Journal: 3 technique usages & why
Page Number: 116
Technique: Personification
Quote: "The train beat on itself and danced on the shiny steel rails mile after mile."
Why: This personification gives the train to Jacksonville the positive human aspect of dancing to accentuate the feelings that Janie was experiencing as she boarded it. At the time, she was on her way to meet Tea Cake in Jacksonville to wed and as yet, it was the happiest moment of her life and even the train was joyful for her occasion.
Page Number: 134
Technique: Motif
Quote: "The men held big arguments here like they used to do on the store porch."
Why: This sentence continues the motif of community supported by the porch, where in Eatonville it was the store porch, now in the Everglades, it's Tea Cake's and Janie's house porch. This motif is continued to show that Janie is able to fit in to whatever place she has ended up in for a few months and the community tends to gravitate to wherever she is staying or working.
Page Number: 133
Technique: Situational Irony
Quote: "So the very next morning Janie got ready to pick beans along with Tea Cake."
Why: In past relationships, Janie had had to work because the husbands had made her work for them. In this case, Janie was actually choosing to go out to the fields and work with Tea Cake not because he made her do it, he had actually said that he only wanted them to spend money that he himself had made and none of hers, but because she wanted to spend the day out in the fields with him so that neither would be lonely. This development was unexpected because of the past work that she had had to do and because Tea Cake had promised her that she wouldn't have to work as long as they were married, that he would be the sole income provider so she could rest at home all day.
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