Thursday, February 17, 2011
DeeDee2 post 3
As I read Fried Green Tomatoes the overall theme of the book to me is love and being there for family and friends. Throughout the book we read about many different relationships. There's Buddy and Idgie, Ruth and Idgie, the Threadgoode's and Ninny, and Big George and Sipsey. An example of Idgie's love towards Ruth is shown when Fannie Flagg states "BECAUSE I LOVE YOU AND I DON'T WANT YOU TO GO!" (90). This shows how Idgie feels about Ruth and even though back then it's against many people's beliefs for a girl to love another girl, Idgie doesn't care. Another example of being there for family and friends is "My own mother died of consumption when I was four, and when my daddy died, up in Nashville, I just stayed on for good. I guess you might say the spend-the-night- party never ended" (8)... For these reasons and many more when I read Fried Green Tomatoes I see many different kinds of love and compassion, towards friends and family.
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I completely agree with you. The author does seem like she is trying to get across the point of love and famiy. Like how you mentioned, it is shown when Ninny moves in with the Threadgoodes after her mother died. The threadgoodes took her in and loved her like part of their own family.
ReplyDeletei would disagree with the theme, there is a lot of relationships in this book but i feel its the characters actions that really create a theme. idgie does love ruth a lot, but the fact that they are not a regular couple is what i find the real theme to be,pushing out old traditions
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