YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison
Essays 151 - 180
"blackness" and the sense that the darker a person is, the less worthy they are of gaining social acceptance. In fact, Pecola is ...
life of the white people in society. Morrison often uses excerpts, that gradually become very distorted and run together in lines,...
became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...
depictions of Black America" (Nobelprize.org). Another critic notes that, "Morrison powerfully evokes in her fiction the legacies ...
at first, her "kindly" master died, and a man known as "schoolteacher" took over; he embodied the worst traits of the slave owner ...
She has attempted to find a place in herself wherein she can survive and go on despite her actions. It is a very cloudy place that...
- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...
survivor of a slave ship, which crossed the water. With this crossing of the water, vast numbers of people had their way of life c...
beginning, as we see the characters in a somewhat present condition, a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see tha...
and sung amidst a house that was less than perfectly organized. As we can see in this very simple beginning, a beginning that sets...
remembering what happened. With disremember she is primarily taking a memory and pushing it away so that it will not become real t...
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...
to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...
relationship to his own sense of honor and integrity. In the beginning he had no doubts about getting his stepfather alone and kil...
However, each contact with the white community in the town below reminds the reader of the constraints established by racial bigot...
to her poetry is the element of history. For Rich, the "sea is another story/ the sea is not a question of power / I have to lea...
cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...
which are primarily told through an oral tradition, combining the blues with the cultural wisdoms. "The blues are first represente...
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...
where people were loud as they danced and sung amidst a house that was less than perfectly organized. As we can see in this very s...
all her transitions into adulthood. She feels she is special, because of her religion, and is, in many ways, without a strong p...
extremely close friends. Nel is abandoned by her husband, Jude, when she catches him making love to Sula. This is a double loss fo...
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 ...
very beginning of the book a reader understands that this will not be, in any way, a "usual" story, especially as the logic behind...
money, and she now has nothing. With this simple background in mind we note that she, at one time, wanted to explore herself an...
under the chinaberry tree until its over: "... while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye ...
Awakening: Marriage and Independence In Kate Chopins controversial novel The Awakening, which was first published in 1899, the n...
is beautiful, acceptable, and normal while black physical characteristics, i.e., broad lips, kinky hair, flat nose and dark skin, ...