Compare and Contrast Essay- "Their Eyes Were Watching God" By: Alicia Gomez 1st Period English While the movie and the book of "Their Eyes Were Watching God" may be the same in the fact that they both tell the story of Janie and what she went through, they differ in the fact that the movie is much shorter and has fewer conflicts than the story. Both the story and the movie held the same details that occured in the story. Janie went through three marragies, and end the end she had to shoot her final husband Tea Cake. Janie was introduced to first husband, Logan, by her grandmother, which had already arranged that Janie was to marry him before she was to die. In neither the book nor the movie did Janie want to marry the old stranger, and she ended up leaving him for another guy, Jody Starks.
She discovers some dysfunctional traits in her family (primarily caused by her father), and observes how her family deals with these issues in order to learn. Eve Batiste, the young girl, is the daughter of a beautiful mother, Roz, and a successful and prominent doctor, Louis. Her father is a skirt-chaser, albeit a good breadwinner for the family. Eve discovers this unfortunate truth one night at a party when she encounters her father fornicating with another woman, to which Louis unconvincingly explains that he was not participating in anything improper. She shares the information of what she has just seen with Cisely, her sister who is at a mid point in her adolescence and is not aware of how to cope with her feelings.
He attends these support meetings so that he can release emotional energy and feel better about himself. The narrator at this point in the novel is frustrated with working for a job he does not enjoy, and is also frustrated with how much he has given into the consumer culture around him. When he initially sees Marla at the support group meetings, his body tells him to not get emotional in front of her, and in result not cry and release the emotions inside of him. It is not until chapter eleven in Fight Club, that the narrator shows some positive emotion towards Marla. After using Marla’s mother into the homemade soap him and Tyler are creating without her permission, the narrator starts feeling an amount of guilt and regret.
Only Curley's wife was around and starts a conversation with George which was later interrupted by Curley. Curley tells her to return to the house and issues a warning to George. This scene doesn’t happen in the book as John Steinbeck spent a lot more time describing Curly’s wife’s personality, so it was easier to visualize. I think this scene is necessary for the movie because it helps you have a better understand of Curly’s wife. She flirts with George to get attention as she is so lonely, and also again, portrays the type of relationship she has with her husband; as he commands her back to the
Delicately observing the ladies, he becomes mesmerized by the leader of the pack. He seems to be unable to stop eying her features and behavior as she wanders about the aisles. As she comes to his lane ready to check out, his elder superior notices the ladies’ appearances and immediately begins to condescend to the ladies about the inappropriateness of their attire. The leader/ object of the boy’s affection attempts an explanation but the manager won’t have it. After the slight embarrassment, the women begin to leave when the male storyteller makes his sacrifice.
Also, when Curley’s wife is talking to Lennie, Candy, and Crooks in Crooks bunk she states “I think I know where they all went even Curley”(37). Curley’s wife knows that her husband is unloyal to her when he goes with the workers to a cathouse. Because no other character in the novel shows jealousy and deceitful, Curley is a bad to be a good husband to his wife it makes her talk even with Lennie. Because Curley ignores his wife and does not let her talk to anybody, he takes part of the responsibility for his wife’s
For this tea party, Gatsby sent workers over to cut Nick’s lawn, set up flowers around his house, and bring a fine silver tea set. This was all for trying to impress Daisy so that she would come to his house, and it worked. When Daisy came to Nick’s house, she saw Gatsby’s in a distance and asked if they could all go and take a tour. She was shocked at the amount of wealth that Gatsby had, but she realized that he was considered “new money,” which would be a problem. She could tell that he had “new money,” first because of their past and her knowing his wealth did not come from his family, and second, because of where he lived.
She immediately puts it on and watches her reflection in a puddle change into a gorgeous woman. But before she leaves, her father warns her of what will happen when she is married. The necklace will break and she will return to her natural state. She understands and quickly runs back into the bakery. When Cirtap sees the beautiful woman he drops the pile of bread he was carrying.
When talking about telling lies, I remember lying my mother often for the sake of my close friend. I often used to help her with her dates by telling both her and mine mother that we were going for shopping. If we were late, we would come up with another lie, “We met our friends on the way, so we are late.” If I have to classify this lie according to Viorst, this was a peace-keeping lie. I remember myself as a student studying in grade nine, when I had decided not to tell lies at any cost. It was not a path of pain that would hurt me if I stopped telling any sort of lies.
I continued to walk downstairs and proceeded to the door but right as I opened the door their he was stand on the doorway I asked “how did you know where I leaved” he replied sturdily “ I had my daughter ask your son since their best friends “he said sarcastically” and they go to the same school” I thought it was a little creepy but somehow attractive since he went all out the way to make his daughter find out even though I thought he didn’t have a daughter, but I think it just cute. I was walking to my car but he insisted that we ride in his car which I thought was kind but I didn’t feel that comfortable with it son I drove my car. I asked him where he made our reservations at, he replied “just follow me” I gave him the longest gaze and then said “sure I’ll follow you anywhere” and then gave him kiss on the cheek which had him blushing. When we arrived at the restaurant I was unaware of