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A 3 page paper which examines social commentaries in Toni Morrison’s Recitatif and Edward P. Jones’ Marie. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the United States there have been many racial issues, especially those related to African Americans. And, in more recent times it seems that the condition of the elderly, and the
dismissal of the elderly, has become a very serious issue. Toni Morrison, in her short story Recitatif, offers up a commentary on racial concerns. In Edward P. Jones Marie the
reader is presented with social commentaries on the elderly, as well as the disabled. In both of these stories the authors utilize different approaches that truly make the reader think
more deeply about these social issues, forcing the reader to awaken and see the complexity and depth of these issues. In this manner the reader is made to think twice,
and hopefully think differently, about the topics. Social Commentaries in the Short Stories of Morrison and Jones In Morrisons story strongly relies on the readers conscious and subconscious
ideas of race and racial stereotypes. Even people without strong stereotypes will be pulled into the race issues in this story, making themselves see that perhaps they have more preconceived
notions about race than they previously thought. This is because the story, which is about a black girl/woman and a white girl/woman, never reveals who is black and who is
white. The reader is offered clues, but then are clues that could be perceived from either direction. For example, in the beginning of the story the girl Twyla recalls
how her mother said, of people of the different race, that, "they never washed their hair and they smelled funny. Roberta sure did. Smell funny, I mean" (Morrison). Depending on
what the readers race, and personal perspectives, may be they will think that this new girl, Roberta, is white or black. This sort of reference, this sort of ambiguity, leaves
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