Their Eyes were Reading the Pink Passage

    This Passsage is an introduction of the metaphor of the tree and an introduction of Janie as character situated at the beggining of the book. The introduction of the tree is also the intorduction of the novels complete comparison of Janie to the tree. One example is the passage talks about the tree blooming, which is a representation of Janie becoming an adult and in a sense"evolving". This setups compariosn between these two throughout the rest of the book. One other thing that happens in this passage is a characterization of Janie. Janie leaving the house while her Grandma is asleep shows that she is a free spirit and also a anxetious person because she was "...Waiting for the world to be made." This means that she couldn't wait to get older and expierence situatiosn in the real world. One last thing that occured in this passage was actuall where it was situated in the book which was at the beginging of the book. This is a perfect place to place this paragraph because it was an elegant introduction to many of the motifs that had been repeated thrughout the ovel. One example is the repition of the tree or even reoccurong visuals of Janie's character such as later on we see her free spirit shen she lets down her hair showing her rebelous ways towards Jody. Through this, we are introduced many ideas, creating a structure for the rest of the novel.

                       --Swivine and Adam