Journal #2 (Analytic)

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 on 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.  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. (Hurston, 11)

1) Hurston writes about things in nature in positive ways, possibly referring to the beauty of life
2) Motif of blooming; reaching maturity, the time for marriage
3) Motif of bees; the bees could be representing a person  who is seeking a desire 
4) Symbolism of the "tree"; possibly represents life, and when the tree blooms, the person reaches the age of maturity or adulthood
5) Hurston suddenly changes mood from very positive, to very depressing; she probably wants to show the reader that the first part of the paragraph is what Janie wants, and the last line is reality
6) Hurston uses things such as the bees and trees to show how Janie wants to feel
7) Is the breeze personified to make a better description of her surroundings? Or does it mean something more?
8) Dust-bearing bee may be a person in search of a new life
9) A possible theme for this passage: growing up is a long process, and it takes time for one to know what they want to do.
10) A possible thesis statement for this passage: Zora Hurston uses a tree blooming as a symbol, in order to illuminate the theme of growing up.