When completing my readings for today, Ian and Demetrius’s pieces especially really stuck out to me. With Ian’s piece, I have been familiar before with some of Morrison’s work, but never this story. I was definitely caught a little off guard seeing the context and questions before reading, as I never imagined Morrison would release something supernatural or alien related, and I felt intrigued after reading the assigned excerpt to learn more about the story. The aliens, or spirits arrived when the family were able to live on their own, no longer slaves. I completely picked up that the spirit/alien is the lingering trauma of slavery that follows the speaker where she goes. The speaker wants the best life for her children, and I think seeing a mother endure this trauma and pain, while trying to provide the best for her children through supernatural symbolism was really unique and it was really well done. For Demetrius’s poetry, I noticed he told us to pay attention to the diction and fragmentations of what we were reading. I picked up some of the double meanings in lines, one that highlights strong women but also calls out misogyny. Overall, I found supernatural symbolism that was a part of this literature to be fascinating.
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