addie2’s Blog

I noticed that in the last thirty pages of Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters uses the names of many famous people in the world as the last names for people from spoon river. Columbus Cheney, he could be using Christopher Columbus’s name and if you’re like me think he’s using Cheney for Dick Cheney. [...]

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” Was second to none in Spoon River, In my Devotion to the cause of Liberty?”
At first when I read this poem, I thought the title was just a coincidence in relation to the famous John Hancock, but as I read the poem all the way through it made more sense to me that John Hancock [...]

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” If I could have lived another year I could have finished my flying machine, And become rich and famous.”
I found that Franklin Jone’s story related very much to my essay on American character because it describes the ambition of wealth and money of americans. Franklin Jones is dead and yet he’s still lamenting about [...]

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” Of Old Bill Piersol, Who grew rich of trading with the inians, and who afterwords took the bankrupt law And emerged from it richer than ever.”
I chose this poem because the theme particularly stood out to me, and I chose this quote because it really relates to my essay. This man, Bill Piersol, is [...]

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” Janie is wharever Ah wants tuh be. Dat’s de kind uh wife she is and Ah love her for it.”
This quote is a great example of why Janie is a great wife and person, and why she was willing to marry Tea Cake. I think that this also shows she is a very ambitious [...]

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” Sometimes Janie would think of the old days in the big white house and the store and laugh to herself. What if Eatonville could see her now in her blue denim overalls and heavy shoes? The crowd of people around her and a dice game on her floor! She was sorry for her friends [...]

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” Near eleven o’clock she remembered a  piece of pound cake she had put away. Tea cake went out to the lemon tree at the corner of the kitchen and picked some lemons and squeezed them for her. So they had lemonade too.”
Although Hurston may not have meant to do this, this quote is very [...]

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” After that night Jody moved his things and slept in a room downstairs. He didn’t really hate Janie, but he wanted her to think so.”
I think it is really selfish of Jody to make Janie feel so bad about herself. As Janie put it, why should Joe be so mad at her for making [...]

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I think that Janie has to handle way too much for her age, only being 16. For instance, she has to travel with her husband who’s about 20 years older than herself, and help him with a buisness negiotiation.  ” Lemme speak to mah wife an Ah’m goin’ see de man. You cannnot have no [...]

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” Most of dese zigaboos is so het up over yo’ buisness till they liable to hurry theyself to Judgement to find out about you if they don’t soon know.”
The dialogue that Pheoby and Janie use is very southern, considering that they’re from the south that’s not too unusual. The way the author portrays the [...]

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