Thursday, February 17, 2011
Post #3
I think that the most prominent theme in the book is Racism. Racism is expressed a lot in this book. For example, when Officer Kilgore comes into the cafe and tells Idgie that she should not be serving colored people. She tries to explain to him that she isn't servng them inside the cafe and he kind of just blows her off. Which she is isn't she is serving them out the back door and he makes it seem like a big deal that she is. Then whenever Frank Bennett got killed they tried blaming it on Big George because of the day they went into to town to pick up Ruth and save her from Frank because he was beating her. So they thought Big George did it automatically because one of the people said the saw a big black man there and back then it was so easy to blame it on them.
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I disagree with you on the theme of racism. Although there are a few examples of racism mentioned in Fried Green Tomatoes, Fannie Flagg is not trying to get the point of racism across to her readers. I believe a more reasonable theme in this book is love or acceptance.
ReplyDeletei disagree that racism is the main theme in this book, the theme is more of acceptance, which includes the racism,but how idgie served African Americans out the back of her cafe, it shows how she wanted to challenge to beliefs in society during this period and wanted them to be accepted into society
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