![]() Janie has been nothing more than his property and punching bag for twenty years. ![]() However, with the rise in his fortunes comes the decline in his treatment of Janie he refuses to let her out in public and verbally and eventually physically abuses her. Janie’s longing for a union filled with love falls on deaf ears of her grandmother.Īfter her grandmother’s death, Janie is miserably lonely until she meets Joe “Jody” Starks and decides to run away with him to the all-black community of Eatonville, where he owns a general store and is elected mayor. Killicks sees Janie simply as a hired hand, even calling her spoiled. She informs Janie that she has arranged for Janie’s marriage to an older man named Logan Killicks. Still, it is witnessed by her grandmother, Janie’s guardian. ![]() ![]() The book, which takes place in Florida in the early 20th century, starts with Janie’s sexual awakening as a teenager when she allows a local boy to kiss her. Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, first published in 1937, tells the story of Janie Crawford, a light-skinned African American woman who struggles and triumphs as she grows and eventually learns to live for herself instead of others. “Their Eyes Were Watching God by Hurston” by peikuang is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. ![]()
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