Recitatif – Evanthia Peikidou
- I think a moment where I saw an issue of race is when they met at the supermarket (page 1180). I think that their status gives me an idea of which of the girls is which. Twyla tells that she is married with one kid and Roberta is married with widower and has his four kids, she didn’t have any, and also she had a driver. I think that this status made me think that Twyla might be a black girl and Robert a white girl.
- When I first came to New York, before I got to my first semester in college, my mom thought it would be better for me if I work somewhere to practice my English and meet new people. I remember feeling so anxious that I wouldn’t make any friends there because everybody was from here and I had just come from Greece. The first weeks were little hard for me cause I couldn’t speak the language so well, they had different interest than me, for instance , in Greece with friends you usually would go for a 2 hour coffee, drink or even food, but here they wanted to go bowling or to go watch a movie, but at the end it was fun and we still go out from times to times.
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Eva, One thing that is interesting about Morrison’s approach to race in this story is that it forces us to consider our own assumptions and prejudices as we make judgments about which girl belongs to which race, and in so doing, helps us to understand just how subjective those judgments are.