1.”From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom.” (p. 10). This quotation is talking about the pear tree that Janie sits under.
2. “It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence…” (p. 10). This example is explaining the revelations that Janie has under the tree.
3. “…alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her.” (p. 11). Zora Neale Hurston is describing the environment surrounding the pear tree.
4. “…dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the exstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.” (p. 11). This example is talking about a bee going into a pear blossom.
5. “They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged.” (p. 33). This imagery talks about the day and the night come from the same place just like how certain events can be seen as either the start of something good or bad.
6. “She must look on herself as the bell-cow, the other women were the gang. So the put on one of her bought dresses and went up the new-cut road all dressed in wine-colored red. Her silken ruffles rustled and muttered about her. The other women had on percale and calico with here and there a headrag among the older ones.” (p. 41).
7. “Her voice began snagging on the prongs of her feelings.” (p. 13).
8. “He spoke of the joys of mule-heaven to which the dear brother had departed this valley of sorrow…” (p. 60).
9. “Things packed up and put away in parts of her heart where he could never find them.” (p. 72).
10. “incredulous laughter burst out of their eyes and leaked from the corners of their mouths…” (p. 37)
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