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ENGLISH 45C - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Hurston takes time to emphasize black spaces in the south.
        
        Spaces again play a major role with the internal self in Hurston's writing
- - - - Their Eyes Were Watching God: A young woman's journey of life and love play out before the reader. After a grandmother worries for the future of her granddaughter, she is pushed into a marriage, beginning a domino effect of difficulties of love. She is ultimately able to find her own independence. The reader is walked into her final marriage who is by far her best husband that appreciates her as an individual. The story is told through the young woman herself as she tells her story to her friend.
        
        Hurston choses to use a Southern, Black dialect for the voices of the characters
    - - As a tradition of the tribe, storytelling is held and repeated. When Okonkwo dies by suicide, the European commissioner comments that the tribe's reaction to the suicide will be told in his book.
    - - Both novels depict people consumed by concepts beyond themselves. Things Fall Apart reinforces the image of a man who is devoured by the thought of never becoming his father. The Sound and the Fury relay a family that is consumed by the past of how things were, ultimately causing death and didssatisfaction.
      - H.D. is consumed with nature and femininity
        
        She suggests for us to be covered with "pools of fir" in Oread, describing plants with great detail again in "Sea Rose"
      - The Sound and the Fury: a post-slavery Mississippi family is on the decline. They don't have the same land nor finances they used to, and the family is slowly deteriorating. In obession with the youngest sister, her purity and rebellious behavior is depicted in the minds of many without actually hearing her voice narrated in the novel. Relationships with time are never linear, besides in the eye of the family's maid, who acts as the most sound logic in the novel. Besides Caddy, whose being lingers all throughout the novel, the other siblings like Benjy, Quentin, and Jason struggle to remain in the present moment. Their failures are also seen in carrying the family legacy in the manner of which the parents intended for them.
      - Eliot's character is consumed with intensity of love and admiration
        
        Inaction presents itself in the face of intense situation for Prufrock and Bartleby, such as love in need of sustainability
    - - Eliot writes Prufrock with a character who is in resistance to motion and choses inaction
      - Bartleby: in Wallstreet, a young man gets hired at a lawyer's office. In his duration of being there, he drives the lawyer crazy through his unwillingness to do his job or accomodate to anything that is expected of him. The lawyer begins treating him with a heavy heart, offering his own time and resources for the young man, despite his very clear aloofness. Bartleby dies at his own chosing, leaving the lawyer infatuated through confusion.
- - - - Man of the Crowd: When a man sees another person in the crowd that assumed to be doing wrong, he follows him through the streets of London. The audience sees through the meat of the city and into the outskirts as he follows the man in the crowd. He never receives an answer as to what the man of the crowd is exactly doing, revealing a sort of ambiguity common in the gothic genre.