Home, by Toni Morrison

Justine Barbe
Week 1

Toni Morrison was born in 1931, in Ohio, in United-States. She won the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel. She is considered like the one of the best American authors. Her famous novels are Song of Solomon, published in 1977, and Beloved, published in 1987.

The Toni Morrison’s work is haunted by the segregationist past of the United-States. Her last novel, Home, published in 2012, denounces the racism in fifties, supported by laws and conservative organizations. This violence is strengthened by the Korean War, from 1950 until 1953.

Frank Money, an Afro-American veteran, comes back in United-States. Traumatized by the war, he has got many physical and psychological wounds. He also has to save his sister. She has been used as a guinea pig by a White doctor. In the South, profoundly racist, the Frank Money’s courage must be more important than on the frontline.

Home speaks about the difficulty to survive with war and uprooting. However, this novel also represents the search of the happiness.

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