Journal #3 ch 5-6 Their Eyes...

1. Allusion: "You can't welcome uh man and his wife 'thout you make a comparison about Isaac and Rebecca at de well, else it don't show de love between 'em if you don't." (42)

2. Motif: "When people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for others to look at and see, it was nice." (51)

3. Metaphor: "She must look on herself as the bell-cow, the other women were the gang." (41).

4. Joe expressess how he felt after seeing Walter play with Janie's hair behind her without her knowing. "He felt like rushing forth with the meat knife and chopping off the offending hand." (55). In this passage Hurston uses Imagery to truely display how much Joe cares for Janie and how jealous he can get over her. This quote portrays the angry side of Joe which the reader can see whenever he feels jealous over Janie. The image of a meat knife chopping off a hand gives the reader a clear idea of how angry Joe can get and to what extent he will go to protect his wife. This anger he possess turns into paranoia that this incident will happen again, which leads him to force Janie to wear her hair up and covered so that no one can ever touch it in the shop again. 

5. Janie and her grandma, Nanny, are talking about Janie's future, and Nanny is specifically telling Janie the type of man she should marry. "Ah wanted yuh to school out and pick from a higher bush and a sweeter berry." (13). In this passage Hurston is using a "sweeter berry" as a metaphor for financially sound men in society, that can provide for Janie. Nanny uses this metaphor to express how high of standards she has for the man Janie will marry. She wants her to have a successfull, happy, stress-free life, and the only way she can get this is to marry a wealthy man. The image of a "sweeter berry" really gives the reader an idea of how good a man has to be for Janie to marry, in Nanny's eyes.