Complexities of Progenitorship in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child

Abstract

This study focuses on the struggle and importance of mother in the life of an individual. Mothering is very difficult than fathering. Father plays a minimalistic role and it is the mother, whose part is vital in the upbringing of a child. It attests the pathetic and single mother Sweetness’ struggle to raise her daughter Lula Ann Bridewell without physical and emotional oppression. Her strict brought up thus makes her daughter to attain the sense of selfhood and confidence.