She be dead if you tarry (8) from an unknown woman. The grass was shoulder high for her and waist high for me so, looking out for snakes, we crawled through it on our bellies. Toni Morrison's Home begins with a short chapter in the first person, narrated by a man named Frank Money. He was shot to death by someone who wanted or envied the gas station he owned. Yet he cannot always be in that role, and his stint away from her in Korea makes clear the shortcomings of always having someone else solve your problems for you. The children of indifferent parents, Frank and Cee are despised by their step-grandmother, Lenore, who mistreats them. Reviewing Toni Morrison's last novel, A Mercy (2008), in the New Yorker, John Updike referred to it as "another instalment of her noble and necessary fictional project of exposing the infamies of slavery and the hardships of being African-American". Frank has always been Cee's protector, giving her advice and saving her from any threats that come her way. Lenore thinks that Cee is especially deplorable because she was born on the road, following the Money familys eviction from their Texas farm. It has been 42 years since the publication of The Bluest Eye (1970), her groundbreaking first novel about self-hatred and incestuous rape in the black community. The good churchgoing women of Lotus bring food and do chores even though they despise her, but at least they never have to say out loud what they know to be true: the Lord Works in Mysterious Ways His Wonders to Perform (92). He finds Cee in terrible shape: she is rail-thin, exhausted, and bleeding from between the legs. The other is the mysterious recurrence of a ghostly little man in a pale-blue zoot suit who appears at key moments and then vanishes. Home - Chapters 1 and 2 Summary & Analysis. Frank is born to hardworking parents who generally neglect him, leaving his care to his harsh step-grandmother, Lenore Money. Similarly, having been long troubled by the death of a man in a fight that they witnessed as children, Frank and Cee find the man's shallow grave and dig up his body, wrapping it in a quilt that Cee has made as a makeshift coffin, and re-burying him.
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