Journal 2: Analytical Journal, Pick a passage in chapter 1 and 2 type passage. Analyze the passage.

Chapter 2 page 10 and 11

"Pheoby's hungry listening helped Janie to tell her story. So she went on thinking back to her young years and explaining them to her friend in soft, easy phrases while all around the house, the night time put on flesh and blackness.
She thought awhile and decided that her conscious life had commenced at Nanny's gate. On a late afternoon Nanny had called her to come inside the house because she had sped Janie letting Johnny Taylor kiss her over the gatepost.
 It was a spring afternoon in West Florida. Janie had spent all her time most of the day under a blosomming pear tree for the last three days. That was to say, ever sinceever since the first tiny bloom had opened. It had called her to come and gaze on a mystery. From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom. It stirred her tremendously. How? Why? It was like a flute song forgotten in another existance and remebered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking momentsand carressed her in her sleep. It connected itself with other vaguely felt matter that had struck her outside observation and buried themselves in her flesh. Now they emerged and quested about her consciousness."

Analysis:
1) The line " It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again" expresses purity. The song of the flute is pure just like the woman.
2) " From barren brown stems to glistening leaf buds is personification.
3) "her through all her waking moments and caressed her in sleep" is also personification.
4) "hungry listening" eager to learn, and intreeged.
5) "Bloom had opened". Something transforming into something new, more powerful. ( flower)
6) "snowy virginity" is a metaphor for the innocence a woman can have.
7) This entire passage is a flashback and reflecting on that flashback.
8) Throughout this passage many question are asked, but they are not answered until later.
9) There is the common theme of blossoming throughout this passage. Showing things coming of age innocently and purely.
10) "the rose of the world was breathing out smell" is personification.
11) Throughout not only this passage but the entire book there is a series of senses portrayed and how they affect and reflect our feelings.
12) The senses also give the text description more humanity.