In Recitatif, Toni Morrison directly goes into introducing us to a young girl named Twyla who isn’t in the greatest situation but she comes to meet another young girl like herself named Roberta. These two girls are introduced directly but there is also a lot of information about them missing. We come to realize that, that was the exact idea Toni Morrison had in mind and she does a great job at executing this. Morrison jumps right into the short story and provides us with a little background information to help to build an idea of who these young girls are, and along with that we or given the emotion that is attached to their innocent hearts. Can where you come from, and your racial identity truly identify where you will go in your life? That
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Bonny’s shelter the narrator explains how a young girl is exposed to a lot more than an eight year old child should be. Reading the first line, “My mother danced all night and Roberta’s was sick.”(Morrison 199), insures to us that she see it all the good and the ugly. Her name is Twyla, she seems to be lost in this sad frame of mind that no one loves her because her mother has left her to grow up within an orphanage but as she grows up to become an adult she leaves that idea behind. With the story being told from Twyla’s perspective it's easy to connect and engage in the emotion attached to her because it wouldn’t be the same if this was a 15 year old girl in an orphanage, she would give off a sarcastic tone and an unwelcoming attitude. An interesting part of this story is when we learn that Twyla might not be the judgemental person she seems to be, at the beginning of the story when Twyla says, “it was something else to be stuck in a strange place with a girl from a whole other race.”(Morrison 199). With Twyla stating this we see that Twyla may have grown up in a place with only “her kind” but she understands that everyone can be treated the same even if they are so different. Twyla very well can be considered a dynamic round character based on the way we find out how she can be in one frame of mind and then go directly into another
Bonny’s shelter the narrator explains how a young girl is exposed to a lot more than an eight year old child should be. Reading the first line, “My mother danced all night and Roberta’s was sick.”(Morrison 199), insures to us that she see it all the good and the ugly. Her name is Twyla, she seems to be lost in this sad frame of mind that no one loves her because her mother has left her to grow up within an orphanage but as she grows up to become an adult she leaves that idea behind. With the story being told from Twyla’s perspective it's easy to connect and engage in the emotion attached to her because it wouldn’t be the same if this was a 15 year old girl in an orphanage, she would give off a sarcastic tone and an unwelcoming attitude. An interesting part of this story is when we learn that Twyla might not be the judgemental person she seems to be, at the beginning of the story when Twyla says, “it was something else to be stuck in a strange place with a girl from a whole other race.”(Morrison 199). With Twyla stating this we see that Twyla may have grown up in a place with only “her kind” but she understands that everyone can be treated the same even if they are so different. Twyla very well can be considered a dynamic round character based on the way we find out how she can be in one frame of mind and then go directly into another