Darnell Martin is the director of the film and Zora Neale Hurston is the author of the book Their eyes were watching God. Each portray Janie in many different likes to fit the setting of their own time. This article will do a comparison and contrasted between both the director, author, and the charter Janie. Love, female pride, and social view are a few of the many points that both the director and the author are hitting on but with their own twist.
Love through Janie in theory is suppose to come off as a sweet blessed of innocents. When reading the book, the reader is supposed to feel a sweetness from the main charter to feel pity for her as she develops through life. According to Tracy L. Bealer in her article “The kiss of Memory”: The Problem of Love in Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, one of her vital focal point is the compassion of Janie and her innocents through the connection of nature. This idea is shown in both movie and book and it’s a good visual representation of what Janie uses as an escape from the everyday annoyances of life. In the book and movie, the pear tree is a key symbol for Janie and the book because it supposed to symbol the idea of her elevating from a young lady to a woman. However, in the movie this idea is not strongly accepted with each other. For in the movie Martin uses the …show more content…
Bealer includes the social aspect where because Janie is a black woman that she must stand behind her man and has no say at all. However, she is not concerned the consequence of the social normality. In Hurston’s novel, she fights this idea many times of matrimony with no love. Martin displays this ideology in a comprehensible manner. Janie fights social norms that would normally put her in a place that she refuses to be placed in. Even though Janie does become submissive to Joe after scene in the
Love through Janie in theory is suppose to come off as a sweet blessed of innocents. When reading the book, the reader is supposed to feel a sweetness from the main charter to feel pity for her as she develops through life. According to Tracy L. Bealer in her article “The kiss of Memory”: The Problem of Love in Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, one of her vital focal point is the compassion of Janie and her innocents through the connection of nature. This idea is shown in both movie and book and it’s a good visual representation of what Janie uses as an escape from the everyday annoyances of life. In the book and movie, the pear tree is a key symbol for Janie and the book because it supposed to symbol the idea of her elevating from a young lady to a woman. However, in the movie this idea is not strongly accepted with each other. For in the movie Martin uses the …show more content…
Bealer includes the social aspect where because Janie is a black woman that she must stand behind her man and has no say at all. However, she is not concerned the consequence of the social normality. In Hurston’s novel, she fights this idea many times of matrimony with no love. Martin displays this ideology in a comprehensible manner. Janie fights social norms that would normally put her in a place that she refuses to be placed in. Even though Janie does become submissive to Joe after scene in the