Their Eyes are Watching God Chapters 16-18

In these chapters, there are many people fleeing Everglades to search for safety. At first it is a group of Indians that are leaving, and when Janie asks, they say that there is a hurricane coming and they are trying to get away. Then, Janie notices that most of the people around her are leaving, including some animal flocks. Tea Cake decides that he wants to stay behind, so him and the rest of the stragglers all join together at Tea Cake's house and have a party to wait for the storm to hit. When everyone else goes home to weather the storm, a man named Motor Boat stays with Janie and Tea Cake. The narrator says the "their eyes are watching God" as we are reading about them staying together as the storm worsens. They know that everything is out of their hands now, so all they can do is sit and trust that God will protect them. This just stands for how in life, there is only so much you can actually do, and the rest is up to God. All throughout the book, Janie is going through a sort of storm her own self because she has everyone around her giving her opinions and making her do things, but then she has her own idea of what should happen also, and when you put everything together it just stands for confusion. Now Janie needs to just live her life and "go with the flow" and realize that when it all comes down to it, God will lead her in the right direction, and choose her fate.