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I think that it is still worth while to learn about the Harlem Renaissance in the 21st century because it is part of history. It is still worth while because we can learn about what the artists went through in the past. If you don’t learn about it today you will not know how the African American artists progressed in the arts. The Harlem Renaissance is very interesting to see all the different artists that emerged in the 1920’s. If you don’t learn about it you will not able to understand the rest of history after it. This time in history is very important to artists today so if we don’t know about it we wouldn’t understand who inspired them. Learning about the Harlem renaissance helps you understand how the music , poetry, literature, and painting are connected with different themes. So the Harlem Renaissance is very important and still worth while to learn about today in the 21st century. Overall i really liked learning about the Harlem renaissances.

ending of their eyes are watching god

In the beging of the book i thought that i wouldnt like it but i began to like even though it was still hard to read. i think that janie being with tea cake made her become herself she finnaly had a voice. Tea cake definitly was a questianably character the way the town was talking about him. But after reading all the gentlemen things he did with her. LIke the first the thing when he played checkers with her treated her as equal. Then when they talk about all the things they did together like in chapter 12 where they list the things tea cake and janie dance and tea cake and janie gone fishing. Tea Cake wasnt the man that peopel thought he was he loved janie and i think by the end of the book i think she finally found who she really was she found herself.
Something that caought my attention was when tea cake said "Ah i reckon you wish now you had stayed in yo' big house 'way from such as dis dont yuh?" then janie says that Naw.Naw? yeah, Naw. People dont die till dey time come nohow, dont keer where you at. Ah,m wid mah husband in uh storm, dats all." i think this was a time in the book where janie showed her strong side. i dont think she could have done it without tea cake becuase he let her be herself. tea cake and janie were the match that i think that she was looking for throughout the book. The ending of the book was good i think he defined who janie really was she was strong after all she had been through.

Their eyes were watching god 6-12

The second part of the book janie begins a "new" life after jody dies. Right before he dies when he is weak she finally gets the strength after all these years to stand for her self and speak her mind. She finally tells him that he never let her express her emtions. She can express this to him now because he is to weak to do anything about it. So after jody dies she mourns for a while just to please the people in the town so they dont gossip about her. She begins to wear her hair down in a braid which i think defines who she is gives her a sense of identity. Then she meets Tea cake a very repectful man but not wealthy man but she finds him interesting because even though he is not wealthy he does have respect for her and that is what janie wants in a man. I think that janie has finally found her match that she has been loking for all her this time. This when she begins her "new" life she is living the way she wants not the way nanny wants her to live. A part in chapter 9 that caught my attention was when it said on page 89 " She hated the old woman who had twisted her so in the name of love." I dont how she could think this about the woman who rasied her. I dont think she blame her grandmother for not loving the way she wanted because she did what she wanted with tea cake, so she could have changed any time she wanted too. I think that she just wanted to blame someone for not being happy. In these chapters janie begins to live life the way she wants to not like everyone else wants her to live.

their eyes were watching god

The first thing i thught about the book was that it finally of poetry and it would probably be easier to read this book.But then soon as i opened it and starting reading i was wrong it was not as easy as i thought it would be. When i started reading I had to stop and reread things to understand it. The southern dialogue is ahrd to understand but i think it help the reader get into the book more see the picture clearer of what is actually going on. The first thing in the book that made me think of autobiography of a excolored man was when janie didnt realize that she was black until she saw the picture of her self. In the excolored man he did not realize he was black either until he saw it for himself.
As far as janie goes she is a confusing character i feel like janie wants to find that perfect love but cant find all the things she wants in one man well not yet a least. She is settling for a man that has some of the qualities that she wants. hen she will go onto the nest man when she cant take that man anymore and he is not meeting her needs anymore or not cutting anymore. I think that janie is a weak person because she lets men be in control of her but then again when she gets feed up with it she leaves them like with logan so she is strong women in some ways.
the themes that i see i the book that are repeating are reference to nature and the reference to god.An example of this was on page 8" janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with th things suffered." this reminds me of cane becuase he refers women as nature.
So overall i like the book i just wish it was a little easier to read.

hughes

The Hughes poems are very different from Cullen. I like the Hughes poems they are easier than Cullen poems to read and understand. I like that they are related to jazz and the blues. The poems that relate to jazz because they are upbeat and simple. The poems don’t have a heavy message they have a simple message and are easy to understand. I like Hughes the best out all the reading that we have done so far.
In reference to his essay The negro artist and racial mountain he is saying that his poetry talks about everyday African Americans. The way he talks about African American people I think he is stereotyping the them. I don’t know how Hughes is suppose to be talking about the culture of African American’s, then he stereotypes them that’s something I don’t understand about Hughes. ANother part in the essay i dont understandis the part where he talks about Cullen as wanting to be like a white poet. I dont think hughes has any room to judge cullen when he's sterotyping blacks. Besides those two things i like hughes poems.

cullen Poems

The Cullen poems are a little hard to understand because they are traditional style. What I do like about the poems are that they do all have they similar style unlike McKay that was all over the place. I also liked how the poems had the color imagery it helped you to paint a picture of what he was talking about. The poems that I liked were “Tableau”. I liked how he compare/contrast the black ad white boy. Using the “golden splendor of the day” and “the sable pride of night”. He makes a positive reference to both black and white boy which is different from other poems where the make the white boy or man bad.

Another poem that I liked was “A brown girl dead”. I liked this poem even though it was about a dead girl it was positive about her. Again in this poem I liked the color imagery. The white is usually not used to reference a brown girl. This poem had another positive attitude about African American people. Even though the poems are hard to understand I still like them just takes a little longer to interpret it.

The Brownies' Book

The Best Of The Brownie’s Book I liked the stories in it. I liked reading the grownups corner about the little girl that was asking her mom have colored folks done anything in books. I think that was a good part of the Brownie Book that helped the parents put their input in the magazine. A story that I like in the magazine was “The Heritage” when mother mason helped Julie understand that it wasn’t only herself that she was letting down it was the whole generation. Julie didn’t really understand that she was affecting a lot of people and what her parents have done so she could go to school. It was inspiring to children that were going through the same thing to keep doing what they were doing. Another story was “Dolly’s Dream” I think that was very interesting about the fairy godmother that she dreamed to be the a little girl with golden curls, pale skin, and blue eyes. I think this was a story that could relate to all children in those days that they didn’t like the way the looked because they were portrayed as ugly. In this story it tells them that they should be happy the way they looked.
Another thing that I found nice about the brownie book was the pictures of the children they were so cute. The pictures related to the story “Dolly’s Dream” because in the pictures the children are portrayed as beautiful and cute probably something different from what they see. Like for example in the cartoons that we saw in Ethnic notions how the children were portrayed as darky or with crazy hair. The little people of the month was very inspiring to the children that they could do what ever they wanted to if they try hard enough. I really liked the Brownies’ Book it was good for children at this period in time.