Journal #2

She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to the tiniest branch creaming in every branch and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation. Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid.

• This passage personifies all the inanimate objects such as the tree, and creates a sense of life and interaction between it and its extremities.
• The bees are also personified, they a a group are said to have an "alto chant", something that usually applies to a group of people.
  
• The letter "B" is repeated a lot, such as in bees, breeze, breath, bloom,branch.
• Love and strong emotions are invoked within the whole paragraph.
• There is a possible reference to God, because it is not clarified who she had been summoned by to behold a revelation.
• A lot of descriptive language present.
• The adjectives present are very passionate.
• This passage almost seems overly sexualized, perhaps to emphasize Janie's innocence at a younger age.
• Some foreshadowing seems to be present: "So this was marriage!" refers to Janie's three upcoming marriages.
• Hurston uses the tree to illustrate Janie's view of marriage by utilizing descriptive words and creating a sense of love and life within it.
• The "thousand sister-calyxes" are personified and given a role with the bees.
• There seems to be a relaxed mood.
• The whole setting is explained in a detailed manner.
• Janie isn't referred to by name until the last sentence, thus ambiguity and vagueness is very apparent.
  
• Janie interprets the scenario as an idealistic portrayal of marriage.