– In the opening chapter, Janie is returning home from a long journey (we don’t yet know from where). How do townspeople react to her? Compare and contrast this experience to the one she recounts about growing up playing with the Washburn children in Chapter 2.

The towns people react negatively to her upon her return, they become suspicious of her and start judging her immediatly. In her early childhood before she new she was colored she fit right in with the white children and they accepted her. This is an interesting contrast because the ppl of the town she lives in are colored like her yet they don't accept her in the same way the white children did, infact they sit back and judge her and spread gossip.