Their eyes were watching god chapters 7-17

Starting in chapter 7, Joe Starks is continuing to belittle Janie and she is feeling like her marriage to Joe is dieing and so she becomes less and less communicative to others and Joe. But Janie does something very brave and insults Joe in front of his friends on the porch, so that makes him feel like his masculinity was stripped of him. He hits her and makes her go home. As the story moves on she continues to argue with Joe and he decided to sleep in another room for the rest of the marriage, he did still love her, but wanted her not to know that. Janie feels that her marriage is getting worse and called upon her best friend Pheoby to discuss her problems. Joe is getting Ill and ill er, and without his permission,Janie had a friend send for a doctor from new Orleans. The doctor had told Joe and Jane that he has kidney failor and don't have much time to live. He don't allow Janie to come into his "sick room",but she disobeys him anyway and goes in. They argue more and she told him that she never had a chance to show what she could do because he didn't give her opportunity to. He eventually dies, and she feels sad, but also free from him. She lets her hair down out of the head rag and feels freer than ever. So the funeral happened, she then over the few months later men started coming around. There was one man, Tea Cake, he swept her off her feet and eventually she closed and sold the store, left with Tea Cake, married him, and made a home on the muck with him in the everglades.For a while things were good until Mrs. Turner showed up and told her she needed to leave Janie's husband and marry her brother.Janie realizes she is "IN LOVE" for the first time and she loves him just as she use to love to sit under the pear tree at her Nanny's. He even taught her to shoot better than her with a gun. She loved the everglades and it was so exciting, work in the day, play at night.
Tea Cake and his buddies, but Janie wasn't allowed to go to Mrs. Turners restaurant for some fun and a fight breaks out. Finally Mrs. Turner, who thinks she is more white than black, got mad and said she is going to Miami where people are civilized, unlike here in the everglades.

Their eyes were watching god chapters 1-6

Janie crawford was walking down the road toward her home in coveralls and all the porchsitters were gossiping because she isnt wearing fancy clothes and why she wouldnt say anything to them, even a hi how you doing. Some of the porch sitters even thought she was high and mighty, self- centered. Her best friend Pheoby Wilson finally got upset with all the gossip and took Janie her supper. In chapter 2 she , referring to Janie, reminessed to some flashbacks of when she was young and living with her "nanny", who had raised her from a wee little thing. her parents wasnt around so she could not remember her mother and father. one day she was caught kissing Johny Taylor through her nannys fence and her nanny told her it was time for her to be married and to Logan Killicks.Janie begged but her nanny seen to it that she married him. Her nanny told janie that one day she would fall in love with him.she never did.
In the 3rd chapter she doubted and asked about how to love and when will i love him. Her nanny was very protective over her, Janie that is .Janie felt that she had failed all who loved her and the things she loved also. Finally she realized that love dont make a marriage and she was forced to grow up even more than before. In chapter 4, Janie felt as if and knew that she was not being treated like a new bride so she got upset about that and one day Logan Killicks told her, Janie that no man would want you, take care of you or feed you and that was the last straw, she hung up her apron, and left to go to florida with Joe Starks.They made a small town into a big town and at first Joe treated her well. Eventually she was told what to do and not allowed to speak much. Joe Starks was jealous over other men staring at his wife,Janie. She hated being stuck running the store and post office and also hated having to keep her hair up in a head rag.
Joe had bought a mule from Matt Bonner and it lived a peacefull life and when the mule died,Joe denied Janie from going to the funeral and said you dont do things "normal" people do.Finally the insults got so bad from Joe to Janie that one day Joe said,"you need to told what to do because she is no smarter than a chicken or a cow".When supper one night didnt turn out right, Joe slapped her across the face and she finally realized that the marriage was over and that he wasnt what she wanted in a husband. Also when a lady asked for money to feed her children and he gave her a small piece of pork she complained that it was too small, she left the store and all the porch sitters made fun of the lady.Janie got mad and spoke out, Joe told her she was getting too mouthy.
The dialect and voice used was hard at first to understand, but when you read on more and more the wordings were easier to understand. So far this is a VERY interesting and involved story that i would recomend everyone read, it puts some reality of life back then and helps understand what the colored people had to deal with and without throughout their lives.