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Toni Morrison: Rivalry And Irony
The beginning of the novel is the rivalry between Heed and Christine, middle part is showing a friendship that existed once to these two women as children and their deep feelings towards the end of the novel. The women try to come together and find out about this communication situation on why they are not friends. Christine asks “Was he good to you, Heed?...Mind you at eleven I thought a box of candied popcorn was good treatment. He scrubbed my feet til the soles was like butter.”( Morrison 186) The misunderstandings of being young and ignorant, having no one to explain important things in life to them leads to the characters living the life they have. She started blaming everyone for a lot of things that were happening around her. Having
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