Their Eyes Were Watching God Reflection

The book I read was Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.This book is about a feminist girl who stands up for her rights and doesn't let anyone tell her what to do. Janie grew up with white people she didn't know she wasn't white until she saw a photo of herself and saw that everyone around her was white except her. She also had a problem with Logan because Logan would always want to take her voice away and not let her speak. Some important characters were Janie ( the main character), Logan ( Janie’s first husband) and Tea ( Janie’s third husband). Janie is the main character is African American but she grew up with the whites so she always thought she was white until she took a picture with her friends and she discover she was …show more content…
She didn’t know what racism was because she was young. She only found out she was black was when she was looking over pictures and saw she was the only black one and the rest of them were white. Also her Nanny caught her and Logan kissing but she didn’t know it was a problem but her Nanny did because she was black and he was white. Nanny would always tell her to get herself a good hard working man that would respect her. Janie was a strong women that could do anything if she set her mind to it. She loves to break stereotypes.
Around the middle of the book was when Joe tried to take Janie’s voice but knowing Janie she wouldn’t let anyone take her voice away. Janie was really good at standing up for herself and during the middle of the book she was a proud women who stood up for her rights. But at this time it was really hard to do that because all the men wanted the power and wouldn’t let the women take it. To show that men didn’t value women as much as they did to men was when they compared the women to mules. The women's power was taken away from the when they tried to stand up for