Maureen Peal & Imitation of Life :: John M. Stahl, Film, Movie

Imitation of Life is roughly Peola Johnson, light skined discolor girl who tries to go through life as a white person. To achieve this she ostracises her family. She breaks all ties with her black get under ones skin and her stopping point and tries to fit into this community in which she really has no place. Its because of you, you made me black I wont be blackThe problems Maureen Peal and Peola Johnsson share are as serious as the ones the young blck girls have in the bluest yes. harmonize to arenaceous Flitterman-LewisIn each films representation of the transgressive woman-the black daughter who looks white, and who, because of the contradiction amidst being and seeming which defines her, can fit comfortably into neither culture-there is a correspondence between feminine cozyity and alterity which results in a sexualization of the stand otherness of the black woman. (44) This is instrumental to the development of Pecolas charater. This is excessively instrumental to the p arcel she meets in the end. Pecola and Peola are similar, not in their looks but in their situations. Pecola does also live between two worlds like Peola but in a different manner. Peolass problems are serious and the implictions are serious and extensive. According to Flitterman-Lewis, the mere term mulato brings up miscegenation, and theerfore leads people to think of forbidden sexual relations and the impossible mixing of races Flitterman-Lewis 46).Pauline is so immersed into images projected by the screen that her daughter is named after Peola. Nevermind that mother nor daughter is mulatto like Peola.Nornally a mother would not want her daughter to be in much(prenominal) situations yet Pauline names her daughter Pecola and embraces the beauty ideals and Maureens mother embraces the film. Maybe in someway she felt a kinship with Pecola because she would understand her position. SourcesBlumler, J G & Elihu, K (1974) - Sage Annual Reviews of Communication Research Vol.3, The Uses of quid Communication Current perspectives on gratifications research. CASageChristian, Barbara. Black Women Novelists The breeding of a Tradition, 1892-1976.