A New Perspective

As far as I have read of this book, we can see a complex classification of race and gender. We can even say they compliment each other. Within what I have read of the first chapter, it is principally introducing us the characters and the conflicts they might face later on.

I have to wonder what were the authors intentions by introducing us the book with such a flare for the dramatic. Seriously, a man jumps off the roof of "No Mercy" hospital and they have their first black patient. At first when I started reading and found out of Mr. Smith's idea, I won't deny that I was startled. Being prepared for an African-American novel, I wasn't expecting such radical people of this race. We've been raised with the idea that people of color were abused, which is true, but they didn't show us that they did stand for themselves. Movies like The Help are a good example of this phenomenon, which is a subject that we had previously touched in class. This books by Toni Morrison makes ask ourselves "You believe that?" pg (10).

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