Hannah Taylor
Mr Schaaf
English A
April 11th, 2017
Blooming in Home by Toni Morrison In Home by Toni Morrison, Frank is not only finding his manhood and his home, it is also about the healing power of women—of Miss Ethel Fordham and her friends in Lotus, who make sacrifices to help Frank find his way to Cee. In Home, Morrison used the motif of blooming to evoke the desperation of rebirth and the power of the women in Franks life despite the presence of male dominance at the time. She does this using five key moments. The first key moment where Morrison evokes the motif of blooming occurs when Frank introduced Lotus, Georgia for the first time in the novel. In this moment, Morrison relies on setting to begin the ever constant concept of blooming. This is achieved in the quote “We shouldn’t have been anywhere near that place. Like most farmland outside Lotus, Georgia, this one her had plenty of warning signs.” (3) The motif is illustrated in the name of the town itself, Lotus. A Lotus flower begins by growing from a very muddy and dark environment, however as it grows its blooms into a beautiful flower. It grows in muddy water, and it is this
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In this moment, Morrison uses figurative language in the quotation, “When he reached the cotton fields beyond Lotus, he saw acres of pink blossoms spread under the malevolent sun. They would turn red and drop to the ground in a few days to let the young bolls through. ” (96). Morrison use of descriptive words such as ‘Lotus’, ‘pink blossoms’ and ‘red’ evoke the motif of blooming as a means of showing the blooming of life under the sun. When the flowers turn red and allow young bolls through, it shows the flowers growing and developing for another cause. This can be in connection to all the female characters, who can symbolize the blossoms, who let Frank and Cee into their lives and helped