Journal #4

Sun

"When the sun got too hot, she dove off and i followed."(Camus 20) The sun pressures Meursault to make choices.

"The sun was shining [...] and the glare onto the water was unbearable" (Camus 52). This feeling of thinking and decisions diagrees with Meursault and he doesn't like it.

"I wanted [...] to escape the sun" (Camus 57). The sun makes Meursault fell emotion this feeling of need to escape.

"[...]his office was filled with sunlight barely softened by a flimsy curtain" (Camus 66). The discomfort the sun causes Meursault repersents the discomfort the situation cuases Meursault.

The Sky and Color change with it.

"I had the whole sky in my eye and it was blue and gold" (Camus 20). The sky really reflects Meursaults emotions that he is feeling with Marie.

"Soon after that, the sky grew dark [...]" (Camus 22). This also reflects Meursaults emotion and his dreaded feeling that he has to work tomorrow.

"Above the rooftops the sky had taken on a redish glow" (Camus 23). This again help reflects a mood change in Meursault when he see's the athletes being all cheerful.

Journal # 3

Harboltism

1. God and Christ play an active role in humans life.
2. They help provide moral examples to follow.
3. They are active with humans through prayer.
4. Reason and logic help create order in peoples life.
5. Lack of control is what people fear.
6. People need to learn to deal with stress in their own way to be able to live a happy life
7. The people you interact with in your life help shape your belief. Either through example of what not to do or by provide good solutions.
8. Faith is an inherent propertity of humans. Either in a religous way or in others

Stranger #2

Meursault's actions are all in a very slow dreary place like je is sepperated from the world. That he is not really involved in it. It seems like everything Meursault does is against the norm and he is always apologizing for it.
This sence of distatcement for the Meursault helps create a protagonist that you feel sorry for like he is lost and has no meaning or purpose in his life except to live. Also the the constatant apologizing by Meursault helps create the feeling of lost because he always does something wrong.

Stranger Journal #1

The two translations are different in the type of vocie the one on the front that says part one is very passive. A lot of " then i" it is also different in teh fact of who it was translated for the part one passage say 50 miles and the second passage says 80 kilometers. The langauge of the two is very different almost as if it was writen for different cultures. One says Maman and one says mother creating a different cultural setting toward the two passages.

Journal # 9 The Structure

The way Zora Neale Hurston ties the end of the book to the begining is really a key part in forshadowning the plot of the book. In the begining the reference to Tea Cake who we don't meet until later in the story and his absance from the scence leave a wonder about who he is and what happened to him to make his character no longer a part of the story. This tying of the begining to the end also creates a sence of completion that you know the story is going to end and it give you an idea of what characters are going to remain and who they are in the end so you can understand where their growth is leading to.

Journal #8 The Title

The title is significant in the fact that it gives a strong image to protray its meaning. This image of Janie, Tea Cake and Motor Boat looking upward in the dark toward hevean. This helps protray the meaning that no matter what they do, they know its out of their hands, it is the control of god. It also helps display a distance between the characters and God this figure they look to with hope yet at a distance not knowing what he is doing. Yet it gives you the feeling that God still gives them hope and they are looking at him with hope. This hope that things can turn out all right but its not in the characters hands its out of their control.

Journal #7 Mrs. Turner

Mrs. Turner's character is really affected by her relationship in the fact that she thinks that every black person will let her down like her husband. Mrs. Turners expectations are so high that she thinks everyone will fail her but white people who she has no interaction with. Mrs. Turners marrige is a foil of Tea Cakes and Janies her is a bitter one where whe has no trust for her husband and there is no happiness in the relationship. Compared to Janie's marriage which is full of turst and love. Janie trusted Tea Cake enough to leave Eatonville and get marry him. Mrs. Turner life seems to be the oppostie of Janie's. Janie's life began growing up in the company of whites and now she enjoys the company of the very people Mrs. Turner despises but Mrs. Turner longs for the company that Janie grew up in. Also compared to Sop-de-Bottom, Mrs. Turners marriage is a sad one, one with very little comunication or respect for the partner. In Sop-de-Bottoms relationship he still respects his wife and the strengh that she has.

Journal # 6 Figuative Language

Simile pg. 118 "But, don't care how firm your determination is, you can't keep turning round in one place like a horse grinding sugar cane." Zora Neale Hurston does an excelent job tying her similes into the time period. The focus to little detail like that makes the writing so exceptional. This simile really helps create a setting and mood of autenticity. During the time period horses were used for a lot of labor. I also think this simile touches on the fact that during the time period Africans were used for the harsh labor of farming sugar cane.

Personification pg. 128 "So her soul crawled out from its hiding place."
The personification of Janie soul really potrays the story of her life. She had always been put down told she was wrong a bellitled by her first two husbands but Tea Cake is changing that he is coaxing her soul out of her comfort zone so that she can experience life. This personification is aall part of Janies growth and her soul coming out of hiding is part of that.

Repition pg. 119 "Who Flung had taken her to a shabby room in a shabby house in a shabby street and promised to marry her next day." This repition really show the fear that Janie has for her situation for Tea Cake. The fear that he will run of and leave her in utter despair. This repition not only shows Janie fear for her material thing but the fear for her heart and the trust she has put in Tea Cake. Janie sees the exact situation with her and Tea Cake and it terrifies her this though to be wrong that constently goes through her head. This repition is also closely tied to the repition of her emotions this constant fear of being left and being held captive once again.

The change in Janie

The biggest change in Janie is her thinking for herself. In chapter 12 she stop listening to all the advice the men of Eatonville are giving her in chapter 11 and follows her heart on her situation with Tea Cake. This is also a big change from Janie earlier in teh book where her opinion is easily swayed by her grandmother and the other people she cares for like Jody. This change of Janie forming her own beliefs and opinions in stead of her conforming to other peoples views is all part of her growth.

Janie's Motivation

The motivation of Janie is experience. She is driven by her desire to experience life and all the things she has been denied for so long. She wants to experience the conversations on the poarch and to be able to know what love truely is not just what other people tell her. She is driven by the want to experience new things and Tea Cake helps here experience all of these.

Rewritng of a Passage

So John began to dream of Time. Time, the never resting manager of all dictating its will to the world. The great master of all held on the wrist of man yet free to do as it pleases. What need does time have for a master, and what man may hold him as his own? He hovers high in heaven over looking his domain.standing patiant andd still yet ever constantly moving foward, waithing for his steed to carry him to the end. Been standing there before there was a where yet always moving foward. John was liabale to find a hair from his mane floating in the wind. John was terrified and depressed. Poor Mike! He should not have to fight the pressures of time on his own. John ordered Jim to councel him but Mike refused. The councelers knew all of pain, but they knew nothing of the passage of time. Mike would be fine as soon as time had been vanquished thru imortality. He wasn't going to age. Thats what Mike believed. But Jim told john differntly. And if Jim had said nothing. John would have know by the gathering of wrinkles under the worn pair of delecate orbs. Wrinkles that would once not of dared to imposse a man so energetic now advanced methodicaly. Creeping foward with each dip of the sun. Age, the speedy stalion had finaly taken the lead.

5 Literary Techniques: Their Eyes Were Watching God

The symbol of wood in chapter 4. pg 26. "If you can stand not to chop and tote wood AH reckon you can stand not to git no dinner"
The author use this symbol to repersent Janie character and how she is stiff and unwilling to bend to the reverends will just like wood that is stiff and doesn't bend that easy.

Personifications pg 28 "he meant to git dere whilst de town wuz yet a baby"
The author use this to show a vived image that the town is still young and in the need of someone to teach it how to survive and thrive

Metaphor pg 29 "You ain't got no mo' business wid uh plow than uh hog is got wid uh holiday" Zora Neale Hurston use this metaphor to show how Janie is precived by Joe Stark and that she is seen as a women who isn't ment to do manual labor but to be pampered almost like a white women during the time period the setting is based.

Dynamic pg 32 "Janie hurried out of the front gate and turned south. Even if joe was not there waiting for her, the change was bound to do her good."
This dynamic is the sudden change in Janie's character that she suddenly ignored the advice of her grandmother and wasn't really obedient any more and she decided to think for herself and pursue love.

Simile pg 32 "With him on it, it sat like some high, ruling chair." The author gives us insight into the Character of Joe Stark and the air of authority he carried in his life and that authority is spread over thing around him. That he carries his own authority and it isn't given to him.

Journal 2. Their Eyes Were Watching God

The setting of Janie in the south helps affect the characterization of her with the contrast of her and her grandmother. Janie's Grandmother was raised in the slave south were she had absolutly know power or knowledge of what it was like to be free to make her own choices. This carries over into her deciding that Janie should marry the reverend. Janie's grandmother was never allowed to experience love and her belief that Janie should love the reverend just because he can provide for her is affected by the location of the story in the south and the time period it is based in. Where in the time period women must look for a provider to take care of her because they were given no rights. The setting also helps affect the motivations of Janie because of her growing up being raised with white children. She saw herself the same as them and it seems that she has an under lying motivation to be treated as an equal in life and to be happy and experience the wonders of life such as love.

Journal 1. Their Eyes Were Watching God

The narration differs from the dialect of the book in one way that the dialect is slang and has miss spelled words. This contrast with the narration which is in a more modern style. This juxtaposition shows insight to the time period and the culture of the charecters. The dialect also has the affect of making you focus on the words in trying to understand what is being said. The dialects helps create the story to feel very personal because you can relate to how people speak in every day life with slang terms and meanings. This contrast also helps make the story feel real, like it is being told to you. With a real word for word account.

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