I think this is the most beautiful passage of the book. Morrison creates this moment of bliss within the black communit. During the church picnic, the little children are scrambling for melon and the women are helping picking the seeds for the young. The small kids are captured with this essence of innonence. They aren't fighting for the bit and pieces of watermelon. The women are loving and very motherly. They make sure the little ones have melon to eat while being safe from choking in the seeds before they have any. All is swell. Then something even more beautiful happens. Blue invites Cholly to share a heart of a watermelon with him. Blue didn't need to invite Cholly, but because of the kindness in his heart, he did. Now you might think a man sharing some fruit with a kid is just a trival thing, but for Cholly it isn't. Cholly's father ditched him before he has born and he had never had a father figure or an experience with his dad. From this moment Blue and Cholly shared, he gets a taste of how it is to actually have a father figure, no matter if it was just sharing a melon.
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