Their Eyes Were Watching God- How It Was Back Then

Their Eyes Were Watching God was during the early 1900’s. The big thing that was going on in this time was the slaves were being freed. This meant that African American’s would have more freedom, and would be able to have more things. The slaves being free had a big affect on everybody. The African American’s would never be the same, but in a good way. As years go on they would get more and more freedom. The whites were still always against the African Americans, and never really wanted anything to do with them. The whites also never really trusted African Americans back then. There were places that only whites could go in, and there were also cities and towns that only white people could live in. We saw this in Their Eyes Were Watching God, when Janie and Jodi moved to a town just for blacks to be the mayors. There were no whites, and it was not because they were not allowed, it was because they did not want to be there. I always have wondered what the African Americans were really thinking back then. Did they really care? I think that they did, and they got their feelings hurt every day. If African Americans back then saw how it was now, I think they would be pretty jealous, but at the same time mad. They would be mad because they would wish that it would have been the same way back then. Things have changed a lot since then, and definitely for the better. Whites are around African Americans all of the time. We live in the same towns together now, we can eat at the same restaurants, and most importantly we can stand to be around each other and treat each other good. Sometimes I wish we could go see how it really was back then, and go through all that they had to go through. I am glad it is much better now.