Monday, April 5, 2010
Colors
In Toomer's "Blood-Burning Moon," the author uses various colors to create the image he wants the audience to see. Read over the story closely to find colors besides the more obvioius, "black and white." Why do you think Toomer used these particular colors? What do these colors represent for you? Use evidence from the story and personal experience if you care to in order to illustrate your point.
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Toomer usues the color purple a lot. Sh uses it describe the color of dresses that Bob gives Lousia and the color of dresses that Tom wants to be able to buy Lousia. "An next year if ole Stone'll trust me, I'll have a farm. My own. My bales will buy yo what y gets from white folks now. Silk stockings an purple dresses -- course I dont believe what some folks been whisperin as t how y gets them things now." To me the color purple signifies nobillity and someone who has great power. I think Toomer uses this color to show the sam thing that Bob is superior and can afford to give Lousia dresses and is in a sense bumping her up to Bob's status. Toomer also uses purple to describe the color of Bon;s cheecks when he finds out about Tom. Toomer doesn't use a color when he describes the stockings as silk and this allows the reader to believe that they are expensive; again Bob is trying to bump Louisa is status.
ReplyDelete“Her skin was the color of oak leaves on young trees in the fall.” (Toomer, 1274). I believe this quote is very important to the story because it indicates that Louisa is part of the black and white world. The color of oak leaves indicates that she is in between the colors of black and white. Bob treats Louisa as if she was white by giving her luxury and buying her expensive things. Tom doesn’t like the fact that Louisa is falling in love with a white man. Even though it is clearly shown that Louisa is part black and part white, Tom believes that he deserves her just because she is considered to be black. Since Louisa is found to be part of both worlds, she is confused on what she wants in a man which causes a huge conflict between Bob and Tom. Even though Louisa is part white, Bob has to see her in private because he was raised from a white family. It would be considered to be wrong if Bob were to spend time with her in public because she is not fully white. I believe the author is trying to say that racism still occurs in today's world. If racism didn’t occur in this story, Bob and Louisa would be able to spend time together in public.
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