About my re-write and idea

      To make a good re-write, I have thought a lot and I fanally got a novel from a collection of short stories that deal with colonial period of Korea from 1910 to 1945. In 1924, the novel was written by Jin-Kun Hyun, a Korean novelist. The novel’s title is ‘a lucky day’ and the novel treats a story about an ordinary family that is under the control of the colonization by Japan, and it tells us about their daily life at that time. Also, the novel reflects how many Koreans suffered under Japan through the life of the ordinary family, and it mirrors how seriously many Koreans lived under repression by Japan and why they could not say their piece. Before I start to re-write the novel, I think there is no English version of it, so I am going to give you a brief story of it.

      In 1924, when Korea was totally dominated by Japan, there was a family that represents pain of all Korean family. Here is four main characters called Mr. Kim, Kim’s wife, their baby, and Kim’s friend.

 

      There is a man who called ‘Mr. Kim’ and pulls a rickshaw. It is his only job and it was not suitable to have a stable income. Right now, all he can do is to just pull a rickshaw. Yes… the man cannot make money a lot. Because of the influence of the colonization by Japan, it is really hard for all head of household in Korea to get a job and make money. Most Koreans are abandoned into icy ground by Japan except for some Koreans who support the nation ‘Japan’. To make things worse, he has a sick wife and a newborn baby, but Kim cannot support living expenses at all because pulling a rickshaw cannot make him earn money. He makes money about only five dollars per day. Because he cannot give his family something to eat, his wife goes wrong more and more. One day in pouring rain. His wife particularly stops him from going out to make money, but he shakes her hand off violently. He makes more money than usual, perhaps from the pouring rain, so he meets his friend in an inn and drinks a raw rice wine with him, and he pays for the wine. He thinks today is so lucky day. But, after a while, he is oppressed with his sick wife and baby. So he buys a bowl of stock soup of bone and stew meat because his wife has longed to eat a bowl of the soup for a long time. He has a spring to his step because he is hooked on the idea of giving the gift to her. However, he get home, and he witness his dead wife and his baby who sucks at his dead mother’s breast…

      This novel reflects all Korean families that suffered from hunger and living. The title of the novel is ironic because it was not truly a lucky day to him. In addition, the novel has an omniscient narrator, so I will re-write the novel through Kim’s viewpoint because I think he is the perfect man to express a person who is in a pressure cooker and it is appropriate to show colonial theory by using the character.