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In 2nd Hour right now, in Ap Environmental Science I have my exam tomorrow. Haven't seen Loverman today, when I pulled up he wasn't in his normal parking spot, maybe he came late I dunno, he normally texts me by now.
I worked on this paper practically all last night so I'm just posting to show you all, comment if you'd like, if not this one then last nights.
“Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge”- Anonymous. In the earlier decades it was taught that women were supposed to depend on and serve men, with no voice at all. For years it was tradition and considered to be the proper manner for all women. But, there were always women who stepped outside of the boundaries that normal tradition set upon them and bought about the independence in that most women revel in today. In Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, displays the ideology of women who are domestically dependent, sufficiently independent, and inconveniently in the middle, with her characters.
Ruth, Lena, and Corinthians, are all prime examples of domestically dependent women within Song of Solomon. Morrison presented all three of these characters in an awkward way. All three seemed to be tied within their homes, and besides random things that the entire family did, they were never really presented as having another life. Ruth had early signs of being dependent on her father. Which he was not comfortable with that, thus why he was happy she had Macon. Dr. Foster was all Ruth had and even after he died she’d visit his grave just to be with someone because she was that lonely and her own husband neglected in ever giving her attention. After her estrangement from her husband, Ruth underwent a long period of sexual deprivation, broken only by the brief time when Pilate's spells are working on Macon. Pilate also helped Ruth protect her unborn child from Macon's violence, and was able to bring Milkman into the world. Corinthians is another example of a woman who is dependent on men for her everyday life. Though Corinthians had a job and a prestigious education, she still lived under her father’s roof, She was raised to be a good catch for a professional man of color, but was a little too elegant for the few professional men that she met. When she actually meets a guy and starts to secretly get involved with him, when they have an argument how she viewed him not being good enough, she throws herself on the hood of his card in order for him not to leave, like her mother she had nothing else and needed that only he could provide. Lena appears to be one of the sadder examples due to the fact, only man she in dependent on his her father and hates her brother for the fact he’s trying to be the boss of everyone within the house, and how much he was like their father and hated him. “First he displayed us then splayed us. All out lives were like that: he would parade us like virgins through Babylon, then humiliate us like whores in Babylon.” (Morrison 216). Lena, Corinthians, and Ruth all lived their life through other things in order have some sort of independent existence within the story. Ruth tried with her cooking, goldfish, fixing the table, and flowers, though all failed by her attempts and added to her pathetic state. Lena and Corinthians for years made their Roses as a little hobby and it grew to be their life at some point. For Lena all she had were the fake roses she made and other little figments that she placed her brother for messing up. Ruth, Lena, and Corinthians were dependent on men, and that lifestyle would never change for them.
Pilate, Reba, and Circe are prime examples of what we call independent women in today’s society.
“She had no electricity because she would no pay for the service. Nor for gas. At night she and her daughter lit the house with candles and kerosene lamps; they warmed themselves and cooked with wood and coal, pumped kitchen water into a dry sink through a pipeline from the well and lived pretty much as though progress was a word.” (Morrison 27)
Pilate and Reba were successfully able to be self efficient. In order to have money they sold homemade wine and also made use of whatever Reba had won with her luck to keep them living in the manner they have been accustomed to and give Hagar whatever she pleased. Morrison not only made them very strong independent women but certain factors make them appear as mythical. Reba for her constant luck, and winning everything she tried and whatever she didn’t try to win. “‘Got to where won’t nobody sell her a raffle ticket. They just want her to hold theirs.’” (Morrison 45)
But Pilate by far presents questions and represented a sort of mythical presence. 2 things that stood out about Pilate were her belly button and the factor she gave birth to herself.
Pilate was like a sage, using incantations and potions to make things happen and change in certain matters.
Circe is one who creates her own rules and code of conduct and is able to live a very long life by them. If anything Circe is presented as a sibyl, and is Milkman’s way of knowing anything from the past.
“‘She must have been a hundred year old when she died.’ ‘Older. Was a hundred when I was a boy.’ ” (Morrison 233)
Circe is presented as this mythical woman, who has lived far beyond her time, rather deal with herself then anyone else, She shows him both the power and the destructiveness of his heritage, and channels his rebelliousness into a quest for his own identity. What all of these three women have in common is their ability to make their own rules, live independently, have a mythical presence that others don’t even have, and don’t need men.
Hagar is one of the main examples of a woman who is struggling between Pilates, independent world and Ruth’s domestically dependent world. When Hagar was first was present she spoke about being hungry. Of course this brought questions from her mother and grandmother, because they provided her with her every whim and desire so they could not possibly know what she was hungry for. When Hagar got involved with Milkman things indeed became different. “Everybody who knew him knew about Hagar, but she was considered his private honey pot, not a real or legitimate girlfriend-not someone he might marry.” (Morrison 91) When Hagar was dumped, she wasn’t able to handle it, he was all that she ever had and ever gotten. The way she tried to fix that was to just try and kill him and the closet time she did, she wasn’t able to, which after that point brought her to a deep depression. When she actually see’s herself she perks up, Believing that Milkman prefers pale, white-looking women, Hagar goes on a manic shopping spree to try to acquire the dominant culture's standards of beauty. Sadly after all of this, Hagar died due to pneumonia. When Guitar was thinking about how she was he mentioned her lack of support group and criticism that many women need in order to grow up to be a well rounded woman. Due to Pilate and Reba giving her everything they desired, she would never fain that she needed to survive in the world. Hagar was never able to be dependent on herself or on men, but on certain beauty standards in order to be depending on something.
Toni Morrison gave a descriptive view of the women in Milkman’s life that all had a distinct story to carry about being domestically dependent, sufficiently independent, and inconveniently in the middle.
I bought a book yesterday by Toni Morrison I didn't know what else to buy, its called Love. If you have any Book Recommendations please leave some because I'd like to some stuff to read this summer.
I'll update later, hopefully when I get home I'm suppose to go out to lunch with Loverman.
I worked on this paper practically all last night so I'm just posting to show you all, comment if you'd like, if not this one then last nights.
“Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge”- Anonymous. In the earlier decades it was taught that women were supposed to depend on and serve men, with no voice at all. For years it was tradition and considered to be the proper manner for all women. But, there were always women who stepped outside of the boundaries that normal tradition set upon them and bought about the independence in that most women revel in today. In Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, displays the ideology of women who are domestically dependent, sufficiently independent, and inconveniently in the middle, with her characters.
Ruth, Lena, and Corinthians, are all prime examples of domestically dependent women within Song of Solomon. Morrison presented all three of these characters in an awkward way. All three seemed to be tied within their homes, and besides random things that the entire family did, they were never really presented as having another life. Ruth had early signs of being dependent on her father. Which he was not comfortable with that, thus why he was happy she had Macon. Dr. Foster was all Ruth had and even after he died she’d visit his grave just to be with someone because she was that lonely and her own husband neglected in ever giving her attention. After her estrangement from her husband, Ruth underwent a long period of sexual deprivation, broken only by the brief time when Pilate's spells are working on Macon. Pilate also helped Ruth protect her unborn child from Macon's violence, and was able to bring Milkman into the world. Corinthians is another example of a woman who is dependent on men for her everyday life. Though Corinthians had a job and a prestigious education, she still lived under her father’s roof, She was raised to be a good catch for a professional man of color, but was a little too elegant for the few professional men that she met. When she actually meets a guy and starts to secretly get involved with him, when they have an argument how she viewed him not being good enough, she throws herself on the hood of his card in order for him not to leave, like her mother she had nothing else and needed that only he could provide. Lena appears to be one of the sadder examples due to the fact, only man she in dependent on his her father and hates her brother for the fact he’s trying to be the boss of everyone within the house, and how much he was like their father and hated him. “First he displayed us then splayed us. All out lives were like that: he would parade us like virgins through Babylon, then humiliate us like whores in Babylon.” (Morrison 216). Lena, Corinthians, and Ruth all lived their life through other things in order have some sort of independent existence within the story. Ruth tried with her cooking, goldfish, fixing the table, and flowers, though all failed by her attempts and added to her pathetic state. Lena and Corinthians for years made their Roses as a little hobby and it grew to be their life at some point. For Lena all she had were the fake roses she made and other little figments that she placed her brother for messing up. Ruth, Lena, and Corinthians were dependent on men, and that lifestyle would never change for them.
Pilate, Reba, and Circe are prime examples of what we call independent women in today’s society.
“She had no electricity because she would no pay for the service. Nor for gas. At night she and her daughter lit the house with candles and kerosene lamps; they warmed themselves and cooked with wood and coal, pumped kitchen water into a dry sink through a pipeline from the well and lived pretty much as though progress was a word.” (Morrison 27)
Pilate and Reba were successfully able to be self efficient. In order to have money they sold homemade wine and also made use of whatever Reba had won with her luck to keep them living in the manner they have been accustomed to and give Hagar whatever she pleased. Morrison not only made them very strong independent women but certain factors make them appear as mythical. Reba for her constant luck, and winning everything she tried and whatever she didn’t try to win. “‘Got to where won’t nobody sell her a raffle ticket. They just want her to hold theirs.’” (Morrison 45)
But Pilate by far presents questions and represented a sort of mythical presence. 2 things that stood out about Pilate were her belly button and the factor she gave birth to herself.
Pilate was like a sage, using incantations and potions to make things happen and change in certain matters.
Circe is one who creates her own rules and code of conduct and is able to live a very long life by them. If anything Circe is presented as a sibyl, and is Milkman’s way of knowing anything from the past.
“‘She must have been a hundred year old when she died.’ ‘Older. Was a hundred when I was a boy.’ ” (Morrison 233)
Circe is presented as this mythical woman, who has lived far beyond her time, rather deal with herself then anyone else, She shows him both the power and the destructiveness of his heritage, and channels his rebelliousness into a quest for his own identity. What all of these three women have in common is their ability to make their own rules, live independently, have a mythical presence that others don’t even have, and don’t need men.
Hagar is one of the main examples of a woman who is struggling between Pilates, independent world and Ruth’s domestically dependent world. When Hagar was first was present she spoke about being hungry. Of course this brought questions from her mother and grandmother, because they provided her with her every whim and desire so they could not possibly know what she was hungry for. When Hagar got involved with Milkman things indeed became different. “Everybody who knew him knew about Hagar, but she was considered his private honey pot, not a real or legitimate girlfriend-not someone he might marry.” (Morrison 91) When Hagar was dumped, she wasn’t able to handle it, he was all that she ever had and ever gotten. The way she tried to fix that was to just try and kill him and the closet time she did, she wasn’t able to, which after that point brought her to a deep depression. When she actually see’s herself she perks up, Believing that Milkman prefers pale, white-looking women, Hagar goes on a manic shopping spree to try to acquire the dominant culture's standards of beauty. Sadly after all of this, Hagar died due to pneumonia. When Guitar was thinking about how she was he mentioned her lack of support group and criticism that many women need in order to grow up to be a well rounded woman. Due to Pilate and Reba giving her everything they desired, she would never fain that she needed to survive in the world. Hagar was never able to be dependent on herself or on men, but on certain beauty standards in order to be depending on something.
Toni Morrison gave a descriptive view of the women in Milkman’s life that all had a distinct story to carry about being domestically dependent, sufficiently independent, and inconveniently in the middle.
I bought a book yesterday by Toni Morrison I didn't know what else to buy, its called Love. If you have any Book Recommendations please leave some because I'd like to some stuff to read this summer.
I'll update later, hopefully when I get home I'm suppose to go out to lunch with Loverman.