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Toni Morrison's 1970 novel has become a
classic definition of the destruction of racism, as well as how one can "cope" through
imagination. The power of the tale is staggering, and provides the core of this 5 page discussion.
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by B. Bryan Babcock August 2001 -- properly Introduction Toni Morrisons 1970 novel has become a
classic definition of the destruction of racism, as well as how one can "cope" through imagination. The power of the tale is staggering, and provides the core of this
discussion. Dick and Jane passage Dick and Jane were used as classic models of children in a primary grade reader. Morrison uses these first sentences run together to define
segments of the novel. The running together of the phrases such as HEREISTHEHOUSEITISGREENAND WHITEIT ASAREDDOORITISVERYPRTTYPRETTYPRETTY, at first takes the reader by surprise. After getting past the "is this
a typo?" question, and the initial puzzle, one realizes that the material that follows is an opposite of what the run-together title suggests. While the primer told about the
"pretty house" of Dick and Jane, we learn that our major character, Pecola, lives in a run-down storefront, which is drafty and cold and poorly lit. Each of the novel
segments correlates with the seasons. The section about "See Jane," is really about Pecola, as opposite a presentation from the white blue-eyed ideal, "Jane," that a child could be.
In fact the whole family is far from ideal. Morrison says of them: "You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and
could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak
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