Their Eyes Were Watching God: ch 15-20

A lot of things happen in the final chapters of Their Eyes Were Watching God. In chapter fifteen, a young girl named Nunkie starts to flirt with Tea Cake in the fields where they work. Janie notices this, but she tries to ignore it. One day she sees that they are both gone, and she finds them play wrestling on the ground. Tea Cake and Nunkie brush it off as nothing. Nunkie then runs away, and when Tea Cake and Janie return home, Janie tries to beat him. Her beating though soon turns into a more loving fight. They wake up the next morning and laugh about their argument.

The working season ends, so Janie starts to spend a lot of time with Mrs. Turner. Mrs. Turner is black, but she hates black people. She likes Janie because she has long straight hair like a white person. Mrs. Turner hates Tea Cake, so she says that Janie should marry her brother. Tea Cake does not like Mrs. Turner at all.

Soon, Janie finds out that a hurricane is coming. Everyone flees except for Tea Cake, Janie, and a man called Motor Boat. Everything begins to flood, so the three hurry to move on toward Palm Beach. (By the way I lived in WEST Palm Beach, which is obviously by Palm Beach.) They find an abandoned house where Motor Boat decides to stay, but Tea Cake and Janie move on. The couple gets stuck in deep water where they have to swim. Janie sees a cow swim by with a dog on its back. She decides to hold on to the cow as well. The dog starts to attack, so Tea Cake comes and saves her. He gets bit by the dog doing so.

Janie and Tea Cake finally make it to Palm Beach safely. They see that a lot of their friends have survived.

After awhile they decide to go back to the Everglades. While there, Tea Cake becomes ill. A doctor says that the dog that bit him probably had rabies, and that there is little chance of Tea Cake getting any better. Tea Cake soon becomes very paranoid. He keeps a gun under his pillow with three bullets, which scares Janie. She moves the barrel so that it has to go through the three empty slots before it gets to the three bullets.

One day, Tea Cake becomes very upset with Janie and tries to shoot her. Janie grabs the shot gun, and before Tea Cake could fire a real shot at her, she shoots and kills him. Janie feels terrible for killing Tea Cake. She gets put on trial, but is found innocent by the all white jury.

Janie returns to Eatonville and tells Pheoby of her story. We are now back at the beginning of the book. Janie has found peace and says that Tea Cake has helped her find the horizon, and now she is back from it.