Middle Build – The cop retaliates by framing Fonny for a brutal rape, and Fonny is imprisoned. She stands up to the cop, but Fonny tells her that she has helped put them both in danger. When a white man hits on her and Fonny knocks him down, drawing the attention of a vindictive cop, Tish must either acknowledge the power of a racist justice system and meekly accept the cop’s bigoted behavior, or stand up for Fonny and risk the cop’s retaliation. Beginning Hook – When Tish and Fonny fall in love, Tish wants to become part of Fonny’s adult life in New York City, learning to see active racism clearly for the first time in a relatively sheltered life. Leslie will be looking at the story from a couple of other angles after that, and I know Kim will be making a strong case for the global genre of Society. Jarie is covering several of them in the Love story shortly. Please keep in mind that this skeletal structure barely touches on many of the really powerful moments in the story. Genre: The 15 core scenes from the protagonist’s point of view seem to turn more on the values of naivete and sophistication about racism and its negative effects on love between black people in 1973 New York, that Worldview genre is the one I tried to fit into this delineation. What’s more, both the novel and the movie are told in a non-linear sequence, so your definition of the beginning hook, middle build, and ending payoff will change depending on how you read the sequence of events, and which genre you decide to follow.įor the sake of simplicity, I’ve decided to focus on Worldview Maturation as the global genre, and stack the story events up in linear time, rather than in the nonlinear order the novel and movie both employ. As with other love stories we’ve looked at where the lovers are prevented by outside forces from fulfilling their commitment to each other, there are strong Society elements at play. It meets most of the obligatory scenes and conventions of a courtship story, some in a modified form.Īs with many love stories, there’s an internal genre of Worldview. This is a complex, multi-layered, literary story that certainly looks like–and is billed as–a love story. 
This critically-acclaimed 2018 film was directed by Barry Jenkins from a screenplay he adapted from James Baldwin’s 1973 novel of the same name.
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