Thursday, May 24, 2012

Writers and Readers: HOME by Toni Morrison

Writers and Readers: HOME by Toni Morrison

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.