Outline Recitatif
Thesis: Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” deals with issues such as inequality and contradictions between different social classes, race and shame.
Support 1: Social Class
• Topic Sentence: “Recitatif” deal with social class issues.
• Explanation: Social classes are economic or cultural arrangement of group society.
• Context: Toni Morrison quoted.
• Actual Support: “Easy, I thought everything is so easy for them. They think they own the world.” (pg 7)
• Explanation: There are social class issues between Twyla and Roberta.
Support 2: Race
• Topic Sentence: “Recitatif” deal with race issues.
• Explanation: The term racism includes both the belief in racial differences, as well as the discrimination associated with these beliefs.
• Context: Toni Morrison quoted.
• Actual Support: “It was one thing to be taken out of your bed early in the morning-it was something else to be stuck in a strange place with a girl from a whole other race.” (pg 1)
• Explanation: Race is something significant to the narrator and yet she withholds information about her own racial identity as well as that of her friend Roberta’s.
Support 3: Shame
• Topic Sentence: “Recitatif” deal with shame issues.
• Explanation: the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable done by oneself or another.
• Context: Toni Morrison quoted.
• Actual Support: “ My mother danced all night and Roberta’s was sick” (pg 1)
• Explanation: The narrator, Twyla, is ashamed of her mother who is obviously a stripper and Roberta’s mother is suffering from mental disorders.
Conclusion: There were inequality and contradictions issues between social classes, race, and shame in the short story “Recitatif” by Toni
Support 1: Social Class
• Topic Sentence: “Recitatif” deal with social class issues.
• Explanation: Social classes are economic or cultural arrangement of group society.
• Context: Toni Morrison quoted.
• Actual Support: “Easy, I thought everything is so easy for them. They think they own the world.” (pg 7)
• Explanation: There are social class issues between Twyla and Roberta.
Support 2: Race
• Topic Sentence: “Recitatif” deal with race issues.
• Explanation: The term racism includes both the belief in racial differences, as well as the discrimination associated with these beliefs.
• Context: Toni Morrison quoted.
• Actual Support: “It was one thing to be taken out of your bed early in the morning-it was something else to be stuck in a strange place with a girl from a whole other race.” (pg 1)
• Explanation: Race is something significant to the narrator and yet she withholds information about her own racial identity as well as that of her friend Roberta’s.
Support 3: Shame
• Topic Sentence: “Recitatif” deal with shame issues.
• Explanation: the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable done by oneself or another.
• Context: Toni Morrison quoted.
• Actual Support: “ My mother danced all night and Roberta’s was sick” (pg 1)
• Explanation: The narrator, Twyla, is ashamed of her mother who is obviously a stripper and Roberta’s mother is suffering from mental disorders.
Conclusion: There were inequality and contradictions issues between social classes, race, and shame in the short story “Recitatif” by Toni