... son Plum returns from the World War I as a drug addict. Plum finds it hard to adapt and lead a normal life after the war and starts using the drug heroin to escape his memories. For a mother this has to be a hard pill to swallow and she takes it upon herself to end his life by burning him so that "he could ... need the presence of other women to deal with the troubles of their lives; they also need each other's protection especially when the male protection is missing. Nel likes to escape to the house where the Peace family live because the house is always full of people and noise and w...

• Word Count: 5084
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Willis, left Greenville Alabama around 1910 after they lost a farm due to debts that they could not repay. Morrison's father's family left Georgia to move north as an attempt to escape sharecropping and the violence against African Americans in the South. The town of Lorain on Lake Erie is where both families settled and is also where Morrison was eventually born ... ...

• Word Count: 2626
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate