Q Select any two of the following questions and create two critical, thoughtful responses. When crafting your responses, be sure to note the title of the pieces you’re discussing. Use in-text citations from the readings to support your point of view. 1. Describe Janie’s relationship to her Grandmother Nanny. What values or beliefs does her grandmother voice and how are Janie’s deviations from those values or beliefs integral to the development of her character over the course of the novel? 2. Describe and analyze a) Janie’s relationship with Logan Killicks, and b) Janie’s relationship with Joe Starks. Explain how each of these relationships shapes the development of Janie’s character in the novel. 3. Describe and analyze Janie’s relationship with Tea Cake. To what extent does she achieve a sense of selfhood or self-realization through this relationship? In your view, does the novel depict the emergence of a “liberated” or “empowered” woman? 4. Choose a core passage from the novel to analyze and comment on its larger thematic significances. 5. Examine Hurston’s creative use of language, dialect, and imagery. Find at least two examples of what you would term a beautiful, unique, imaginative, or a poetic use of language in the novel and comment on what you think such language reveals about the characters or general themes in the novel. 6. In the last chapter, Janie says to Pheoby: “It’s uh known fact Pheoby, you got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo’ papa and yo’ mama and nobody else can’t tell yuh and show yuh. Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.” Explain how the novel dramatizes the validity of this statement. Make your initial posts by 11:59 p.m. U.S. EST/EDT on Day 4 of Unit 5. Then, review your classmates' posts and respond to at least three of them. Make your final posts by 11:59 p.m. U.S. EST/EDT on Day 7 of this unit.
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