To Love Tenderly Analysis

Getting into a more general statement regarding the black characters in this novel, they happen to beautifully exemplify “To Love Tenderly” with their hardworking past on the “First Purchase African M.E. Church” that “was in the Quarters outside the southern town limits, across the old sawmill tracks.” They had even named it “First Purchase because it was paid for from the first earnings of freed slaves.” And this displays their developing respect for one another and their level of tolerance for differences when “Negros worshipped in it on Sundays and white men gambled in it on weekdays.” To Love Tenderly is exactly what this black community is taking part in, them facing a high level of disrespect towards their temple still does not seem to change their attitude and actions towards the white folks. The Church happens to lose its amazing appearance and transforms into a vapid look once shown as a gambling centre on weekdays but fortunately that doesn’t change the black communities’ necessity to pray.