On Thursday I watched a movie that everyone has probably seen before, Remember the Titans. There was one particular scene that struck my attention; it was about mothers protesting the schools for bringing white and black people together. The scene made me think of the short story we read for Monday, Recitati, by Toni Morrison. Both black and white women were protesting just like Twyla and Roberta.
I tried to picture what the two characters from the story would look like. As I began to look at the slogans on the posters from the movie, the people who were protesting against combining black and white students were the white mothers and the people who were protesting against the combination of school were black women. The people that were involved in the movie scene helped me imagine what Roberta and Twyla might look like. I still think Roberta is seen as a white not black, and Twyla is as a blacker person than white. I say this because of what I saw in the movie. Since Roberta was fighting against the schools coming together and Twyla was fighting for the change, the movie scene made me stick to my original conclusion.
I know Toni Morrison does not agree with my observations, but I find it hard to think otherwise about Twyla and Roberta. I do understand the overall message Morrison is getting at in her story, but from my previous observations and from what I have learned about the fight against segregation it is possible for their characters’ to be white or black.