Their Eyes Were Watching God - Journal 10

 Note: This journal is late because I was in Las Vegas without Internet connection. Journal was copied directly from English notebook.

Journal: Identify a theme within Their Eyes Were Watching God (if you know it still has some weaknesses, make a list of questions or concerns you have about your theme below it - it doesn't have to be perfect yet). Be sure your theme is something that you can commit to writing your own vignette around. Make a list of quotes that inform that theme. Be sure to record the page number and take note of any techniques and or elements present within the quote.

Theme: Individuals who attempt to upset the structure of societal standing ultimately end up isolating themselves.

Questions:

• Is this theme too broad?
• Does "upset" work in the sentence? 

Quotes:

• "Janie was standing by the stove washing up the dishes when he spoke to her in a queer, cold voice" (p.183)
• "But anyway, she went down the road behind him that night feeling cold. He strode along invested with his new dignity, thought and planned out loud, unconscious of her thoughts." (p.43)
• Repetition of the word cold creates a feeling of separation, isolation.
• "They murmured hotly about slavery being over, but every man filled his assignment." (p.47)
• "Take for instance that new home of his. [...] It made the village feel funny talking to him. (p.80)
• "If Ah kin haul de wood heuh and chop it fuh yuh, look lak you oughta be able to tote it inside. Mah fust wife never bothered me 'bout choppin' no wood no how." (p.27)
• "You got uh town so you freed uh mule. You have tuh power tuh free things and dat makesyou lak a king uh something."(p.58)
• "There was nothing to do in life anymore. Ambition was useless. And the cruel deceit of Janie! Laughing at him, and now putting the town up to do the same."(p.80)