sylarlover: post #2

The prominent theme in Fried Green Tomatoes is Happiness or making the best of things. The majority of the characters in the book make do with what they have in order to have a  content lifestyle. An example is when Idgie took Stump to see the three legged dogged when he was feeling depressed about his missing arm. "So I don't want to hear any more about what you can and cain't do, okay?" (115). Is what Idgie told Stump and he agreed and throughout the book it listed all his accomplishes that he made with only having one arm. A second example is Smokey Lonesome's love for Ruth Jamison. Although he never had a chance to tell her that he loved her, he made do with just a picture of her. "He had stolen only one thing his entire life. The photo of Ruth... And even after she had died, she was still alive in his heart. She could never die for him. Funny. All those years, and she never had known" (351). This shows how even though he cared for her more than she could ever realized, he kept her in his thoughts. Lastly, Evelyn made do with all the stories that Ninny Threadgoode had told her before she passed away. Evelyn had been contemplating whether life was really worth living. She was so frightened by words and people that she became depressed, instead of living with people she just let them walk over her. Evelyn became content with her life listening to the tales of Alabama during the late twenties through the thirties and learned how to deal with the struggles that she was facing to become happy with her life. An example of when Evelyn truelly had peace in her life was when she finally said goodbye to Ninny at the graveyard. "Evelyn had told her friend everything she could think of that had happened in the last year, and she didn't leave until she felt sure in her heart that Mrs. Threadgoode knew she was really okay" (390). Evelyn wanted Ninny to know that she was okay because she was confident in herself that she would no longer look down the barrel of death that used to haunt her in her dreams.This only shows how three people made the best out of their situations to become happy. There were many more but I thought this blog was way too long. Good night.