God Help the Boy – Toni Morrison

This book is another enlightening Toni Morrison masterpiece. From the beginning, the reader is fascinated by the narrative. The novel is a symphony, a poem and a thesis wrapped in one. It is a book about lives, young lives, and the painful story behind them. It is about dislocation, torment, and repair of endings and beginnings. Once you gain the ground of Professor Morrison History is strewn with the bodies of children.

God help the boy, is about two young beings wading in the swamp of their childhood misadventures. Lula Ann Bridewell, the main protagonist, was a girl unworthy of love for her mother, Sweetness, because of how dark it was. Midnight black, Sudanese blackThat’s how the mother saw her. Sweetness was so infuriated by her daughter’s color that she once covered her face with a blanket and pressed. He even considered giving it to an orphanage.

Sweetness the obsession with color was caused by the world around her. In him, the color grants respect, privileges and grants a dignified life. The darker the skin, the gloomier and gloomier the canvas of life. Their color is like an affliction they have to suffer and humiliation stalks them like an implacable enemy. Even By Lula Ann dad, Lewis, he dared not love his son black tar. He didn’t even touch her. “We had three good years”, Sweetness tells us, “but when she was born, he blamed me and tried Lula ann as if she were a stranger, more than that, an enemy ”. When his wife told Louis that the boy’s blackness must be from his side of the family, he left.

Objective, Lula Ann Bridewell She grew up to be a beautiful woman and a senior executive in a cosmetics company. Toni Morrison offers us a heroine who achieves beauty and success despite her appearance (in the same way that the author did in her field). His complexion, the source of his parents’ shame, was the basis of his success.

The kindest meaning of her name Lula is the Arabic definition that means pearl. And what a beautiful gem she became, with a beauty that attracted attention wherever she went. She gets her life back by getting rid of her name, she gets rid of the Lula ann, and it only becomes Flange. Years later her boyfriend, Booker-Another victim of a tormented childhood, abandons her. An old wound opened. She had dealt consummately with her family’s rejection, but Booker’s running away from her life almost drives her crazy.

Like planted Florentina Ariza in Márquez’s love in times of cholera, embarks on random relationships. Flange eventually he sets out to find Booker on a pilgrimage that takes her to the forests of Northern california. The reader never knows exactly where reality ends and fantasy begins in Of the bride travels. Her body is changing in ways that only she can see, shrinking and hairless as if she is going back to childhood.

Booker his life is not going well. The loss and pain of his childhood continue to haunt him. In reject Flange, he is escaping from the demons that drove him out of the house. Like in Solomon’s songs, escape is an important theme in the book. Perhaps it is a flight, not of the geographical type as the author claims, but of fleeing the wounds of his childhood, an odyssey of the soul. The book has a beautiful ending with the two lovers surrendering to each other, not without Bride smashing a bottle on Booker’s head.

As they sail, one wonders if the two young lovers will find the happiness that had eluded them all their lives. At the end of Marquez’s love in the time of cholera, when the ship reaches its final destination, Fermina daza he sees the people he meets and, understandably, seeks to avoid them. One hopes that Morrison Mutilated lovers will not hold on to their past pain and sadness, nor will they rewrite the old painful themes of their lives. One hopes that the presence of one in the life of the other will make them find joy and free them from the suffocating suffering of childhood.

There are auxiliary characters that help move the story forward and even give it strength. There are Sofia huxley, the white teacher who Flange like a schoolgirl accused of sexual abuse. There are Brooklyn, her assistant and friend, also recovering from the tribulations of a difficult childhood. But, at the very heart of the story is Lula Ann Bridewell-the injured little black girl who did well.

God help the boy It is a magnificent achievement of Toni Morrison. It’s a compelling narrative that elegantly delves beyond superficial emotions and cleverly depicts the horror adults inflict on children. It is about their struggles, conflicts and in the God help the boy, their survival. This novel is an incredible celebration of literature, a gem that will be read and read again for years to come. Professor Toni Morrison He has to be one of the most important writers of the last century.

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