"Fried Green Tomatoes"

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This paper examines Fannie Flagg's novel "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" written in 1987 which contains many social issues like gender equality and racism and the 1991 film version of the same name. It connects the film to the novel by examining racism between whites and blacks with the thesis statement that Hollywood keeps perpetuating the stereotype of blacks and it doesn't show the treatments they really received in the early 1900's and before as the novel does.

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"The book shows Evelyn Couch, a mid-aged Alabama 80's woman who is unhappy and bored tries to 'transform' herself into, well, being happy and to add some excitement in her life. In the book, she has a daughter while in the movie she is childless. The book makes a funny reference about her smoking weed from her own daughter. While trying to transform, she takes advice from Ninny Threadgoode, an elderly woman that tells her a story about the Whistle Stop Cafe and thus Evelyn tries to become more like Idgie Threadgoode who is a very interesting character that does everything she wants, whenever she wants to. Evelyn, in order to get out of that current mental state she is in, will have to overcome her fears."

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