“Marginalization” by Chandrakant Mallya

In a scale, both arms are equally important. If one of them tilts, the emergence is imbalance. Compare the scale to the golf-club. A perfect society viewed from any angle, is impossibility. Turn the pages of human history graven image was never there. It is reasonable to assume that it will never be there It empennage not be comp permitely avoided either. social club at any given time has not existed and functioned without circumferencealisationSome of the definitions of marginalization areTo relegate or confine to a lower or outer limit or edge, as of social standing.Marginalization (USA) refers to the overt or covert trends within societies whereby those perceived as absentminded desirable traits or deviating from the group norms tend to be excluded by wider society and ostracized as undesirables.Wing Leung describes A marginal person as one who does not belongthe marginal man dwells at the margin of two cultures and two societies and possesses amarginal mentality with its un resolved identity crises.Louis Wirth speaking of minority groups thence A group of people who, because of their physical or cultural characteristics, are singled out from the others in the society in which they live for differential and unequal treatment and who therefore regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination. This means, the more than numerically dominant members, or the more prosperous section of the society gives unequal treatment take to acts of social ostracism, acts of discrimination, leading to marginalization.In Sula Tony Morrison traces the lives of two black heroines. They grow together in a small Ohio townwell, thats the only common point about them. Otherwise, they are poles a adjourn. Their paths are altogether divergent, obviously their thinking as well Nel Wright chooses the normal behavior of a black woman marries and settles in the place of her birth. She is part of the tightly-knit black community.Sula Peace rejects this option outright. Sh e escapes to a city, joins a college, and when she returns to her roots, she is a rebel. She decides to pick up a lesson to the society that humiliated her in childhood. She mocks at the social norms, and she is a wanton sexual seductress. Her secondary pleasure is depicted in her triumphant return to her village and she is extremely happy about the triumph she scored by crossing the hurdles that she faced in her life due to the color of her skin. These two characters competently depict, with utmost sincerity to their own emotions, their suffering and enjoyment in the light of various trials and tribulations that was part of their life and living.The Civil War in USA led to the physical liberation. The War for economic liberation began thereafter. In Sula Toni Morrison provides us with the real history lesson with the depiction of the black way of life, a society which unbosom continues to be marginalized both from social and economic standpoints. Through their girlhood years th ey share everything perceptions, judgments, yearnings, secrets, even horror until Sula gets out, out of the Bottom, the hilltop neighborhood where beneath the sporting life of the men hanging well-nigh the place in head rags and soft felt hares there hides a fierce resentment at failed crops, lost jobs, thieving insurance men, bug-ridden flour . . . at the invisible line that cannot be overstepped. (Morison, 1973)Fences is the story of quaternary generations of black Americans. The torch of legacy of morals, attitudes, mores and patterns passes with stories. Troy Maxon is the principle character of the play. Being a black, the part of the marginalized society of America, how and why he had to scale down his dreams to adjust inside his run-down yard. The opening candidate begins with Troy Maxon and his trusted friend Jim Bono engaged in drinking and talking.The anguish of marginalization related exploitation is evident, when he makes a exerciseal compliant to his bosses, why only white men are permitted to fag garbage trucks for the waste disposal company. The deep impact of marginalization in Troy Maxons somebody is shown as he counsels his teenage son Cory Maxon when he is being actively recruited for a college football scholarship. His breed discourages him, and tells him not to ignore other important responsibilities.Troy wants that his son should never haul garbage exchangeable him. Cory represents all the possibilities his father never had and the unmet dreams. Yet the father is unwilling to let the son go on the path chosen by him to improve his lot in life. His apprehension is that the white-dominated sports will not let Cory progress, and break his heart. Troy had spent fifteen years in jail for robbery and murder, but he became an accomplished baseball player in the jail.After the release, when he could not get proper opportunities to pomposity his skill, he is bitter and resentful at the chances lost because of the color of his skin. He wants to protect his son from set about such disappointments and turn cynical. It was due to marginalization that Troys life was full of difficulties, oppression match with bad luck. As a boy, due the abject poverty, he was denied education, he cannot even read.Marginalization is beneficial all over the world, and it embraces humanity. In the Developed World, racial and ethnic minority groups stand out as the most marginalized. Then there are other classes like, the poor, the sick, the disabled, the obese, teenage unwed mothers, the elderly, the homosexuals and lesbians. These groups suffer from one form of marginalization or the other-unemployment, poverty, poor health facilities and lack of education and the like. How can we strive to end it?The interrogative sentence should be rather how we can mend it? The ending to marginalization can only be through mending the ways of the society. First of all, the affluent and the socially well placed members of the majority community sh ould net the grave injustice rendered to the affected society for centuries. Genuine repentance and willing acceptance to reform can only change the social structure. The change with-out can be achieved only through the change with-in. Society must have a will to change, and that is possible by the combined efforts of the government, social and spiritual organizations. It is exalted time that marginalization is given a decent burial.ReferencesMorrison, Toni, Sula Excerpted from the book jacket In clear, dark, reverberating language .members.tripod.com/bibliomania/archive3/morrison5.html 9k Retrieved on May 21, 2007.