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God Help the Child. The new novel from Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child is a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult. At the centre: a woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence ...
26 de jan. de 2016 · "God Help the Child", consistent with all of the work in Morrison's canon, is redolent with sparse yet densely impactful sentences that begin to expand with meaning as soon as you've read them. I found in the revealing of the character Bride that the more I learned of her beauty, as perceived by everyone around her, the more I questioned the construction it.
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.
21 de abr. de 2015 · "God Help the Child", consistent with all of the work in Morrison's canon, is redolent with sparse yet densely impactful sentences that begin to expand with meaning as soon as you've read them. I found in the revealing of the character Bride that the more I learned of her beauty, as perceived by everyone around her, the more I questioned the construction it.
- Toni Morrison
23 de abr. de 2015 · Praise for Toni Morrison’s GOD HELP THE CHILD “Utterly compelling . . . Morrison remains an incredibly powerful writer who commands attention.” –Roxane Gay, The Guardian “ God Save the Child is superb, its story gliding along the tracks of Morrison’s utterly assured prose.” –Charles Finch, USA Today (critic's pick) “Morrison is such a masterful writer that even those who don ...
- Toni Morrison
Life, as shown to us in God Help the Child, is hard and often painful, even if there is hope that circumstances can and do get better. Inhabiting her characters' lives and voices, in a story told from multiple perspectives, Morrison examines the beauty and ugliness in all our lives, in a memorable story, skillfully told. This review was ...
Themes and Colors. God Help the Child. Sweetness uses colorism to defend her poor treatment of her daughter, Bride, who was born with inexplicably dark skin. She explains that she is “high yellow” and that many of her relatives passed for white. Sweetness thinks of Bride’s skin color as “terrible,” and it drives her “mad” to the ...
