The Seven Days In Toni Morrison's Song Of Solomon

In the novel, Song of Solomon written by Toni Morrison, there is a group called the Seven Days, and they had goals and methods that this group believed in, the narrator had a specific attitude towards the Seven Days. The Seven Days groups an ineffective way to correct the social ills that were happening in the mid-twentieth-century African Americans. This part of the book demonstrates how torn apart our society was back then. Cynthia Davis talked about Toni Morrisons novel attracted a variety of audiences because it brought in “popular and critical attention for their inventive blend of realism and fantasy,” (Davis) but it’s almost realistic to a point that we could compare this to the society in the mid-1990’s. In the mid-1900’s a group

I feel like Toni Morrison didn’t agree one-hundred percent with what the blacks and whites were doing to each other, she felt like the story needed to be out there or our society would not realize how bad this story actually was. Leslie Harris wrote an article about the novel Song of Solomon and talked about Morrison and how she really wanted the audience to be able to visualize this time period. Harris wrote “Morrison like making contemporary, localized events and characters speak to those who cannot share her characters’ background or experiences,” (Harris) and this demonstrates that she wants he readers to be able to see what is writing. In another article written by Duke University, Morrison had stated that she “tries to put the reader into the position of being naked and quite vulnerable.” (Nowlin) This statement shows that she wants her readers to feel the way her characters felt when she was writing this novel. I believe that Toni Morrison was a strong believer in sticking up for the black lives because she is part black and these