Orchard Road Essays

“She often spoke to the falling seeds and said, ‘Ah hope you fall on soft ground,’" (Hurston Pg, 25). In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston uses language and imagery to define Janie's character development by showing Janie learning that marriage doesn't mean love. Janie believed that marriage meant love, but later on, she realized that marriage doesn't always mean love. At the beginning of the excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God, it states “She began to stand around the gate and expect things

Arianna Zimny English 10 Honors Dr. McCleary March 23rd, 2023 In “ The Beginnings of Self-Realization” the critic, Micheal G. Cooke correctly uncovers Janie reaching self actualization through her ideal horizon image throughout the novel. At the end of the novel,” Their Eyes Were Watching God”, Hurston touches on the overall concept that Janie has reached her own ideal picture of self actualization, which is known as the symbol of the horizon. Janie is proudly able to look back on all her accomplishments

Finding your true passion can brighten your mental health and change your life. Especially if that passion is art, just like Melinda Sordino’s. Trees in Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, serve an essential purpose as an object that symbolizes Melinda Sordino's mental health, and the growth that follows. Ever since she has been assigned trees for her art project, her life began to change. When she draws trees, it acts as an important reflection and checks in with her inner mental health and mind about

In the book “Their Eyes Were Watching God” the author uses the pear tree, bees and the horizon as symbolism to describe her dreams and sexual discoveries. Janie’s ultimate goal is to find love. She want to have a relationship where she can connect on an emotional, physical and intellectual way. The Pear Tree is used metaphorically to resemble how Janie grows as a person. In chapter two of the story, the author gives us brief information on the tree and about how Janie has been going to the tree since

In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the protagonist, Melinda, is assigned to create a tree a million different ways all year. In doing so she finds ways to convey her emotions through her drawings. There are many different types of trees in the world. A tree that shows symbolism and draws emotion out of me would have to be a weeping willow tree. The weeping willow tree is elegant, girly, but has a tragically beautiful side to it. I am like a weeping willow in many ways, I come off light but

In this passage, Hurston creates an image of the Virgin Mary cradling her son Jesus in her lap after he is crucified. Although Janie is not Tea Cake’s mother, she is twelve years his senior. After shooting Tea Cake in self defense, Janie places Tea Cake’s head in her lap and holds him tightly, all while thanking him for his constant support and jovial attitude that made Janie feel years younger. Tea Cake serves as a Christ figure for Janie. Hurston shapes Tea Cake to be a Christ figure in order to

Most teenagers struggle with finding themselves. Sometimes, this struggle continues for their entire life. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston emphasizes that life-long battle. She shows her readers that everyone toils with finding themselves and that loving someone won’t always help them find their identity. She uses many symbols to help describe this struggle. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, the horizon is used to symbolize Janie’s future and to show Janie’s struggle to find herself. Hurston

Janie’s continuous interactions and experiences with nature prove its influential role in Janie’s life throughout Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Nature is Janie’s pathway into womanhood and played a big role in starting her journey through life as a woman. Janie’s experience with the pear tree provokes this shift from childhood to womanhood for Janie. “She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom [...] the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom

In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main character, Janie, often focuses her attention on nature and makes many comparisons of situations in her life to things, such as pollen and a pear tree, in nature; the nature comparisons reveal her love-centered nature and her hopeful visions in the future for a love-filled life. During the early years of Janie’s life, she often sees situations in a way related to nature, as a child this reveals her love-centered nature. One day

Rebirth, the action of being born again, this is the exact act that will happen to Janie when she meets Joe Starks. At the beginning Janie finds the passion in Starks that she’d been looking for. “From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything. A bee for her bloom”. Married soon after they ran away together Janie will start a new life welding a new pear tree. Moving into a newly founded town they start their new life together where for a while their

Immediately after this incident, Janie wish to experience what she has just seen becomes a need for her. Actually, Janie was caught by Nanny kissed. The kiss with Johnny Taylor indicates the internal changes Janie lives. Stimulated by her libido, Janie tries consciously the experience of being loved. That transformation points out the new stage of Janie's life. It also shows the emergence of ne features in Janie's character: the desire to love as it is stated in the novel: ''That was the end of her

Life should be as unpredictable as possible. Not unrealistically of course, yet enough to add a flare of adventure and excitement at every chance possible. An unpredictable life is when one is unaware of what lies beyond the next turn of life and allows the spontaneity of events to shape up the future. A lifestyle of this sort tends to keep things interesting as one is not beforehand prepared for what is to come. Such a lifestyle provides ample moments of oblivion and excitement which bring out the

Their Eyes were Watching God Janie comes to her first doubtless questions about life. This evidence appears in her times when she was sitting under a blossoming pear tree in her back-yard, spending most of her day in a spring afternoon. A lot of bizarre things were coming up on her life, questioning about the meaning of love and life. By the metaphor of the tree, it makes her questioning about what and how her life will goes on. “now they emerged and quested about her consciousness” (Chapter 2,

The poem “Black Walnut Tree” by Mary Oliver illustrates the higher significance of their walnut tree. The greater idea that blood and heritage are more valuable than money. The speaker reinforces this idea through the use of figurative language, tone, and diction. The poem opens with a literal tone where the mother and speaker are discussing what to do with the walnut tree. They “debate” with themselves about whether or not to take down the tree for money. However, “debate” switches to “talk

Liam Arnold Mr. Bramanti English 9 CP 30 May 2023 Speak Essay In Speak, a realistic fiction story written by Laurie Halse Anderson, trees are a recurring symbol and are of great importance to the progression of the book and Melinda. Trees are used and described in the book as complex, difficult, and complicated. There are many similarities between Melinda’s social life just like the tree's complexion. Melinda’s life progresses throughout the story along with the tree progressing through the seasons

The Long Road for Alcott Imagine how bizarre it would be to come into the world on your father’s birthday, then leaving the world just two days after he died. That is exactly what happened to Louisa May Alcott and her father, Amos Bronson Alcott. It was a tragic death of a great cultural influence. The name Louisa May Alcott may not seem familiar to many people out there today; however, her most famous novel, Little Women, is what eventually made a name and career for herself. Many well known authors

​The main home of the Alcotts was known as Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts. It was here that Louisa May grew up among other greats such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and even studied botany under Henry David Thoreau. “Yet she was brought up with the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne as neighbors, teachers, role models, and close family friends” (yale). They were perhaps the ones who helped her learn to write from her heart instead of

- Hushpuppy and her father Wink live in Bathtub, a place that is separated from the city by a levee. The uniqueness of Bathtub allows Hushpuppy to have a special childhood and develop qualities allowing her to become a hero in the future. - Bathtub is a place that has more holidays and fun than a normal, urban city. Living in such a joyous place allows Hushpuppy to be an optimistic person who never bends down while facing difficulties. Hushpuppy also develops a strong bond with Bathtub, driving

Jo March reflects Louisa May Alcott’s family life and experiences in her novel Little Women. Louisa May was born on November 29, 1832 in Concord, Massachusetts. She grew up with one older sister, Meg, and two younger sisters, Elizabeth and Amy. While growing up she wanted to become an author. At sixteen years old she started writing tales and scripts and as she grew older she began writing newspaper articles, novels, and tales (Alcott, Little). In the 1800s, Louisa May Alcott’s father believed that

Louisa May Alcott was an ambitious writer. She had a true passion for writing. At age 19, she was already writing and publishing small anecdotes and poems under a pseudonym of Flora Fairfield. Alcott loved writing, “But it was her account of her Civil War experiences, Hospital Sketches (1863), that confirmed Alcott's desire to be a serious writer” (Louisa M. Alcott Biography.com). Little did Alcott know that she was going to be remarkably famous for these small works of literature. “Miss Alcott