Love

After finishing the book, I was able to put all the pieces together. Mr. Cosey had women after him like crazy, but it was hard to realize the type of man he really was. How could this man that was held in such high esteem by many people be so perverted and yet so kind?


Before getting to the middle of the book, I really liked Mr. Cosey. He seemed to be a good man with a righteous heart. As I continued to read, my feelings for him changed. In the book, Morrison used love in many different types of relationships. She was able to show how people could love for the wrong reasons and love for the right reasons.

There were many issues that played into these types of relationships protrayed in the story. I still can't help but think of Mr. Cosey and his love for a young girl is granddaughters age. Eleven years old! I know in earlier times girls did marry young, but eleven. Mr. Cosey was near 40 years older than her when they married. Although I don't think that Mr. Cosey just had a thing for Heed but for his own granddaughter Christine. The way Morrison descirbes the picture of Mr. Cosey and Heed's wedding made it seem a little weird that Cosey was so intuned with his granddaughter and not his new wife of the same age.

Maybe these types of things were more excepted in those days, but me growing up in times completely different seems unlawful and socially unacceptable. Morrison really plays up the roles of race and class in the book. "The way Up Beach people were." Morrison gives a lot of adjectives to describe how the times were in those days and how they changed over time.

Morrison's book was very intriguing. At first it was a difficult to understand all of the characters because of how the story jumped around, but overall she put a good sense of love, desire, and sex into it. From the love Heed had for Mr. Cosey, the desire Mr. Cosey had for women, and the sex that was had by almost every character in the book from Romen to Mr. Cosey.