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= FROM JAZZ by Toni Morrison  =

//**"I'm crazy about this City"**//

//Toni Morrison://
- Born February 18,1931 as Chloe Anthony Wofford in Lorain, Ohio - Attended Howard University, Cornell University, Texas Southern University, Yale and Princeton. - //Jazz// is the second in a trilogy, beginning with //Beloved// and ending with //Paradise//. - //Nobel Prize-winning// American author, editor and professor. //-// Named one of the"30 of the Most Powerful Women in America" by //Ladies' Home Journal// in 2001//.//



  Summary: Even though this is an excerpt, it has a lot of information about how the speaker feels towards this City. The one fact that she capitalizes the word City plays a major role in understanding her feelings toward it. In the excerpt, the speaker describes her feelings toward the City, and in this, goes on describing the contents of the City. From here, she goes on to describe the conduct that one should practice when in the city, and ends out with lessons that one should learn when in the City. = =

= = AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE ASPECTS FOUND IN "//from// JAZZ":  ·  America - The speaker loved her City :  “I’m crazy about this City.”  ·  Place/role in society - The speaker witnessed racial interactions : “Wealthy whites, and plain ones too, pile into mansions decorated and redecorated by black women richer than they are, and both are pleased with the spectacle of the other.”  ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif';">Culture – The speaker heard and acknowledged the music of her culture : <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif';">“A colored man floats down out of the sky blowing a saxophone…” <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif';">Obstacles – The speaker talks about relationships, (Through her previous ones) and the hardships and lessons that one has to experience and learn when in one : <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif';">“But if you have been left standing, as I have, while your partner overstays at another appointment, or promises to give you exclusive attention…but is falling asleep just as you have begun to speak…” <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif';"> “You have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit." <span style="font-size: 115%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">

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