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Character Study of Toni Morrison's Beloved

treated like a horse, complete with a bit in his mouth. Sethe managed to escape. In fact, because she was very pregnant and had b...

Toni Morrison's Sula and 'Black' Literature

complex, contradictory, evasive, independent and liquid modernity . . . (that) . . . ushers in the Jazz Age" (Basu 93). The Jazz A...

Four Novels and the American Dream

girl who is rejected by nearly everyone. In fact, so too is her family as the lot of them is cursed with ugliness and rejection. ...

Postmodern Techniques in Beloved by Toni Morrison

they were dead, rather than face a fate similar to hers. She is successful in killing only one, her infant Beloved. "Sethes murder...

Dramatic Elements in Morrison's Bluest Eye

This paper addresses Toni Morrison's use of misnaming and other dramatic techniques. This six page paper has no additional source...

Toni Morrison and Edward P. Jones

white. The reader is offered clues, but then are clues that could be perceived from either direction. For example, in the beginn...

Two Psychological Views on Morrison's Beloved

(Morrison 51). Throughout the novel, "cold statisticians," such as Schoolteacher, evaluate slaves according to "their animal ten...

Sula by Toni Morrison

It is a story that could well be about any community in any part of the world. In essence, unlike many of Morrisons...

Black Literature and Its Portrayals of Sexual Molestation, Domestic Violence

This research paper/essay pertains to the subject of sexual molestation and domestic violence in black literature. The writer disc...

American Education, Three Representations

This essay presents an overview of Donald Barthelme's "The School," Zitkala-Sa's "The School Days of an Indian Girl," and Toni Mor...

"The Bluest Eye" and Standards of Beauty

animal kingdom besides humans. Nevertheless, these standards can become a problem when they become conflated with racial character...

Themes of Good and Evil in Two Works by Poe and Morrison

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

African Americans and Their Evolution in Fiction and Nonfiction

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

'Beloved' by Toni Morrison and African Cosmology

the good parent, the grandparent. Some say he is father; others say she is mother. But the sentiment is the same: Nana is the sour...

Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Dick and Jane

of this is seen when she passes dandelions on the way to the store. "Why, she wonders, do people call them weeds? She thought they...

New Deal in Framing America by Frances K. Pohl and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

African Americans, the Latin Americans and the Native Americans) away into the foreground the white man, so to speak, could feel t...

Submissive Gender Roles in Sula and Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

planned any of it, but he had to know that one day, after Macon hit her, hed see his mothers hand cover her lips as she searched w...

Single Women in Toni Morrison's Sula and in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire

In five pages this paper considers the portrayal of single women in this comparison and contrasting of Morrison's novel and Willia...

Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Degrees of Separation

An eight page paper looking at the issue of separation in Toni Morrison's modern classic. The paper points out that there are real...

American Literary Progress from 1500 until 1940

In six pages this paper charts the course of American literature in a consideration of popular movements with examples and a focus...

Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye Contrasted in Two Essays

but also from other novels from Morrison, as well as the wider context of mainstream culture, as she examines how African American...

Good and Evil in Sula by Toni Morrison

Sula deals with the lives of these two opposed characters, The novel opens at the time when the girls were around the age of twel...

Literature Alternatives to Freedom

In six pages the concept of freedom through death as a release from life's hardships is examined through such works as William Fau...

Beloved by Toni Morrison

seems as if Beloved, the baby Sethe killed long ago, had come back in various forms, and with a vengeance. Although this seems to ...

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison and Quest

This paper examines how the 'quest' novel criteria is satisfied by Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon in six pages. There are no oth...

Safety in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby

In five pages this essay examines safety issues as they are represented in husband and wife Valerian and Margaret in Toni Morrison...

Breasts and Beloved by Toni Morrison

In 8 pages the erogenous and nursing significance of breasts and the freedom and oppression they represent to Sethe are the focus ...

Community-Familial Themes in Works by Morrison, Sapphire, Kincaid and D'aguair

This 3 page paper discusses the way in which four authors treat the issues of language, rape, education and incest at the family l...

Slavery's 'Long Arm' and the Literature of African Americans

In six pages the enslavement of African American females as depicted in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Toni Mo...

Sula by Toni Morrison and the Shadrack Character

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