Journal #3

"They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged." (33) -Imagery

"He kin be de king uh Jerusalem fuh all Ah keer." (39) -Allusion

"She knew that the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether" (25) -Metaphor

The townspeople praise Joe Sparks as a savior but when soon learn that he is no saint, "The rest of the town looked like servants' quarters surrounding the "big house"" (47). Hurston uses irony in making Joe Starks as a revolutionary bringing the townspeople out of oppression but he slowly takes up the position of the master. The use of irony shows that no one is a saint, it shows that every one has an agenda and for Joe he is after power. He comes in the town preaching to the townspeople to rise up from their past of servitude but only as long as they listen to him. Hurston is also sending a message to his readers to not trust someone just because they appear to be a saint, she advises us to look at their motives.

Janie decides to run off with the charming Joe Sparks, her descriptions of him are more true than she knows "Janie took a lot of looks at him and she was proud of what she saw. Kind of portly like rich white folks." (34) Hurston uses Janie's observations as foreshadowing to what lies beneath Joe Sparks charm is man hungry for power. Later in the book Joe sheds his angelic mask to show that he didn't arrive in Eatonville to restore the town but instead to take it over. It is almost impossible to see and it lets us sympathize with Janie and the townspeople for not seeing it at first.