Heroic traits and tragic traits

Caesar-
He was very ambitious to be able to get what he wanted.
He was determined the get what he wanted. 
Tragic traits

Ignorance

Overly confident

Headstrong

Hunger for power

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Brutus- 
He had leadership qualities. 
He was able to convice people easily.
He didn't show much emotion even when times were not good.  
He could get people to follow him.
Tragic traits

Trusting to easily

To extreme

Believed the motives of others

Puts public life before private life

Naive

Impulsive

25 random facts

1. My first dog's name was Amber
2. I dislike writing blog posts for school
3. I can count to ten in 3 languages
4. I don't like most country music
5. I have a freckle on my big toe on my left foot
6. I share the same birthday as Daniel Radcliffe
7. My favorite color is green
8. I have brown eyes
9. Football is my favorite sport
10. I have never been outside of the country
11. My middle name is Scott
12. My favorite season of the year is summer
13. I used to play baseball
14. I don’t have a favorite food
15. I have a trophy in my room for dodgeball
16. I have never broken a bone
17. I had braces for three years
18. I have lived in the same nieghborhood all my life but not the same house.
19. When I was little, I used to wakeup at 6 every morning
20. The latest I have slept till is 1 in the afternoon
21. My favorite channel on TV is the NFL network
22. The furthest west I have been is Texas
23. I have never gotten a dentention in all my lifetime
24. The hardest class in school ive had is Mr. Perry's Earth Science class Freshman year.
25. My favorite NFL team is the Baltimore Ravens

Symbols

Symbol list

Roots of trees- African people without any roots

Pear tree- Janie's budding womanhood

Mule - Black women get the worst treatment. Logan buys Janie a mule to represent how he is tired of treating Janie like a princess or white woman, he wants her to do heavy labor on the farm 

Gate and the road - related to he metaphor at the beginning of the book. The Gate is the shore and the road represents the waves as Janie looks down the road to find a new dream

The New Horizon- Janie is constantly looking over the gatepost, down the road, to a new horizon ( a dream or new start).

The Eatonville General  store- Represents the center of this first all-black town.

The illumination of the lamp post represents the start of a new all-black town. It also shows that Joe Starks is all-powerful and likes others to bow down to him, including Janie.

Joe and Janie's two story house - seems to represent his similarity to a plantation owner, while the hard-working townspeople live in small shack style homes like servants quarters .

Tobacco spittoon- this Represents again how wealthy Joe is

Guitar- playful side of people

Overalls- working side  equality

Janie's head rag- Bondage to Joe

Janie's long braid - freedom

Color blue- Tea Cake and Janie's proof of love for each other

Fishing- Sharing relationship

Checkers- Janie's equality with Tea Cake

Packet of seeds- new life and remembering

Booker/ Ms. Turner- racism within a race

Muck- The dirt working class, rich, growth

Hurricane- God's almighty power

Rabid dog-  When good happens life changes

Book review

I read the novel Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. I liked part of the book but i disliked other parts. Overall, it was an okay book. At some parts the book was very slow because not much happened in a few chapters. The last chapters seemed rushed because so much was crammed into the last chapters. The book was wrapped up and some of the loose ends weren't tied up at the end. It left you hanging. I thought the author was a little harsh on the main character ( even though the main character Janie isn't real). In the story, every one of Janie's relationship companions was either abusive or died. At the end, you had to guess what happened becuase the author didn't tell you what happened after the story was over.
In all the novel was not bad but it also was not a really good story. 

Their eyes Questions

1.       The Ship metaphor is showing that you can’t just wait for something you have to make it happen

2.       The towns people talk about Janie behind her back and gossip about her

3.       Phoebe Watson wants to know what happened to Janie so Janie tells her story

4.       Janie tells her story to Phoebe because she wants someone to know the truth of what happened to her.

5.       Nanny raises Janie because both Janie’s parents have left her and gone away.

6.       She sees in a picture that was taken of a group of people and that was the first time she saw herself and she was different than everyone else because she was black.

7.       The pear tree is a symbol of love for Janie

8.       Nanny saw Janie kissing Johnny Taylor

9.       Nanny doesn’t want Janie to end up like herself.

10.   Nanny doesn’t believe in romantic love

11.   Janie doesn’t want to marry Logan because she doesn’t love him and she thinks he is old.

12.    Janie thinks that she will fall in love with him now that she is married to him. She is wrong and does not fall in love.

13. She finds out that being married to someone does not make you fall in love with someone.

14. Logan becomes tired of Janie overtime and stops being romantic towards her and he wants her to do more work around the farm.

15. She thought he was very wealthy and nice to her.

16. She decides to run off with Joe because he would treat her better than Logan would.

17. They thought there was nothing there except for a few run down homes and woods. It was very disappointing to them.

18. His goals are to help build up the town and get a mayor for the town.

19. He gets the town more land and puts in a post office and a new store.

20. They liked that he was doing all the things to help the town but they didn’t like the way he told people what to do.

21.  An advantage was that she had money and she was highly respected in the town. Her husband is very busy all the time because he is the mayor.

22. Janie dislikes working in the store. She doesn’t like the bandanna she has to wear on her head.

23.   Joe does not think women should have the same rights as men. He won’t let her play checkers.

24. The head rag symbolizes the control of Joe over Janie

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26. Joe buys the mule from Matt because it was a gift for Janie

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28. Janie didn’t make him dinner the right way

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31. Janie was not sad about Joe’s death. She had money and a house to live in and all without Joe.

32. Janie made it look like she was sad at the funeral when she wasn’t

33. Janie wanted another man but she wasn’t sure of how soon she would after Joe’s death

34. Tea Cake came into the shop that Janie worked at during the day while everyone was at the baseball game and they hung out and played checkers.

35.  Tea Cake purposefully chose that time of day because everyone else was at the game and he knew he would get time alone with Janie.

36.  Men did not let women play checkers and it was a sign of equality that Tea Cake let Janie play checkers.

37. She liked him and it was a flirty word she used to mean that he was odd.

Zora Neale Hurston Critics

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, it shows what people thought African Americans acted like in their lives. The author of the book, Zora Neale Hurston, was greatly criticized for the portrayal of African American life. The book included many stereotypical events that made some writers like Richard Wright, very angry. Richard Wright openly criticized Zora Neale Hurston's book and made people not want to read the book because of how stereotypical the book seemed. The part that made Richard Wright so infuriated was that Zora Neale Hurston was African American, so people who read the book thought the stereotypes were true because it had been written by an African American.  Some of the stereotypes were that African American men were abusive of their wives. In the novel, the main character Janie was married to a man named Joe. Joe was nice at first but when Janie started to disobey him, he slapped her across the face. 

Harlem

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement where African American literature started to be recognized for their literary abilities.

 It started in the early 1920's to 1930's after World War I.

 It gets its name because it was centered in a neighborhood called Harlem.

There were advances in African American theater, music, art, and politics.

 Critics began to take African American literature and music seriously.

 In the time between the 1920's to the 1930's 16 African American writers published more than 50 volumes of poetry and fictional stories.

  African American artists made a big impact in the art world with their music, paintings, and theater.

 The works produced during the Harlem Renaissance was appealing to mixed audiences.

 Blues and jazz music were a big part of the Harlem Renaissance.

African American performers performed for mixed audiences.

 This was the first time that this happened.

Louis Armstrong was a trumpet player, singer, and popular entertainer. He was a bug influence on American jazz music. He played jazz music and R&B music. He was best known for his trumpet playing. He is one of the most well known trumpet players of his time. He lived form 1901 to 1971. 

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Duke Ellington was an american pianist and composer. He lived form 1899 to 1974. He composed jazz music and other popular music. He composed over 2,000 pieces of music. He composed swing music. He was most known for his abilities in playing the piano. 

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Claude McKay was a writer during the harlem renissance. He lived from 1890 to 1948. Home to Harlem was his first published book.  He was originally form Jamaica.  He was known for his stories and poems about African Americans. 

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