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Finding Community and Identity in Works of Toni Morrison Who’re you, outsider? Ask me who am I. -Langston Hughes, “Visitors to the Black Belt” Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Tar Baby explore different types of communities. Such communities differ in race, class and gender respectively. They also include different learned biases and prejudices. In each, one or more of Morrison’s characters struggle with the sense of there own identity within …

…Bluest Eye, Sula and Tar Baby, I have come to the realization that Morrison had intended to present problems of identity and community in her works instead of their answers. Her work led me to ponder about struggles that even we, in the twentieth century are still struggling to answer. Her work always included a simple story, which became increasingly complex, mythic, beyond solution, but always taught me a lesson that I needed to know.