Leviticus Response

I feel as if Jeanette's mother in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is kind of hypocritical because she says she has a wine glass for medicinal uses but is a devout Christian. I kind of find it funny that her friend Mrs. White took the wine glass so she could hear the neighbors fornicating. Like who does that? It's kind of creepy and intrusive (I couldn't think of a better word). The story got even better once they started singing hymns to church them out. From what I processed she has started to work for the funeral home and now she's doing her mother's bidding by throwing oranges on the corner. Oranges! Again! I don't really understand for the most part what they symbolize but they must be important. I think that it is interesting that the more self-aware she is, the longer her little stories get. I'm not laughing out loud about a man who wants a perfect woman who suddenly cries in the grass... I'm all about emotional men but wow. That's kind of oxymoronic. It's really difficult to achieve perfection so obtaining a perfect woman is kind of near to impossible. Oh boo hoo on this prince's 3 sections of perfection. No one is perfect and the fact that you want a perfect race is really a joke on him. Oh, I understood the reference that he had in the end about building a perfect person. He's talking about Frankenstein because Frankenstein had a bolt in his neck.

We are supposed to choose a specific literary element that we thought was prevalent in the scene. It is really hard to think about this short chapter of what I would consider as an important literary element. I would consider language because she creates a short story about perfection. Jeanette has her first theological disagreement and she expresses it by telling a short story about a prince who is searching for a perfect woman. There is a woman like this but he can't find her and asks the goose to help him. The goose says what he is looking for is impossible and the prince simply beheads him. The prince then goes on to write a paper about the perfection that is cut into three sections. An advisor says he's found the perfect woman who then refuses to marry him and she tells him that he'll be dead before he ever finds a perfect woman. The prince cuts off her head and buys a dozen oranges from a man who then said he'd give him a booklet on how to build a perfect person yet the only flaw is that they had a bolt-on their neck. Jeanette uses the word perfection a lot and I think it shows how she has a difficult time coming to terms that she won't ever be perfect. That she can't fill the roles that her mother and her church expect her to fill. That they are better off building a person or even Frankenstein to find what they are looking for. It symbolizes a woman that is even wise knows that there is no such thing as perfection.