Toni Morrison Tone Of A Mercy
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The speaker’s tone is ironic, the word “mercy” (1), and the words from the fifth line conveys that, although she mercifully journeys from her “Pagan land” (1), she now finds herself in a foreign land where the people of her race are treated like savages, which the speaker expatiates on: “Their color is a diabolic die” (line 6). Similarly, Toni Morrison depicts merciless journeys in her historical fiction novel, A Mercy, in which she gives a narrative account of many of the characters’ migration stories. Morrison’s account of Florens’ migration denotes her disapproval, and her inability to refuse migrating to another place: “I am maybe seven or eight when I am brought here” (6). Again, Morrison employs the use of “brought” to convey the sense