Journal #1 ch.1-2 Their Eyes...

The strong and kind hearted woman Janie is shown to be as she is older was greatly influenced by her childhood. Without any parent figures in her life when she was young, her grandmother raised her and taught her many life lessons as she grew into a fine young woman. As she is older other people gossip about her behind her back, but because of the way she was raised, Janie learned to ignore it and to live life the way she was taught to live it. That was to respect yourself. Over all, Janie would not be the strong, powerful woman she is today, without the childhood she had. 

By looking at the writting style, the use of past tense, and the understanding of hardships, one can infer that the narrator is a woman. I percieve this because of the deep understanding the writer has of Janies hardships, that a man simply could not relate to. Like the becoming of a woman as Janie describes. The knowledge the author has about this time in Janie's life could not have been described by a male. Her writting is descriptive and easy to read. She describes things to make the readers feel as if they were in the story. As if we were characters in the story, giving us the emotions the characters are feeling in the book.