In all of Toni Morrison's literary outputs there is often a blending of African proverbs and Biblical allusions that function in searching of a character's identity within the troubled context of his or her relationship to community. Her use of such apt narratives makes her an especially prolific writer to explore the way that language can construct the way we understand the world. The emphasis on rootedness in her works functions to reveal what about an individual or communal conception of home cultural or even psychological limits or liberates an individual or community. All of Morrison's novels deal with the question of where a character's original “home” is, what ancestral “roots” are and how such an “origin” form character and personality