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Sylvia Plath and Toni Morrison on the Self Actualization of Women

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

Sexism and Racism in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

In five pages this paper examines the novel by Toni Morrison in terms of how it thematically portrays sexism and racism. There ar...

Point of View in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

In six pages this paper examines realiites of Pilate, Hagar, and Milkman in a consideration of the point of view featured in Toni ...

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...

Sula and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

This 10 page paper analyzes the Toni Morrison story Sula and then discusses it with reference to her novel The Bluest Eye. There a...

Confrontation in 2 Twentieth Century Novels

In twelve pages this paper examines confrontation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and in Toni Morrison's Jazz. One othe...

Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Degrees of Separation

An eight page paper looking at the issue of separation in Toni Morrison's modern classic. The paper points out that there are real...

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Motherhood, and Milk

In 8 pages this paper examines the thematic significance of motherhood and the symbolism of breastfeeding in the 1987 novel Belove...

Safety in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby

In five pages this essay examines safety issues as they are represented in husband and wife Valerian and Margaret in Toni Morrison...

Literature Alternatives to Freedom

In six pages the concept of freedom through death as a release from life's hardships is examined through such works as William Fau...

Evil Underpinnings in Sula by Toni Morrison

In 4 pages this paper examines the struggles of Nell and Sula in contending with apathy and evil in this novel by Toni Morrison. ...

American Literary Progress from 1500 until 1940

In six pages this paper charts the course of American literature in a consideration of popular movements with examples and a focus...

Slavery's 'Long Arm' and the Literature of African Americans

In six pages the enslavement of African American females as depicted in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Toni Mo...

Literature and the Freedom Concept

In four pages this paper examines how personality is affected by freedom in this analysis of Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' and Margare...

Community-Familial Themes in Works by Morrison, Sapphire, Kincaid and D'aguair

This 3 page paper discusses the way in which four authors treat the issues of language, rape, education and incest at the family l...

An Analysis of The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

This 5 page paper discusses the way in which Toni Morrison handles the issue of racism as the definition of belonging, beauty and ...

Literature By and About Women

a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see that the past, which involves at least Sethes enslavement, is very real ...

African Americans and Their Evolution in Fiction and Nonfiction

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

Blues, Growth, and Cultural Wisdom in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

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...

The Idea of Dreams from Toni Morrison and Alain Locke

Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Memory, 'Rememory' and 'Disremember'

remembering what happened. With disremember she is primarily taking a memory and pushing it away so that it will not become real t...

Race, Culture, and Social Perspective in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

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

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...

The Bluest Eye and Abuse

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...

Sula by Toni Morrison

It is a story that could well be about any community in any part of the world. In essence, unlike many of Morrisons...

Morrison’s Acquisition of Safeway

the acquisition was thought to bring value and that in hindsight the problems that were seen were only those which should have bee...

Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Dick and Jane

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...

'Beloved' by Toni Morrison and African Cosmology

the good parent, the grandparent. Some say he is father; others say she is mother. But the sentiment is the same: Nana is the sour...

Chaim Potok's The Chosen

we meet the main characters, Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders, two boys with similar backgrounds who meet at a baseball game. Dan...

An Analysis of The Lovely Bones

is the protagonist in the story for it is her story we are essentially watching, although we are watching it often through the liv...