Their Eyes Were Watching God, Chapter Eleven.

Janie is pretty much inlove with Tea Cake already, so he is always welcome. He starts helping her out alot at the store, he makes bread, plays the gutiar, and fries fish. One day he starts coming Janie's hair, and tells her to look in the mirror so she can see that she is a very pretty person.

Janie wasn't sure that she could trust Tea Cake, and he is afraid that he is going to lose her. The two sit and talk about their age different, and then he ends up leaving. Janie spends the next day thinking about him. Tea Cake is gone forthe next four days and this really makes Janie mad. He returns sometime later, and tells her that he has been working so that he has enough money to take her to the Sunday School picnic. Janie then thinks that he is only inviting her to be polite, but he assures her that he isn't.

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Chapter Ten.

Pretty much everyone in town went to a baseball game when Mr. Vergible Woods, (a.k.a. Tea Cake) arrives at Janie's store. He was on his way to the baseball game too, but realized that he was in the wrong town. So he just stays to visit with Janie. Janie and Tea Cake click instantly. Hes a tall, happy young man and they end up playing checkers, and he teachers her how to play. He walked her home after that.

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Chapter Nine.

Janie didn't really even seem to care about Joe's funeral. Alot of people attend, even from neighboring towns. She goes to the funeral like a good wife, but she hides all her true feelings. Like the way it should be, she doesn't feel any pain or loss from his death.

The first thing that Janie does afer Joe dies, is that she burns all the headrags that he made her wear. Other than that she doesn't really do anything. She keeps the store open with help from other people of the town. Now she can do anything she wants, talk to whom ever, sit on the poarch and join in conversation, whatever she would like.

Janie has a ton of things that she can do, but alls she wants to do in enjoy the freedom that she finally has.

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Chapter Eight.

 Joe and Janie's hopeless relationship is pretty much done. Joe moved out of their bedroom and his illness was getting worse and worse. He wouldn't let Janie take care of him either, shocker huh? He wouldn't go see a doctor either. Janie gives it one last shot and gets a doctor for her dying husband, but it is pretty much too late and his kidneys failed and he died.

Even though Joe doesn't want her in his room, she goes to his bedside and gives her a piece of his mind. Joe doesn't like the though of him dying, but there really isn't anything that either of them can do.

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Chapter Seven.

Janie's pretty much pointless and disappointing marriage goes on, for some odd years.

17 years have passed and Joe is aging alot. Janie really isn't. His personality also gets worse as he ages. He is also slowly dying of kidney failure. All of the anger that he has built up, he contiunes to take out on Janie. One of the days he even freaks out on her and tells her she can't play croquet because it iwas "game for young folks."
 

Joe's symptoms consist of getting smaller, back problems and more anger. His verbal abuse towards Janie becomes worse. The town folks even see that he is acting more hostel towards her. All along in their marriage Joe is never afraid to insult Janie infron of everyone. She usually just takes it and move on, but since Joe is getting older he is even more bitter. On this day, Janie fights back, infront of the poarch sitters. Joe ends up hitting her, and makes her leave the store.

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Chapter Six.

The people take their seats on the poarch as usual, to sit and judge pretty much anyone or anything that passes by. They are all sitting on the poarch of Joe's store. The topic of the day is how Matt Bonner mistreats his yellow mule.

They accuse Matt of overworking and not feeding the animal. Janie listens to the people talk about this, and she its pretty amused. She has things that she wants to say too, but of course Joe won't let her.

One of the lazy afternoons, some of the people start a game of teasing the mule. The mule of course fights back, which is what they want. Janie is really bugged by this, and she tells them how she feels. Joe acctually buys the mule, and it becomes the town pet. The mule dies of old age, and  they have a mock funeral service for it. Janie is not allowed to go to the funeral.

 

Janie's life is pretty much just like the mules. Her whole life she is tormented by people, and her life gets better when she goes with Joe, but after awhile her freedom dies off.

Joe discovers one day that a bill of shipment has been misplaced, and a desired item is not in stock. He freaks out at Janie, and shes tires to fight back, but like usual Joe wins and Janie just gives up. And once again, Joe is satisfied.

A day later on something goes wrong in the kitchen, and Joe slaps Janie. At this point in time, Janie knows that their marriage is never going to be what she wants. All she can do is pretend that she is happy.

Joe then goes on to help Mrs, Tony. He is really nice and kind towards her, and Janie doesn't see why he can't treat her that way. The poarch sitters even see this, and they also see that Janie puts up with Joe's crap, and he just doesn't realize it.

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Chapter Five.

Chapter five starts out with Joe and Janie on the train. He didn't really talk to her, but he bought her alot of stuff though, mostly little things. Like a jar of candy for example. He mostly talked about his plans for the new town.

Janie looked at him, and her personality and she liked him, and knew that the town was going to need someone like him to succeed. When they got off the train they found a buggy to carry them over to the town.

It was early afternoon when they got there, and Joe wanted to walk around. They locked arms and walked around the town. He was very jugdemental about all of the houses, and the town. They were both really dissapointed of the small little city.

Two men were sitting under a huge oak tree and were starting at him. Joe and them sat and talked for awhile. Janie's life with Joe starts out pretty good. As i said before, they are both dissapointed in the town, but they have a tons of ideas of things that they want to do. He finds them a place to live, and starts out planning everything.

All of the people of the town are really impressed of Joe and all of the stuff that he is doing. Joe picks a house for a month and they settle in. Joe then gets the people together and they pick the name Eatonville for their town. This is in honor of Captin Eaton, one of the land donors.

Joe decides because 50 acers is not enough land for a town so he buys 200 mores acers. When he is gone some of the try and talk to Janie, but she doesn't really talk back to him.

Joe starts working on all his prjects quickley. He builds a post office, and a crossroads store.

He also starts selling off land to the people that want to live in his town. When the new store is complete, he has a party. At the party, Joe has a speach, and he wouldn't ket Janie say anything. He ends of getting the position of elected mayor.

Joe later tells Janie that she must work in his store. Janie starts complaing because the streets are too dark, so Joe gets a street light put in. After that he has a big barbecue. And he is of course the first one to light the lamp.

Janie still has her long dark hair at this time, with ribbons in it. He makes Janie hide her hair under rags when she is working because he doesn't want anyone else touching it. This is when Janie realizes that she no long has any power against Joe.

No one in the town can tell how unhappy Janie is. The town keeps growing, and growing and Joe builds a huge house for him and Janie. This makes the women of the town love Janie even more. She starts getting hte feelings like she did when she was a schoolgirl, being different, not fitting in, being ignored.

The person that does keep her motivated is Pheoby Watson. One day the poarch sitters were out on Joe's porach and they see some of the things that Joe does to Janie, and they start to wonder.