Journal #6

• Hurston capitalizes Death- this could be simply to emphasize death, or to perhaps make it "larger than life" something that mortals will not understand. 

• Personification of Death- used to mean that death takes away life, and dying is not simply the losing of life.

• Death is given a home in the sky- this is also where God, and the Sun, reside. It could have implications of death being near God. 

• Death is called a "he"- another example of how Hurston speaks poorly of men throughout the novel. 
• Joe refuses the doctor- his refusal is just another implication of how he does not want to believe that he is dying, and he wants to have faith in his ability to control his fate. 

• Recurring motif of the trees- the people under the trees could be under the protection of them, the feebleness of Joe.
• Metaphor of death as a bird/rumor as a wingless bird- There is a comparison of death and rumor, seeming to say that as death comes and leaves feathers, it will lose its wings and become rumor. 
• Comparison between Janie's truth and Joe's truth- this could be an implication of the more knowledgeable woman, who obviously listened to reason, not what she wanted to hear.