Thursday, May 24, 2012
HOME by Toni Morrison
Definition 3a of home in
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary Tenth
Edition reads as follows:
A familiar or usual setting.
Often, comfort and coziness are associated with the word. At
second study, “familiar” and “usual” circumstances can readily be quite challenging,
indeed. Home embodies all of the
elements that avid readers of Toni Morrison would expect—brilliantly evocative syntax
composed of five- and ten-dollar words; fully developed characters; and ample opportunities
to choose between humanity and morality on the one hand—oppression and
brutality on the other. Ms. Morrison tells the story from different points of
view though the main voice is that of Frank Money. More so than her previous novels,
there is an immediate sense of the story flowing directly through Ms. Morrison
from The Source(s) that appear to have guided her work from the very beginning.
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