Journal 5

They put her to bed and sent for her married daughter from up around Ocala to come see about her.  The daughter came as soon as she could and took Annie Tyler away to die in peace.  She had waited all her life or something, and it had killed her when it found her.
      The thing made itself into pictures and hung around Janie's bedside all night long.  Anyhow, she wasn't going back to Eatonville to be laughed at and pitied.  She had ten dollars in her pocket and twelve hundred in the bank.  But oh God, don't let Tea Cake be off somewhere hurt and Ah not know nothing about it.  And God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me.  Maybe Ah'm is uf fool, Lawd, lad dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus.  Ah done waited uh long time.
      Janie dozed off to sleep but she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark.  he peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.  but pretty soon, he laid all that aside and went about his business dressed all in white.  But it was always going to be dark to Janie if Tea Cake didn't soon come back.  She got out of the bed but a chair couldn't hold her.  she dwindled down on the floor her head in a rocking chair.

(Hurston, 119-120)

Parallel structure - It's interesting how this passage is constructed. First when its talking about Annie Taylor, she goes to bed and it talks about how she was going after her dreams and it "killed her when it found her". Then it goes straight to Janie talking about her dreams, and then it says Janie goes to sleep. I believe Hurston, through this passage, is trying to say that Janie hasn't realized her dreams. Not having realized her dreams could mean she'll only be happy when she's free from being oppressed?

Repetition - The repetition of the word god and lawd, or lord, could be Hurston trying to emphacize Janie's situation. She so desperately wants to realize her dreams. Whether or not being with Tea Cake is her ultimate dream I don't think matters either, just the fact that she thinks it is.

Motif - I believe the repetition and parallel structure also help create a motif of light vs dark. God is represented by light normally and then its juxtaposed in this passage with darkness, death, falling asleep etc.

Mood : The mood I feel best describes this passage is uncertainty.

I believe the purpose of the passage is to show the contrasting sides of what could happen. On one side there's Annie Taylor who has died in peace after finally realizing and attaining her dreams. However,  then it immidiately flips to Janie who describes her dreams having not been fulfilled; Tea Cake isn't there with her. At this point we don't really know whether or not he will come back. Furthermore, we don't really understand whether this is her ultimate goal.