Homework/April 10

Be sure to do the assigned reading (thru Part One of novel) and submit your three postings by midnight Sunday.

The Individual vs. The Community

How would different characters in Sula respond to this question? What matters most in life: What I think of myself? or what the members of my community (friends, family, colleagues at work, acquaintances, etc.) think of me?

A Morrison Reading on NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4837922

After you get to this page, open hour #4 of this Hurricane Katrina Relief Broadcast and Ms. Morrison's reading is approximately 16 minutes into this hour. Close your eyes and just listen to the pictures and feelings she creates with her words. This reading is from her novel JAZZ.

More on Morrison

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison

Morrison Nobel Prize Biography

http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1993/morrison-bio.html