Their Eyes Were Watching God: Everybody Has To Find Out About Living For Themselves

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free. So Ah run got mah baby and got in quotation wid people and found a
place Ah could stay." Grandmother was wanting to make a school teacher out of
Janie's mother. Janie found out that a school teacher rapped her mother so she
never met her father either. Janie's mother was seventeen, when she was
pregnant with Janie. After Janie was born, Janie's mother took to drinking a
lot. Janie's grandmother raised Janie since she was born, grandmother says
"Maybe it wasn't much, but Ah done de best Ah kin by you. Ah raked and scraped
and bought dis lil piece uh land so you wouldn't have to stay in de white folk's
yard and tuck yo' head befor' other chillun at school." When Janie turned
sixteen years of age, her childhood had ended with a kiss from a boy named
Johnny Taylor. Grandmother wanted to see her married at once but Janie did not
understand what was going on. Janie did not feel love for this man or any man
at this time but grandmother explains that she is not going to ...

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marriage with Logon. "Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an
orange time. Nevertheless, when the pollen again gilded the sun and sifted down
on the world she began to stand around the gate and expect things." She did not
know exactly what to expect. "Janie knew that God tore down the old world every
evening and built a new one by sun-up." Janie knew now that marriage did not
make love. Her Grandmother dies and leave Janie to explore life for herself.
Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
Janie's marriage with Logan is falling apart. Before long Janie noticed
that Logan had stopped doing what he used to do to her. He had stopped ...

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