Essays on Pear Tree

Irene Lou in Passing by Nella Larsen (1929) Irene is the protagonist in the novel, Passing, by Nella Larsen that was written in 1929. The novel has three sections and Irene features all through, with her childhood friend, Clare. Clare is married to Jack, who does not know that she is black because is too light-skinned, just like Irene (Larsen and Kaplan).The light-skinned black ladies pass for whites, and Irene is critical of Clare's efforts to be white. At some point, she breaks off all communication with her, including tearing Clare's letters without reading them when she learned ...

RESEARCH PAPER: THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD

Introduction The novel Their Eyes Were Watching God authored by Zora Neale Hurston is a culmination of different themes touching on matters love and hatred, life and death, murder, and discovery of self-identity. Ultimately, the novel is packed with many themes and issues that affect the society woven to bring the message dexterously home (Lester 20). In essence, the novel is a classic that helps the reader to reflect about specific historical epochs in the way Hurston travels through time to explain issues of culture, tradition, love and pursuit for identity. It can be argued that the novel describes ...

Introduction

Pear blossom and moon is an art by Yun Shouping and is framed in a dark wooden frame. The Art is a flower with oval leaves that are slightly paler yellow below and long, glossy dark green above. It is white in color and composed of five-petaled flowers.

What is the significance of this flower to the Chinese?

Pear blossom and moon art being very beautiful in terms of look, and the facts that it is framed, indicates that it is an Art mostly preferred to be placed in houses or offices and seems to be of a very important value to the Chinese community. These flowers are obtained from PyrusCalleryana that ...

In Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, long-suffering Janie Crawford, having endured a lifetime of misunderstandings and frustrating marriages to ungrateful and possessive men, marries the man of her dreams – Tea Cake. This comes, of course, after her marriages to both Logan Killicks and Joe Starks, who disappoint her in many ways (unlike Tea Cake). Janie most certainly has her own ideals of intimacy, equating the role of love between humans to being a part of nature; Tea Cake’s status as a wonderful and attentive lover seem to help her fulfill these standards, with a few notable ...

Janie’s moments of transition

We see Janie as an old woman at the beginning of the novel. She struggles to control her language and voice which shows the quest for defining her life which is complicated and with no single resolution for her. She dreams and desires a lot but also chooses what to forget which makes it difficult to define. Janie in this case is victim of psychological fragmentation of black America and modernity. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she portrays an unformed and undefined character. Her ambitions are to have a life not controlled or defined by her nanny. She ...

Janie Mae Crawford and Logan Killicks – why does their marriage not work?

It is interesting that in a novel that is about a woman finding both true love and her own identity that by the end of the first chapter of Their Eyes Were Watching God we know only the central character’s first name and hardly anything about her past. The rest of the novel is an extended flashback really, in which we get to know the life story of Jamie Mae Crawford and what motivates her.

Janie’s grandmother’s expectations of marriage are conditioned by her own experiences and those of her daughter. Nanny gave birth to Janie’s mother ...