Toni Morrison's Recitatif and Amy Tan’s A Pair of Tickets Discussion
Subject
Humanities
Question Description
Step 1: Provide a well-developed response to each of the prompts below. Make sure you point to specific evidence in the text to support your claims but choose your quotes carefully. Use proper MLA in-text citation (Review You are analyzing and supporting a claim. Do not engage in plot summary.
Toni Morrison's "Recitatif"
Race is a sensitive issue because no matter how sure a person is that he or she is not prejudiced, it is impossible to be free from racial stereotyping. The reader is looking for clues to Twyla’s and Roberta’s race is based largely on generalized ideas about races.
Reread the story and for each episode explain the racial basis for each clue to the girls’ race.
What does that tell you about your own racial thinking?
Amy Tan’s “A Pair of Tickets”
Analyze the photographs in Tan’s “A Pair of Tickets.” What do they represent? Do photographs represent the same things each time they are mentioned in the story? How is the significance of the photographs influenced by setting?