Personification In Chapter Thirteen By Zora Neale

In chapter thirteen there is one specific passage that holds a lot of meaning. This passage uses personification with the sun and how it “[sent] 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 and went about his business all dressed in white.” This example of personification makes the sun seem like a person. The sun looks over the “door sill of the world” which is another way to say the sun was coming up and it got rid of the darkness. The sun was explained so intricately in the first few sentences to show its beauty, but Janie didn’t care about it even though it is described in such a way that makes it hard to ignore. In literature and in most other forms of art the coming