TEWWG Thesis 1

The way that men and women go about achieving there goals in this book is vastly different, thus making the two sexes distinct.

TEWWG ER 2

In chapter 10 Janie was surprised that Tea Cake wanted her to play checkers. In the passage it describes her looking him over then her getting the chills through her body. This is a new moment for Janie for she has not been able to experience freedom until the death of her late husband. With this newfound freedom she is able to experience it with another man too. Also in the American society the game of checkers is thought of to be a game play be old wise men thus making it manly. And for a woman to play the game it seems to break the barriers of the society. The fact that a man actually wants her to play and is willing to spend the time teaching her is extraordinary to her too. For this book is set in a time where meal dominance is popular in the American society.

TEWWG ER 1

Janie first dream was to fall in love when she got married for she felt love for her husband would automatically come from the marriage. But this was not true for she came to the realization that she does not like her husband and she left him. And she pursues her dream of marring Jody. This is the time that Janie becomes a woman for she is starting to pursue her dreams now. And this references back in the first chapter of the book when it states the different ways man and women pressure their dreams. With the aggressiveness of her perusal of her dreams by leaving her husband it is a coming of age event in her life.

TEWWG RQ 1

This quote shows the difference between men and women in how they interact with their aspirations. For it describes men as very passive in pursuing their aspirations and women very aggressive in their pursuit in their of their goals. In the way it describes men as watching their dreams like watching a ship on the horizon it shows in the quote that men are not aggressive, how it depicts their dreams that may come in on the tide, also shows the men have no doing in acquiring their dreams. Then the quote goes on to say that women “act and do things accordingly” thus showing that they are aggressive in their journey to acquire their dreams. This is relevant to the story in that it is foreshadowing for it is forecasting the events that are happen in the chapters 1 and 2. For instance the event where the grandmother does not want her grand daughter to marry a man that will not treat her with respect and how the grandmother wants her daughter to marry some one that will respect her. The events and the ideas that lead up to that dream is true to the quote. For it showed the aggressiveness of the grandmother to keep her grand daughter away from harm.

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“ ‘Good-bye, sir,’ say I; “I won’t let no runaway niggers get by me if I can help it.” Twain 96

In this passage it is a great source of irony that resides in this chapter of the Adventures of Hucklberry Finn. This is irony because Huck says that he will not let any run away slaves get by him when at the same time he is aiding a slave to escape the south. This is also ironic in that his conscience is telling him that it is wrong to help a run away slave to freedom when he really is helping a runaway slave obtain freedom and at the same time he is saying that he will not allow any runaway slaves get to their freedom.

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“ I had forgot my name was… and when Buck waked up I says:
‘Can you spell, Buck?’
‘ Yes,’ he says
‘I bet you can’t spell my name,’ says I…
‘G-e-o-r-g-e J-a-x-o-n – there now’ he says.
Twain 104

This passage shows Huck’s cleverness that gets him out of trouble for time to time. For if he had forgotten his name then the family he was staying with would figure out that it was a fake name and that he was telling a lie from all along. Thus by having the family figure out that he is a fraud he might be expelled from the house. His cleverness also came in handy when he was talking to the two men on the boat about who was on the raft, when Huck did not want the men looking in the raft and finding Jim. His Cleverness came in hand in that he played a game with the men to make them think his father had small pox, by doing this he gain forty dollars.

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain Page 15
“I didn’t need anybody to tell me that that was awful bad sign and would fetch me some dad luck, so I was scared and most shook the clothes off of me. I got up and turned around in my tracks three times and crossed my breast every time; and then I tried up a little lock of my hair with a thread to keep witches away.”

This quote shoes the narrator immense superstition, for earlier in the book Finn killed a spider flicking it into a flame and this is where this quote derives from. The ritual shows the fact that he has a planned system of superstition. The fact that he mentions a witch shows that he has the same superstition that of the slaves he lives with. Thus quote also relieved that Finn works with a luck based system. It also show that Finn is religious this is apparent when he crosses his crest.

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain Page 31-32
“I’ll take you down a peg before I get done with you. You’re educated, too, they say- can read and write. You think you’re better’n your father, now, don’t you, because he can’t?

In this quote you can see the power of education for the father feels inferior to his son how has and education and the father does not. By him say to his son he is going to knock him down a “peg” this shows that there is a son father hierarchy, and Finn is moving up in the hierarchy by getting an education. Latter on in the story the Finn’s father tells him to quite school or he will be beat, this shows how scared his father is of his son getting an education. For his son can use the education to his advantage and intellectually beat him.

E Dickinson

Throughout these poems Emily Dickinson speaks a lot about nature, though she does not have a kind relationship with it as you can see in this quote, “I dear not meet the daffodils, For fear their yellow grown Would pierce me with a fashion So foreign to my own.” (Emily Dickinson XIV In Shadows). The fact that she fears nature is the exact opposite of transcendentalist ways. For to a transcendentalist nature is inherently good and one cannot fear something that is good in nature. Dickinson in XIV states that she wishes bears and bees would stay away and this is part of nature and if she wants nature to stay way then she is not “awake”. In the poem XX she discuses her self drinking and this would probably be considered part of society, and transcendentalist consider society bad. From the facts given it is obvious that Dickinson is not a transcendentalist.

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“Songs Of Myself 52” by Walt Whitman


“Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.”

After reading this it might be confusing, but after taking sometime with this quote it seemed to be a metaphor. This quote might mean to never give up your dreams, for when “Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged” is said it might mean one might fail to achieve there dreams at first but they must keep optimism. Then when “Missing me one place search another” is said it might mean that you might not gain your dream by doing one thing you might have to change up your routine. When the last part of this quote is said it means that your dream will never stop being there you will always be able achieve it.

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“Songs Of Myself 15” by Walt Whitman

“The married and the unmarried children ride home to thanksgiving dinner…the duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches… Off on the likes the pike-fisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface.”

These quotes were taken form different parts of this passage, these extracts were chosen for it gives the reader at perspective of what is really going on in this story. Seeing that this story is a bunch of snippets of what people are doing it was hard to figure out what was going on. But these excerpts were taken form the begging and the end of the story and they show a progression. The first two snippets of what people are doing are form the beginning of the story and it is talking about the hunting season and the thanksgiving. Then the next snippet is form the end of the story and this one speaks about ice fishing. Form this one can infer that ice fishing only happen when lakes and completely frozen over and this only happens in the dead of winter. So because ice fishing only happens in the dead of winter and thanksgiving takes place in the fall there is a time progression in this story.

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“The Minister’s Black Vail A Parable” Nathanial Hawthorne Page 58

“ ‘The is an hour to come,’ said her, ‘ when all of us shall cast aside our veils.”

What is said here is a metaphor for people the walk around and have metaphorical mask that hide there in emotions for the public, where veil is the metaphor for mask. What he is saying in this quotation is that there will be a day when people take off that metaphorical mask. When people take off that metaphorical mask then no one will have anything to hide. This is relevant to the story in that he where’s a veil to express to people physically that they all wear veils that hide their inner thoughts and emotions. In the grand scheme people should were veils for if the world was open then we all would have nothing to hide thus destroying the element of surprise.

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“The Minister’s Black Vail A Parable” Nathanial Hawthorne Page 57

“As his plighted wife, it should be he privilege to know what the black veil concealed.”

This too was a metaphor for it really means his wife should be his confidant. Thus by being his close friend she should know his deepest secrets that he hides behind his veil. In medieval times the queen was thought of to be the most trust person to the king and in this case his wife is. But his wife does not even know his secrets consequently there is a disconnect between him and his wife. His wife never gets the privilege to know he is hiding and she eventually leaves him. This is very common in most relationships for the woman really always want to know what ails her mate and sometimes the man is not man enough to tell her and she leaves him.

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“Young Goodman Brown” By Nathaniel Hawthorne page 71

“Unfathomable to mere mortals is the lore of friends”

What is said here is that a human does not know the attraction that friends produce. This I relevant to the story in that Goodman Brown find many of the people that he knows in the wood having a meeting doing evil things. And Goodman spots burning trees but it do not deter him for the attraction of his friends around the burn in trees bring him closer. This attraction for his friends was subconscious for he expressed no control over whether he was going towards his friend or not. This can be seen in the real world when one goes to a party and you know no one at the party and one finally spots a friend that you know at the party. One has an automatic attraction towards the person, for it is human nature to not want to be lonely.

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“Young Goodman Brown” By Nathaniel Hawthorne page 69

“The next moment, so indistinct were the sounds, he doubted whether he had heard aught but the murmur of the old forest, whispering without a wind.”

What is said her is that the character in this story hears something that he cannot decipher wither he had heard the sound at all or if it was the forest playing with him. This is significant to the story in the forest in the story is considered to be a living creature that has demonic nature. And thus by playing with his hearing it will evade one of his five scenes causing him to lose his focuses. Consequently by losing his focus he will be easily manipulated. In the real world you experience something like this when you are out in the wilderness and an animal is moving and one might mistake it for supernatural beings.

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Selections from The Heart of Thoreau’s Journals page 41

“No doubt it s indispensable that we should do out work between sun and sun, but only a wise man will know what that is. And yet how much work will be undone, put off to the next day, and yet the system goes on!”

What is said here is that, it is necessary for one to work form sun up to sun down but only the “wise” man or the person that strives hard really knows what that means. When some one work forms sun up to sun down, really how much work will get done this is what is said in the second sentence. What is also said in the sentence is that when one puts off a duty or work it will cumulate thus making the person behind in the work due the next day it will push the duties do the next day back thus moving everything back in the grand scheme. This type of thing can be related to school in that when a kid does not do his or her homework it accumulates to next night thus causing he or her to miss another homework assignment.

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Selections from The Heart of Thoreau’s Journals page 41

“By a well-directed silence I have sometimes seen threatening and troubling people routed. You sit musing as if you were in broad nature again. They cannot stand it. Their position becomes more and more uncomfortable every moment.”

In this statement Thoreau gives the reader a good technique on how to over come a person that is threatening or troubling. This technique is to be silent, but just being silent is not enough one has to have cunning timing and skillful direction in the period of silences. For it this art is master he later goes on to say in this quote that the person will not be able to tolerate the situation that they are in and wile you stay silent their position becomes progressively vexing. This technique used almost every day by parents; they direct their period of silence onto their kids until the kid finally gives in. the kid will never win this battle of silence for they lack the patients and endurance to fight the power of their parents. But this technique if used too many times towards the same kid may fail to work after will for the child will build up immunity to it.

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Selections from The Heart of Thoreau’s Journals page 34

“We do all stand in the front ranks of the battle every moment of our lives; where there is a brave man there is the thickest of the fight, there the post of honor.”

What is said here is that we all experience life at the same rate, and no one is sheltered from it, but the person that steppes up and takes it head on gains the most glory. This quote informs one that to be honorable is to be courageous. The metaphor for life being a battle, is saying that life is not fare or easy and the thing that one most wants out of life one will have to work for. Thus by working to succeed, one is brave in battle and causing the “thickest of the fight”. Accordingly with hard work one will thrive, and the honorable is the thriving one, therefore he is the courageous one, for he has the “post of honor”.

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Selections from The Heart of Thoreau’s Journals page 33

“Nature never makes haste; her system revolves at an even pace.”

Thoreau states that nature is calculated and that it will not speed up or slow. This is true for if one were to observe the sun you would notice the time the sun rises and sets differ depending on the time of the year but at the end of every year the sun reset it’s self and starts over it's annual retune. When the word revolves is used in this quote Thoreau might be eluding to the sun, for that is what makes the seasons and days change. Since the earth revolves around the sun, nature must revolve around it too. Since the earth revolves at an even pace around the sun nature must do the same. Thus since the revolutions of the earth around the sun never speed up, hence nature has no haste. Natures pace can also be seen when one notices that plants die and then later come back to life.

Paper Choice

I choice the paper topic number 3 comparing transcendental outlook on life to proctor

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Henry David Thoreau, Where I lived, and What I lived For, Page 25

“To be awake is to be alive.”

The main reason why Thoreau went to the Walden pound was to become aware of nature. By becoming aware of nature Thoreau hoped to achieve awaking. When the word “awake” is used in this statement he means to have a full perspective of live and nature thus by being awake he is alive. Latter on in this reading Thoreau speaks about how man cares only for technology. To his standards they are not alive for they do not have a full perspective of life for the do not care for nature. Thus these types of men to Thoreau are dead. So really he is saying to experience nature is to be bloom.

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Henry David Thoreau, Where I lived, and What I lived For, Page 24

“The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour.”

What this quote is saying is that the most impressionable time of day is morning but this quote does not just stop at the morning, for it continues on to say the specific time in the morning which is most memorable. The time that Thoreau feels is most vulnerable in the morning is the “awaking hour”. The time that Thoreau is taking about could literally mean the time that he is waking up. Or he could be speaking metaphorically, where he uses the word “awaking” to say he is trying to become “alive” and experience nature. For it is stated later in his work that by working in nature and living in the wilderness he will be able to “live”. So “awake” equals “alive” to him thus he likes to be alive hence Thoreau find joy in the “awakening hour” of the morning

“To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Nature”

What Emerson is saying here is that for one to live alone one must withdraw domestically as much as fell back form society. The word retire in this statement means to fall back or to withdraw. When Emerson used the word “society” he is referring to the main stream, and when he employed the word “chamber” he is indicating one’s house or inner self. So to reach solitude we must completely withdraw form all aspects of our lives.

“but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the minds is open to their influence.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Nature”

As previously stated by Emerson nature is good, so thus if the mind is open enough and free nature will leave a good impression on the mind. In this statement Emerson must add that “if the mind is open enough” for many people have preset impressions of nature that will impede them form achieving the impression that nature will make on them.

“To be great is to be misunderstood” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Self- Reliance”

When some one in society is scorned or ridiculed it is usually because they are different and or radical. It is human nature to fear difference for it is misunderstood. To be misunderstood, one is not mainstream nor are they conforming. What Emerson is saying is that to be self reliant you will be misunderstood but the greatest minds of his time were misunderstood for they were self reliant. Emerson feels that great people are the ones that are the most self reliant, thus the most misunderstood.

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Self- Reliance”

Be your self and do what you feel like do not conform to what others tell you to do. This is a paradox for if Emerson intendeds for the read to fallow the reading, than the reader would be directly contradicting what Emerson was trying to peach in the first place. Emerson says this statement for if one were to fallow the other people orders then one would not be self-reliant.

Goals For 07-08 US Lit Class

In this class I hope to grasp a better understanding on how to writer analytical papers. I would also like to learn more about American history from the readings that we will be doing. I would also like to improve my skills in writing thesis statements. I also hope in the is class that I will learn better technique that will improve my writing in a timed situation.