Janie Crawford’s School of Hard Knocks in Their Eyes Were Watching God :: Their Eyes Were Watching God Essays

Janie Crawfords School of Hard Knocks in Their Eyes Were Watching God      Janie Crawford evolving selfhood through three marriages.  Fair-skinned,long haired, dreamy as a child, Janie grows up expecting better treatment thanshe gets.  Living sprightliness as one mans mules or another mans adornment.  Janie isone black woman who does not have to digest in lost sorrow, bitterness, fear, orfoolish romantic dreams, for Janie has learned two things everybodys got tuhdo fuh theyselves.  They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out aboutlivin fuh themselves.  Janie Crawford is better off at the end of the novalTheir Eyes Were Watching God.      Janie is confused when she was a young woman.  The noval explains her lifeas a young girl. Her mother left her when she was really young.  Janie nevermet her.  Her granny explains that her master raped her, Den, one night ahheard de big funs boomin lak thunder.  It kept up all night. And de nextmorin Ah could see uh big ship at a distance and a great stirrin round.  So Ahwrapped mah way on down to de make forin.  The men was all in blue, and Ah heardpeople say Sherman was comin to stomach de boats in Savannah, and all of us slaveswas free.  So Ah run got mah baby and got in quotation wid people and found aplace Ah could stay.  Grandmother was wanting to shake a school teacher out ofJanies mother.  Janie found out that a school teacher rapped her mother so shenever met her father either.  Janies mother was seventeen, when she was heavy(predicate) with Janie.  After Janie was born, Janies mother took to drinking alot.  Janies grandmother  raised Janie since she was born, grandmother saysMaybe it wasnt much, but Ah done de best Ah kin by you.  Ah raked and scrapedand bought dis lil piece uh land so you wouldnt have to stay in de white folksyard and tuck yo head befor other chillun at school.  When Ja nie turnedsixteen years of age, her childhood had end with a kiss from a boy namedJohnny Taylor.  Grandmother wanted to see her married at once but Janie did notunderstand what was exit on.  Janie did not feel love for this man or any manat this time but grandmother explains that she is not going to be nearly foreverand she wants to protect her from harm and danger.  Janies life as a youngperson was a hardship she did not understand what purpose in life she has and