Religious Aspect of Christianity
According to James Baldwin’s on “Go Tell It On The Mountain” the aspect of Christianity is greatly perceived with great fear. Elisha is believed to be a man of faith whereby anything he talks reveals what the Lord Want people to do or behave. Since Elisha was a saved man who had leader’s quality in relation to Christianity development, what he says make many people fear thus no one ever tempts to disregard what he says. A very good example is whereby when Elizabeth hears Elisha speaking in tongues. She strongly believes that since she is not saved God passes His message through his servant Elisha and that she is required to repent else she will continue suffering for her sins, (Baldwin, 1981).
Since Elisha is a saved man with qualities of being a religious leader, John tries to imitate his life. According to John, Elisha is his role model and would wish to live that life. Although john has some sense of knowing what the world has to offer, he is warned by the fact that he is closely to the church living principles. The church doctrine and the fear of sin are the major contributors which enable him to be a Christian and make Elisha to be his role model. Initially Gabriel was not a person who thought that he could have lived in the teachings of religious. With the help of beatings that he got from his mother, Gabriel managed to be saved and lived a life which was full of promises. We get to see how he is promised on what his descendants will benefit from his aspect of becoming saved and doing away with the sinful actions, (Baldwin, 1981).
Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eyes
Maureen peal is not liked by Frieda and Claudia. The reason as to why she is not liked is due to the way she perceives other girls. According to tradition set up, the work of a woman is to take care of the family when the husband goes to look for the living. Maureen is not like by Frieda and Claudia simply because she is a “dream child” (Toni, p. 62). She is a beautiful girl who meets all the requirements of being admired. The only group which doesn’t like her is that of Frieda and Claudia simply because she sees them as black and not smart girls. For Claudia, she has all the reason to smile of her blackness although Maureen does not like her appearance, (Bloom, 2007).
The author of the novel doesn’t like the Maureen of those days and even the Maureen of the current either. Since the author doesn’t like Maureen, he doesn’t give her the voice in the entire novel. In order to defeat Maureen Claudia and Frieda tries to use ironical principles whenever they refer to Maureen. She is called black and in the real sense she is not. Since the society accepts that Maureen was cute and beautiful, Claudia and her sister just accepts it and the only thing they had is to give them hope and call themselves angles compared to Maureen. Instead of the two girls feeling shame simply because they are not beautiful as Maureen and they know, they leave that to the society which expects them to feel shame, (Bloom, 2007).
Dysfunctional
In a realistic approach, the Bluest Eyes is the most dysfunctional simply because the entire family of Pecola is against her thoughts of being cute. She believes that with having blue eyes she is going to be lovable and be respected by the society. One of the main reasons which make the book to be more dysfunctional is the approach of the Pecola’s family behavior. The work of Cholly the father of Pecola is to drink and whenever he drinks he turns to be an abusive person. Since Breedlove the wife of Cholly is not happy with the behaviors, she tends to be harsher. Every family in this set up is in one way or the other practicing dysfunctional which should not be the case. What is expected of the family at large if provision of moral and psychological support, (Baldwin, 1981).
Unlike the Blue Eyes, the level of dysfunctional is not highly experienced. Instead of the family providing with support system, we can see how Maureen is being provided some sort of support by the community. Claudia and her sister feels abandoned by their family simply because of instead of encouraging them and giving them the required moral support, they just let things go underway. Some of the characters in the Blue Eye novel seems to be existing but their participation in the growth of the work is minimal which also counts to the dysfunctional of the work, (Bloom, 2007).
Reference:
Baldwin, J. (1981). Go tell it on the mountain: Dell
Bloom, H. (2007). Toni Morrison’s The bluest eye: InfoBase Publishing
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