Their Eyes Were Watching God: Summary

Their Eyes Were Watching God: Summary

A caterpillar crawls along a desolate branch. His many appendages grip

the gray bark as he undulates his body along the path in the shade. Creeping

steadily forward he is looking for the proper place suitable enough for him to

change his identity. Upon finding a twig sprout where he can get bilateral

support, he builds his cocoon. After his cocoon is finished the caterpillar

crawls in for his metamorphosis. If one is to see a cocoon on a tree it does

not resemble beauty, it is a bland piece of wound thread like material with a

hole in the top. When one sees a butterfly they may look twice or stop what

they are doing all together and chase it around following each of their sporadic

movements as the hot sun illuminates and watches from above. Identity has

changed. What once was a little ugly caterpillar that kids would go around

squishing and people would flick from trees when given the chance, went on to be

an ignored sack secured to branch. Nobody pays attention to the fact that

beautiful butterflies are the results of these common eyesores. As the

caterpillar grew older it matured and changed, from being stuck on land to

airborne, from being ugly to beautiful, from being young to old. All living

things mature, all things change, wherever time is a variable identities are

changing. Janie is no different from these things, she too has a changing

identity that can be traced throughout four...