Blog 6
Toni Morrison shows a large amount of racism in her book Beloved . The effect of racism is tremendously traumatizing. Toward the end of the book Schoolteacher is bragging about a “nigger women” that made fine ink, good soup, and pressed his collars the way he liked it. “Unfortunately she had gone wild, due to the mishandling of the nephew who’d over beat her and made her cut and run.”(176) This passage in the book is extremely important because it is a clear visual on what were the effects of being a slave. Slave owner would beat African American beyond the point of education. This quote is summarizing how African Americans would go crazy because of how many times they would get beaten. First of all African Americans didn't go to school and had a different way of learning and in top of that they would get beaten and as a result would end up making them go crazy.
When reading this passage with the point of view of my lense I tend to get a lot of anger built up along with sorrow. I get mad at the fact that no one did anything to stop slavery at that time. The white people were heartless selfish people who only cared about themselves. I do not know how someone has the gut to hurt another person until they go crazy. That is ridiculously extreme and should have been stopped right away. African Americans are people just like us and everyone should be treated with equality and no racism .
Going back to the text schoolteacher tries to give nephew a piece of advice and tells him“ You can't just mishandle creatures and expect success”(176). This to me is the worst advice any person can think of; Black slaves are not creatures and never will be. Schoolteacher should not be comparing them any sort of animals. Aside from the name calling I agree with the fact that success can not be expected if you keep harming someone. Slaves can not be there normal self if they are constantly being hurt to death by someone. No person or even animal needs to be whipped in order to learn something.
I really enjoy reading about how passionate you are about inequality. Your personal opinion places a lot of emotional appeal to how slaves were mistreated. This book helps people understand how terrible it was for African Americans and how oppressed they where by the Whites. Cant wait to read more about your feelings towards this issue!
ReplyDeleteInequality is a world wide issue we still face today. It is truly great to see your interest for this serious issue. Beloved has explicit occurrences that show inequality through gender roles. I can't wait to see what you will blog about next.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your personal opinion on these issues. I think today as a society, we know that blacks are not slaves and are humans, but I think it's difficult for people to think that back in the 1800's when everyone else had the same opinion towards them.
ReplyDeleteI like the way you see this quote, because it shows a different perspective and point of view. I saw it different, but I like how you put your interpretation of the quote, nice!
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