Movie Analysis: Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes is about a woman named Ninny Threadgoode telling Evelyn Couch about the past.Evelyn is a woman who doesn’t have self confidence and she gets pushed around. Evelyn and her husband going to the retirement home.Ed goes and sees his relative, while Evelyn goes and sits on a couch. That is when Evelyn meets Ninny. Ninny tells a story about her friend Idgie's past. It starts with Idgie when she was a child refusing to go a wedding, her brother Buddy convinces her to go. After the wedding Buddy, Idgie and a girl Buddy like goes to the bridge that's above railroad tracks. Ruth, the girl Buddy likes loses her hat. Buddy goes and catches the hat but then gets his foot caught on the railroad track as a train was coming. As the movie goes on Evelyn continues to come back to Ninny to listen to more Stories. Ruth and Idgie becomes really close. Tells Evelyn that Ruth got married to a man Frank, he does not treat her right and she was pregnant with his child. Tells her that Idgie took Ruth back with her. Ninny told Evelyn about Idgie and Ruth opening up a cafe named The Whistle Stop Cafe. Evelyn also learned that …show more content…
She has a lot of courage. She know who murdered Frank but she never told. That takes courage, she could have been killed or thrown in jail for holding in that information. Another example of Idgie's being a hero is when she took Ruth away from her abusive husband, Frank. That took a lot of courage, Idgie could have left Ruth to suffer but she did not. She saved Ruth from an abusive life. Finally example of Idgie having great strength is when she saved Big George from the KKK, when they were whipping him. Those are some of the few examples of Idgie being a hero. There are many examples of her being courageous and having great strength. Idgie is the main hero in the movie. She stands up for what she believes in and saves the people she cares about. I do not think Idgie would be the same if her brother was still