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TAR BABY PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Toni Morrison | 320 pages | 08 Jun 2004 | Random House USA Inc | 9781400033447 | English | New York, United States Tar Baby | Disney Wiki | Fandom He makes his way to the mansion on top of the tallest hill, enters the unlocked home and lives there almost unnoticed for five days. During that time he steals a little food, mostly chocolate, and a few bottles of water. He hides in closets and only comes out at night. She too is black… mulatto actually, the niece of the servants. Her name is Jadine Jade. Son steals into her room at night just to watch her sleep, night after night, and he falls in love with her. One night she goes into her closet to get some clothes and finds Son just sitting there, a huge black man She becomes frantic, screams, and Sydney comes with a gun and brings Son down into the dining room. The two chat; Jade joins the conversation, and Son is taken aback by her friendliness to the old white man though he has been her patron and paid for her education at the Sorbonne. Son is allowed to live in the house for a few days while Valerian tries to get papers that will let him to go back to the US. So Valerian invites the servants to share Christmas dinner. The servants get dressed up and, during dinner, Ondine reveals what she alone knows: that Margret tortured young Michael as a little boy, she stuck pins in him, burned him with cigarettes, had to fight off the temptation to do much more. Valerian is stunned, Margaret is destroyed, Sydney and his Ondine are terrified that the disclosure will cost them their jobs. They fight; try to destroy each other with insults about education, ethnic identity, purity and destiny. In the end Jade leaves New York and returns to the island to find that somehow the estate has sifted back into some semblance of order. The servants are still there, still surviving; Margaret has rationalized her actions and even tried to make friends with Ondine. Valerian is feeling older, much sadder, but he too is surviving. A week later, Son comes to the island in search of Jade. He wants to go to the mansion and find out where she is and how to join her. There are said to be hundreds of horseman on the island, descendants of the first salves brought there. Some say they still live in the hills. Why not join them, the washerwoman asks Son as she rows him through the mists between the islands and drops him off on a very remote rocky beach. Why not join the horsemen? And as the book ends Son runs from the boat into the hills to join the wild horseman on this remote part of the island, whether they really exist or not. A stunning story, a revelation really. I listened to the audio book read beautifully by Desiree Coleman. My personal opinion on the book? Well, I believe that the book was terrible and I would not recommend this book to anyone. I say that because the book was altogether irrelevant and I did not understand why it was written. To add fuel to the fire, it was boring. There was no action whatsoever and the first few chapters of the book was meaningless. If I had to give the book a rating out of 5 stars, I would literally give it a 1 star. I would give it that because at least she tried to write somethi My personal opinion on the book? I would give it that because at least she tried to write something. Other than that, the book itself was horrible. It was kind of difficult to read at first, but as I kept on, I began to understand the language based on the time period. If I could, I would change a lot about the book. I would make the book have more action and a deeper meaning. The book lacked a lot of things including a theme in my opinion. I did not understand the message that Toni Morrison was trying to convey to her readers. Overall, I did not enjoy this book. View all 3 comments. Feb 24, Amanda rated it liked it Shelves: black-literature. This is a solid, high three stars. I found this novel, unlike Song of Solomon and God Help the Child, to have not one clear direction and to ask important questions about too many topics. I enjoyed the writing style and the setting, but no one character really gripped me. I was also unsatisfied by the ambiguous ending. I really enjoyed this, but don't expect to remember Tar Baby as I have the other Morrisons I've read. Oct 14, Jesse rated it really liked it Shelves: american-lit , women-writers , authors-of-color , narrativity , s , haunting-and-spectrality , read-in It was strange though—after the fact it almost felt like I had been shut out and forced into that break, put into the proper mindspace before being allowed to proceed. So you can sleep and there is reason to wake. Oct 02, Abhi Varma rated it did not like it. Prose as purple as an eggplant. Lacking cohesion, theme, even plot. A most random assortment of characters all one dimensional and caricatures, mind you thrown together on an island equally one dimensional and caricatured. But why? No one has a clue. It's a painful book, and doesn't say much about anything. Oh, it does say a little about race--but nothing more than affirming the racial and gender stereotypes of the "dangerous black criminal" and the "plastic-beautiful woman". The Prose as purple as an eggplant. The prose gets tiring, unpleasant, and after a few pages, even words, it gets difficult to motive oneself to continue reading. Overall, it makes a fantastic book, but only as a paperweight, a door-stopper, or something along those lines. View all 4 comments. Aug 08, Jasmine Star rated it it was amazing. Wow, I was pleasantly surprised by the depth and eloquence in this book. The relationship between and within races and sexes and cultures is so incredibly insightful. Toni does not hold back comments that might make the reader ouncomfortable and i found myself laughing at the reality of the characters reactions specifically to finding Son in the closet. I have to admit i was infuriated by the lack of closure to the book I even had to reread a chapter to see if i missed something about the ending, but alas it just ends abruptly. Feb 26, Laura rated it did not like it. OK, I really tried to get into this, but finally gave up. I love the intro! Jan 27, Crystal Belle rated it it was amazing. It's a bit awkward for me to write a good review for anything Toni Morrison has written, if only because, after I read Beloved, I condemned her. But Tar Baby was far different than anything I suffered through in her most popular novel. In fact, almost everything I hated about Beloved was almost nonexistent in this book. To compare the two novels doesn't make sense because while Beloved is set in Reconstruction America, Tar Baby is mostly set in circa s Caribbean with a few sprinkles of the De It's a bit awkward for me to write a good review for anything Toni Morrison has written, if only because, after I read Beloved, I condemned her. To compare the two novels doesn't make sense because while Beloved is set in Reconstruction America, Tar Baby is mostly set in circa s Caribbean with a few sprinkles of the Deep South and Manhattan. And there aren't really any slaves running around thank god. She's a model and has been featured in international magazines. Her aunt and uncle work for a white couple, Valerian and Margaret, and when the book begins the latter four are in the Caribbean. Margaret is far younger than her husband and his second wife. They have a son that basically never comes home despite his mother's affections for him in Valerian's opinion, too much affection. Jadine goes down to Haiti to see her folks and the white family that has treated her so kindly. Shortly after, Margaret finds a young black man hiding in her closet, apparently just hungry and a fugitive. Valerian decides to make him comfortable in the home and Jadine reluctantly falls in love with Son. I really liked this story because of its emphasis on a few things: interpersonal relationships, race relations and feminism. Jadine was a strong female protagonist and even though was Margaret was off her rocker, she was pretty strong willed in her own right. Ondine and Sydney, the aunt and uncle, were used for the race relations pieces but they were interesting as symbols of bourgeois African Americans in the 20th century. The only thing I really wish is that the romance between Son and Jadine wasn't so rushed. I know that in reality their romance was really in the background, even if is advertised as a romance, but I'd like it better if the majority of it hadn't been just highlighted in merely a few pages. Nice read for Morrison and I think I might give her another try. I enjoyed it. The writing was beautiful and poetic like always. However, I did find some paragraphs too bulky. It made the pacing slow and hard to follow at times.
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