Naturally Cassie began to dream of Jealousy. Jealousy, the devious creature with long looming hands who was always just below the surface. The insecure one who inhabited stray thoughts like an unwelcome party guest who insisted on staying. What purpose does an invitation have for Jealousy, for means is there of stopping him from arriving? He awaits anxiously over analyzing every mans thoughts. Looms hungrily and breathlessly with every thought his whip held tight, waiting for the catalyst to begin his feast. Looming and stirring before was even a need to. She was bound to find a thick blanket of his dust engulfing Sid soon. She was concerned and sympathetic too. Poor Sid! He shouldn't be warding off the poison on his own. She pushed to help him through Cris, but Sid didn't want her help. Them boys cud help each other through a lot, but they didn't know how to hush a mind-invader. He'd be jus fine once they found whatever he was allergic to. His thoughts weren't being consumed. Or so he believed. However, Cris knew that wasn't true, and so did she. But if she didn't know, by dusk there were traces of darkness looming on everything Sid had been near. Stories, people, and photos were coated with a questioning haze, that normally would not be under analytical attack. Coated and blackened with insecurity. Trust, the white sealant to the cracks of life, had been chiseled away from the aspects of Sids life.
Decisions:
In the passage on page 84, Hurston personifies Death, so I personified Jealousy in the way that jealousy is a monster that consumes people based on doubts and insecurities. Hurston uses different dialects in the passage to show a different perspective and I did the same in my passage to show how me as the author writes about the situation objectively and then how Cassie is more subjective to the passage. I used the same number of characters as Hurston to portray her ideas, as well as using a "population" which in my case were Sid's friends. I tried to make sure that sentence by sentence the same idea or type of words were followed through in my own writing. Hurston refers to Death as having feathers, and makes Rumors a wingless bird. I chose to have Jealousy have a black hue that it is indicated by and Trust was also a shade but it was white.
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