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Toni Morrison Sweetness Analysis
Based on scientific facts the color of a person skin forms according to genes and their environment. Therefore, a skin color can not symbolize danger of safety, because it is not something that can be controlled. However in the story " Sweetness" by Toni Morrison being the speaker says that being black is something terrible. The speaker mother of Lula Ann's treated Lula as a treat. She hid her, punish her, and addressed her only daughter by her color. She blamed their hardships on the fact that her daughter was black. Lula's mother try it justify her actions by saying that what she did was all to keep her daughter safe. Safety is not only consider a good environment and no problems , if a person has emotional and psychological problems.

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