TEWWG - Journal #7: Mini Pastiche

Journal Prompt #7: Create a pastiche, matching Hurston' style and themes as closely as possible. After you complete your pastiche, write a statement explaining some of the decisions you made in order to match Hurston's writing and objectives.

 Soon after Violet contemplated Satisfaction. Satisfaction, that unreachable apple with the utmost importance unlike anything else who lived at the zenith of the heart. The powerful one who withholds the key to what humans strive for like a child who yearned for the sun to return on a rainy day. What need has Satisfaction for a lock, and who would dare attempt to break the seal with force? She awaits on her mountain top for those worthy of reaching her. Motions hopefulness and determination with her swaying pendulum, wondering if her challenge will ever be met. Only someone with perseverance and dreams could ever pass the test. She saw the light in the distance in which she knew her eminence was signaling her arrival. She was dedicated and strong-willed as well. Mundane Micah! He should not have to stay frozen like the others. She made a compelling argument, but Micah did not budge. These chillun' wuz right in deciding their own destiny, and he should listen to. He'd had no zeal burning at him as long as he stuck to what he knew. He did not care to change the way he was. His opinion stood. But by the constant denial, she knew he wanted to reach his goals. And if he did not voice the words to her, his positive attitude shined through the morning mist. Unspoken dreams which had never been shared before slid in through the shadows and lingered around him. Stood strong and were poised and ready to face the new day. Confidence, the glimmering sun, took root upon the horizon.

In addition to the use of sentence structure, I mimicked Hurston's reoccurring topic of dreams. The way to reach dreams are hinted at throughout the novel, which I strongly emphasized in the mini pastiche. I picked satisfaction and confidence because they come hand in hand. Satisfaction is an aspect of life in which can not be reached without understanding oneself as well as the desire to change. This can be seen through the novel as Janie becomes slightly more satisfied with her life as she learns more about herself as an individual. Hurston's use of nature and tying it into human life is also incorporated into this passage.