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Their Eyes Were watching God PACTSO Plot Janie Crawford returns to Eatonville, Florida, from the Everglades in mourning over the loss of her husband. We learn that Janie loved a man named Tea Cake, whom the gossipy ladies say she was way too old for. Pheoby, Janie¶s best friend, defends Janie, saying that she has never done anything to hurt anybody. Then Pheoby leaves to take Janie some supper. Jannie starts to tell her story on how Janie never knew her father or mother.She was Raasid by her grandma Janie spends so much time with the white children that she doesn¶t realize she¶s black«until she sees a photograph of the family.She Marrys Nammed logon choosen by jannies¶s gandma Logan  pampers Janie less and tries to get her to perform manual labor, claiming that she is spoiled. One day, he leaves to buy a second mule so that Janie can help him work in the fields. While Logan is getting the mule, Janie spies a good-looking, sharply dressed stranger ambling down the road. She catches his eye and flirts a while with him; his name is Joe Starks, a smooth-tongued, stylish man with grand ambitions. They start to argue and jannie leaves and marrys a guy nammmed  jody they move to florida Jody introduces himself to two men, Lee Coker and Amos Hicks, and asks to see the mayor; the men reply that there is none. Jody moves over to a porch to chat with a group of the townspeople, who tell him that the town¶s name is Eatonville. After hearing that Eatonville contains only fifty acres, Jody makes a big show of paying cash for an additional two hundred acres from Captain Eaton, one of the donors of Eatonville¶s existing land. Hicks stays  behind to flirt²unsuccessfully²with Janie. When Jody becomes mayor Jody decides that the town needs a street lamp. He buys the lamp with his own money a nd then calls a to wn meeting to vote on whether or not the town should install it. Though some dissent, a majority vote approves the motion. After the lamp arrives, Jody puts it on display for a week, and it becomes a source of  pride for the whole town. He organizes a big gathering for the lighting, complete with guests from surrounding areas and a feast. The party is a huge success, full of ceremony and dignity. Afterward, Janie hints that she wants to spend more time with Jody now that he has done so much work. He replies that he is just getting started.  Jody grows apart from the rest of the town and they envy his new luxury lifestyle.  Atmosphere The atmosphere of the story is a flashback in southern part of America. It reflects the charterers¶  personality also the story of novel. The time and date also affect the event of what happens. Character Jody Starks - Janie¶s second husband. Beco mes mayor and grows further from the towns a  person he starts to treat Janie as anot her person and their marriage deteriorates. Jannies Grandama ± only wants the best for Janie but decides to have aan enraged marriage Theme Black Autonomy

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Their Eyes Were watching God PACTSO 

Plot

Janie Crawford returns to Eatonville, Florida, from the Everglades in mourning over the

loss of her husband. We learn that Janie loved a man named Tea Cake, whom the gossipy ladiessay she was way too old for. Pheoby, Janie¶s best friend, defends Janie, saying that she has never done anything to hurt anybody. Then Pheoby leaves to take Janie some supper. Jannie starts totell her story on how Janie never knew her father or mother.She was Raasid by her grandmaJanie spends so much time with the white children that she doesn¶t realize she¶s black«until shesees a photograph of the family.She Marrys Nammed logon choosen by jannies¶s gandma Logan pampers Janie less and tries to get her to perform manual labor, claiming that she is spoiled. Oneday, he leaves to buy a second mule so that Janie can help him work in the fields. While Logan isgetting the mule, Janie spies a good-looking, sharply dressed stranger ambling down the road.She catches his eye and flirts a while with him; his name is Joe Starks, a smooth-tongued, stylishman with grand ambitions. They start to argue and jannie leaves and marrys a guy nammmed

 jody they move to florida Jody introduces himself to two men, Lee Coker and Amos Hicks, andasks to see the mayor; the men reply that there is none. Jody moves over to a porch to chat with agroup of the townspeople, who tell him that the town¶s name is Eatonville. After hearing thatEatonville contains only fifty acres, Jody makes a big show of paying cash for an additional twohundred acres from Captain Eaton, one of the donors of Eatonville¶s existing land. Hicks stays behind to flirt²unsuccessfully²with Janie. When Jody becomes mayor Jody decides that thetown needs a street lamp. He buys the lamp with his own money and then calls a town meeting tovote on whether or not the town should install it. Though some dissent, a majority vote approvesthe motion. After the lamp arrives, Jody puts it on display for a week, and it becomes a source of   pride for the whole town. He organizes a big gathering for the lighting, complete with guestsfrom surrounding areas and a feast. The party is a huge success, full of ceremony and dignity.

Afterward, Janie hints that she wants to spend more time with Jody now that he has done somuch work. He replies that he is just getting started.  Jody grows apart from the rest of the townand they envy his new luxury lifestyle. 

Atmosphere 

The atmosphere of the story is a flashback in southern part of America. It reflects the charterers¶

 personality also the story of novel. The time and date also affect the event of what happens.

Character

Jody Starks - Janie¶s second husband. Becomes mayor and grows further from the towns a

 person he starts to treat Janie as another person and their marriage deteriorates.

Jannies Grandama ± only wants the best for Janie but decides to have aan enraged marriage

Theme 

Black Autonomy

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One of the most politically notable aspects of Their Eyes were Watching God, a decidedly

apolitical novel, is the concept of black autonomy.

Lover dose not always trimpuhe

Always marry for love in the novel the protangisnt was not happy in her first Margie but happier 

in the next one.

Setting

The story takes place in southern town about in the time after slavery this is shown from the

events in the novel. It relates to the theme because Maggie was more of a sacrest thing then it is

today.

Other

PlotAs the years pass, Janie gets more weak. She slowys becomes more like jody doing his will Sheconsiders running away but doubts that she can find place of safety anywhere, feeling that shehas grown unattractive. She feels her spirit detach from her body; she watches herself work at thestore and submit to Janie lives with Jody for years in resigned silence. She gets no emotionalsupport from Jody, and his wealth and the possessions he gives her are of no comfort. EventuallyJanie loses her temper and stands up to Jody in the store. She confronts him saying that he shouldstop pointing out how old she is all the time and maybe comment on himself once and a while.Janie points out that if he had listened to her before and had seen a doctor, he wouldn¶t be dyingright now. He never listened to her and never knew her through their twenty years of marriage.

Janie confesses that he¶s not the man she ran away with. All she wanted was to make a home for him, Jody dies trying to rebuke her. The community puts on a grand funeral for Jody. She is nowwealthy qaand attractive a trophie for any man Janie revels in her freedom. One day, the wholetown leaves to attend a baseball game in Winter Park, including Hezekiah. Janie tends to thestore by herself. Eventually we learn the stranger¶s name is Vergible Woods, but he goes by TeaCake. Though Janie is cautious, she finds herself very comfortable around him, as if she hasknown him her whole life. hough Janie is obviously unhappy with Logan, she has a few reasonskeeping her from just ditching him for Joe. First of all, Nanny wanted her to marry Logan.Secondly, it¶s nice and all that Joe would bring a new, unimaginable kind of life, but she alsodoesn¶t imagine having pear tree blossom love with him either. The day before Joe leaves town,he assures her that he wants to make a proper wife out of her; he doesn¶t just want to haul her off 

like a rogue. After all, Joe assures Janie that he¶s "uh man wid principles."He promises to comedown the road beyond the gate the next morning and if she wants to come, she¶ll meet him andthey¶ll run away together .That night in bed, Janie considers the opportunity. When she tries totalk with Logan, he keeps blabbering about how grateful she should be to have him, consideringher parentage and all that. Then she poses to Logan a hypothetical situation to ask him what he¶ddo if she ran away. Though it strikes a powerful fear in Logan, he scoffs at her and says no manaside from him is foolish enough to want her. The next morning, they argue. While Janie¶smaking breakfast, Logan starts yelling at her to help him move a manure pile. She refuses,

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saying she¶s in her place (the kitchen or home) and he¶s in his (working outdoors).Loganresponds, claiming that her place is where he wants her. Jnie¶s had enough of Logan and she tellshim that he hasn¶t done her a favour by marrying her. To top it off, she doesn¶t care at all for hissixty acres. Enraged, Logan calls her spoiled, thinks that she looks down on him because she wasraised in a white household, and says that her mother and grandmother weren¶t hardworking.

And, he threatens to kill her with an axe.

* (important for theme )Pheoby talks to Janie about how she might want to consider marrying, but Janie tells her friend that she¶s not staying single because she misses Joe; she just loves her freedom. Janie doesn¶t care if the whole town knows how she feels.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere of the story is very fast, strong, and questionable. Gossip, God, and an air of 

serenity control

Character

Tea cake ± is a charming young man who Janie feels comfortable with

Setting

The setting takes place in Florida

Plot

Janie, completely in love with Tea Cake, is overwhelmed by the rich, fertile fields of theEverglades. Tea Cake is familiar with life in the muck and immediately gets them settled before

the season¶s rush of migrant workers arrives. He plans to pick beans during the day and playguitar and roll dice at night. As the season begins, Tea Cake and Janie live a comfortable life.They plant beans, Tea Cake teaches Janie how to shoot a gun, and they go hunting together. Sheeventually develops into a better shot than he.

She and Tea Cake get married. Janie doesn¶t tell Tea Cake about the two hundred dollars she has brought with her, at Pheoby¶s urging, just in case things don¶t go well. After being married for aweek, Janie wakes up to find Tea Cake gone. This doesn¶t alarm her terribly because he had saidearlier that he was planning on going fishing. Hours pass and Tea Cake doesn¶t return. ThenJanie discovers her secret stash of $200 is missing. The image of an Eatonville widow namedMrs. Tyler jumps to Janie¶s mind. Mrs. Tyler was courted by a young tramp named Who Flung

who promised to marry her, then left her penniless in a strange town. Tea Cake eventually comeshome that night, serenading her with a guitar and his voice. He assures her that he¶s very much inlove with her. He¶s know plenty of women, but she¶s the only woman he ever even consideredmarrying. He tells a relieved Janie that he did indeed take her two hundred dollars. He had never had so much money in his life before and decided to put on a party. He partied with all therailroad hands and spent all but twelve dollars of the two hundred. In his defense, he says hewanted to come back and bring Janie, too, but was scared that she wouldn¶t want to mingle with

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such common people. Janie assures him otherwise and demands that she¶s not left out of theaction in the future.

Tea Cake assures his wife that they¶ll go try their luck farming in the Everglades once herecovers. As he falls asleep, Janie feels a "self-crushing love" for him.

Janie and Tea Cake arrive in the Everglades and Tea Cake immediately finds employment with

the "right folks" ± those who plan to plant a lot of beans. Then they acquire a house, which is

really a shack for migrant workers, but Janie makes it a home.

Mrs. Turner, a funny-looking, conceited woman, talks all the time about the evils of black  people. She loves whiteness and argues that black people are lazy and foolish She dislikes thedark-skinned Tea Cake and wants Janie to marry her light-skinned brother.

Atmosphere

The atmosphere dighltful and filled joy as Janie and tack emboss in there marriage but there is jealousy among her and tea cake as a young woman flirts with tea cake.

Setting

The setting takes place in Everglades

Theme

love can be found any where as we can see jannie and tea cake having a big age

difference they still find love in each other 

Another theme is freedom as jannie need to find freedom to find love

Other 

Plot

The chunk beigns with a hurciance hitting the town and teack cake saved jannie life.

Teacake is bite by a dog which infects him with a disease after he gets infect Janie goes to the

doctor to find a cure instead of finding a cure jannie Teacake gets jeouls and starts to question

 jannie and where shes going after words jannie is going. Jannie finds a gun under tea cakes

 pillow iunsted of taking it should twits the abrrle for three blanks giving her time to shoot tea

cake . tea cake goses insane and starts shoot at the third blank jannie shoots him. She gose to trail

right the enxt day The black community¶s anger against Janie is short-lived. They take it out on

Mrs. Turner¶s brother instead, running him out of the µGlades. jannie gives a heartful speech on

her tea cake and how she tried to find love she is found inscont She remembers the fateful day of 

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Tea Cake¶s death and decides that Tea Cake is not dead and will not be until Janie herself dies.

He helped her see her own limits, her own horizon.

Atmosphere

The atmosphere is suspenful and heartfilld on how jannie and tea ckae get into the most climatic

secne in the book 

Character

Jannie ± widow in this section of the novel who is under gerfe that her husband ahs just past

away