Truth In Toni Morrison's The Onion

The onion believes the human seeks a truth buried in its heart. It believes the human cares for it - why else would the human cry, but out of a sense of guilt? it seems to think- and this is the most basic truth for the onion. From there, the onion expands its truths; the human is fanatical and melodramatic. The human cannot see that what it searches for does not exist. The human is inevitably doomed to a death by emotion. Thinking itself clever, the onion assumes it has built a tower of truths- a magnificently garnished, immortal spire- when in reality, it has built a shack made of twigs, primed to collapse at the slightest upset, and here is that upset: the onion overthinks everything. By way of slight syntactical choices and the situation