#HOME BY TONI MORRISON EBOOK FULL#

вЂњListen here, you from Georgia and you been in a desegregated army and maybe you think up North is way different from down South. But, first, the reverend offered him this advice: The Reverend and his wife straightened Frank out as best they could, and with their scarce means they got him ready for his trip back to Georgia. вЂGood Lord,вЂ™ he mumbled, pushing the door closed.

#HOME BY TONI MORRISON EBOOK FULL#

The man at the door took in the full measure of his shaking visitor, then stepped back to let him in. вЂњHe wanted to say вЂGood morning,вЂ™ or вЂExcuse me,вЂ™ but his body shook violently like a victim of Saint VitusвЂ™s dance and his teeth chattered so uncontrollably he could not make a sound. The letter from Georgia shattered the fog and he decided to escape from the hospital and return home: his sister Cee needed him desperately she would die if he didnвЂ™t come to her aid.Д«arefooted and penniless, Frank made his way to the nearby AME Zion parsonage: She be dead if you tarry.вЂ™ Finally he settled on the chair in the corner of the room as his neutral object. вЂњVisualizing a blank sheet of paper drove his mind to the letter he had gotten-the one that had closed his throat: вЂCome fast. Though highly sedated, he was desperately trying to focus his mind: he wanted to вЂњplay deadвЂќ so the orderly wonвЂ™t give him another shot of sedative. After one of these seizures, he woke up strapped into a hospital bed. He suffered from not infrequent bouts of war trauma that left him drained and incapable of sleep. Korean War soldiers waiting for discharge.Дischarged from the army, Frank settled into an aimless life of drinking and excesses. He and his two best friends volunteered for the army and soon found themselves in Korea, where they encountered cold weather and real misery that was worse than anything seen in Georgia.ДЇrank survived the war, but his friends did not-their shattered bodies stayed where they died, and that weighed on Frank and added to the trauma that possessed his brain. What if they are discovered by the murderers?ДЇrank forced the vision of the murdered man from his mind, remembering only the horses that вЂњstood like menвЂќ. The two young Blacks have just witnessed the rough burial of a murdered man in a hasty grave outside an isolated farmhouse. When she saw that black boot with its creamy pink and mud-streaked sole being whacked into the grave, her whole body began to shake. We could not see the faces of the men doing the burying, only their trousers but we saw the edge of a spade drive the jerking foot down to join the rest of itself. One foot struck up over the edge and quivered, as though it could get out, as though with a little effort it could break through the dirt being shoveled in. Never lifting our heads, just peeping through the grass, we saw them pull a body from a wheelbarrow and throw it into a hole already waiting.

I grabbed her arm and put a finger to my lips. It is a powerful story, powerfully told.Д«ack to the opening scene of the novel: Frank and his sister, warned by the loud shouting of the men, drop down into the tall grass where they cannot be seen:

Toni Morrison at 81 is still going strong in her 10th novel, Home, she tells of FrankвЂ™s childhood in Georgia, his enlistment in the Army, his discharge in Seattle and finally his return to Georgia to face up with his demons. FrankвЂ™s life is about to take a new and dangerous turn. The farm isnвЂ™t abandoned there are men there. Suddenly, as they turn to go home, they are startled to hear voices. Curious for a closer look, they crawled under the fence and walked toward the horses. He had walked with his little sister Cee (Ycidra) to an abandoned farm outside town to look at the horses.

But when we saw a crawl space that some animal had dug. The threats hung from wire mesh fences with wooden stakes every fifty or so feet. Like most farmland outside Lotus, Georgia, this one here had plenty of scary warning signs. We shouldnвЂ™t have been anywhere near that place. Home is the new novel by Nobel and Pulitzer winner Toni Morrison that tells FrankвЂ™s story.ДЄs the novel begins, Frank is speaking to the author about his childhood: Horses On The Hill, Detail of wall carving, Duality Of Life Art.ДЇrank MoneyвЂ™s home is in rural Georgia, a small town just South of Atlanta.

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