Journal Entry 1

   In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Nora Neale Hurston, I read chapters one through four and learned that Janie, the main character has physical beauty and money. Other women think that that men are after her because of the money she holds. The women on the porch gossip about Janie because of her previous relationship with a man name Tea Cake.
"What he done wid all her money?-Betcha he off wid some gal so young she ain't even got no hairs" (Hurston)
This quote is an example from chapter one where they see Janie. One of the woman's says that Tea Cake is probably with a really young lady instead of Janie. Phoeby a friend of Janie goes over to Janie's house and see how she is doing she also brings rice to eat.
 I noticed that Janie compares her life with a tree. "Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things sufferd, things enjoyed, things done and undone." (Hurston)
Janie's life is like a tree because each leaf is a moment in a life. And each leaf has a purpose in her life.
In chapter two Janie's grandmother thinks she should get married, and with a white man. His name is Logan Killicks. But Janie has dought that she will love Logan because it was a prearranged marriage. Nanny wants Janie to marry a black man because she states that, "De nigger woman is de mule uh world so fur as Ah can see" (Hurston). The quote means that woman are used for labor in the world like a mule. and Nanny doesn't want to see Janie in that situation, she wants to see her in a good life and wealth. And those aspects comes with a white man.
  In chapter three Janie got married with Logan in Nanny's parlor. Janie has fear that she wont ever love Logan but she says to her self that the love will show up naturally, because that's how marriages are there is always love in them. But Janie still doesn't love Logan. Logan makes Janie work in the field, and manual labor wasn't supposed to happen to Janie. But their wealthy anyways.
   In chapter four Janie starts putting up an attitude towards Logan, he is making her work and she doesn't want to do hard labour. Logan thinks it is because Janie is spoiled. That day Logan leaves to buy a mule and leaves Janie by her self. Jane than notices a good looking man by the name of Joe Starks. And I believe that its love at first sight because they both has a physical appeal for each other. Joe asks Janie to call him Jody, And after two weeks of flirting with each other Jody asks Janie that a woman like her need to be treated like a wife not a mule and he suggest that Janie leave Logan and go with him instead. That night Janie and Logan have an argument about their relationship. And on that night Janie makes her decision and decides to leave Logan that morning and she meets up with Jody and they both flee to Florida to a city controlled by colored folks like them.