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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
by Fannie Flagg
The movie is my favorite so I had to read the book.
Spoiler: the movie and the book are vastly different in several areas.
What the book did well: Idgie and Ruth's love was more clearly defined. They're partners, in business and in love. They love each other, raise Buddy Jr together, and live together. It's truly beautiful in its unspokenness but I also wish there was more. It was also nice to read something that feels like a time capsule for 2 different eras of society in America, and that was interesting. I think I really like that the 20-40's were around when my great-grandmother was growing up, and the 60s-80s were when my grandma and her siblings were growing up. & The end made me cry multiple times!
What the book did not do well: I read the n-word way too many times. I really didn't love how black people were portrayed at times in this book either. The writer clearly is commenting on social injustice and does it in some ways that do work, but I felt some of the language and contexts overshadowed the message sometimes.
I have to say, I appreciate how the director of the movie stuck to the important parts of the book and kind of crafted an Idgie I had imagined. Doesn't say the n-word, does right by all, is loving and rambunctious and loyal. The movie is really a lot of the necessary bits of the book with a great flow. And I'm glad the director let Ninny and Evelyn have a longer friendship and that she didn't die.
Spoiler: the movie and the book are vastly different in several areas.
What the book did well: Idgie and Ruth's love was more clearly defined. They're partners, in business and in love. They love each other, raise Buddy Jr together, and live together. It's truly beautiful in its unspokenness but I also wish there was more. It was also nice to read something that feels like a time capsule for 2 different eras of society in America, and that was interesting. I think I really like that the 20-40's were around when my great-grandmother was growing up, and the 60s-80s were when my grandma and her siblings were growing up. & The end made me cry multiple times!
What the book did not do well: I read the n-word way too many times. I really didn't love how black people were portrayed at times in this book either. The writer clearly is commenting on social injustice and does it in some ways that do work, but I felt some of the language and contexts overshadowed the message sometimes.
I have to say, I appreciate how the director of the movie stuck to the important parts of the book and kind of crafted an Idgie I had imagined. Doesn't say the n-word, does right by all, is loving and rambunctious and loyal. The movie is really a lot of the necessary bits of the book with a great flow. And I'm glad the director let Ninny and Evelyn have a longer friendship and that she didn't die.