1. In what way does music inform the novel
Beloved's memories of the "dark place- from which she came can be taken as those of a deceased infant girl, but they also greatly resemble an African woman's memories of the crossing of the Atlantic on the way to America. ... These uncanny images resurface in Beloved's monologue in Chapter 22 Song and dance played an important part in the lives of the slaves. ... Thus, Toni Morrison effectively brings out the past through objects, song and dance, character naming, monologues, events, food and events and captures the true essence of the lives of the family at Sweet Home. ...
Unlike the thousands of immigrants who have traveled toAmerica to forge for themselves a new home, imported Africans were forced into America as property. ... The story of the American slave is thus the story of the African's search for a home in a hateful land. ... " '[I]n this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in the grass. ... There was no grace – imaginary or real – and no sunlit dance in the Clearing could change that" (89). ...
When Sethe first came to 124, her mother-in-law's home, it was "was a softened place in which the African American community of Cincinnati met and exchanged information and food." ... "Here", she said, "in this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. ... So Baby Suggs, holy, having devoted her free life to harmony, was buried amid a dance of pride, fear, condemnation and spite. ...
When Sethe first came to 124, her mother-in-law's home, it was "was a softened place in which the African American community of Cincinnati met and exchanged information and food." ... "Here", she said, "in this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. ... So Baby Suggs, holy, having devoted her free life to harmony, was buried amid a dance of pride, fear, condemnation and spite. ...
The narrator further describes her roommate while recollecting an "important " statement from her absent, dancing" mother, "one of the things she said was that they never washed their hair and they smelled funny. ... "Rather than delving into the distinctive culture of African Americans, she illustrates how the difference between the races in American culture at large is dependent on blacks and whites defining themselves in opposition to one another"" (Li-li 812). ...
Morrison is a Nobel peace prize award winning African American writer who wrote The Bluest Eye. The Bluest eye is the sadden tale of a young black girl in a black community. When reading the novel, you meet and interact with many of the characters. Pecola Breedlove, the main character who suffers si...