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Toni Morrison's Jazz

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Toni Morrison wrote a book called Jazz. This book analyzes the lifestyle of people who listened to jazz music and the way they lived their lives in New York City, specifically in Harlem. There is a part of the book that she talks about “this city,” which is Manhattan. She hails it and also talks about how it is not a walk in the park to live here. It is different to her how she talks about. She analyzes the people and the way of making it in a big place like Manhattan. Morrison states in this passage, “Below is shadow where any blasé thing takes place: clarinets and lovemaking, fists and the voices of sorrowful women.” She shows how the city can be peaceful with love in the air, but it also has it bad side with people who are stressed
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