Sunday, February 13, 2011

Journal # 6

-Death is personified making it more intimate and personal.
-Birds symbolize bad things showing the author's tone toward birds.
-Trees are repeated foreshadowing a brighter future.
-Wingless bird is an oxymoron to show that rumor is powerful and is deeper than just talk.
-The atmosphere is thoughtful and brooding to make the reader identify with Janie.
-The character Death is shown as all powerful to show that no one can escape it.
-The character of the two headed man shows how desperate people are, even if they don't admit it. Joe is desperate to live, and the two headed man is desperate for money.
-The people squatting in the yard waiting are parallel to death waiting for his messengers to bid him come.
-The dialect is included even though the narrator is narrating to show that this particular idea is Joe's. ("These medical doctors waz all right with the Godly sick... He wasn't going to die at all.")
-Death's house is similar to a bird's nest and he has feathers. Birds are a symbol for death.


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