Unhealed wounds and traumas in Toni Morrison’s Home
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Toni Morrison`s Home describes the unspeakable traumas of the main characters, Frank Money and Cee. Their traumas derive from Korean war experiences, poverty, racial discrimination and the evil experiment of a white doctor. In their childhood they witnessed the racial killing and burial of a black man by white people. Frank also witnessed his two best friends' death in front of him in the Korean war. Cee also became a subject of a white doctor's experiment on a living body. Morrison shows a long healing process of treating unbearable traumas. Like Morrison`s other novels, Morrison emphasized the importance of a family bond and the community. There are many black men and women who can heal the wounded Cee and help Frank find a safe way to rescue his sister. They are healers unlike the white doctor, reflecting a long history of medical racial divide in the U. S. A. Frank solves his mental anguish, which enables him to find a method to confess his sins and heal his traumas. He saved his sister, Cee, right before her death. In the course of doing so, Frank confronts the fear of death he experienced. Through the process of confrontation and disclosure, Frank finally seals an end to his difficulties. At the end of this novel, Frank and Cee give a proper burial and mourn for an unknown black man under the beheaded and split but surviving sweet bay tree. Morrison emphasizes the fact that like that tree, they will survive regardless of their misfortune and burdensome traumas. Lotus, Georgia is no longer the worst home for Frank and Cee. Now it is a place of warmth, healing, love, and hope that will provide a safe haven for the rest of their lives.
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Toni Morrison`s Home describes the unspeakable traumas of the main characters, Frank Money and Cee. Their traumas derive from Korean war experiences, poverty, racial discrimination and the evil experiment of a white doctor. In their childhood they witnessed the racial killing and burial of a black man by white people. Frank also witnessed his two best friends' death in front of him in the Korean war. Cee also became a subject of a white doctor's experiment on a living body. Morrison shows a long healing process of treating unbearable traumas. Like Morrison`s other novels, Morrison emphasized the importance of a family bond and the community. There are many black men and women who can heal the wounded Cee and help Frank find a safe way to rescue his sister. They are healers unlike the white doctor, reflecting a long history of medical racial divide in the U. S. A. Frank solves his mental anguish, which enables him to find a method to confess his sins and heal his traumas. He saved his sister, Cee, right before her death. In the course of doing so, Frank confronts the fear of death he experienced. Through the process of confrontation and disclosure, Frank finally seals an end to his difficulties. At the end of this novel, Frank and Cee give a proper burial and mourn for an unknown black man under the beheaded and split but surviving sweet bay tree. Morrison emphasizes the fact that like that tree, they will survive regardless of their misfortune and burdensome traumas. Lotus, Georgia is no longer the worst home for Frank and Cee. Now it is a place of warmth, healing, love, and hope that will provide a safe haven for the rest of their lives.
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