Jornal #6

1. "So Janie began to think of Death."

Zora Neale Hurston uses a conjunction to start the passage to make it feel like there are possibilities and it is open-ended.

2. "Death, that strange being with the huge square toes who lived way in the West."

She personifies death to make it seem mysterious and says it lives far away like it's off in the distance.

3. "The great one who lived in the straight house like a platform without sides to it, and without a roof."

Hurston describes death as living in somewhere very obvious and not sheltered or hidden.

4. "What needs has Death for a cover, and what winds can blow against him?"

She uses a metaphor here to get her point across that death can't be stopped by anything, so it should not be hidden or masked.

5. "Stands watchful and motionless all day with his sword drawn back, waiting for the messenger to bed him come."

She uses a personification to symbolize how death is waiting to strike, it has to wait for its opportunity.

6. "Been standing there before there was a where or a when or a then."

Parallel structure. Janie was there when there was nothing and it was all just beginning.

7. "Rumor, that wingless bird, had shadowed over the town."

People were getting swept up with rumor and it filled the whole town.