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- Sweetness is watching a little black girl being picked on by white kids. Here she is thankful she raised her daughter the way she did so this wouldn't happen to Lula Ann. To her mothers dismay during this time Lula Ann was rebelling against her mothers attempts to hide her blackness.
- During the 1990s Sweetness gives birth to a baby of a much darker shade than her or anyone in her family and is deeply disturbed. She is ashamed of her child but nonetheless chooses to tace care of Lula Ann.
- I cant even leave her on the church steps
- Sweetness By Toni Morrison Malica Marteen English 12/14/21B7
- Its your kid
- Louis, her husband leaves her after weeks of fighting caused by his wife's assumed affair. Because of this Sweetness had to find another place to live.
- Climax
- And Im not coming back to that bastard baby
- While trying ot find a house the mother avoids having landlords see her child for fear of housing discrimination. During this time she asks Lula Ann to call her "Sweetness" so no one knows that they are related by blood.
- Its not my fault.
- In her old age in Winston house, Lula Ann has ceased most contact with Sweetness and Sweetness sits and ponders upon her parenting. This is situational irony in the story because for Lula Anns life her mother was the one that didnt want to be with her but now in time Sweetness is the one being rejected by Lula Ann.
- At the end of the story Lula Ann sends her mother updates on her life through letters but never going into details and never giving her address. These letters act as a symbol of her detachment from her mother.
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