Journal 10: Theme, Questions and Quotations

Theme: Judging others by comparing them to yourself gives you the sense of power and superiority from those whom you are judging.
Comments : wording need changing, explain how power is connected to judgment.

Quotes:
1. Page 35: "Two men who were sitting on their shoulderblades huge live oak trees almost sat upright at the tone of his voice. They stared at Joe's face, his clothes and his wife"

2. Page 39: " Us talks about de white man keepin' us down! Shucks! He don't have tuh. Us leeps our own selves down."

3. Page 41: " She had her first taste of presiding over it the day i was complete and finished. Jody told her to dress up and stand in the store all that evening. Everybody was coming sort of fixed up, and he didn't mean for nobody else;s wife to rank with her. She must look on herself as the bell-cow, the other woman 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 woman had on percale and calico with here and there a headrag amont the older ones."

4. Page 43: "Thank yuh fuh yo' compliments, but mah wife don't know nothin; 'bout no speech-makin'. Ah never married her for nothin' lak da."

5. Page 50: " They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down."

6. Page 67: " You can almost hear it by looking at the way she walks. She is black and she knows that white clothes look good on her, so she wears them for dress up. She's got those big black eyes with plenty shiny white in them that makes them shine like brand new money and she knows what God gave woman eyelashes for too...."

7. Page 75: " "Sometimes God gits familiar wid us womenfolk too and talks His inside business. He told me how surprised He was 'bout y'all turning out so smart after Him makin' yuh different; and how surprised y'all is goin' tuh be if you ever find out you don't know half as much 'bout us as you think you do. It's so easy to make yo'self out God Almighty when you ain't got nothin' tuh strain agaisnt but woman and chickens"

8: Page 81: " He didn't really hate Janie, but he wanted her to think so."

9:  Page 104: " Naw, Ah never gazes at 'em in de lookin' glass. If anybody else gits any pleasure out of 'em Ah ain't been told about it." " See dat? You'se got de world in uh jug and make out you don;t know it. But Ah'm glad tuh be de one tuh tell yuh."

10: Page 147: " Not because her behavior justified his jealousy, but it relieved that awful fear inside him. Being able to whip her reassured him in possesion."