Life in Hibernation

In this passage, Janie wanders to the front yard while Nanny is asleep. This is before Janie gets caught kissing Johnny Taylor at the front gate. When Janie is on her front porch, she observes the pear tree and all of its beauty, youth, freedom, and renewal of life. She compares herself to the tree and describes how she wishes to be the tree, and have a purpose. "She had glossy leaves and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her. Where were the singing bees for her?" In this quote, Janie is feeling incomplete and trapped because she is stuck in the same routine. Nothing is happening to her because she is young and her grandmother is afraid of what is going to happen to Janie. She is also referencing nature and how Janie is like a tree, with so much life and youth but cannot do anything with it, and she is waiting just like a tree waits for its bloom."Looking, waiting, breathing short with impatience. Waiting for the world to be made." This quote also represents Janie's struggle to make her life matter.

-AJ and Edita