TEWWG Chapter 1-2

When Janie first got to the town people weren't too nice to her. The women sat on the porch and judged her as she walked by. No one except for Pheobe went over and said hi or asked her anything. The rest of them just sat and made jokes about her. I really liked it when Pheobe put them in their place. She basically told them to shut up and stop judging without asking. After Pheobe goes and talks to Janie you find out the full story. Going back to when Janie was a kid you can see that she had a pretty nice upbringing. Although, she was mixed race she still got along with the white kids. In fact she would play with all the white kids and didn't think anything of it. Janie didn't actually know she was black until she was 6 years old when she was shown a picture. The black kids made fun of Janie a lot because they said she lived in the white people's back yard. I couldn't really find any similarities between her childhood and adulthood experiences. She was treated the exact same when she was a kid and she was treated as an outcast as an adult.