{"id":827,"date":"2021-10-07T12:52:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T16:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/?p=827"},"modified":"2021-10-07T16:01:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T20:01:53","slug":"strength-and-loving-oneself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/2021\/10\/07\/strength-and-loving-oneself\/","title":{"rendered":"Strength and Loving Oneself"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toni Morrison communicates empowering life lessons through her characters\u2019 personalities. <\/span>Baby Sugg<\/span>s<\/span>, being Sethe\u2019s mother-in-law, is a mother figure for her but for the reader as well.<\/span>\u00a0She has a passage about loving <\/span>oneself\u00a0<\/span>that <\/span>begins prominent to their situation and then broadens and\u00a0<\/span>become<\/span>s<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>relatable to all people<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>T<\/span>he context that Baby Suggs <\/span>talks<\/span> about is white people not loving black people, or their skin and hands. A person\u2019s skin<\/span>\u00a0represents who they are and their history. A black person\u2019s hands were a threat and a means of expressing themselves. They could use <\/span>their hands to work hard and advance in life, theoretically<\/span>. After this, her passage about loving oneself shifts and reads like she is speaking directly to the reader<\/span>. \u201c<\/span><\/span>You <\/span><\/span>got to love it, you!\u201d<\/span>\u00a0Baby Suggs shouts (Morrison 104).<\/span>\u00a0She mentions flesh again, <\/span>\u201c<\/span>flesh that needs to be loved<\/span>\u201d<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0breaking down the body: feet that need rest, backs that need support, and arms that are strong. Strength, resting, and <\/span>support and all connected as are feet, arms, and the spine of the human body.<\/span>\u00a0The spine, which is the center of the body, needing support emphasizes that people cannot make it through life alone. Community and lifting others up is important, as is lifting oneself up in times when they feel alone. The passage wraps up <\/span>narrowing the target audience again and specifying back to its original<\/span>. \u201cThe dark, dark liver\u2014love it<\/span>, love it…\u201d, <\/span>C<\/span>aucasi<\/span>an skin<\/span> is prized<\/span>\u00a0and the darker of a skin tone that someone has the less human he was treated. The less a person is like the <\/span>well-off\u00a0Caucasian family, the harder of a time others and life w<\/span>ould have<\/span> give<\/span>n<\/span> him which is <\/span>all the more<\/span> importance to love himself deeply. <\/span>Repeating the words \u201cdark\u201d and \u201clove\u201d curate the message of<\/span>\u00a0value.\u00a0<\/span>A person who loves their self is never alone and always with a friend. Feeling supported and strong<\/span>, able to rest when needed.<\/span>\u00a0Baby Suggs teaches the reader about strength. She encourages laughing, crying, and dancing. Flushing one\u2019s emotions out. Keeping everything in and seeming<\/span>\u00a0unaffected is a false sense of strength in humans. Feeling and facing emotions is courageous and that is how to move past them<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toni Morrison communicates empowering life lessons through her characters\u2019 personalities. Baby Suggs, being Sethe\u2019s mother-in-law, is a mother figure for her but for the reader as well.\u00a0She has a passage about loving oneself\u00a0that begins prominent to their situation and then broadens and\u00a0becomes\u00a0relatable to all people.\u00a0The context that Baby Suggs talks about is white people not … Continue reading Strength and Loving Oneself<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145909],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2021-blog-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}