Imagery

1. “Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches.” Pg 8

2. “The rose of the world was breathing out smell.” Pg. 10

3. “The gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze” Pg. 11

4. “The golden dust of pollen had beglamored his rags and her eyes.” Pg. 12

5. “Nanny’s head and face looked like the standing roots of some old tree that had been torn away by a storm.” Pg. 12

6. “Ah wanted yuh to school out and pick from a higher bush and sweeter berry.” Pg. 13

7. “Mind –pictures brought feelings, and feelings dragged out dramas from the hollows of her heart.” Pg. 16

8. “Did marriage compel love like the sun the day?” Pg. 21

9. “There is a basin in the minds where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.” Pg. 24

10. “So Janie waited a bloom in time, and a green time and an orange time.” Pg. 25