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This is the first 1,000 characters of 784 words (3.14 pages) in the essay titled Tar Baby Toni Morrison s Tar Baby is a novel about conflicts and learned biases that exist on a race, class and gender level. Many of the characters experience a sense of exile either from their environment or from themselves. All of these characters have some sort of issue that exists on a race, class or gender level, that will eventually lead them to their exile. Most of the novel takes place on a white millionaire s Caribbean estate, Valerian Street. He in a sense exiled himself from the states because he felt alienated from the world that he lived in. He lived in a capitalistic society, and when he finished working his usefulness in that society was over. So he left his home in Philadelphia with his wife who was not happy about having two homes: I live in airplanes now. Nowhere. Not in Philadelphia…Not here… (P.28) His wife Margaret does not understand why he wants to be on an Island without people that they know.Margaret married Valerian when she was a child; one reason for this was that she wanted to get away from her family. In a way, she exiled herself from her childhood because of its complications. Her parents were bothered with the fact that she had red hair, because her father didn t have red hair. He wasn t sure if she was his child or not and this tension continued throughout her childhood. She escaped her past through Valerian and began a new life without the tension that she felt from her parents. Because of her red hair she stands out in her family, an... |
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Keywords: red hair, valerian, exile, novel, tar baby, one reason, tension, gender, parents, wife margaret, capitalistic society, candy company, father didn, silent character, teddy boys, footstep, toni morrison, charmed, michael michael