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benefit of any mutilating tool; Sands (2001) notes that to suggest this trance - or hallucination - is motivated by anything other...

are on their own at school; however, the soiree does not last long once law enforcement officials find out those who are imbibing ...

Many would agree that free speech has gone way too far. There are just too many incidents of people claiming their words that are ...

is notable about Tolkien is that his world makes internal sense. Each race (Elves, Dwarves, Men, Orcs, etc.) has a distinct langua...

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

at first, her "kindly" master died, and a man known as "schoolteacher" took over; he embodied the worst traits of the slave owner ...

39). He then speaks of how it is not just his son, but his sister and his brother as well, noting how "They go away...Perhaps it d...

also alienates Sethes daughter Denver, who hates him because Beloved is interested in him; Denver wants to keep Beloved to herself...

a sense of innocence. "I had begun to worry about my speech again. How would it go? Would they recognize my ability? What would th...

exactly how many versions have existed throughout the ages, one would be hard pressed to find a definitive answer, inasmuch as the...

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

is sick, Kumalo goes to the city to bring his sister home and to find his son, Absalom. When he arrives, he discovers that his son...

In five pages the philosophy of beloved revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and its good intentions are examined. Three sources a...

who seems to have been originally placed in the plantation to serve as the woman of the slaves. She was somewhat innocent and was ...

in her own tragedy. While Sethe is still enslaved, she is treated by Schoolteachers despicable nephews as if she were no more th...

Morrisons work because water is symbolic of Beloveds need to fulfill a basic desire, but also a thirst for freedom. Another impo...

through the use of rolling chords that softly underscore the melody line in the treble, while octaves sound in the bass like dista...

these women to seek relief in laudanum." Laudanum was a drug and apparently many plantation mistresses were living in incredibly o...

of Western superiority, is the only correct view. By this novels end, it is clear that what Price calls "faith" is rather cultur...

a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...

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...

We see that part of the past is dead, with the death of Baby Suggs who was a constant reminder of slavery and the hope inherently ...

beginning, as we see the characters in a somewhat present condition, a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see tha...

girl before she is stopped. It is this sin -- the sin of Cain, to murder ones own flesh and blood -- that traps Sethe both in tim...

the hope inherently possessed in freedom. But, even Baby Suggs understands that slavery will always be with them. She dreamed of b...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see that the past, which involves at least Sethes enslavement, is very real ...

that most people believe to be haunted. A friend, Paul D determines to exorcise the ghost for her. After he has done so, Sethe is ...

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

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