Blood Buring Moon By Jean Toomer Analysis

Jean Toomer was born in Washington attended the university of Wisconsin and the city of New York. Toomer first started his writing career in 1918 .He wrote short stories ,poems, sketches and reviews of national magazines. Toomer’s main focus was to write about race and gender and the struggle. During the 20’s Jean Toomer was the most promising of original voices of the Negro renaissance he was an American poet and novelist. His first published book was “Cane” about mixed race. “Editors refused seeking excuses for failure he blamed his identification as a Negro. He denied that he came from Negro ancestry. He wrote many books but never was accepted to get his book publication. He struggled to have the identity as “an American” and to not be classified as a black. “Karintha” and “Blood Buring Moon” were two stories from “Cane” and the main focus is based on African American women.
Karintha …show more content…
She didn’t have fun as a young child she was always looked at and around older men who were interested in mating with her because of her beauty. Her parents exposed her to sex at a young age which no child should have to experience at her age. She played with a boy and compared it to home. Home should be a place of shelter and caring not loving making .my opinion was that her mother had the same image and it was pasted on to the daughter because how could a child pick something like that up just out of nowhere. Also which was sad was that these old men steal her childhood from her which was very selfish .She ended up with a baby, Getting married used and abused mentally. No education wasn’t able to earn her own money and dependent on her