Movie Comparison - Nanny

In the movie Zelly and Me, a young orphan girl moves in with her strict grandmother where she is prevented to live the life she chooses to live. Her grandmother is quite strict and powerful, because she does not want her granddaughter to end up like her mother; much like Nanny with Janie. The relation between the film, Zelly and Me, and the book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, are the two grandmothers’ approach to raising their granddaughters. In both the film and book we find that both grandmothers have the upper hand in how their granddaughters will act. The grandmothers love their granddaughters so much that they do not want to see them hurt. For this reason the grandmothers take a strict and powerful approach due to the past of their daughters essentially reoccurring through their daughters who are now orphans. They do not want to see their daughters making the same mistake as their mothers did. -Taylor