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Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, the pear tree to Janie represents all of her dreams, hopes, and plans for the future. The pear tree is the exemplary love for Janie in her lifetime. Janie grows throughout the book and her life is shaped around finding true love and finding herself through love. The pear tree is a reoccurring symbol in the book. The first instance of the pear tree in the book is when Janie watches a bee pollinate from a blossom. The pear tree represents what Janie thinks marriage

independence and identity in the 1920s. Janie Mae Crawford is the protagonist of the novel. She knows family only in the form of her grandmother, who she refers to as Nanny. Each relationship that Janie is involved in blooms and withers away like the pear tree that symbolizes Janie's life. Janie's grandmother, Nanny, is the first bud on her tree. Nanny raised Janie since she was a little girl. Her grandmother is like a gardener, pruning and shaping the future for her granddaughter. When Nanny sees

Individuals have to pay a personal price when they decide to strength and serve their own individuality. “Two-Part Pear Able”- “ And someone says how horrible... there will be revulsion won’t there?... demand for expulsion..” ( Swenson 88-97). The non-pear tree represents the individual in this part of the poem. The tree has nothing wrong with it, infact its only difference is that it has no pears. “ It is fairly tall tree sturdy, capable looking… exceptionally pleasing,” ( Swenson 9-14). Because the

Through her short stories you feel the emotional connection within the characters. She was a young New Zealand who was dying with a disease called Tuberculosis, dying at the age of 34. Successfully, she wrote three books with a fourth and fifth book following after her death. There were many trigger points that led her to become a writer, they were moving back to New Zealand, her brother’s death in World War 1, and her sensations with how women were treated. Her stories were described as blurred

maintained or build upon with the anticipated growth in fruit volumes over the next seven years. Background: To start off, it would be helpful to give the reader a background of the company’s roots. Kromco was founded in 1971 by a group of apple and pear farmers from the Elgin and Villiersdorp areas, and are situated outside Grabouw in the Western Cape, South Africa. The original intent for the creation of the firm was to achieve economies

assumed that nature as well higher being or unknown force drives Janie’s morals and shapes her experiences. The first instance where Janie connects with nature in a significant way was an experience she had when she was sixteen. She was lying under the pear tree in her backyard when she noticed the bees around the tree. “She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch

once again. The hurricane, while literally being the force that tears her life apart and strips her of her happiness, also symbolizes nature on the opposite side of the spectrum, as a dangerous, volatile, harsh force. The hurricane, compared to the pear blossoms and endless horizon, seems excessively strong and

Brian Sandoval 11/11/17 Mr. Amoroso AP Literature Their Eyes Were Watching God LAP Topic 4 To find the elusive and coveted treasure of love, a dauntless expedition is untaken into life’s catacombs, scouring through the tunnels and evading the traps that lurk in the shadowy corners. This journey can’t be completed without sorrow and suffering yet the marring of the soul from the journey can break a person’s resolve, ultimately believing that the treasure they once sought was merely

physical transformation, but instead tackled the much more complicated mental transformation. At the beginning of the novel, the reader is greeted with a seemingly innocent little girl named Janie Crawford. “She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze”(Hurston 16) That just screams innocence. This little girl is just like a normal little girl, she is fanaticizing over the idea of being in

heavy with, Tea Cake and Janie's relationships are changed and the janies trial is not included in the film either. In the book “Their eyes were watching god” the symbol for janie's sexual awakening is very heavily emphasized as the blooming pear tree. The pear tree is a motif that is introduced right in the beginning of the book, it always goes back to sex, not the act of sex but