Seeing the world through the eyes of a child would be an opportunity to regain the innocence that is lost with age. No one was ever born hating other human beings because of the color of their skin. When a child is born it has a purity that adults cannot maintain. The idea that one race is superior to another is a belief learned over time, through personal experiences, parental influences, and community effects. The author's technique of distorting the stereotypical attributes of the races keeps the reader constantly confused as to which character was the salt and which was the pepper. This lets the reader know that the color of the girl's skin didn't matter. Mutual circumstances brought Twyla and Roberta together in “Recitatif,” written by Toni Morrison, and as they grew older it was race that pushed them in different directions. The two never viewed each other with prejudice until they got older and were introduced to other people's values ​​and opinions. It didn't matter who was white and who was black. Both girls were accompanied to the shelter. Twyla was abandoned because her mother “danced all night” and Roberta's because she was “sick” (Morrison 199). Regardless of what was really wrong with their mothers, they were now both in the same situation in the same room without their parents influencing their opinions. In the spring of 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. “His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among black Americans” (History.com). Her death also mobilized enough of a white woman to decide she had to do something about it. In Iowa, Jane Elliott, a white third-grade teacher, felt the need to try a new approach to teaching her young students about discrimination and its effects after watching days of news commentary in the aftermath of MLK's assassination where white men sat discussing “those people” and “those communities".,’