![]() Hurston infuses the natural imagery with the spiritual, emphasizing the divine weight of this moment in Janie’s life with mentions of “sanctum,” “revelation,” “marriage” and “ecstatic. She also is suddenly aware of her body, and the “pain remorseless sweet” that this awakening brings to her-and so Janie begins her existence in relation to the opposite sex, is kissed by a boy, and shortly after is arranged to be married. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. While gazing up at the blossoms, she realizes the concepts of love and union for the first time. The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This passage of nature writing marks her sexual awakening. Sixteen-year-old Janie is sitting under a pear tree in the backyard of her grandmother’s home. Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid. We must be willing to let go of the life we planned. So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation. Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. 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 tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. For women, “the dream is the truth”-Hurston seems to be stating that their hopes and desires are woven into their immediate realities. ![]() Women, on the other hand, don’t think of dreams as far-away vessels they will never set foot on. Men view their dreams far away, and few are able to fulfill them (only “some” who are lucky to have them "come in with the tide”). In these opening lines, Hurston introduces a crucial idea that is carried throughout the novel: the metaphor of “ships at a distance” describes how reality is shaped differently for men and women. These are the first paragraphs of Their Eyes Were Watching God. Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember and remember everything they don’t want to forget. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. ![]() Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. To live is the rarest thing in the world. I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much. Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. Be yourself everyone else is already taken.
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