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In the opening paragraph of God Help the Child, Toni Morrison gives voice to Sweetness, a woman describing herself as "light-skinned with good hair, what we call high yellow," who gives birth to a child with very dark skin. She says, "It didn't take no more than an hour after they pulled her out from between my legs to realize something was wrong.
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20 de abr. de 2015 · In God Help the Child, the protagonist, Lula Ann, is born to a lighter-skinned mother and father who have enjoyed the relative privilege their skin colour affords them in America.
6 de mar. de 2017 · God Help The Child is a book that I have wanted to read for a long time, and I feel bad that I am coming to it so late considering it was published in 2015. Since I started my book buying ban for 2017, I went digging at my local library to find this book.
God Help the Child, published in 2015, is set in the contemporary period, unlike all of her previous novels. The contemporary setting is ultimately incidental to the project of the novel, however; as with Morrison’s other work, the story takes on mythic qualities, and the larger-than-life themes lend themselves to allegorical and symbolic readings that resonate in light of both contemporary ...
Summary. Toni Morrison’s fierce and provocative novel exposes the damage adults wreak on children, and how this echoes through the generations. Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now glamorous, grown up, ebony-black and panther-like, wants to love her man, Booker, but she finds ...
27 de nov. de 2017 · In God Help the Child, Morrison devaluates the myth of racialized beauty and materialism, stressing the need to find your own definitions and self-worth. Like “The Ugly Duckling”, Morrison’s latest novel is a powerful and inspirational metaphor about transformation and self-discovery.
