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under the chinaberry tree until its over: "... while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye ...

to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...

end, giving us a young woman who was never able to come to terms with her race, her sexuality, or her gender. She is the character...

However, each contact with the white community in the town below reminds the reader of the constraints established by racial bigot...

relationship to his own sense of honor and integrity. In the beginning he had no doubts about getting his stepfather alone and kil...

friendship: conflict between human beings. The exact manner in which Morrison reveals this conflict is an integral component to t...

Nel and Sula. Nel is light-skinned and lives in a tidy, respectable middle class home. Sula is deep brown and lives in a disrep...

and sung amidst a house that was less than perfectly organized. As we can see in this very simple beginning, a beginning that sets...

the ease and comfort of old friends. Because each had discovered that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and t...

"blackness" and the sense that the darker a person is, the less worthy they are of gaining social acceptance. In fact, Pecola is ...

depictions of Black America" (Nobelprize.org). Another critic notes that, "Morrison powerfully evokes in her fiction the legacies ...

became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...

life of the white people in society. Morrison often uses excerpts, that gradually become very distorted and run together in lines,...

is beautiful, acceptable, and normal while black physical characteristics, i.e., broad lips, kinky hair, flat nose and dark skin, ...

is affirmed in Pecolas mind when Maureen comes to her aid to protect against the boys who are teasing her and they immediately sto...

after Macon hit her, hed see his mothers hand cover her lips as she searched with her tongue for any broken teeth...and that on th...

in school show happy white children. Pecola surmises that happiness comes from being white, or acting white. Being beautiful meant...

was dictated by the fact that they were not white, and according to Katherine McKittricks literary criticism, they accepted their ...

relationship with this woman. But after years, when he is in his early thirties, he loses interest and breaks off their relationsh...

relationship with this woman. But after years, when he is in his early thirties, he loses interest and breaks off their relationsh...

was a Louisiana wife steeped in the traditions of the plantation South. She married prosperous Leonce Pontellier so that she coul...

In five pages this paper argues that characters from each of these novels represents a psychic erosion that represents their commu...

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which Shadrack is affected by patriarchal and racial issues throughout the course ...

In five pages this paper discusses how birth defects including those involving the cranial neural crest and retinal issues can be ...

-- could be guaranteed. Then Sethes mother had to return to the fields, and Sethe would be nursed -- insufficiently -- by the whit...

general public. "In a gallery on the North side of the castle, which was filled with pictures of the family, hung a portrait of M...

and be taken care of. She does not look off longingly to a freedom without such realities, but she looks to the power of mothering...

do not possess social status, a reality that makes for a tragedy waiting to happen in her efforts to match Harriet with someone be...

from secondary characters to protagonists who were considered universal or genderless to those who were females yet were strong an...

reward. He has been joined by a number of other theorist, each of whom present their own social cognitive theories. Several of t...