Toni Morrison wrote the novel “Paradise” to show the relationship between 5 women who live in a convent. Even though all the women are completely different in terms of backgrounds and personalities, they have many similarities. Morrison chose the way she wrote the novel very carefully by choosing where she wanted everything to be and what point she wanted to make in her novel. Mavis is a fugitive accused of killing her twins by leaving them in a vehicle to suffocate. She goes to the convent to hide from her husband who seems violent. “They're going to kill me” (31), Mavis tells her mother. She believes her own children are coming after her to avenge the deaths of their siblings. Mavis ends up at the convent where she meets Consoleta (Connie). Consoleta was a rape victim who was saved by one of the convent's nuns. 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 which is there to collect Mary Magna. Gigi arrived at Ruby's house after being cheated on by her boyfriend. She was hitchhiking when she got into the hearse, but after Connie asks her to stay and watch her sleep, Gigi does not leave the convent. Seneca then arrives after leaving his abusive boyfriend who is now in prison. Seneca has personal problems and cuts himself for fun. Finally arrives Pallas (Divine), a sixteen-year-old pregnant girl. Pallas had run away from home with her boyfriend, but was then betrayed by him. Even though the 5 women arrived at the convent for different reasons, they all have something in common: they were running from something. In the convent they found something they didn't have before, which was in the middle of a paper... just wilder. What women have in common is that they need each other. Although they act like they hate each other, they enjoy each other's company. In the novel, women's points of view are also more represented than men's. Men seem meaner than women. Even though the women are in the convent and still living a life of sin, it is the men who commit a greater sin by murdering the women for no good reason. Morrison makes the audience feel bad for what the women went through. It also makes the audience look at men from a different perspective, such as that of evil. Morrison spends his time writing trying to find a way to make men look bad. It seems that because Morrison was unhappy in her own marriage, she held grudges against men in general. She had a certain hatred towards men and tried to make the public feel the same way..