Literary Analysis Of 'Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit'

Oranges are not the only fruit literary analysis

By Johan Lindholm Te13A

”Oranges are not the only fruit” is Jeanette Winterson first and most popular book. The book itself belongs to the genre semi-autobiographical, it has some elements of truth in but most of it are fiction. As the book goes along we get to follow the protagonist Jeannette who raised in a strict religious family where everything is either black or white. We get to follow Jeannette's journey where she confronts her own sexuality and struggles with her relationship with her mother and church. My thesis is; the novel oranges are not the only fruit is embracing thinking individually and not to follow others blindly.

First off, Jeannette is not your ordinary child, she was

As a way of treating this illness the church locks Jeannette in the parlor for thirty-six and denies her any sort of food. In her confinement, Jeanette becomes delirious and visualizes the demon that occupies her. Or at least, that is what she thinks. Of course, these hallucinations occurred simply because of the lack of food and her own willing to ”cure herself”. However, the church accepts Jeannette once again. Fast forward a couple of years and Jeannette once again finds herself in a relationship with another girl. Her mother confronts her again but this time, she decides that she wants to move out. Jeannette starts her own life, she starts working at various jobs and eventually she moves out of the city. At this point Jeannette seems to have found her calm, she accepts herself as a lesbian but still comes to terms with her religion. Jeannette has finally become her own person, she no longer is controlled by the consuming church. I think that Jeannette realized that you do not have to follow a certain path to find your relationship with god, just do what you think is right. In the ending of the book Jeannette even seems to be on decent terms with her mother, which strengthens my