Week XIII assignment

''In search of our mothers garden''

This book is written by Alice Walker. In the part that was given to us the main theme is about black women. Black woman understood the self-worth and self-respect so they want to be an example of the future generation of the other women. They became more than sexual objects, they became 'Saints'. Also, in the story it is mentioned the poet Jean Toomer and he understood/ felt that black women were unhappy and be unloved. They were 'the mule of the world'. This caused black women to become emotionless and hopeless. They had dreams as other women's but they were not allowed to follow these dreams. The author makes this clear to us when she mentions the names of some black women's. They were forced to bare children and God knows these children were more often than sold away from her. Also, Walker makes a comparison between Virginia Wolf and Phillis Wheatley. Walker  conveys that all of Woolf's fears were Wheatley's reality; due to restraints all of Woolf's goals were unachievable for Wheatley.
We have the story of her mother that had ran away to marry with the man she loved. Her mother is described as a large, soft, loving-eyed woman who had rarely impatient. She loved her children and her husband because she did everything for them so they can be all right, to have clothes to wear and a place where to sleep. She did loved her children that one time she argued with the owner so her children can go to school. Above all, she loved flowers and take good care of them. I personally loved this chapter that I read about this book because it introduces us with another  aspect of black women that I had not known. They tried for themselves to follow the dream and the self-respect that they deserve. In all the world there is nothing no more important than the self-worth and self-respect of a woman. 




''The bluest eye'' by Toni Morrison.

''The bluest eye'' an amazing book with such an interesting events and a sad story in the end. The book talks about Pecola and her family. They are like a normal family , her mother cleans other houses, her father drinks and she has a brother. Pecola was a little girl and tried to help her mother with the house work. Pecola was different from other children because she was ugly and no one liked her. The story takes place in their house which is a little green and white house. Pecola loves Shirley Temple, believing that whiteness is beautiful and that she is ugly.She believes that if she had blue eyes than she would be beautiful and her life would be transformed. Her father drinks all the time and her mother is distant and sometimes they beat one another.
Also, there is the story of her parents before they meet each other.
I wished that what happened it had never happened. One day she was washing the dishes and when  her father came home, on the delusion of what  he felt for the first time when he saw Pecola's mother he raped her. She told her mother but she did not believe her and beat her. As a rescue she went to the Soaphead Church and tells his her wish that she wanted blue eyes. He instead of helping her, uses her to kill the dog that he disliked.
The main theme in this book except of prejudice is sexual abuse/ rape. When she is raped for the first time by her father she is pregnant and on the 6 month of pregnancy she loses the child. What shocked me the most is that her father rapes her for the second time and than disappears.
As a result we have the madness of Pecola believing that her wish for blue eyes has been fulfilled.
I loved this book so much because the author has written it in a wonderful style and a kind of way it shows us the reality that is nowadays because even nowadays father rapes her daughter. All I can say that it is difficult thing to be raped by your own father and God helps those who happens this. It needs a lot of courage to get over it step by step with the help of the people who love.