Religious Stuff: Lina A Mercy, Pecola The Bluest Eye

Morrison´s interview showed me two, or three things.

1.       Morrison´s perspective on her work, and that Jazz is her favorite novel despite everyone prefers Beloved.

2.       The Religious component on her work. How the characters she creates are build towards the development of their religious self rather than the plain, linear, theme-related growth.

3.       She was ¨somewhat accelerated¨ when Obama was elected into office.

Not knowing Lina very much, I would like to redirect the attention towards Pecola again. (Since until know I find her character being one of the most fascinating and intriguing I´ve ever read.) Her religious component is dynamic and always present in the novel, without a doubt. And I say religious, because it’s not necessarily spiritual, in fact, it has been more psychological than spiritual at all. Her activity is religious, as a concept, a dogma, as a method. Her pleads and wishes always have a ¨a lack of faith¨ component, seeming more as a desperate naivety than a cathartic reflection, the difference relying in the nature of the individual. In my personal perception, Pecola does not seem to have genuine faith or hope, she just wants to cope with her reality.