Blind Obedience·Rebellion·Return

Toni Morrison, awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature in year 1993 was one of the most important woman writers of Modern America. As the first black female winner for this prize, Toni Morrison was full of talents with an acute insight and artful conception in her works, also a poetical language to show the real life scene and insight mental status, in whose works dilemma of Afro-American's real life together with inner mentality was shown. Three earliest novels'roles are all black young people who are paid attention for their hardship in self-finding under the shock from the white culture. This assay is trying to analyze Toni Morrison's earliest three novels, The Bluest Eye , Sula, Song of Solomon with the insight of novel of initiation. Three chapters can be found of this assay: The first chapter analyzed maiden work of Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye, in which the leading role pecora mistakenly take White men's values as her own by the shock of white man culture and tracking herself under this illusion which makes her a man imagining and sleeping-talking of having a couple of blue eyes. It is her blind following of the white man culture that makes her lose herself and finally a tragic role. Second chapter focused on the self finding of Sula, a black woman, whose name also the same as the novle's. Sula was characterized with rebellion spirit of white man's culture and dissatisfied with the destiny on black people's being discriminated.She was also dissatisfied with what black women were endowed by traditional black culture and searching the true herself all through her life.Comparing with pecora, Sula did not yield to white man culture while finding her self-culture with a non-traditional way. Meanwhile Sula's rebellion and apartness from traditional black culture also makes her rootless duckweed. Searching the true self tends to be a failure departing traditional black culture. Third chapter analyzed Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon whose leading role Mlikman was a female black man. The hero was an irresponsible and self-fish young black man originally who finished self-finding trough a travel to south under the guidance of Piltate, the representative of the balck culture.Mlikman jumped in to future finally base on the power from the traditional black culture to. The author hints that only adhering to the traditional black culture and getting rid of the influence of the white man culture can a black man find the true self and accomplish maturity as a Blackman. Pecora lost herself in her aimless following of white man culture and became a tragic role finally; Sula's rebellion of the traditional black man culture also got her rid of the foundation of national culture and did not find the true herself in spite of her resistance against the main trend white man culture; Whiteman's self-finding journey was combined wit traditional black man culture, she also found the true meaning of life while returning to traditional black man culture and completed self-growth and made her mature finally.