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In five pages The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is compared with Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed in terms their very different tragic an...

must be left on a shelf, out of reach and safe from being broken. Macon Deads desire for a slice of metaphoric pie--the American ...

typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is someone who today would appear on The Jerry Springer Show. His life has always been dy...

This paper examines the self actualization of women in an analysis of the poems 'Daddy' and 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath and the novel...

all her transitions into adulthood. She feels she is special, because of her religion, and is, in many ways, without a strong p...

money, and she now has nothing. With this simple background in mind we note that she, at one time, wanted to explore herself an...

as he, also, is an exile from civilization (12). Also like Prospero, Valerian exerts control over the rest of the characters (Walt...

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...

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

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

However, this influence is seldom acknowledged by critics, who "see no excitement or meaning to the tropes of darkness, sexuality ...

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,...

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

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

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

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

that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...

viable human being but that in itself should indicate that a human being has no right to take the life of a fetus because it is no...

In five pages this essay examines a Time magazine article on the short life and murder of Bill Cosby's only son Ennis....

In four pages this paper examines how Truman Capote effectively combined the novel form with the real life murder of the Clutter f...

give clues as to what is going on in the mind and the past of the person having it. She convincingly creates a context for dream s...

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

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

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

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

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

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...