Toni Morrison

Toni morrison's novels include "The Bluest Eyes," "Song of Solomon" and "Beloved." She’s received virtually every major literary prize, including the Pulitzer and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her body of work was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993. Her new novel is called "Love" that love, in all it's assorted varieties - familial, romantic, self, perverted, platonic and tough. Morrison delivers is a vivid and stirring account of the turmoil that ensues when young women are deprived of the parental but mostly paternal love and guidance that is their birthright. With Love, Ms. Morrison targets her usual mostly female and black audience, depicting African-American characters and splashing flashbacks of the Civil Rights Movement sprucely throughout. However, the messages she conveys the importance of communication, self-esteem, education, soul-searching, relationships and human nature are universal and timeless, transcending gender and race.

she transforms her stories into masterpieces. It follows on the heels of PARADISE, her masterful story of free slaves, driven across the country until they were able to settle and build their own town. All was as it should be in their "paradise" until over time it became a painful form of hell. Like an alchemist she takes words, ideas, events and characters through an ingenious array of juxtapositions and transmogrifications, which transcend their mundane use by others. All of her work is rich in myth, metaphor, mirth, wisdom, humanity and biblical references.

LOVE is an exploration into the deepest regions of these most complicated of human emotions. Culture and society are rich in examples of how mere mortals have always attempted to understand the animal attraction between two people and, in doing so, to rationalize the essences of passion and romance. Ancient myths, poems, plays, novels, songs, folklore, fairy tales, film, advertising and popular culture in general all reflect peoples' preoccupation with love and its dizzying impact on the human psyche; both lover and beloved are equally bewildered by its bewitching spell.



Questions



1.What do you think about meaning of Love?

2.Why has Toni Morrison chosen Love as the title for her novel? What kinds of Love affect and afflict its characters?

3.How are the individuals in the novel affected by these larger forces?