YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison
Essays 31 - 60
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 ...
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...
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...
Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...
also alienates Sethes daughter Denver, who hates him because Beloved is interested in him; Denver wants to keep Beloved to herself...
It is a story that could well be about any community in any part of the world. In essence, unlike many of Morrisons...
It is also interesting to note that when they grow, and separate, they take on the roles of their mothers: "Nel struggles to a con...
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...
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...
to the community, a clear case of moral ambiguity wherein Sula and her family felt they had a right and that their behavior was, o...
white. The reader is offered clues, but then are clues that could be perceived from either direction. For example, in the beginn...
Within 3 pagess, Toni Morrison's 1979 speech at Barnard College is analyzed. Is it possible for women to survive a man's world if ...
In five pages this research paper assesses the artistic and musical contributions of African Americans throughout history in the m...
This 5 page paper examines Toni Morrison's novel Beloved from a feminist perspective. The writer analyzes Beloved herself, who app...
This 6 page paper compares and contrasts the themes and characters in two of Toni Morrison's novels, Beloved and The Bluest Eye. T...
This 8 page paper considers Sethe's sense of what it means to be a mother in Toni Morrison's novel Beloved. The writer argues that...
This 7 page paper argues that Toni Morrison's use of vacant facial expressions in her novel Beloved can be understood with referen...
This research paper/essay pertains to the subject of sexual molestation and domestic violence in black literature. The writer disc...
This essay presents an overview of Donald Barthelme's "The School," Zitkala-Sa's "The School Days of an Indian Girl," and Toni Mor...
(Morrison 51). Throughout the novel, "cold statisticians," such as Schoolteacher, evaluate slaves according to "their animal ten...
This 5 page paper explores the concepts of virtue and self-discipline and how self-discipline applies to virtue in Toni Morrison's...
This 5 page paper discusses the relationship among the female characters in Toni Morrison's Sula and The Fox by D.H. Lawrence. The...
This 8 page paper discusses the development of the character of Milkman Dead in Toni Morrison's novel Song of Solomon. The writer ...
This 6 page paper argues that Milkman Dead, a character in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, can be described as a classic hero. Th...
This 4 page paper compares and contrasts the characters of Milkman Dead and his father Macon in Toni Morrison's novel Song of Solo...
In four pages this paper examines how personality is affected by freedom in this analysis of Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' and Margare...