Toni Morrison wrote the novel “Paradise” to show the relationship between 5 women living in a convent. Even though all women are completely different in both background and personality, they have many similarities. Morrison chooses how he writes the novel very carefully, choosing where he wanted everything to go and what point he wanted to make in his novel. Mavis is a runaway accused of killing her twins by leaving them to suffocate in a vehicle. She goes to the convent to hide from her apparently violent husband. “They're going to kill me” (31) Mavis tells her mother. She believes her own children are looking for her to avenge the deaths of their brothers. Mavis eventually ends up at the convent where she meets Consoleta (Connie). Consoleta was a rape victim who was saved by one of the nuns at the convent. She is the oldest of the women and plays a bit like their mother. When Mary Magna dies, ironically Grace (Gigi) arrives at the convent in the hearse that is there to pick up Mary Magna. Gigi came to Ruby after being deceived by her boyfriend. She was hitchhiking when she got into the hearse, but after Connie asks her to stay and watch her sleep, Gigi doesn't leave the convent. Seneca then arrives after leaving her abusive boyfriend who is now in prison. Seneca has personal problems and cuts himself for pleasure. Pallas (Divine), a sixteen-year-old pregnant girl, finally arrives. Pallas had run away from home with her fiancé, but was later betrayed by him. Even though all 5 women came to the convent for different reasons, they all have something in common, they were running away from something. In the convent they found something they hadn't before, which was... middle of paper... just wilder. What women have in common is that they need each other. Although they act as if they hate each other, they enjoy each other's company. In the novel, women's points of view are also represented more than men's. Men seem meaner than women. Even though the women are in the convent and still live a sinful life, it is the men who commit a greater sin by killing women for no valid reason. Morrison makes the audience feel guilty for what the women have been through. It also makes the audience look at men from a different perspective, as evil. Morrison dedicates his writing time to finding a way to make men look bad. It seems that because Morrison was unhappy in his marriage, he held a grudge against men in general. She had a certain hatred towards men and tried to make the public feel the same way.