In the story “Recitatif” the author Toni Morrison, published in 1983, tells the story of two young girls, Twyla and Roberta, of two different ethnic groups, who grow up together in an orphanage. Since the story is narrated by Twyla, it seems natural for us readers to associate ourselves with this touching story, as many of us experienced racial discrimination in the 1980s, making it clear that Morrison states that the two girls grew up to always remember each other based to the similarities and childhood they both encounter together, they come from different ethnic backgrounds, and as the story reveals, fate is determined to unite the girls' paths. The story begins with both girls being abandoned when they were both eight years old and living in St. Bonny's orphanage. Having the similarity of not being true orphans with beautiful dead parents in the sky, the girls instead were dumped because their mothers didn't want them. Twyla's mother was completely unable to care for Twyla, or as she states in the story, her mother "danced all night." As for Roberta's mother, she was always ill. In the orphanage the girls become roommates and develop a bond because no one else wanted to play with them, the girls had no shortage of adventures together. For example, Twyla and Roberta enjoyed spying on the “big girls,” on the 2nd floor, who pushed them around, who wore lipstick and drew on their eyebrows, and liked to smoke and dance. In addition to spying on the “big girls,” they also had a good laugh laughing at Maggie, a deaf woman who cleaned and cooked in the orphanage, and who couldn't defend herself. While at St. Bonny's, Twyla and Roberta witness Maggie being tripped and kicked by the older girls on the 2nd floor. Despite... middle of the paper... the heir's last meeting just before Christmas Eve, Twyla meets Roberta. Both girls talk, Roberta tells Twyla, “And you were right. We didn't kick her. They were the Gar girls. Only them. But, well, I wanted to do it. I really wanted them to hurt her. I said we did too. You and me, but it's not true. And I don't want you carrying it around. It's just that that day I wanted to do it so much: wanting it is doing it." After reading this short story, “Recitatif” summarizes the story by exploring the relationship between the two girls without ever revealing the ethnic origin of either character. Even though the story shows a lot of controversies that should separate the girls from each other based on their ethnic background, it doesn't stop the girls from getting to know each other better just by letting their similarities and memories unite them in the end as friends..