Paradise by Toni Morrison

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societies, "where every cluster of white men looked like a posse," (Morrison 1997) but by even towns of lighter-skinned blacks, the citizens of Ruby, built their community on moral and righteous law, rigidly enforced by fear (Morrison 1997). Morrison writes, "the people were no longer nine families and some more. They became a tight band of wayfarers bound by the enormity of what had happened to them. Their horror of whites was convulsive but abstract. They saved the clarity of their hatred for the men who had insulted them in ways too confounding for language: first by excluding them, then by offering them staples to exist in that very exclusion" (Morrison 1997).

When they set out to seek their Eden, they carried with them the oven which had been used by their ancestors when only one oven had to serve all the families in the camp or community (Morrison 1997). There was actually resentment from many of the women in the community over this stove, which the men seemed to ...

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