Last week I finished a reading workshop where we spent one week reading twenty pages a week of the novel God Help the Child.
In the first week, we talked about Morrison’s protagonist Bride not being the person she wanted to be.
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In the second week, when we read up to page sixty, we talked about Bride’s relationship with her co-worker Brooklyn:
In the third week, we talked about the beginning of Bride’s journey guided by Booker’s admonition: “correct what you can, learn from what you can’t:”
In the fourth week, we talked about exactly how Bride was correcting what she could, and learning from what she couldn’t:
In the fifth week, we talked about Bride’s pursuit of truth:
In the sixth week, we learned about Booker’s back story:
In the seventh week, we learned the result of Bride’s pursuit of Booker:
In the eighth week, we discussed the end of the novel:
In the ninth week, we read the Introduction I wrote to the book Critical Responses about the Black Family in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child.
In our tenth week, we read the second half of the Introduction:
In our eleventh and last week, we discussed Jasmin Wilson’s article “Raising the Inner Child: Lessons of Emotional Development in ‘God Help the Child'” and my article “Socialized to Silence: A Close Reading of Booker Starbern and Lula Ann Bridewell in God Help the Child According to Kobi Kambon’s Model of African Self-Consciousness:”