Monday, May 6, 2013

In Response to God

So I read Kaylynn's blog here and found it very interesting. We are not reading the same book, so I found it a little hard to relate directly. Yet in her post she discusses God and God's relationship with the character in the book that she is reading, The Bluest Eye. The book I am reading, Sula, does not make any explicit mention of God at all. In fact, it is full of mothers having casual sex with strangers, creepy men leering at young girls, young girls killing even younger children, and mothers burning their children to death. Pretty un-Godlike if you ask me. Maybe God comes into play later and I haven't gotten to that part yet. But if not, this just goes to show Morrison's diversity and the differences in themes throughout her novels. I may have to correct myself later though, so stay tuned.

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