Journal Entry #10

Theme

Opportunities are found in dreams. If one waits they will find opportunities. To make dreams reality one will fight for it and it will cause conflict between ones dreams and another's.

• Opportunities is very vague.
• Do people only find opportunities when they wait?
• What type of conflict?

Quotes:

1.  "Got a house bought and paid for and sixty acres uh land right on de big road and..." (Hurston 23)

2."But when the pollen again gilded the sun and sifted down on the world she began to stand around the gate and was gusty and short. She know things that nobody had ever told her... The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janies first dream, was dead so she became a woman. (Hurston 25)

3. "But springtime reached her in there so she moved everything to a place in the yard where she could see the road... She had been there a long time when she heard a whistling coming down the road." (Hurston 27)

4."He always wanted to be a big voice..." (Hurston 28)

5. " "... Ah'll be down dis road uh little after sunup tomorrow mornin' to wait for you." (Huston 29)

6. "A feeling of sudden newness and change came over her. Janie hurried out of the front gate and turned south. Even if Joe was not there waiting for her, the change was bound to be good." (Hurston 32)

7."He done called a meetin' on his porch tomorrow." (Hurston 38)

8. "A day was named for roads and they all agreed to bring axes and things like that and chop out two roads running each way." (Hurston 41)

9. ""...Ah thold you in de very first beginnin' dat Ah aimed tuh be uh big voice."" (Hurston 46)

10. "The store itself was a pleasant place if only she didn't have to sell things." (Hurston 50)

11."She was allways in the store for him to look at, not those others." (Hurton 55)

12. ""Yo' wife is uh born orator, Starks. Us never knowed dat befor'..."" (Hurston 58)

13.""...But the mayors wife is somethin' different again... You ain't goin' off in all dat mess uh commonness. Ah'm surprixed at yuh for asking."" (Hurston 60)

14. "Here he was just pouring honor all over her ; building a high chair for her to sit in and overlook the world and she here pouting over it!" (Hurston 62)

15. "Then Jody ruined it all for her." (Hurston 69)