The Pies Motifs

The setup of this novel is great and there are many scenarios of themes that are present. The main focus of this book is to make you aware of the main plots,and it does a great job of that.The main topic I'm working on is about the motifs in this novel. Motifs are the repetitiveness of several items throughout the novel. If you pick up on them then you already know what im talking about. The idea of a motif is to allow the reader to understand why this item is so important and what it has relations to in the book. A Motif can stand for many things in a book such as ,it could be major foreshadowing, or even keeping an idea going on throughout the book. So throughout this book you should really pick up on a couple.
A major Motif in this book are the bathrooms that recur a lot in this book just there meaning is strong. In the novel it is said to be “ you must have a second bathroom for your black maids”. The bathroom situation is a great example of a motif
Along with the bathrooms there are the pies that Minny bakes. She's known for her pies and they show up throughout the book. It really bring the effects of the chores that go on in this book and it shows you that in this time and the years the novel is based in no one slacks around. The cooking of the pies also renders how the black maids treated the white house holds and how nice they tried to be . I think that's a very important part in the book you have to understand.The maids tended to put bad stuff in their books just about how they got treated and things and wouldn't say very nice thing about the whites so these pies might have been made to hide that and to be a sweet treat. Minny isn't always the nicest maid with her sass and every thing either ,so the pies really help her out. A couple of quotes that back this up I found in the novel really help with the context of the pies being a