Journal #5 Their Eyes Were Watching God

Mini Pastiche, written as a new scene in The Handmaid's Tale 

It was then Offred thought of Life. Life, the simple trickster with outstanding omnipresence who resided in all who were worthy. Itself a fallacy for some, being contained in the beating heart of all, even when on of the all did not have a heart for it to be contained in. Why should Life be contained to which only had a heart, and what can truly stop her? She is overseeing all in who she in contained in. She waits patiently as she is watching for a sign to dive into a being and make it become her, and swiftly move out and be foul at the same time. She had been here all the time there was a time and a time to be told. Any moment now she would see a revelation of Life. She was sad for Janine though. Poor Janine! She should not have to give this life than have it stripped away from her. She tried to send in Ofglen to comfort her, but Janine said No. The Aunts were used to the Holy births, but they weren't used to a case like hers, if only they knew. Janine would be alright as soon as the Driver who did this was put to justice. She wasn't going to fail. At least that's what she thought. But Ofglen knew differently, so Offred knew differently. And if she hadn't, it would have been apparent by the gathering of all at the ritualistic Salvagings. People would soon look at her with a new face as no longer being the bearer of life, but the bearer of the Unbaby. They just had to sit around long enough until they could enter the gates of the dome. Anticipation, the savage sign of want, was now in the eyes of all at the Birth. 

This is suppose to be a dramatization of a birth in The Handmaid's Tale. Janine is about to give birth to a child declared an 'Unbaby' as the other Handmaids and Wives wait for the child to come. Life and Anticipation are the two abstract ideas. Life is a 'trickster' because the baby will soon be declared an Unbaby because of complications of birth. Life makes its move into a new child, only with the unknown messenger giving the right signal, then goes in and out to play a trick on the Republic of Gilead. This can relate to Death in the selected passage because it is what is about to come, but cause a great change in the society the characters live in. Then, Anticipation is spoken of as if it is the way we know we as humans want something at the core of our savage being. The Anticipation can be linked back here into the Wives' want for children (a selfish want in their case) and the Rumor in Their Eyes Were Watching God consumes the townspeople in the same way.