The novel we are reading in class is “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” The main idea of ​​the novel is to tell the story of Janie Mae Crawford's evolution towards finding her identity, through love. The book and the film present different images to the audience. Although the movie is very similar to the book, it has several different scenes that help the audience connect more to the characters, something the book cannot do, but it also misses deeper layers covered in the book. In this essay, I will compare the two mediums with which I identified more. The film, like the book, expressed Janie's life as she grew up and began to search for her identity through her relationships. Some parts that were different in the movie and not in the book were when she ran away from Nana and went into the pond after kissing Johnny Taylor, when Joe Starks mistreated her in front of the community, when Joe l embarrassed her and almost left him. , and the corset dress Joe bought for Janie. When Janie was swimming in the pond, it wasn't in the book, but rather in the book she was under a peach tree dreaming about her love life. The difference between the scenes in the movie and the book allowed people to better connect to the characteristics of Janie, Joe, or even Tea Cakes. The pond scene was symbolic because it showed rebirth and purification, just like when the church baptizes someone to wash away all sins, and this was important since she had kissed Johnny and therefore the water was the sign that she was starting again and wasn't brought down by what Nana had said to her. While the peach tree in the book expressed how she began to develop and mature, as she mastered and described her desires. A different scene in the book than in the movie was when I...... middle of paper ......this being happy. This novel taught me how developing your identity is a lifelong process that comes with experiments and mistakes, but the results are worth it. Both the novel and the film "Their Eyes Were Watching God" told the story of Janie developing throughout her life, although they each showed it in similar and different ways. The film was a depiction of Janie's experience with her relationships and how they helped her grow, while the book focused on her relationships but also her knowledge of her, what she wanted and thought about many things happening around her. I connected more with the book because it was more descriptive and I could imagine how the story was analyzed through my past experiences. The main point of the novel was for Janie to identify who she killed Tea Cakes and chose her life over hers..