Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Cameron and Jonathan--Close Greending
This passsage contains multiple sections involved in close reading. The most important are context, concepts and speaker. For context, this passage is situated soon after Jody (Joe)nis elected mayor of Eatonville. The townsfolk say that Janie, being the mayor's wife, should give a speech. But before she can get started, Jody cuts it all off. They walk home together, and it creates an interesting juxtaposition. It creates a juxtaposition between Janie's sadness and dejectedness, and Jody's joy and pleasure. This juxtaposition occurs throughout the rest of the novel. There is one big concept that this passage conveys, because it occurs consistently through the book. That is the concept of Janie's silence. Whenever she builds herself up to speak, she is shot down by Jody. For speaker, it starts with Jody speaking, then moves on to the narrarator. This is important because it shows Jody's prominence in his voice, while Janie is really lacking.
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Really creative title! And interesting point of the juxtaposition between Jody's happiness and Janie's sadness.
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