Toni+Morrison

Toni Morrison is praised for her sucess.... but could not have done it without a bad childhood life. Toni Morrison exemplifed perserverence by over coming her low income, and racism, and getting a job at an early age.

Toni Morrison overcame her low income by her dad having a welding job. She got a job working in a white persons home at the age of thriteen. She and her dad worked very hard every day for money. Even thought the white women she worked for was very mean, she kept her pride and worked as hard as she could.

She also overcame her racisum by moving to a new neighborhood to get away from racism. Also when she was younger, her family was almost killed because they could not pay rent on the house they had lived in. So the landlord tryed to burn the house down with the family inside. Her family tryed there hardest to not let white people in there lives. And did there best work they could do and always tryed there hardest. It was hard at times for the family. They always avoided white people they could unless they had to talk to them. All her family worked as hard as they could every day.

She also overcame by getting a job at an early age so that she could help her family pay the bills. And also when money was not spent on bills, it went to books for Toni to read during her free time. She loved to read and write all the time. Also her father used the money to pay off expences.

Toni Morrison overcame alot of things during her rough childhood like having to get a job at an early age, and moving to a new neighborhood, and having low income. She went through alot but at the end she turned out to have good sucess by writing good books.

References: Humphery, S. (2005). //Dare to dream:25 extraordinary lives//. (pp. 71-72). New York: Promethues Books

//Toni morrison//. (10, 1 2011). Retrieved from [|http://searc] http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=imh&AN=imh516259&site=srck5-live [|h.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true] NEW YORK - AUGUST 29: (U.S. TABS OUT AND NO SALES TO A.M.I) Author **Toni** **Morrison** poses for a portrait for her book entitled "Love" in Midtown Manhattan on August 29, 2002 in New York City. (Photo by Todd Plitt/Getty Images) [|&db=mih&AN=39022987&site=src-live]