The Love Story In Weaver's A Gravestone Made Of Wheat

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In Will Weavers, “A Gravestone Made of Wheat”, Weaver focuses on the love story of Inge and Olaf. Ali Selim’s film, Sweetland, also focuses on the message of short story, maybe even more so the love that Inga and Olaf share. They both cover the same story of a woman who comes to America from Germany, for freedom and to marry someone she has never met. The man and woman struggle with finding someone to grant her citizenship, since the war just ended and she is of German nationality. Ultimately she never gets citizenship, never marries Olaf, but even though the church never married them, they feel married in their hearts, and for them that is enough. Typically when directors change important details in movies it may compromise the message, but the way Selim changes details really helps emphasize the main message of the short story. Weaver also makes great choices in the way he writes to portray how Olaf feels about Inge, so both the story and the movie work for the same message, love conquers all. The movie does an outstanding job …show more content…
He first appears when he and Olaf go to meet and get Inge from the train station when she first gets to America. In the morning when Olaf and Frandsen show up to get her, because of Inges lack of English, she thinks she is going to marry Frandsen, who she thinks is Olaf. Frandsen also plays a big part in the film when Inge can’t get citizenship; Frandsen lets Inge stay with him and his hectic family. Selim included this character because it shows compassion and loyalty towards Olaf. In the end of the movie, Frandsen and his family are unable to pay their mortgage and Olaf wins the auction on Frandsens house. He bet and won the house for Frandsen, even though he doesn’t have the money, because their friendship means so much to Olaf. Selim did this to show the kind and caring side of Olaf, that the viewers don’t necessarily get to see through all of his silence and

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