Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Their eyes blog

How come the book switches from subject to subject without any type of transition it just jumps back and forth and along with the dialect it makes for a cinfucsing book. Why was Janie's grandmother so bent on having janie marry a man before she died if it meant that Janie would be very unhappy and resent her grandmother for such a forceful demand. I also don't understand why throughout the whole book Janie only does as people demand of her, she married the man her grandmother wanted, she ran away from her husband for joe starks because he told her too, and she was ultimately his slave when they were married all the way up until the end when he was bed ridden, but even still she stayed away fromk him becuase he told her not to visit him. I think its pretty bad that Janie never really had a chance to have her own life.
Ryan i agree 100 percent with you on the point that the dialect used for the book is very poor and is distracting from the reading. But i have to disagree with your idea of this book being a literary classic first off just because celebrities say a good word about it doesn't make it good and also the book is does not have a consistent story line, in the beginning it seemed to me like it starts off with the main character as an old lady with her friend. Then it goes back to her childhood with out any good transition. After that the book seems to branch off in unimportant subplots like when the book just focuses the life of the donkey, COME ON PEOPLE!!!!! Talking about a donkey for almost a whole chapter when it has no apparent ties to the storyline, plot, or any main characters detracts from the book. Unless some one can enlighten me on this i cannot agree with this book being any good.