Emma Whitesell
Miss Sibbach
AP English
12 December, 2014
Their Eyes Were Watching God’s Rendition The deviation that Zora Neale Hurston and Oprah Winfrey depict from the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God to the movie is highly significant. The people closest to Janie will have a dramatic change in their relationship as well as the true meaning behind the novel. The characteristics and symbolisms Janie had throughout the movie convey how Oprah interpreted the novel. Much divergence between the novel and the movie causes events to change. Zora Neale Hurston’s major theme of Janie’s journey through life becomes overridden by Oprah’s perfect love story. Oprah took all of Janie’s marriages to an extreme level of love. The real expectation …show more content…
The moral fiber becomes completely altered when Janie does not marry Tea Cake during the movie. It makes her moral standard lower because in the era of the 1930’s, women would have never slept or lived with a man prior to marriage. At end of Tea Cake’s days, he turned into the complete opposite of who Janie once madly loved because the rabies took over his whole body. “She was trying to hover him as he closed his teeth in the flesh of her forearm…Janie struggled in that position and pried the dead Tea Cake’s teeth from her arm” (Hurston 184). Zora Neale Hurston made Tea Cake have a dying act of hatred by biting Janie because of the pain and suffering he had to encounter. Oprah wanted the death to have no flaws which makes the scene an exploit of love. She weakened Tea Cake’s physical strength by diminishing it when he got rabies causing him to die. During the hurricane Janie and Tea Cake traveled the distance to get on safer lands, but instead they did not run which makes the hardship absent from the movie. Thus their love drastically changed as well as their actions toward the
Miss Sibbach
AP English
12 December, 2014
Their Eyes Were Watching God’s Rendition The deviation that Zora Neale Hurston and Oprah Winfrey depict from the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God to the movie is highly significant. The people closest to Janie will have a dramatic change in their relationship as well as the true meaning behind the novel. The characteristics and symbolisms Janie had throughout the movie convey how Oprah interpreted the novel. Much divergence between the novel and the movie causes events to change. Zora Neale Hurston’s major theme of Janie’s journey through life becomes overridden by Oprah’s perfect love story. Oprah took all of Janie’s marriages to an extreme level of love. The real expectation …show more content…
The moral fiber becomes completely altered when Janie does not marry Tea Cake during the movie. It makes her moral standard lower because in the era of the 1930’s, women would have never slept or lived with a man prior to marriage. At end of Tea Cake’s days, he turned into the complete opposite of who Janie once madly loved because the rabies took over his whole body. “She was trying to hover him as he closed his teeth in the flesh of her forearm…Janie struggled in that position and pried the dead Tea Cake’s teeth from her arm” (Hurston 184). Zora Neale Hurston made Tea Cake have a dying act of hatred by biting Janie because of the pain and suffering he had to encounter. Oprah wanted the death to have no flaws which makes the scene an exploit of love. She weakened Tea Cake’s physical strength by diminishing it when he got rabies causing him to die. During the hurricane Janie and Tea Cake traveled the distance to get on safer lands, but instead they did not run which makes the hardship absent from the movie. Thus their love drastically changed as well as their actions toward the