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Ralph Ellison, Toni Cade Bambara, and Minority Lessons of Their Works

life service to start Ellison on the path to understanding. Ellison describes how the graduation speech that he gives at his hig...

'It Takes a Village' in Toni Cade Bambara's Short Story 'The Lesson'

especially in inner city conditions, is a culture that relies heavily on community. Like other cultures, and unlike the majority o...

Toni Cade Bambara's 'The Lesson,' Flannery O'Connor's 'Good Country People' and Blissful Ignorance

own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...

George C. Wolfe's 101 Dalmations, Toni Cade Bambara's The Lesson and Identity

girl who has no real identity aside from that which is perhaps preconceived by her and her community. We see this young ignorance ...

Toni Cade Bambara's 'The Lesson'

In five pages the telling of this short story and the messages contained within are analyzed. One source is listed in the bibliog...

Community in "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara

the community as an oddity, "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She ...

Thematic Analysis of 'The Lesson' by Toni Cade Bambara

A thematic analysis of Toni Cade Bambara's 'The Lesson' comprises five pages. There are no other sources listed....

The Lesson #2 by Toni Cade Bambara

This 5 page paper discusses the central theme of Toni Cade Bambara's story The Lesson #2....

The Lesson #3 by Toni Cade Bambara

This 6 page paper discusses the theme of growth as explored by Toni Cade Bambara in The Lesson #3....

An Analysis of The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara

This 3 page paper analyzes Toni Cade Bambara's short story The Lesson, which deals with a group of young children learning first h...

The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara

features suggest, Miss Moore, first of all, does not try to change her appearance to meet white standards, hence, her hair is "nap...

Literature and Community

great deal of literature there is a foundation that is laid in relationship to a community. The community is a part of the setting...

Toni Cade Bambara's Community of African American Women’s Identity in ’s Gorilla, My Love Short Stories

a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...

First Person Narrative Approaches in Works by Toni Cade Bambara and John Updike

argue he is standing up to injustice in the world as it involves the young girls. As one author states, "At first glance, Sammy, t...

Twentieth Century Literature and What an 'American' Represents

This paper contrasts and compares different images of being an American in eight pages as represented in Toni Morrison's The Blues...

Violence and Pride: Ellison and Morrison

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...

Toni Cade Bambara's Sylvia and John Updike's Sammy

first of the story, show a young man, still engrossed with pigeon holing everyone he meets. They either are good or they are bad. ...

Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, and Themes of Gender and Race

all her fights are useless, futile, for there seems to be no positive movement, no positive gains made for women or blacks. She em...

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and the Journey of the Narrator

to help us answer that question of his growth. The book is a perennial best seller, and most people can name the episodes that co...

Identity and Trust Problems in 'Gorilla My Love' by Toni Cade Bambara

This short story by Toni Cade Bambara is examined in an analysis of identity and trust issues in a paper consisting of five pages....

George C. Wolfe's '101 Dalmatians' and Toni Bambara's 'The Lesson'

of segregation forced me to develop an inner strength that has served me well...It was a profoundly significant thing in my life, ...

Ralph Ellison's Battle Royal, Alice Walker's The Flowers and Lessons Learned

cotton, peanuts and squash ... that cause excited little tremors to run up her jaws" (Walker, 2002). Clearly, Myop was a h...

Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison

overcome em with yeses, undermine em with grins, agree em to death and destruction, let em swoller you till they vomit or bust wid...

Identity in No No Boy, The Invisible Man, and Beloved

In a paper consisting of five pages the shared theme of an identity search as reflected in these texts by John Okada, Ralph Elliso...

Prejudice in Education Confronted by Langston Hughes and Toni Cade Bambara

In five pages education and its prejudices are captured in the poem 'Theme for English B.' and the short story 'The Lesson.' Ther...

Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth

"Ill call him Bliss," in musing about his parentage and his light complexion, Hickman says of the infant, "because they say thats ...

What it Takes to Change

5 pages and 2 sources. This paper provides an overview of what it might take to change the future and improve a life. Though man...

Fighting Racism with Martin Luther King Jr. and Toni Bambara

is similar to arguing that a man who leaves his home with money in his possession incites robbery. As this suggests, King successf...

Faulkner and Bambara on Communities

expensive toy store. The children are amazed, as this gives them a glimpse of another world and lifestyle that is totally alien ...

Ralph Ellison

mention the civil war in Spain and the Communist state in Russia as instances in which people grew "tired of seeing the rich have ...