Their eyes were watching god was a prevalent and understandable book describing the woman or otherwise feminist actions towards accomplishing that of love through that of others that would allow dreams to be accomplished. This being the only goal or ability that women that had at the time since women had no rights of their own at the time. Although the movie that was created by Oprah Winfrey took away the explicit and formidable details that were necessary for the novel to realize its true potential, some may even say the movie dumbed down the main focus on the Zora Neale Hurston’s representation of a dream at the horizon and a love that is almost impossible to be found. First off, the book contained several symbolic details that were present in Janie’s life and this was necessary for the book to show the way Janie felt and how she reacted to several situations.
For example, “the vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the pear tree but Janie didn’t know how to tell Nanny that She merely hunched over and pouted at the floor this quote details the pear tree that represented Janies sexuality and love with the ones she was with. Though this was not properly represented within Oprah Winfrey and was only seen when she kissed Tommy and was never seen again throughout the movie, an unfortunate loss of an important symbolic piecet As a result, the movie lost very important and rational symbols that showcased the novels main points of how the protagonist feels and changes. Continuing, this is not only prevalent in the use of the pear tree but not full description was represented when she was in Eatonville. This was represented by Peter Gaal-Szabo and his examination on how Janie and Lucy were not only a few women whose character was fully proposed but also the few women who had the inability to be categorized by the items that were defined in Eatonville.
In one quote “For Janie, Eatonville grants similar aspects of social upward mobility to Lucy’si She becomes the “bell cow” for the community, but ultimately it means incarceration into over mythicized middle-class femininity”. A basic representation that discussed the way that Janie could not find her dream though the horizon and for this, she lost most faith in her dreams thanks to Jody, even though the movie did try and cover many of the viewpoints of Janie, it mostly focused on her feelings toward Jody in the movie will regarding her own female mystique in a few scenes. Though, they did cover some of the symbolic feelings that she had when she was dressed all in black in the opening of the town‘s prevalence.
As a result, the book contains many fascinating details which would have been fully represented in the film yet were poorly misguided. Adding on, the book did conduct various outcomes for Janie and her lovers although this was completely focused on how she felt during her relationships, when the plot was fully displayed in the movie. The plot was focused on the way black people were treated and the orders that they lived in at the time. In fact, one character from the novel, was so turned by the radical beliefs in that of a superior race that she even considered them Gods, in one quote she had stated “All Gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped”. A full understanding of how the woman was so twisted by all the events in her life that she actually fell to the belief that she was a feeble morsel to that of power hungry Gods.
This was an immense factor that was required in the movie to showcase the cruelty and physiological problems that surfaced within the time of slavery, As a result, the movie lost a fundamental role in how many of the characters should be portrayed, due to their significance in the representation of this history. In conclusion, the novel created Zora Neale Hurston, describes the hardships and emotional feelings of both the African American mindset at the time, but also the feminist role which had no form of power at the time. However, the movie lacked a lot of the qualities that the novel made so affirmative and fulfilling, and even viewed the very most important words irrelevant, and used a high amount of repetition to the most simplistic phrases that were least significant to the plot of the film. For this purpose the movie was too farfetched and in dignified the novels main points illusive.
