IOP!!!

IOP

The everglades were symbolic of Janie's horizon, unrestricted, open to anyone, and an arena for personal ambition-Her connection to nature.

Yet Janie's happiness was unfortunately only temporary.

Instead, seeing no other way out, Tituba passed on the chain of acustations. Abigail is the evil initiator of it all.

"With Pedro died the possibility of ever again ligting her inner fire, with him went all the candles. She knew that the natural heat that she was now feeling would cool little by little, consuming itself as rapidly as if it lacked fuel to maintain itself."

pg. 244

"For at least a few months after the kite tournament, Baba and I immersed ourselves in a sweet illusion, saw each other in a way that we never had before. We'd actually deceived ourselves into thinking that a toy made of tissue paper, glue, and bamboo could somehow close the chasm between us."

-Amir, pg. 87

"Forgive? But theft was the one uforgivable sin, the common denominator of all sins.

Hadn't Baba sat me on his lap and said those words to me? Then how could he just forgive Hassan? And if Baba could forgive that, then why couldn't he forgive me for not being the son he'd always wanted?"

-Amir, pg. 106

I felt at peace. I laughed because I saw that, in some hidden nook in a corner of my mind, I'd even been looking forward to this. I remembered the day on the hill I had pelted Hassan with pomegranates and tried to provoke him. He'd just stood there, doing nothing, red juice soaking through his shirt like blood. Then he'd taken the pomegranate from my hand, crushed it against his forehead. "Are you satisfied now?" he'd hissed. "Do you feel better?" I hadn't been happy and I hadn't felt better, not at all. But i did now. My body was broken-just how badly I wouldn't find out until later- but I felt healed. Healed at last. I laughed.

-Amir, pg. 289

Symbol: Cleft Lip, the innocence of children,

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Gertrudis

"Carefully studying the delicate form of the doll she was thinking how easy it was to wish for things as a child. Then nothing seemed impossible. Growing up, one realizes how many things one cannot wish for, the things that are forbidden, sinful. Indeecent."

-pg. 175

"That's why it's important to keep your distance from people who have frigid breath. Just their presence can put out the most intense fire, with results we're familiar with. If we stay a good distance from those people, it's easier to protect ourselves from being extinguished."

- Doctor Brown, Pg. 116

Tita's Transformation:

Nanny: The Cause of Janie's Defiance to Authority

“Janie stood where he left he for unmeasured time and thought. She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered.”

Pg. 72

“So you don’t want to marry off decent like, do yuh? You just wants to hug and kiss and feel around with the first one man and then another, huh? You wants to make me suck de same sorrow yo’ mama did, eh? Mah ole head ain’t gray enough. Mah back ain’t bowed enough to suit yuh!”

Pg. 14

The Obscuring of Janie's Horizon:

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Tita's Restraints: Imposed

by Mama Elena

"You don't have an opinion and that's all I want to hear about it. For generations, not a single person in my family has ever questioned this tradition, and no daughter of mine is going to be the one start."

-Tita Pg. 11

"Tita knew perfectly well that all these questions would have to be buried forever in the archive of questions that have no answers. In the De la Garza family, one obeyed- immediatedly."

Pg. 12

Janie's Path to Freedom

"You changes everything but nothin' don't

change you- not even death."

Pg. 86

The head rags are symbolic for Janie's subordination to men. They were Joe's means of controlling Janie, yet when he died, Janie was freed from the chains of her reality.

The Theme of Feminism:

As professed by Zora Neale

Hurston

"Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly."

Pg. 1

"There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought."

Pg. 24

"Some bodies with calm faces and satisfied hands. Some dead with fighting faces and eyes flung wide open in wonder. Death had found them watching, trying to see beyond seeing."

Pg. 171

Janie's Horizon is Opened Yet Again

The horizon is something that Janie chases after throughout the novel. Her endless possibilities are perceived through this symnbol.

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Their Effects on Character Actions, Emotions, and Relationships With Other Characters

Their Effects on Individual Character

Actions, Emotions, and Relationships

With Other Characters

Internal Psychological Upheavals:

UNIVERSAL

Judgemental Society of Today

-Bullying

-Religious Barriers

-Acceptance vs. Rejection

-The Power of Words

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

-Rudyard Kipling

UNIVERSAL

"I envied her. Her secret was out. Spoken. Dealt with. I opened my mouth and almost told her how I'd betrayed Hassan, lied, driven him out, and destroyed a forty-year relationship between Baba and Ali. But I didn't. I suspected there were many ways in which Soraya Taheri waas a better person than me. Courage was just one of them."

-Amir, pg. 165

Amir's Inner Turmoil:

Triangle of Conflict

Amir

For you, a thousand times over.

"Then I glanced up and saw a pair of kites, red with long blue tails, soaring in the sky. They danced high above the trees on the west end of the park, over the windmills, floating side by side like a pair of eyes looking down on San Fransico, the city I now called home. And suddenly Hassan's voice whispered in my head-

Hassan, the hairlipped kite runner."

-Amir, pg. 2

Hassan's Maturity:

"Well, if I may ask, why did the man kill his wife? In fact, why did he ever have to feel sad to shed tears? Couldn't he have just smelled an onion?"

-Hassan, pg.34

Hassan

Baba

When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. There is no act more wretched than stealing.

Elizabeth and John Proctor

John Proctor: "I have made a bell of my honor! I have rung the doom of my good name- you will believe me, Mr. Danforth! My wife is innocent, except she knew a whore when she saw one!"

pg. 1333

John Proctor: "If she is innocent! Why do you never wonder if Parris be innocent, or Abigail? Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers? I'll tell you what's walking Salem-vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! This warrant's vengeance! I'll not give my wife to vengeance!"

pg. 1307

Elizabeth Proctor: Wife of John Proctor, accused of witchcraft by Abigail Williams.

Elizabeth is a dynamic character, undergoing a change in her treatment of Proctor and her very opinion of herself while she is in jail. Elizabeth is also said to never tell a lie, yet she does lie to save her husband John.

-Husband of Elizabeth Proctor, John is a man who see's passed the horrific false accusations that the girls make due to the instigation of Abigail. John is a dynamic character because he transforms his reproachful mindset through this painstaking ordeal, and becomes closer to Elizabeth realizing that she is the only women he wants in his life. Although John broke his morale codes, he became a man of yielding principles.

Could Tituba have prevented the chain of acustations?

"Take courage, you must give us all their names. How can you bear to see this child suffering? Look at her, Tituba; Look at her God-given innocence; her soul is so tender; we must protect her Tituba; the Devil is out and preying on her like a beast upon the flesh of the pure lamb. God will bless you for your help."

Rev. Hale Pg. 1286

The Crucible displays not only individual but intra-societal conflicts as well.

Arthur Miller cleverly compared McCarthism (the obsessvie quest to uncover Communist party infiltration of American institutions) with the Salem Witch Trials.

Religious Superstitions vs. the Wisdom of Reasoning

Symbols:

-The Rotting Crops: Represent the moral defficiency of Salem

-The Poppet:

Represents the stupidity and irrationality of the citizens of Salem.

Reverand Hale is a dynamic character in the play. He was first called in by the Salem officials to find the root of the witchcraft crisis, but he was soon tangled into the web of utter hysteria. Hale represents common sense as the play progresses, however he and only a handful of others retained this virtue.

Amir's Redemption:

Reverand Hale: "Woman, plead with him! Woman! It is pride, it is vanity. Be his helper!-What profit him to bleed? Shall the dust praise him? Shall the worms declare his truth? Go to him, take his shame away!"

pg. 1358

Reverand Hale: "Let you not mistake your duty as I mistook my own. I came into this village like a bridegroom to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion; the very crowns of holy law I brought, and what I touched with my bright confidence, it died; and where I turned the eye of my great faith, blood flowed up. Beware Goody Proctor- cleave to no faith when faith brings blood. It is mistaken law that leads you to sacrifice. Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. I beg you, woman, prevail upon your husband to confess. Let him give his lie. Quail not before God's judgment in this, for it may well be God damns a liar less than he that throws his life away for pride. Will you plead with him? I cannot think he will listen to another."

pg. 1350

Theme of Speaking Out Against Societal Transgressions:

At times, defying those with power must become the duty of those outlying individuals of society to retain those underlying morals of justice.