...community's and her own complicity in acquiescing to hostility by taking life's misery too much for granted. "We acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live....wrong, of course, but it doesn't matter, It's too late" (164). The victim here is not only Pecola's premature and dead baby, sired by Pecola's own father,...

...rise above the crimes committed against her, itself a species of crime in this text. Morrison writes: This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Certain...the sunflowers of my town, it's much, much, much too late.29 Without Claudia's and Morrison's storytelling, Pecola's marginalization and social death become...

...shoulders the guilt of her early denial even as she expiates it in the recognition of her narrative: "When the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce...wrong, of course, but it doesn't matter. It's too late" ( 1 60). And here the framing text of a white suburban Dick and Jane reader hovers forever between...

...the Edge I even think now that the land of the entire country was hostile to marigolds that year. The soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Certain...sunflowers of my town, it's much, much, much too late. Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye IT is TOO LATE TO AVERT the 40,000 infant deaths of 1988, of which approximately...

...the land of the entire country was hostile to marigolds that year. The soil is bad for certain lands of flowers. Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain...sunflowers of my town, it's much, much, much too late. Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye IT is TOO LATE TO AVERT the 40,000 infant deaths of 1988, of which approximately...

...certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the the victim had no right to live. We are wrong, of course, but it doesn't matter. It's too late." As Charles Taylor and Alasdair Maclntyre have written, we understand our lives in narrative form, as...

...enlarged from "I" to "we," speaks for her entire community: This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land...wrong, of course, but it doesn't matter. It's too late. (p. 160) In this passage, the black community's mythical perception of nature leads to a dangerous...

...Claudia offers an interpretation of Pecola's tragedy that she immediately withdraws with the lines, "We are wrong, of course, but it doesn't matter. It's too late" (p. 160). There is a sense at the end of the novel that the entire process of reading has been inadequate,...

...it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim has no right to live. We are wrong, of course, but it doesn't matter. It's too late. (160) The story shows that it does matter, that such acquiescence is destructive. What Claudia's telling...

...requirement. Some environments lend themselves more successfully to these socialisation needs. Some soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers: Certain...wrong, of course, but it doesn't matter. It's too late. (Morrison 1970: 160) My argument is that the contemporary physical, emotional, environmental, political...