https://padlet.com/yhalaw3419/tcajl5zsfhyf6tdl Toni Morrison en-us 2022-02-28 14:21:39 UTC 2022-03-21 11:19:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1ff-1f1e6.png yhalaw3419 https://padlet.com/yhalaw3419/tcajl5zsfhyf6tdl/wish/2069582617 Toni Morrison’s books and novels do not support the American Dream because she talks about the limitations a black person has in the world and how race limits their ability to achieve the American Dream.

]]> 2022-02-28 14:32:57 UTC https://padlet.com/yhalaw3419/tcajl5zsfhyf6tdl/wish/2069582617 yhalaw3419 https://padlet.com/yhalaw3419/tcajl5zsfhyf6tdl/wish/2069585798 One of Morrison's novels, Song of Solomon does not support the American Dream because it talks about enslaved Africans who escape slavery by flying back to Africa to “ creates a black community strangely unto itself yet never out of touch with the white world. . . . With an ear as sharp as glass she has listened to the music of black talk and uses it as a palette knife to create black lives and to provide some of the best fictional dialogue around today.” —The Nation. Creating that community isolated them from the hatred of the white people and kept them in a healthy environment.

]]> 2022-02-28 14:34:24 UTC https://padlet.com/yhalaw3419/tcajl5zsfhyf6tdl/wish/2069585798 yhalaw3419 https://padlet.com/yhalaw3419/tcajl5zsfhyf6tdl/wish/2069590841 The sobbing story of Pecola Breedlove, an Eleven-year-old African American girl from an abusive home that equates beauty and social acceptance with whiteness; she, therefore, longs to have “the bluest eye” which is named after Pecola embracing the social whiteness. Ecola asked him for blue eyes and Soaphed says  “Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty…A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes. His outrage grew and felt like power. For the first time, he honestly wished he could work miracles.”- Britannica. Ecola was angry because of that and plans to trick Pecola.

]]> 2022-02-28 14:36:46 UTC https://padlet.com/yhalaw3419/tcajl5zsfhyf6tdl/wish/2069590841 yhalaw3419 https://padlet.com/yhalaw3419/tcajl5zsfhyf6tdl/wish/2075919756 A novel that inspects the horrendous tradition of slavery as it accounts the existence of a Black lady named Sethe, from her pre-Civil War days as a slave in Kentucky. “Not at Sweet Home, my niggers is men every one of em. Bought em thataway, raised em thatway. Men every one.”- GALE IN CONTEXT
Paul D reviews what Mr. Garner generally said regarding his slaves. Other slaveowners have "young men" who they infantilize and doubt, yet Garner approaches his slaves with deference. The Sweet Home slaves are still slaves, lacking through and through freedom and self-assurance and won't ever genuinely be men or ladies.

]]> 2022-03-03 14:30:03 UTC https://padlet.com/yhalaw3419/tcajl5zsfhyf6tdl/wish/2075919756 yhalaw3419 https://padlet.com/yhalaw3419/tcajl5zsfhyf6tdl/wish/2075932245 "Song of Solomon." Gale In Context Online Collection, Gale, 2020. Gale In Context: High School, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CZIWXL775850607/SUIC?u=clar33415&sid=bookmark-SUIC&xid=8ce0eafa. Accessed 17 Feb. 2022.

"Plot Summary: The Bluest Eye." DISCovering Authors, Gale, 2003. Gale In Context: High School, link.gale.com/apps/doc/EJ2101300227/SUIC?u=clar33415&sid=bookmark-SUIC&xid=f16b9745. Accessed 15 Feb. 2022.

"Beloved: Themes and Construction." Gale In Context Online Collection, Gale, 2012. Gale In Context: High School, link.gale.com/apps/doc/EJ2181500244/SUIC?u=clar33415&sid=bookmark-SUIC&xid=af1e8545. Accessed 17 Feb. 2022.

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