In the movie “What’s eating Gilbert Grape” Gilbert family are what is eating him. They are eating him, but metaphorically, not literally. The entire film shows food in one way or another. His last name is Grape, If you analyze why the author used this name you can see how his whole life relates to this last name and to his relationship with his family. His mother, Bonnie Grape became obese once her husband died, this was when the problem started with Gilbert, and Gilbert works in an out of date grocery store that has a lot of competition with the new Foodland store. All of these examples involve food, and in one form showing the effects of how his family is eating him alive. To start off, a grape is a fruit that grows on vines. A grape vine is not like a tree or a bush. It has no specific form that it grows in, it grows based on its surroundings. If there is nothing to support it up it will grow on the ground and get very tangled, as it tries to find something to support it, But if a farmer takes care of the vine and puts up stakes to keep it from falling. The vine will grow upwards in an orderly fashion.…show more content… She is the mother of the Grape family. When Her husband died, she became very stressed and began to eat more than necessary. During the movie you can see that food is very important. It shows the whole family eating more than once. When they eat, they move the entire table and food to the mom’s sofa. This is Bonnie’s life, it is where she eats, sleeps, and watches movies at. She doesn’t move from there at all, and she barely walks. The only scene that shows her walking a great distance was when Ernie gets arrested. This is very important in the story because if Bonnie wouldn’t have found food as a stress reliever, then the entire story would have been different. Nothing would have been eating Gilbert Grape. This is where Gilbert’s problem starts. This is when Gilbert had to get a job and support his
