The Author and Her Times
Toni Morrison was born February 18, 1931 (85) a proud Ohio citizen.Toni Morrison changed her name from Chloe Ardelia The book, Sula, was originally published in 1973 and was awarded a nobel prize she also received The Presidential Medal of Freedom, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her citation reads “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality." Morrison is known for her epic themes, rich detailed of black characters, and her vivid dialogue. Her literature impacted race, gender, and class as living in someone’s eyes according to a black's perspective. By this she talked about the ranks of class during the segregation years and how rough it was for a black just to pass by a white neighborhood. Morrison explicitly described how the world was divided by racism and segregation and from this it was just getting worse for the blacks. Morrison’s standpoint of Sula were expressing love and sexuality, women and gender roles, race and racism these themes are important in her writing because it …show more content…
But they’re not just chapters such as “1,2,3” and so on, but these chapters have a meaning. Every chapter is a whole different new year or more than a year to show some time lapse of the characters’ future and what they face. Morrison is known for her memories and flashbacks that she includes in her writing to “spice” things up in a way. A way to entice the plot which she’s great at it. But these, of course, involve flashbacks to grab attention from the context of the story which her descriptions of the memories are to show a true meaning and symbolize things. To me I feel this plot can be seen and expressed as a complex plot since not only do we have one life events but we also the the other. This contributes to the real meaning of the book and to have a better understanding of it, as well to have a
Toni Morrison was born February 18, 1931 (85) a proud Ohio citizen.Toni Morrison changed her name from Chloe Ardelia The book, Sula, was originally published in 1973 and was awarded a nobel prize she also received The Presidential Medal of Freedom, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her citation reads “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality." Morrison is known for her epic themes, rich detailed of black characters, and her vivid dialogue. Her literature impacted race, gender, and class as living in someone’s eyes according to a black's perspective. By this she talked about the ranks of class during the segregation years and how rough it was for a black just to pass by a white neighborhood. Morrison explicitly described how the world was divided by racism and segregation and from this it was just getting worse for the blacks. Morrison’s standpoint of Sula were expressing love and sexuality, women and gender roles, race and racism these themes are important in her writing because it …show more content…
But they’re not just chapters such as “1,2,3” and so on, but these chapters have a meaning. Every chapter is a whole different new year or more than a year to show some time lapse of the characters’ future and what they face. Morrison is known for her memories and flashbacks that she includes in her writing to “spice” things up in a way. A way to entice the plot which she’s great at it. But these, of course, involve flashbacks to grab attention from the context of the story which her descriptions of the memories are to show a true meaning and symbolize things. To me I feel this plot can be seen and expressed as a complex plot since not only do we have one life events but we also the the other. This contributes to the real meaning of the book and to have a better understanding of it, as well to have a