Jaehak
11-1
February 6, 2009
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Response#2, pp 72- 139
Response type#3: Connections to other “texts”
When I am done with second parts of the book, Their Eyes Were Watching God remind me of a Korean TV drama which is called Love War. This handles several kinds of illicit love based on real story. So, Love War broadcasts an example of illicit love every time, and then surveyed audiences whether it is possible to divorce in this case or not on end of the drama.
Their Eyes Were Watching God and Love War are not completely same, have some differences. The same element of both stories is main idea that handles illicit love between young and old one. For instance, book depicts love between Janie and Tea cake. At the middle of the part, Janie was lived with second husband who is named Jody. He was the leader of a town of blacks so that he required Janie to act like rich and high social statue woman as well as to stay in the store all the time. What Jody demanding to Janie was blocked Janie’s freedom. Even though Janie used to love Jody in the beginning of marriage, she was tired and hated of Jody’s acting. So, when Jody was dead by cancer, Janie was not sad as well happy to feel that she returned back her freedom. After 9 months, a stranger who is nicknamed Tea cake came to Janie’s store and talked and asked her to play checker. He was the first man who understands and plays what Janie wants. So, Janie suddenly fell in love with him, although townspeople gossiped about her changing mind rapidly. However, as they were happy by understand each other, Janie spent happier time than that of her first and second husband. In the drama, there was basically same thing there. A man was tired of a long marriage with his wife so that he found out fresh love with young woman.
The differences of both stories are position of people and ending of the love. One different is, in the book, a woman who is named Janie was richer and older than a man who is named Tea cake, but, in the drama, the position is opposite. The man was richer and much older than a woman. Another difference is the ending of love. In the middle of the book, as Janie’s second husband was dead, she did not have any problems to make a new husband except for her hometowns’ gossips. However, Janie and Janie’s her third husband, Tea cake, faced to the crisis which Tea cake is bit by crazy dog during hurricane occurred. Tea cake thought that Janie did something in order to kill Tea cake so that Tea cake tried to inject pistol to Janie. But, in order to prevent that, Janie killed Tea cake, which was the end of their relationship. On the other hand, in the drama, even though old man had a wife, he just found out the fresh love with young people. So, unquestionably, the ending was the old man was captured by his original wife, and then he had two choices whether he went back to his family, or he possessed his fresh love by divorce.
By reading Their Eyes Were Watching God, I thought of sad current world. To relate to with some part of the story, nowadays, love between old man and young woman is rapidly increased by money because young woman wants money, and old man wants to release his sexual feeling.
