Their Eyes Were Watching God #3

OMG I finally finished the book! So boring!!!!!!

So there's a simile on page 103 and i'm not sure it it's supposed to be a pleasant comment, aha. Tea Cake says, "Ah been wishin' so bad tuh git mah hands in yo' hair...It feels jus' lak underneath uh dove's wing next to mah face." I would'nt want any birds wing in my face! On page 114 I'm not sure what Janie is trying to say in her simile. She says, " Ah justlak uh chicken. Chicken drink water, but he don't pee-pee." Is she trying to say that when she recieves or has something or someone, she does not want to let it go? IDK. On page 117 I thought I noticed dramatic irony when Tea Cake did not come back and her money was missing because in the beginning of the story, it seems like it was not the beginning, it was the end of the story but then when I read the last pages..I thought maybe that's just what people assumed. I never heard the overstatement, "You done hurt mah heart, now you come wid uh lie tuh bruise mah ears," on page 137. On page 160 it says, " They seemed to be staring at the dark. but their eyes were watching God. " Ithought maybe they were saying God is invisble because during the hurricane he was not there to help them at the time. So Janie finally foudn the love of her life but then he dies, and with that, she died too, but not literally, just emotionally.

Their Eyes Were Watching God #2

On pag e40 when joe says "I God, yeah," is he calling himself God? He is trying to take over like he is some God. On page 49, Jeff Bruce was talking about Joe and how "he's de wind and we'se de grass." I began to feel sorry for Janie because once Joe started talking about taking over, I already knew that Janie would suffer from loneliness because he would take up all his time working, trying to be the boss. On page 53, I kept wondering what was so special abotu the mule, then I thought maybe it represented slavery...and as I kept reading I figured it was about women because they're always being pushed around byt heir husbands and having to do what they say and please them or else the women will get beat up. On page 54 I noticed time was capitalized again.. I'm still trying to figure out why. On page 71, Joe was implying that women are like animals: "Somebody got to think for women and chillun and chicken and cows..." Men were disgusting back then, thinking women are just made to serve them. On page 89 the horizon was mentioned again. I'm thinking that the horizon represents where wishes and dreams are granted..or maybe it represents heaven? On page 97 Tea Cake is introduced and I was analyzing his name. It is an oxymoron because tea is something you drink while cake is something you eat? Why is he called Tea Cake? Tea os supposed to "cleanse your soul," and it's healthy for the body. Cake is something that makes people happy and is eaten at celebrations. Maybe Tea Cake is "the one" for Janie.

Their Eyes Were Watching God #1

As I read the first page I really didn't know what the author was talking about. I know it's really significant because it doesn't tell the whole truth abotu the whole story. It most likely foreshadows an event in the future. I also noticed that Time was capitalized and the sun was personified as it "has left his footprints in the sky. Maybe the sun is a metaphor for God? I'm not sure. I read up ro page 35 and it still confuses me. All I know is Janie is trying to find real love and marriage. Their diction makes it hard to understand. On page 25, it says, "So janie waited a bloom time, and a green time, and an orange time," and I really don"t know what she means. I tried analyzing it like green is the color of envy and money..oh and life! and orange..I just think of the orange fruit.

The Kite Runner #5

I finallllly finished the book!!!!!!!!!!!! woohooo!!!



On 326 amir says," I can hear the smile in her words," he meant he can hear the happiness thourgh her tone (imagery). When Amir meets up with Raymond Andrews, Amir is upset that Raymond has an attitude and I thought, "was he being racist," but it turns out that the tragedy of his daughter reflects his personality. "In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity," is a depressing simile. On page 250 when Amir's mother says, "They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you," also foreshadows amir's happiness in being able to adopt Sohrab but soon finds out that he has cut himself, causing him to lose a lot of blood. Ob page 347, the second paragrapgh is full of imagery and I caught myself having a hard time breathing as I read it. But it was a happy ending as Sohrab smiled when Amir flies the kite and cuts off the green one :D

The Kite Runner #4

On page 217, the pomegranate tree is mentioned. It says "..and the tree hasn't borne fruit in years," and I think it represents the relationship between Amir and Hassan because when their relationship was still acceptable, the tree was fine but as they faded the tree was unhealthy. On page 246, the simile, "returning to Kabul was like running into an old, forgotten friend and seeing that life hadn't been good to him, that he'd become homeless and destitute," is a sad thought. On page 250 when Amir's mother says, "They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you," forshadowed her death. That statement to is true, that's why i'm never content when something good happens because i'm scared of an unfortunate event that will happen to me unexpectedly. In not sure what's happening in the italisized text..like on page 287 is it stream of consciousness? On page 288 was an unpleasant simile- "the sound of my tibs snapping like tree branches.." ouch!!!!! I found the cacophonic words all in one line kind of. They're not complete sentences. On page 297 it says, "RUPTURED spleen. BROKEN teeth. PUNCTURED lung. BUSTED eye socket."

The Kite Runner #3

I'm actally on page 313 but i'm behind on blogging =/

on page 61, Amir's simile, "I felt his glare on me like the heat of a blistering sun," made me think that ther relationship with his father is horrible. Amir wants to make his father so proiud that he's super nervous for the kite tournament. As I was readin the last parapragh where Hassan encourages Amir, I thought to myself, "I wish I had the confidence of Hassan." On page 97, the personificatoin of "his eyes betrayed him," makes me disgusted that Assef is so fake. On page 101 I wondered why winning the tournament was so important to Baba..was it because Hassan was Amir's partner? the simile, "The husband's face had become as pale as the moon hovering above," proves the husband's pain when the Russian wanted to have sex with his wife. On page 136, I noticed the alliteration because of the repetition of S in the sentence, "I used to tell Hassan that Someday we'd walk on a Strip of Seaweed-Strewn beach, Sink our feet in the Sand, and ..."
There's a lot of personification in this book like on page 214 when he personifies time as a greedy thing, steals all tehj details for itself. I'm still trying to figure out what that means.

The Kite Runner #2

On page 25 I found alliteration, assonance, and consonance in one sentence: "sometimes, my entire childhoos seems Like one Long Lazy summer day with Hassan, chasing each other between Tangles of Trees in my father's yard, playing hide-and-seek, cOps and rObbers, cowboys and indians, insect torture-with our crowning achievement undeniably the time we plucked the stinger off a bee and tied a string around the poor thing (ooh and internal rhyme) to yanK it bacK every time it tooK flight." Verbal irony was present on pages 28-29 because Amir teases Hassan and says, "'Let's see. 'Imbecile.' It means smart, intelligent...'when it comes to words, Hassan is an imbecile.'" On page 46, Amir mentions circumcision and I never really knew how much pain it was until I read the simile, "But when the numbing medicine wore off later that night, it felt like someone had pressed a red hot coal to my loins." OUCH!



btw, im on page 200 but I don't want to go over the limit of 50 - 100 words (I already did but I don't want to make it way too long) so i'll just blog like maybe twice a day to keep up with my reading, LOL.

The Kite Runner #1

On the first page the author personifies the past clawing its way out and I believe that it's very true. Om page three Amir is very descriptive about Hassan and it made me wonder why he is so important in the story. I still wonder why Amir calls his father "Baba" instead of dad or father. On page 13, the simile, "...attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun," makes it obvious that Amir's father is well-known. Also on page 13, when amir talks about his father's snoring, it really reminded me of my dad and how I have trouble sleeping because I can hear him from next door. I noticed a lot of allusions to God as I read up to page 18.