nglish 1140 Reading Response #1: Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” pages 131-148 Due: Thursday, Feb. 2nd. Put a copy in the D2L Assignments Folder and bring a copy to class Points: 10 Directions: Please use specific examples and quotes*** to support your observations and provide MLA in-text citations (author and page number). Each question response should be at least 100 words. 1. The story provides a kind of character study of each girl/woman at a different point in her life and how she interacts with the other girl/woman after not seeing her for a long time. What do we learn about each of these characters during these interactions? How would you describe their relationship through the years? How does it evolve? 2. Morrison purposely avoids telling us the race of each character—only revealing, through Twyla’s narration, that one girl is black and the other is white. Even though this information is withheld, how does race and racial identity affect two girls/women and their interactions? Why do you think Morrison chooses to withhold the racial identity of Twyla and Roberta? 3. The story about what happened to Maggie has deeply impacted each of these women. What is its significance to each of them? What is it still so haunting? 4. What does recitatif mean? How is it different from an aria? Why would Morrison title this story recitatif? 5. Find two critical approaches that you think would work well in this story. What types of questions and observations would these critics make about this story?