YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Jazz by Toni Morrison
Essays 121 - 150
It is a story that could well be about any community in any part of the world. In essence, unlike many of Morrisons...
harrowing existence would lead a mother to that sort of desperate act. But still, no matter why she did it, and even if death is b...
the abuse of a child, however the reader may not like that. This same critic indicates how it was "Her scratching the back of her...
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...
tells her that if she does marry this man, Morris, she will never receive any money from him, her father. Up till this point Cath...
white. The reader is offered clues, but then are clues that could be perceived from either direction. For example, in the beginn...
(Morrison 51). Throughout the novel, "cold statisticians," such as Schoolteacher, evaluate slaves according to "their animal ten...
read. Morrison presents these excerpts, and the distorted excerpts, to illustrate a nation that has long held racism out for all t...
that is, as more closely comply with white standards of beauty are regarded with more favor by both whites and blacks, such as the...
these women to seek relief in laudanum." Laudanum was a drug and apparently many plantation mistresses were living in incredibly o...
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...
African Americans, the Latin Americans and the Native Americans) away into the foreground the white man, so to speak, could feel t...
has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...
a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see that the past, which involves at least Sethes enslavement, is very real ...
This paper contrasts and compares different images of being an American in eight pages as represented in Toni Morrison's The Blues...
This paper addresses Toni Morrison's use of misnaming and other dramatic techniques. This six page paper has no additional source...
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. ...
In five pages this research paper assesses the artistic and musical contributions of African Americans throughout history in the m...
In four pages this paper examines how personality is affected by freedom in this analysis of Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' and Margare...
In six pages the enslavement of African American females as depicted in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Toni Mo...
This 3 page paper discusses the way in which four authors treat the issues of language, rape, education and incest at the family l...
play in the narrative, it is helpful to have an understanding of the overall plot and its major components. Plot Synopsis Altho...
This paper examines how the 'quest' novel criteria is satisfied by Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon in six pages. There are no oth...
In 8 pages the erogenous and nursing significance of breasts and the freedom and oppression they represent to Sethe are the focus ...
In six pages this paper charts the course of American literature in a consideration of popular movements with examples and a focus...
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...
In six pages the concept of freedom through death as a release from life's hardships is examined through such works as William Fau...
This essay presents an overview of Donald Barthelme's "The School," Zitkala-Sa's "The School Days of an Indian Girl," and Toni Mor...
This research paper/essay pertains to the subject of sexual molestation and domestic violence in black literature. The writer disc...