their eyes were waching god ch. 3,4

They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged.
This is last paragraph of ch. 4 which refers back to this theme of nature in the book. This also is symbolizing the end of one part of Janie’s life and the beginning of a new part. The night is her getting married to some one she wants to not made to. Janie in this instance is doing what she feels is right for her, something we have not seen so far out of Janie.

their eyes were waching god ch. 1,2

When Janie is returning home from her long the people judge her on the way she appears and the way she just keep walking. They judge her before she has a chance to justify and explain her self. Janie then starts to tell her story to Pheoby. Janie talk about being a kid growing up in a all white house being black and how Janie did not realize she was black and is humiliated by that. The two events are somewhat similar in that both Janie is being the one made fun of. Janie has also set herself up for this judgment made of her because of what she said or did. She should not be judged for both of these events but the sad truth is that she is.

The great migration of the Harlem Renaissance

The great migration of the Harlem Renaissance happed after World War I. Blacks of the south were moving to the north and west to get away from the white domination of the south to a somewhat more accepting north. They were also moving from farms in the south to the factories of the north. The great migration is the trigger for the Harlem
Renaissances. The moves made way for society to grow and experience a type of society that had been superset by the white society of the south.

Cool facts about the great migration of the Harlem Renaissance.
1.5 million Southern blacks moved to cities. During the 1910s and 1920s, Chicago's black population grew by 148 percent; Cleveland's by 307 percent; Detroit's by 611 percent. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=443