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"The Recitatif" Toni Morrison - Coggle Diagram
"The Recitatif"
Toni Morrison
Main Character
Twyla
St. Bonny’s children’s shelter
Resents her mother
Been abandoned
Salt and
Mary
Twyla's mother
Who dances all night
(sex worker)
Incapable of providing necessities for Twyla
Racial bias
First person narration
Middle-class existence
Roberta
St. Bonny’s children’s shelter
Twyla's roommate
Been abandoned
Roberta’s mother
Judgmental of Mary
Serious illness
Provided basic necessities for her daughter
pepper
Follow the famous musician Jimi Hendrix on tour
Maggie
The kitchen woman who works at St. Bonny’s
Sandy-colored
Disabled
Dumb
Legs like parentheses
Symbol for the voiceless, the oppressed
:
Big Bozo
Mrs. Itkin
The woman who runs the orphanage
Setting
New York City
1950s
St. Bonny's Orphanage
Late 1960s
A diner that Twyla served at in Newburgh
1970s
On the street in front of a school
1980s
A diner on Christmas eve
Themes
Racial Identity
Unconscious bias
Race and Prejudice
Childhood trauma
Robs children of their innocence
Sickness and Disability
Maggie’s disabilities