Within the tale of Janie’s story inside the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she travels back to when she was little, remembering the time she spent with the “white folks” that her grandma worked for living in their backyard in west Florida. During her time their she spent most of it with the children who lived in the place known as the grandchildren of Ms. Washburn. And as time progress Janie inherited their traits. She began to call her grandma, Nanny and acted the same way they did. “Ah was wid them chillun so much till Ah didn’t know Ah wuzn’t white…” (pg. 8) The quote represents Janie’s origin disappearing until she didn’t recognize herself anymore. she believed she wasn’t African anymore connect to the theme of the desire for power
