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This 5 page paper analyzes The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and the way in which she observes the standards of beauty society sets,...
was dictated by the fact that they were not white, and according to Katherine McKittricks literary criticism, they accepted their ...
This 10 page paper analyzes the Toni Morrison story Sula and then discusses it with reference to her novel The Bluest Eye. There a...
in school show happy white children. Pecola surmises that happiness comes from being white, or acting white. Being beautiful meant...
world with it" (Morrison PG). Morrison shows how overcoming stereotypical racial images is not an easy accomplishment in Pecolas...
shod. Geraldine did not talk to him, coo to him, or indulge him in kissing bouts, but she saw that every other desire was fulfill...
This 6 page paper compares and contrasts the themes and characters in two of Toni Morrison's novels, Beloved and The Bluest Eye. T...
mass culture for anyone who is not included in it and for African-Americans especially, usually requires a leaving of ones own sel...
This 5 page paper discusses the way in which Toni Morrison handles the issue of racism as the definition of belonging, beauty and ...
In five pages this paper examines how society changed from individual acceptance to individual oppression in a comparative analysi...
"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,...
which are primarily told through an oral tradition, combining the blues with the cultural wisdoms. "The blues are first represente...
be that" (Bloom 17). The Bluest Eye fulfills this need, as it describes life from Pecola perspective, which includes how Pecola, a...
In five pages this paper examines the novel by Toni Morrison in terms of how it thematically portrays sexism and racism. There ar...
In 5 pages the ways in which these literary works consider past and present social issues are discussed....
but also from other novels from Morrison, as well as the wider context of mainstream culture, as she examines how African American...
not acknowledge Pecola as her daughter, and Pecola does not avow Pauline as her mother. Distance is quite evident in this so-calle...
a reference to "St. Louis Blues" by W.C. Handy which is one of the very first, and most popular, of blues songs (Morrison 25). F...
of this is seen when she passes dandelions on the way to the store. "Why, she wonders, do people call them weeds? She thought they...
segments correlates with the seasons. The section about "See Jane," is really about Pecola, as opposite a presentation from the w...
as dark and as evil as could be imagined." This could perhaps be followed with a statement arguing that "this is exactly the case ...
This 6 page paper discusses the way in which Toni Morrison considers women's self-esteem issues in her novel Song of Solomon. The ...
In five pages the social commentary featured in Walter Moseley's White Butterfly and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye are contrasted...
animal kingdom besides humans. Nevertheless, these standards can become a problem when they become conflated with racial character...
This research paper/essay pertains to the subject of sexual molestation and domestic violence in black literature. The writer disc...
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...
that what is white is beautiful, lovable and normal, while black facial features, skin color and everything else associated with b...
This paper contrasts and compares different images of being an American in eight pages as represented in Toni Morrison's The Blues...
This 3 page paper discusses the way in which four authors treat the issues of language, rape, education and incest at the family l...