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Morrison's Jazz: Characters' Actions
The novel Jazz by Toni Morrison is an extremely well written
account of black life during the mid 1850's to the late 1920's. Morrison
manipulates the three main character's personas while analyzing their
lives to show the effect that a person's history has on their present day
life. The most interesting thing I found concerning this novel has the
way in which Toni Morrison was able to present you with a first impression
of the characters, then proceed through history, to give you a new
conception of their character. This is seen through three important
individuals: Violet, Joe, and Dorcas. A....
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