Paper Topic:

Fate & free Will

MACROBUTTON DoFieldClick [Student 's Name]

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DATE \ "d MMMM yyyy " 2 June 2010

Morrison : Of Readers and Racial Narratives

Morrison explores the themes of fate and free will in a number of ways in the short story Recitatif ' Regarding free will and the constant confusion over Maggie 's racial identity , Morrison is making the provocative point that a truly color blind society would still have acts of cruelty and their agents , who will never be able to really understand their own

motivations . Through the picketing scene , she also explores another dark aspect of free will : that mistaken assumptions about racism and racist actions can , effectively , poor more fuel over the fire . The confusion over Maggie 's race also extends to the main characters , and the difficulty in discerning any definite racial identity on their part is Morrison 's clever way of drawing readers into the debate : after all the arbitrary assignment of a certain identity to the two girls represents the reader trying to place a racial narrative on actions that do not inherently possess them . In doing so , the reader takes part in sowing confusion over race relations , and can more intimately understand how two life-long friends can end up on opposite sides of an ideological boycott because of the mistakes of the past . Morrison 's main inclusion of exploring fate is in the similar origins of the girls - she explores two lives that started out similar and yet ended...

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