nature by creating it," intends to familiarize an omniscient being with the "facts which have either escaped his notice, or which he has chosen to ignore" (Morrison, 176) saying that he forgot about the children."You said, 'Suffer the little children to come unto me, and harm them not.' Did you forget? Did you forget about the children? Yes. You forgot. You let them go wanting, sitting on road shoulders, crying next to their dead mothers. I've seen them charred, lame, halt. You forgot, Lord. You forgot how and when to be God…That's why I changed the little black girl's eyes for her…I did what You could not do. I looked at that ugly little black girl and I loved her. I played You" (Morrison, 181-2). This letter not only incriminates God but it also incriminates the church. In their duty to come to the aid of the unloved and depressed they have failed and instead begun to play God themselves, judging society's mistakes in the name of righteous superiority. This is evident in Pauline's successfully achieved martyrdom at the cost of her marriage and the lives of her children.Pauline Breedlove's personal history is shown to have played out in extreme measures in the life of her daughter. From the early part of her life she has worn a shroud of shame. The book says that it is due primarily to her injured foot that she felt a sense of separateness and unworthiness and also why she never felt at home anywhere, or that she belonged anyplace. This feeling was intensified by her experiences of exclusion and loneliness after moving up north. She was confronted by prejudice on a daily basis, class and racism, the possible consequences of entirely depending on external conditions for self-image, for in attempting to satisfy a paradigm that differs so radically from reality, African-Americans may destroy their essential nature. And in denying their natural gifts in order to appease white expectations, African-Americans accelerate their s...
