In Their Eyes Were Watching God, we meet a girl named Janie. Her mother, Leafy, left her when she was just a baby, so she was raised by her grandmother, who she calls Nanny. They lived in a house in the backyard of a white family that Nanny worked for. When Janie was little she though she was white just like all the other kids she played with and was around all the time. One day a man came by the house and took a picture of all the kids together, and when the pictures were finally printed Janie looked at it and wondered where she was. She knew the spot in which she should appear, but in that place there was a little dark-skinned girl. After she asked who the little color girl was everyone laughed and it was explained to her that the colored girl was in fact her. She couldn't get over the fact that she wasn't white. Up until that point she had always just assumed she was white. I don't understand how she never realized that she had darker skin than the rest of the kids though,. I mean, didn't she ever look down at her hands or legs and realize that they were darker? As time went on, Janie married Logan Killips, Joe, and finally Tea Cake, (who's her latest husband.) After marrying Tea Cake they move to the Everglades and pick beans and cane sugar in the fields. They get a house, and meet many interesting people.
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