Movie

Today in class we watched the movie “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” This is about a young black women and the two loves of her life. One was her older husband who was the mayor of the first incorporated all black town in America. The second love was a younger man who entered her life after her husband died.

I found this contrasting of husbands interesting. The older one whom she married gave her everything she could have wanted, but she did not love him in the way she loved the young man. Although the Mayor was wealthy in him own right, he did not let this young woman be who she really was. In fact he sort of beat it out of her and took the “light” out of her eyes. She did conform to his wishes, but it cost him the closeness he would have gotten had he let her be free.

The younger man who came into her life after the death of her husband was carefree, but responsible. The one thing I really liked about him was that he wanted to support her with “his” money not live off the money she was left by the Mayor.

The one thing that sort of messed me up was the way the young man “tea cake” died. He died from rabies. This is a unusual way in which to end a story.

I think that the major point of this story is that being someone we are not yet having everything you want is not as good as being the real you and have nothing but someone who loves you just because you are you!

She wanted to know about livin and lovin and she did find that out through her love of Tea Cake.