Paradise toni morrison pdf download

She gets it that very day but she stays there in the Convent for two years and after that also she goes away for short durations only as the Convent becomes her home. She finds neither of the two but stays in the Convent to get relieved of the pain of loss of all the good things in life.

There in the Convent she starts a casual affair with K. Then comes Seneca, a heart-broken girl who has seen so many black women crying in her life that now she tries to help them out. She has experienced a troublesome childhood as Jean, her sister with whom she has been living from the beginning, mysteriously disappears one morning leaving behind a five-year- old confused Seneca.

But finally on the sixth day a case-worker comes and takes her to a foster- house. Seneca experiences many ups and downs in life. At present she is heart-broken because of her rude and arrogant boyfriend, Eddie; who is in prison for running his car over a child.

Seneca tries to help him by providing him whatever he wants in prison, but her every effort makes him more angry. However, Mrs. Seneca leaves Mrs. When Seneca reaches the bus-stand she comes to know that she has to wait for two hours for her bus.

After a while, she meets a rich woman called Mrs. Norma Keene Fox who needs Seneca to do some personal and confidential work of hers for which she will give five hundred dollars to Seneca. Seneca, after the initial reluctance, agrees and goes with the lady to her palatial house.

There www. Fox and leaves the house with five hundred dollars and some nice clothes. Seneca finds it difficult to decide what to do and where to go. Meaning follow his instructions, Pick up her life-before Eddie? Or should she just move on? She decides to go for the third option. Eventually she reaches the Convent along with Sweetie whom she finds walking purposelessly on the road with uncombed hair and crumpled clothes.

Seneca thinks that Sweetie is crying but actually the girl is smiling after a long period of six years without even knowing it. Both of them get a warm welcome in the Convent. Sweetie, after coming to her normal-self, blames the women in the Convent for misguiding her, but Seneca starts living there happily in the company of the three women.

The last one is Pallas who does not speak as she has lost her voice after seeing her boyfriend, Carlos, making love to her mother. Pregnant and shocked she reaches the Convent where on seeing the sympathetic Connie she finds her voice back. Pallas returns to her house after spending a few days in the Convent; but feels uncomfortable in her own house and comes back to the Convent where she gives birth to her child.

Connie takes all these troubled women on a spiritual journey3 from their outer tortured selves to the inner reconciled ones achieved by togetherness, sharing and confrontation. Disturbed by the self-sufficiency of these women the patrons of Ruby try to kill these women because they think that these women are a threat to the culture and unity of their all black town. However, the real reason for the attack is the chauvinism of these orthodox patriarchs who, unable to change themselves, find it impossible to understand the young generation of their town.

However, the conservative and stubborn leaders try to control the rebellion by threatening the youngsters, but after failing in their attempt they blame the Convent women for ill-advising and misleading their progeny. They think that their pure blood can be polluted by the outside women. Moreover, it is suggested in the novel that these top guns of the town want the land of the Convent for their own benefit. Thus in this novel Morrison shows that the oppressor is not the white male but the black one who because of his baseless assumptions and fears fails to appreciate an independent and self-reliant group of harmless women.

Paradise can be read as a novel with two endings: one — that all the women in the Convent are killed by a group of conceited men as told by Patricia; another — that all the women are not injured so they take the injured ones with them and escape in the Cadillac as suggested by Anna Flood. The second version is more reliable as no dead-bodies are found there and the Cadillac is also not there.

The attackers are sure that they have injured one and killed one woman but they themselves are not sure about the other three. Eventually, these women, free of their troubling pasts, are ready to start all anew. In the novel Soane and Anna Flood, though the residents of Ruby, try their level best to help the women in the Convent. Soane is quite friendly with Connie. However, she is not ready to tolerate beyond a limit and so she leaves the town to start her life somewhere else.

She gets a job in Demby in a clinic and tries to lead an independent life. She is the one who has brought the troubled Pallas to the Convent and tells her that the Convent is a place where she can stay for a while and feel safe. Black women of the country faced gender-discrimination in the hands of the black men during the movement.

Paradise opens in , the time around the Civil Rights Movement in America. The freedom was equated with the redemption of black masculinity in the movement as the male activists believed that the catastrophe of racism was the loss of black manhood. There was total disregard for the issues pertaining to the experience of black women. The black female activists felt the irony of the black movement in which no freedom was entitled to them as the white patriarchy was being replaced by the black one.

The man should be up first before women because Toni Morrison conveys the message to the black male that he cannot imitate the white male by trying to create a paradise for him self by suppressing the black female. If he dares also then his heaven will not last forever. He should get over the mentality of seeing the black female only as a mere helper in his ventures and should accept her worth and respect her individuality.

Ruby is a town where people follow Christianity and the Convent actually is a replica of Hell with its sensuous artifacts and chaotic lifestyle of the inhabitants who do not believe in living disciplined lives. A pandemonium is created by Connie as she rejects Christianity and follows paganism and witchcraft. Milton describes that the original sin has been caused by dis obedience, Morrison shows that disobeying the traditional norms can lead to the path of redemption and self-realization.

Connie shows that it is better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven as expressed by Satan. Banished from the symbolic black Paradise that is Ruby, these women experience bliss and salvation in Hell that is Convent; and finally they come back to the Earth that is their own cities to create a Paradise of one of their own.

Thus Toni Morrison conveys again and openly in this novel, as she has partially suggested in Sula and Beloved already, that terms like heaven and hell, good and evil, moral and immoral, faith and skepticism are connotative and relative. Christianity cannot control all the faiths throughout the world. What is called paganism by them is religion for others, what is called witchcraft by them is ethnicity for others and what is defined as immoral by them is a ritual for others.

Moreover, it is ironical that the pure black forefathers and masters of the town neither feel any problem with the religion imposed on them by the whites, nor the urge to revive their black roots; they, rather, try to kill the women who deny Christianity by opting www. It is the irony in the novel that Ruby, and before that Haven, has been created as a paradise for the pure black people but due to their stubbornness and dogmatism they make it a hell where a group of elderly people tyrannize all the others.

On the other hand, the marginalized women of Convent, after facing so many ups and downs in their lives, and committing a few mistakes also; eventually reinvent themselves by rejecting the hegemony and the rules set by the self-obsessed oppressors. The novel ends with these women as happy and satisfied, and living away from the burden of home and hearth.

They are not indifferent towards their families and relations but they want a life of their own also. They, as Toni Morrison seems to suggest, make their own paradise on this very earth by following the path of sisterhood4 and a religion of their own.

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