(1172-1187)
"Recitatif"
(1174-1178)
- The narrator was taken to St.Bonnie's since their mother danced all night.
- Lived in a shelter.
- Felt uncomfortable living amongst another race.
- Mary the mother said they didn't wash their hair and that they smelt funny.
- Many different races of kids in the shelter.
- Twyla (the narrator) told Bozo that her mother would be upset she was put in a room with Roberta.
- Maggie gets called a dummy by the main characters because they were trying to figure out if she could hear too because she was mute.
- Marry comes to visit Twyla after 26 days.
- Mary isn't very bright.
- Roberta's mother refused to shake Marys hand and took her daughter away from them.
(1178-1186)
- Twyla now worked at Howard Johnson's.
- Twyla ran into Roberta at her place of work. Roberta is shocked to see her but it seems like her and the friends she is there with don't really want to talk to her.
- Fast forwarding they are now both married and run into each other again. Both talk about the good memories they had. Twyla then brings up why Roberta acted like she didn't want to talk to Twyla at the diner and she responded with describing how it was back then between blacks and Whites hanging around one another.
- They meet again later and both get in argument leaving them both not speaking to another for a few years.
- They meet again and this time Roberta tells Twyla that they didn't do anything to Maggie but back then she really wanted too. It ends with Roberta asking what happened to Maggie.
Wole Soyina (1934): This writer is well known for touching on subjects about Africa and the West who he uses his stories to show the change the West brought to Africa.
(1049-1098)
"Death and the King's Horseman"
(1051-1062)
- Elesin claims that all women wanted him.
- Praise singer mentions many things one being wars that come to them and threaten their race. Elesin claims he makes his own fate.
- Iyaloja get shunned by Elesin for greeting him which leaves the other women in confusion.
- Elesin demands that he controls his destiny and what the world brings his way. The woman all obey his commands and listen closely to hat he says.
- Elesin possibly one of the higher ups in ranking than the others of his village.
- Elesin questions why he has not been visited by the king and horsemen.
- Praise singer praises Elesin for being the greatest.
- Iyaloja has a strange vision which influences Elesin to journey.
(1063- 1070)
- Amusa is angry seeing a man wearing a dead cults dress.
- Amusa is scared of Pilkings costume.
- Pilkings gets angry that Amus keeps bringing it up.
- Pilking and his wife Jane are Christians and not from the place in e=which they are from.
- The costume his is wearing offends amusa because it has a religious dark magic presence to it.
- Different customs.
- Elesin is the kings chief horseman
(1086-1098)
-Elesin gets taken away to jail by Pilkings.
- Elsein wants to go perform his duty.
Morrison, Toni. "Recitatif." The Norton Anthology World Literature Volume F. Ed. Puchner, Martin, Suzanne Akbari, Wiebke Denecke, Vinay Dharwadker, Barbara Fuchs, Caroline Levine, Pericles Lewis, Emily Wilson. W. W. Norton & Company, pp. 1172-1187
Soyina, Wole. "Death and the King's Horseman." The Norton Anthology World Literature Volume F. Ed. Puchner, Martin, Suzanne Akbari, Wiebke Denecke, Vinay Dharwadker, Barbara Fuchs, Caroline Levine, Pericles Lewis, Emily Wilson. W. W. Norton & Company, pp. 1049-1098
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