Viola Vandersluis Period 7 December 20th, 2017 Essay Compare and Contrast: On “The Color Purple” And the book “the bluest eyes.” Here are some of the compare and contrast throughout the movie The color purple and The bluest eye. Inside the book, the character is Pecola Breedlove and Maureen Pearl. Inside the movie, the characters are Shug Avery and Celie. Inside of my essay, I will be talking about how Pecola and Celie feel the same way inside the book and movie. Also how Shug Avery and Maureen first treat the characters and how they see themselves. The first comparison to the book and as well as the movie is. When Shug firsts meet Celie and say “ You sure is ugly.” Celie already knows she is ugly. Or believes …show more content…
( Celie never went to school, her sister helped her learn to read and write.) Between all four of these characters, they all have there similarities and differences. like for example with Shag and Maureen Pearl. Or with Celie and Pecola. Like with Celie and Pecola they both got pregnant by there father. Only one's had a miscarriage. And with Shag she sees herself as a powerful and beautiful rich woman. And even though Maureen instinct as old as Shag she has always seen herself as a powerful and rich girl. There is a similarity with Shag and Pecola. Pecola goes into a church to wish for blue eyes from the soaphead churchman. And Shag’s father is a pastor. So she goes there throughout the movie to see her father. Obviously, something happened between them but the movie doesn't do that well of explaining it. And Pecola always goes to the church to get the blue eyes she wants so she can become “beautiful”. Conclusion: Inside the book and the movie there were many similarities and differences, The one that I stated in the essay were the ones I believed stood out most to me. The people I mostly compared and contrasted most were Shag, Maureen.
She was as “stubborn as a rusted hinge” (27). Grace is “skinny to begin with” (40). Grandma is another character. She appears to be “a pretty terrible mother” and “mean” that “she wasn’t worth a speck of love” (9). Lacey is a “longed-legged, graceful” ballerina (35).
The complication between characters is especially shown in Anna and Sarah’s relationship. In the movie Anna is mad about Sarah coming to stay for a month. However, in the book she says “I wished everything was as perfect as the stone. I wished that Papa and Caleb and I were perfect for Sarah” (21). In the book Anna has no trouble liking Sarah, but in the movie Anna has a hard time letting go of her real mother and will not let Sarah get close to her. It is not until Sarah comforts Anna after a bad dream and tells her “when I was ten my mamma died” (which was not told in the book) that Sarah and Anna have a close relationship. After Sarah and Anna reach an understanding, Sarah tries to help Anna remember her mother by putting her mother’s candlesticks, quilt, a painting, and her picture back into the house. They also put flowers on her grave together. However, Anna and Sarah’s relationship is not the only one that takes a while to develop.
In conclusion, details involving the characters and symbolic meanings to objects are the factors that make the novel better than the movie. Leaving out aspects of the novel limits the viewer’s appreciation for the story. One may favor the film over the novel or vice versa, but that person will not overlook the intense work that went into the making of both. The film and novel have their similarities and differences, but both effectively communicate their meaning to the public.
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..., the film portrayed the kids being overly whelmed with hatred when they received gifts from their parents. It was like they never knew their parents existed. Another example of the difference between the book and the movie is Mr. Freeman (mother’s boyfriend) was presented as being very reserved with the children. In the movie he was seen as warm, talkative, and friendly towards Maya and her brother. The film also showed Mr. Freeman’s manly behavior by confronting Vivian (Maya’s mother) at her job. However, in the book Mr. Freeman never left the house, he always sat and waited at home for her.
The second stage of Pecola coming to think of herself as ugly simply compounds on the fact that she has no backup when her friends tell her that she is ugly and isn't worth a damn.
Another example is when Chance watches television. In the book, the narrator explains that when Chance changes the channel, he feels like he is changing himself. As he changes the channel, he gets caught up in all the different images he sees. In the movie, all you see is a man watching television, which doesn't explain too much. In the movie, the only time we find out what Chance thinks of television is when he is talking to someone else.
A reader might easily conclude that the most prominent social issue presented in The Bluest Eye is that of racism, but more important issues lie beneath the surface. Pecola experiences damage from her abusive and negligent parents. The reader is told that even Pecola's mother thought she was ugly from the time of birth. Pecola's negativity may have initially been caused by her family's failure to provide her with identity, love, security, and socialization, ail which are essential for any child's development (Samuels 13). Pecola's parents are able only to give her a childhood of limited possibilities. She struggles to find herself in infertile soil, leading to the analysis of a life of sterility (13). Like the marigolds planted that year, Pecola never grew.
One of these differences in the film was Connie’s relationship with her family. In the story, Connie’s mother was critical of Connie on multiple occasions, but really was not that bad. In the movie however, the mother was very harsh on Connie , so much that at one part in the movie the mother actually slaps connie across her face. Another condition of Connie and her mother’s relationship is her mother’s favoring of June. In both the book and the story, the mother very obviously likes June better, but this is exaggerated in the film.
Connor was curious when he kept asking questions to Margaret about lies. “Why do you think he lied?” (151) Another character is the au pair, Vivian. Vivian can be described as sneaky, attractive, and mean.
Forced into the challenge by her father, she never realizes that this journey will end with her finding herself. Besides the depth of character of Madeleine herself, Stone provides Madeleine with supporting characters that are passionate, caring, and interesting in their own rights. Her love interests are all handsome, driven men who readers learn to love along with Madeleine. Her best friends, Karen and Cybil, are always there to lend support, advice, and require Madeleine to keep her head in the game. Other characters that readers will enjoy are Tessa, Madeleine’s mother, Bernard who acts as Madeleine’s assistant and Gregory Starx’s lackey throughout the trip abroad, and Jeanette, Madeleine’s younger
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison is an African American writer, who believes in fighting discrimation and segregation with a mental preparation. Tony focuses on many black Americans to the white American culture and concludes that blacks are exploited because racism regarding white skin color within the black community. The bluest eye is a story about a young black girl named Pecola, who grew up in Ohio. Pecola adores blonde haired blue eyes girls and boys. She thinks white skin meant beauty and freedom and that thought was not a subject at this time in history. This book is really about the impact on a child’s state of mind. Tony Morrison has divided her book into four seasons: autumn, winter, spring, and summer. The main characters in this book are three girls, Claudia and Frieds McTeer, and Pecola Breedlove. Why was Pecola considered a case? Pecola was a poor girl who had no place to go. The county placed her in the McTeer’shouse for a few days until they could decide what to do until the family was reunited. Pecola stayed at the McTeer’s house because she was being abuse at her house and Cholly had burned up his house. The first event that happens in the book was that her menstrual cycle had started. She didn’t know what to do; she thought she was bleeding to death. When the girls were in the bed, Pecola asked, “If it was true that she can have a baby now?” So now the only concern is if she is raped again she could possibly get pregnant. Pecola thought if she had blue eyes and was beautiful, that her parents would stop fighting and become a happy family.In nursery books, the ideal girl would have blonde hair and blue eyes. There is a lot of commercial ads have all showed the same ideal look just like the nursery book has. Pecola assumes she has this beautiful and becomes temporary happy, but not satisfied. Now, Pecola wants to be even more beautiful because she isn’t satisfied with what she has. The fact is that a standard of beautyis established, the community is pressured to play the game. Black people and the black culture is judged as being out of place and filthy. Beauty, in heart is having blond hair, blue eyes, and a perfect family. Beauty is then applied to everyone as a kind of level of class.
The story "A Study in Scarlet," written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and it's much later film adaptation "A Study in Pink," share many similarities and differences. A difference between the two stories is the background provided on the motive for the murders. In "A Study in Scarlet," the author goes into great detail about how the young girl's father was killed, and was forced to marry a fellow Mormon, which led Jefferson hope to commit the murders out of revenge. This part is far different from the movie, where only a brief background is given of the killer when he meets Sherlock Holmes. In the short story, there is a large emphasis placed on the background of the killer and his motive, whereas the movie spends a large amount of time focusing on the interaction between Sherlock and Watson, and their plot to catch the
In The Color Purple, the generalization that Alice Walker makes about women is very two sided for example, we can see these two sides with the characters Celie and Shug. Celie, in the beginning and mostly throughout the book until the end, is seen as vulnerable and weak and that she really can’t do anything against men. Shug, on the other hand, is an experienced, independent woman. Meaning that, unlike Celie, she knows how men think, act, and do when it comes to women like herself and Celie. Shug has been what Celie has been through and surpassed her oppressors thus giving her the advantage in being independent.
In the movie there are five different couples that have very different experiences. First is Jules and Evan; they are opposites in the way they prepare for parenthood. Jules loves research and she likes to know everything that could happen. Evan does not want to know everything that could happen. This causes some strife