... the sadness and pride from her soul. By rejoining with her community, she is able to be healed. This final image of acceptance and redemption leads us back to Morison's epigraph from Romans 9:25: "I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved." Margaret Atwood, a contemporary of Morrison, offers brilliant insight into these ... , is her own comment on the goings-on in her novel, her final response to the measuring and dividing and excluding "school teachers" [Sethe's cruel owner] of this world. An epigraph to a book is like a key signature i...

• Word Count: 3712
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

... the sadness and pride from her soul. By rejoining with her community, she is able to be healed. This final image of acceptance and redemption leads us back to Morison's epigraph from Romans 9:25: "I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved." Margaret Atwood, a contemporary of Morrison, offers brilliant insight into these ... , is her own comment on the goings-on in her novel, her final response to the measuring and dividing and excluding "school teachers" [Sethe's cruel owner] of this world. An epigraph to a book is like a key signature i...

• Word Count: 3715
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School