Our seminar presentations started 10th May. The first group presented Cyclical storytelling/ The Great Migration/ Time and coming of age. They had a detailed explanation of the historical context and they did relate it to our novel well.
From 1910 to 1930, African Americans started to migrate from the south of US to the north of the US. The aim of this movement was to find new job opportunities because the north was more industrialized than the south and also to escape from the racism in south. Toni Morrison integrated the effects of the Great Migration in her novel very well. In the novel Cholly and Pauline Breedlove are the characters that joined to this migration. They moved to Lorain, Ohio to find a new job and to make more money. But as we see in general that this movement also caused people in a bad way. It caused people to become distant from others and to become alone. We also see the same thing in Cholly and Pauline’s life. Before moving in Lorain, they were really happy, understanding to each other but then they started to become distant from each other. They were expecting to be happier but the converse did happen. So we can say that the base of Breedlove family cracked with their migration and it became worse.
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