Cane by Jean Toomer

Toomers bawl out, published in 1923, is a collection vignettes and poems divided into three departments. Cane has served a peculiarly integral role in African-American literature, as it at the same time presents the discolor southern unsophisticated experience and the black northern urban experience. Throughout Cane, Toomer utilizes several(prenominal) themes in an attempt to posit a connection surrounded by the two. Cane examines issues of race on several different levels. Primarily, Toomer displays how blacks ar treated in American society. In the south, elements of danger be always present. The character Becky exhibits this, as she is rejected by twain blacks and exsanguines for having crossed the color musical note by sleeping with a black man. Ramifications of racial tensions atomic number 18 further displayed by the expiry of character Tom Burwell, who is nowadays killed by a white mob after an fray with a white man, bobsleigh Stone. Toomer uses Burwell and Stone to display the racial barriers created by bigotry; these barriers lastly prevent interpersonal relationships from forming successfully. In addition to hostilities between blacks and whites, Cane examines racism that exists within the black community alone. Characters Bona and Paul are ultimately driven apart, as Paul is unable to certify his identity as a black man.\nThe first section of Cane is dedicated to single out portraits of single women and societys attitudes toward them. Karintha is an obscure figure who is yet presented in the context of her strong-arm attractiveness. Throughout her existence, she is perceived by men as a sexual object. Similarly, Fern entrances the narrator of her story, except he does not assign any interest in understanding why. Burwell and Stone represent over Louisa to the point of death, further little is ever utter about who Louisa really is. On the other hand, Toomer ends Cane with Carrie. K, who foils the women presented in the firs t section by appearing enlightened and levelheaded.\nAnoth...