Janie was only searching for love and happiness, but isn't it that what everyone is searching for?, some people look for money as their first interest but when they get it... are they really happy, I think that what a person wants for life has changed in the past years, because from what I read and what I heard I know people used to search for happiness, and love, and they could find it in small things like playing in the park, or looking at the starts, or just with being with friends and family; but now no one is happy with what they have they people always want more, people is "unhappy" because they have responsibilities and they get lazy to do them. And with love everything has change too, in the past years  people used to have longer relationships, and sex was not only about pleasure it was about love, now it is all different no body really appreciates what real love is, everyone wants everything easy. Every one only wants money and power. As we can see like in the novel Janie was happy when she finally find a person she loved, in the inside of every person I think it is the same because, you can have lots of money and power, but you will only be happy when you will be surround by the people you love :D

THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD MOVIE TRAILER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJG3Z45HaIE

Chapter 9
 Janie begins to rebuild her life, after Jody's funeral, she thinks about the values Nanny taught her, she never taught, and after some month she stops pretending she is sad about Jody's dead.

Chapter 10
Janie meets Tea Cake that went to the store to buy some cigarets <3.

Chapter 11
Janie and Tea Cake liked each other, but Janie wasn't sure about it because he was younger, but then they decided to show up as an official couple in the town's picnic.

Chapter 12
Everyone in the town talks about their relation, Pheoby wash't really sure about, so Janie plans to live the town with Tea Cake to form a new like in other place.

Chapter 13
They move to an other city and get marry there, Janie has some money Tea Cake spends in a Party, she gets mad and tells him that she wants to enjoy everything he does too, he promises her that and saves some money in the bank.

Chapter 14
Janie is totally in love with Tea Cake and decides to start working with him to spend more time with him<3.

Chapter 15
Janie gets jealous of Nunkie a girl that flirts with Tea Cake and when she tries to hit him about that, he stops her and it becomes a passion nigth<3.

Chapter 16
Janie meets Mrs Turner a black woman who would like to be white, she likes Janie because she is 25% white, and she wants her to marry her white brother, Tea Cake meets Mr. Turner a man who seem to be dominated by her wife.

Chapter 17
There is a fight between 2 men, in Mrs. Turner's restaurant she blames her innocent husband :(.

Chapter 18
Some native americans announce a hurricane but Tea Cake decides to ignore it, abs some people stay too, and the lake come towards them, a dog bites Tea Cake's cheek and when they arrive to a safe place Janie thanks Tea Cake for saving her life.

Chapter 19
After the hurricane Janie and Tea Cake to a town with racist people, so they decide to leave. Tea Cake gets really bad, and Janie finds a gun, and she shoots Tea Cake.

Chapter 20
Janie realizes she will never forget Tea Cake, she also realise what real love is, and she finds out that people will always talk about her but she doesn't care anymore.

In the book "Their eyes were were watching god" one can clearly see the machismo coming from Jody to Janie. Jody didn't let Janie to be her self, he was very jealous of her talking to other people, and he didn't want other guys to look at her. I think that machismo is something that should change, but if you look it from other perspective humans will always think they can control everything around them, because everyone at the end want their own good.

There has always been machimo, becouse women had always had more needs for everything, so they can't get the same jobs as men. Also since we know history has always given us men in everything since science to politics, and later on women had rigths.

Janie as we know was married before with Logan and she started meeting secretly with Jody, and Jody know that and ofcourse he can think Janie can do the same thing to him with other guy, to cheat on him. A women from what she does, she wins or changes the respect a men has toward her, and Janie didn't show Jody respect of her relationship with Logan. If she would have been more carefull with that, probably all the bad treatment and jealous coming from Jody would have never happened.

One builds how people will see them, and even if Janie just wanted her own happiness, she didn't search it properly, but is not her fault, because in an century when people is racist and, there is a lot of machismo, she desperately choose what ever that seemed to give her happines.

Chapter 4
Janie was already married with Logan, and Nanny died... Logan wants Janie to work so he buys another mule, while he is getting the new mule, Janie meets Joe, who likes to be called Jody, that came from Georgia, he reminds her from a "white man" and they meet secretly. One day he tells her to
leave Logan and marry him. She sees that as an new opportunity, so she leaves Logan and get married with Jody.

Chapter 5
Jody and Janie move to a Florida town where Jody builds a store. there are some things that annoy Janie but she doesn't say nothing. Jody buys a street lamp which is a success, after that Janie wants to spend more time with Jody but he rejects. Jody wins the respect of the people in the town, so he becomes like an authority there, and every one is afraid of challenging him.

Chapter 6
Janie has to be in the store, she doesn't like that, but she likes listening what people talk about outside the store, but Jody doesn't allow her to go outside, this and other things that make Jody jealous, upset Janie. There was a mule in the town and it's owner treats it very bad, so Jody buys it and liberates it, everyone in the town sees Jody as a very noble person. After the mule dies, Jody makes a funeral for it, because everyone in the town considered it important, but he doesn't let Janie to attend. There is a lot of machismo coming from Jody he doesn't let her to be her self and once he slaps her.

Chapter 7
Janie hates her life now, and she wants to scape but she has nowhere to go. Janie realises that Jody is growing old, and Jody realises that too, but he doesn't like Janie to notice that. Jody with that changes becomes even more mean, and one day Janie cuts wrong a  tobacco for a client and Jody gets really mad at her and insults her, so she can't get it anymore, and she insults him back. Jody feels impotent because he has been humiliated by his wife, so he hits her and takes her away from the store.

Chapter 8
Jody starts resting and he avoids seen Janie and also he doesn't want to eat what she cooks. Janie is really worried because she heard a rumour, people is saying that she is trying to poison Jody for revenge, and Janie is worried for that gossip because is not true. Jody goes to a doctor and he says his kidneys had stopped working so he will die soon. Janie wants to see Jody one more time, and she does, she goes and talks to him, and the discuss he tells her he was trying to help her but she says she couldn't be free, and she stills telling him everything, and he dies, Janie realises that she is old but stills beautifull
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Summary: Chapter 1

As the sun sets in a southern town, a mysterious woman trudges down the main road. The local residents, gathered on Pheoby Watson’s porch, know her, and they note her muddy overalls with satisfaction. Clearly resentful, they talk about how she had previously left the town with a younger man and gleefully speculate that he took her money and left her for a younger woman. They envy her physical beauty, particularly her long, straight hair. She doesn’t stop to talk to them, and they interpret her passing by as aloofness. Her name, it is revealed, is Janie Starks, and the fellow with whom she ran off is named Tea Cake.

Pheoby criticizes the other women on the porch for their malicious gossip and sticks up for Janie. She excuses herself and visits Janie’s home, bringing Janie a plate of food. Janie laughs when Pheoby repeats the other women’s speculations to her. Janie explains that she has returned alone because Tea Cake is gone but not for the reasons that the crowd on the porch assumes. She has returned from living with Tea Cake in the Everglades, she explains, because she can no longer be happy there. Pheoby doesn’t understand what she means, so Janie begins to tell her story.

Summary: Chapter 2

Janie is raised by her grandmother,

Nanny. She never meets her mother or her father. Janie and Nanny inhabit a house in the backyard of a white couple, Mr. and Mrs. Washburn. She plays with the Washburns’ children and thinks that she herself is white until she sees a photograph of herself. The children at the black school mock Janie for living in a white couple’s backyard and tease her about her derelict parents. They often remind her that Mr. Washburn’s dogs hunted her father down after he got her mother pregnant, though they neglect to mention that he actually wanted to marry her. Nanny eventually buys some land and a house because she thinks that having their own place will be better for Janie.

When Janie is sixteen, she often sits under a blossoming pear tree, deeply moved by the images of fertile springtime. One day, caught up in the atmosphere of her budding sexuality, she kisses a local boy named Johnny Taylor. Nanny catches Janie with Johnny and decides to marry Janie off to Logan Killicks, a wealthy middle-aged farmer. She wants to see Janie in a secure situation, which Logan Killicks can provide, before she dies. She says that black women are the mules of the world and that she doesn’t want Janie to be a mule.

Janie protests, and Nanny recounts to her the hardships that she has experienced. Nanny was born into slavery. She was raped by her master and, a week after her daughter Leafy was born, her master went to fight during the last days of the Civil War. The master’s wife was furious to see that Leafy had gray eyes and light hair and thus was obviously her husband’s daughter. She planned to have Nanny viciously whipped and to sell Leafy once she was a month old. Nanny escaped with her baby and the two hid in the swamps until the war was over. Afterward, Nanny began working for the Washburns. Her dreams of a better life for Leafy ended when Leafy was raped by her schoolteacher. After giving birth to Janie, Leafy went out drinking every night and eventually ran off. Nanny transferred her hopes to Janie.

From: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/eyes/section1.rhtml

When you are a child you think everyone is similar, no worries no prejudgements  about nothing, cuz when you are a cbjhild you just think you are like everybody else. And of all chapters 1 and 2 the part that most gets my attention is the part when Janie realizes she was black. That made me remember an article I read about black children. And it says: black children listen to whites music, dress like whites, don’t like having black girlfriends, think like they could be one of those white people in the TV, they just think they are white, like everyone else. But then realice and have to accept their culture and where they come from, but that may be difficult because they grow all their childhood thinking, playing, acting like whites.