Were Watching God Motifs

In the book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, there are many of Motifs in the story in the community, the different races and racism, and lastly in folklore and religion. In this prompt I will be going over the motifs in the communities. For example, in the beginning of the story, it starts as Janie in her childhood living with her grandmother (nanny) and living with her cousins. One day Janie realizes she is a colored person and she is treated differently, even in her childhood because all the other colored kids dress differently then her. Janie was envied during her childhood because she is treated like a white person and dresses differently than the other colored kids who are probably not as lucky as her. Later on in the story, when Janie grows up and gets married with Logan Hilicks. In the beginning, Janie doesn’t really love Logan but her grandma tells her that she will learn how to love him along the way. Time passes and Janie’s Nanny dies. Janie is unhappy and lonely with her relationship. After, Logan wants to make Janie work outside in the …show more content…
Janie runs away and goes to live with Joe in a town called Eatonville. Janie is very happy at that time but after Joe is elected mayor of Eatonville, he acts like the boss and doesn’t really want anybody to see Janie. But eventually, Joe makes Janie work at the store he makes in the town and janie is always so busy she doesn’t have time for anything so she is also unhappy with this relationship. As said in the book “She wasn’t petal-open anymore with him. She was twenty-four and 7 years married when she knew. (Their Eyes Were Watching God, Pg. 70). This meant that she fell out of love with Joe after he strikes her, and her current relationship isn’t described as the pear tree love. She is no longer open to tell him everything after his violence towards her and her love has