Journal #6

The second sentence ," Death, the stranger being with the huge sqaure toes who lived way in the west." This makes me feel a little confused on exactly who is death, but i know death is a character in this book and is playing a significant role.

"What need has Death for a cover, and what winds can blow against him?"  From this sentence, I'm realizing Zoa Neale Hurston is suggesting Death is very powerful if no wind blows against him because there will be notihing going against Death, thus Death is unstoppable.

The author states that Death has been standing over the world over looking it before there was a where or a when or a then. I think this means that even the most powerful men, I think referring to Joe, that the most pwerful men can still lose all their power and look very weak from nature because nature has excisted vefore men, and will excist after men.

I think, this might be overthinking, but I think that she parallels birds and the wind together. A bird flies better when the wind is going along with the bird, which resembles that life is going good. Then when the wind is blowing against the bird, the bird is going to suffer through harsh times. And when the bird loses all of its feathers, t wont go anywhere and the wind can't take it anywhere. She was talking that Janie would find a feather the birds wings, and that means that the bird is getting closer to death.