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Toni Morrison, â€Å"Recitatif† In what way does Toni Morrison tease out society’s tendency to place racial categories on individuals? In what way does Morrison’s text strip itself of racial categories? Toni Morrison teases out the society’s tendency to place racial categories on individual for the praise the American being praised because of the so called equality them posses. He teases people by stating that everyone is a racist at some point. He describes a world free of racists can only happen in dreams and not in reality, The fact that people believe American believe that the people consider the African American culture part of the white American culture so as to end the racist is a total lie since the truth of the matter is that the†¦show more content†¦Why does â€Å"Recitatif† continually return to references of the orchard and to Maggie? What is significant in these continual references? What are we to make of the confusion Twyla experiences in her memories of these t hings? In recitative continually return to references of the orchard to show how Maggie an outsider was treated and does not experience solidarity with anyone. When she falls down in the orchard, Maggie is the recipient of others scorn and abuse. â€Å"She experiences the same from Twyla and Roberta, something that Twyla clearly remembers: I think we were wrong. I think she could hear and didn t let on. And it shames me even now to think there was somebody in there after all who heard us call her those names and couldn t tell on us.† It clearly shows that Maggie did not have any ones solidarity as opposed to Twyla and Roberta who could provide each other solidarity. The suffering of Maggie assisted in establishing how the social settings were and still is constructed. It is clear that the racists are not a near end story and the agitators are slowly losing hope in it. If the story can be divided into 5 sections (5 encounters between Twyla and Roberta), what are these and what do they mean? There was racial prejudice among the parents as Roberta mother refuses to shake marries extended hand as she belongs to a different race. In the school where they had been kept by their parents showed that they can forget about