Trauma can be determined by a plethora of experiences. A wide array of occurrences can affect the categorization. Slavery, for instance, can create a massive burden on the victim for eternity. Anguish results from extreme hard times. Toni Morrison depicts the harm caused from intense trauma. The prevalence of the prominent dilemma of discrimination portrayed through the different characters in Beloved and The Bluest Eye illustrates the damage that comes as a result of the trauma.
The struggle to find rightful identity demonstrates Morrison’s portrayal of how damaging and scarring segregation can be and the long term effects it has. This is exemplified in Beloved when Sethe converses with Paul D about the loss of her child who now haunts the home. She discusses the devastating grief that she goes through knowing her child did not make it. As she talks about Denver, she mentions “All I knew was I had to get my milk to my baby girl. Nobody was going to nurse her like me” (Beloved 19). Sethe speaks of the cluelessness that surrounds her relating to her life, but the only thing she truly understands is that she must nurse her child. She is a lost mother who does not know her meaning and calling in life. The life that she experienced during her slavery years were …show more content…
The conversation in which her mother announces that they will be hosting another girl in their home for a while is depicted by stating that “Mama had told us two days earlier that a ‘case’ was coming—a girl who had no place to go” (The Bluest Eye 16). _____ exclaims that they will be taking in a child who does not particularly fit in with everyone in society. Since Pecola is an African American living in a not very accepting society, she does not have an accurate sense of who she is. The concept of being considered a “case” is very discouraging and provides the belief that there is a confusion in identity and finding
The struggle to find rightful identity demonstrates Morrison’s portrayal of how damaging and scarring segregation can be and the long term effects it has. This is exemplified in Beloved when Sethe converses with Paul D about the loss of her child who now haunts the home. She discusses the devastating grief that she goes through knowing her child did not make it. As she talks about Denver, she mentions “All I knew was I had to get my milk to my baby girl. Nobody was going to nurse her like me” (Beloved 19). Sethe speaks of the cluelessness that surrounds her relating to her life, but the only thing she truly understands is that she must nurse her child. She is a lost mother who does not know her meaning and calling in life. The life that she experienced during her slavery years were …show more content…
The conversation in which her mother announces that they will be hosting another girl in their home for a while is depicted by stating that “Mama had told us two days earlier that a ‘case’ was coming—a girl who had no place to go” (The Bluest Eye 16). _____ exclaims that they will be taking in a child who does not particularly fit in with everyone in society. Since Pecola is an African American living in a not very accepting society, she does not have an accurate sense of who she is. The concept of being considered a “case” is very discouraging and provides the belief that there is a confusion in identity and finding