Their Eyes Were Watching God!!!

In my Aas 362 class the other day we watched the movie "Their Eyes Were Watching God". It was a great movie and very interesting to watch. It was actually my first time watching it and I loved it. The movie was about a lady by the name of Ms. Janie. Ms. Janie was the wife of the mayor of Eatonville. Eatonville was the first black town to be organized. The only thing that she wanted to do was to feel free and loved and she eventually got what she had been dreaming for her entire life and Tea Cake, which was her lover,  made that possible for her.

While I was watching the movie, it reminded me of all the other articles that we covered in class. The one in particular was "The Colored Girl". In the article it basically told about how people viewed colored girls. They viewed them as "the problem". Janie was viewed as a problem. In a part in the movie when everyone was celebrating about the new mayor, Janie's husband, Janie went to the end of the store and overheard the other women talking about  how she thinks since she's the mayor's wife she didn' t have to help them. Then she overheard the other women at the beginning talking about her and Tea Cake and how he took all her money. Janie even was the problem against her husband. He treated her like she was nothing because other men looked at her. He took the role of a woman being submissive to the extreme and when Janie didn't do as he said he physically abused her. Those women and many others gathered their own ideas about Janie and her marriage, but soon her husband died from a sickness and while he was on his death bed, he wished death on his wife. Janie still didn't care. Through all of the physical abuse and verbal abuse, she stood up and did not care what others said about her and felt, so once she had the chance to be free, she lived it to the fullest.

If more women would be like Janie and stop living up to what people have designed them out to be, then the community would be a greater place for people to find out who they really are. In this movie, Janie showed other women that there is someone out there that will understand them and love them just the way they are. Tea Cake loved her for her. He never undermined her for being a woman and colored. Nor did he make her seem lower than him. Tea Cake was the man that every woman can dream of having.