Praisesong_For_The_Widow

Praisesong For The Widow America is a country with people of various cultures all-trying to mingle in or in some cases trying to integrate themselves. Many people, especially in America go their whole lives not knowing their true identity, because they’re to busy trying to assimilate into another culture to feel accepted and wanted from the dominant group. As for Avey Johnson who is an African-American woman who obtains many leisure’s, is sought to be a lost and complex character. In the novel Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall is a about a middle class African-American widow, Avey Johnson who sets off into the Caribbean in a cruise ship, Bianca Pride with two of her friends. As the ship disembarks in Grenada she is haunted by nightmares of her Great aunt Cuney. Her nightmare awakens in her an emptiness and longing for something that she cannot initially explain. Her life about that point had seemed successful, especially in the eyes of others, almost like the American dream. Within this part of the novel a journey of reclamation and healing of a past that has been largely of her younger years and obtain in the American dream of financial security and a White-defined respectability. Paule praisesong, avey, novel, herself, cruise, avey’s, ship, past, part, life, reader, journey, johnson, feeling, dream, aunt, about, within, sense, physical, people, identity, heritage, guevara, cultural, body, widow, trying, takes, place, open, nightmare, marshall, manacle, knowing, illness