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I was too young for this book around 1980. The searing pain Morrison communicated was baffling to me; her poetry impenetrable. Rereading it for the first time some thirty years later, I find it no less painful; so much ugliness and anger, degradation...
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Pecola. That's her name.
Her name bothered me the first time I read it. Pecola. How do you even pronounce it. It's...ugly. Slowly, but surely, I understood that was the point. Or at least a point among many wicked-but-important poi... " Read more of this review » |
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When we finished this book, about half the class--- including me--- were infuriated at Morrison for humanizing certain characters that caused Pecola to suffer the most. "Is she saying what they did was okay?! Is she telling us they weren't to bl...
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