The Crafting of a Book

     I am conscious of the craft of the books I read. I pay attention to the way things are written, because of the different ways authors express what their trying to say. Sometimes it is more difficult to comprehend due to the way the author composes their book. It is important to understand their craft in order to also understand what their meaning to say. The different ways authors identify themselves is also the different ways people have to adapt to them. For example the language or the order of the book, that should be important to one as the reader to be able to have more of an undrerstanding and be able to flow through the book faster.

Walker's journey to Hurston's life

      Alice Walker goes to Eatonville, Florida to find out what Zora Neale Hurston was actually about. She was in need of understanding how she passed away and just everything about her. She is told that she passed away from malnutrition something she didn't believe, later on in her investigation of Hurston's life she find out that she was a woman of over 200 pounds and died of a stroke making it ironic to have been said that she died of food shortage. She also learns that she was a tough, and very interesting woman. She wrote books through out her whole life.
     Walker not only begins to understand what Hurston went through, but also compares her own life to what happened to her. Although, she didn't personally know Hurston, she cared because she was a woman of the same race of her. They were much alike and were parallel to each other in the things that they believed. Walker shows her respect and her interest in Hurston's life by making her the tomb stone her family never did and also by all the lies she had to say in order to find out what Zora Neale Hurston was about.

Janie's Blues

Janie is a such a pretty lady.
She wants to fall in love; but she's forced to fall in love.
Lives discontent with Logan, but is not one bit mistreated.
Runs off with a man named Jody hoping to live a fairy tale.
Gets mistreated and abused, oh what a bad decision she has made.
Her appearance are signs of happiness, but her emotions are nothing alike.
Oh Janie, she's such a pretty lady, which doesn't know what she's worth.

Questions or Answers?

      This year will be the year that answers and asks questions for Janie. Her marriage is a big part of the questioning. She asks herself why her grandma forces her to get married to someone whom she doesn;t love and why she is forced to get married at such a young age. These questions are answered when her nanny is about to pass away, she understands that all that is done is for her to have a good life and so shge won't stay alone once thet day of her grandmothers death comes.

     She asks the questions of how she should love Logan, because she just couldn't seem to find the way to do it. Janie knew that Logan treated her as woman should be treated but maybe that was the reason she didn't fall in love with him. As a result of the mistreatment Logan begins to give her, she goes off to marry another man named Joe Starks a man who she had more feelings for.

Gossiping leads to envy

     People who gossip, and envy others only do it because they want to be like or have the same things someone else has. It is ridiculous for people to envy each other because everyone in life has things because they earn them, not necessarily because they deserve them. Gossipers often judge as well, it isn't a bright idea to be so caught of on the life of others because then they will fall behind on their own life.

     I believe envy does cause people to gossip about each other. People don't just talk about others in a bad way for no reason, there's always a reason and that reason is because they envy them. People don't worry about their own lives, they go off and gossip about the lives of others inventing them a whole new life. Gossip is nothing but lies and rephrased statements to offend people and make them look bad so others can look good.

Questions about The Great Gatsby

Why didn't Daisy marry Gatsby even though she loved him? Why didn't Gatsby fight for Daisy's love? Why does Tom cheat on Daisy?

A brief look into Nick Carraway's life

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