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of Denver and Sethes children, and many others.This establishes the idea that family is very important and thus we can assume that...

lived with her before her death and that Sethe sought her out after escaping from slavery. The presence of the baby girls ghost ...

that most people believe to be haunted. A friend, Paul D determines to exorcise the ghost for her. After he has done so, Sethe is ...

and perverts every aspect of their lives. Unlike the Hubbards, Reginas husband, Horace Giddens, is a man of principle. He has jus...

Sula because she has divorced herself so completely from her own emotions. By the end of the novel, both characters come to the re...

If the reader proves victorious at ascertaining the entire concept as a whole, while comprehending the connection of the detailed ...

content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...

need for all women, especially of color, to assert themselves and claim their individual identity. This narrative adds texture to...

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...

Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...

oppressed. Later in the story the reader learns of how Emily was not allowed to have male suitors and how her only responsibilit...

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...

not acknowledge Pecola as her daughter, and Pecola does not avow Pauline as her mother. Distance is quite evident in this so-calle...

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...

forbidden to them, they have set about creating something else to be" (Morrison 52). For example, Sula would go to Nels house to s...

a feeling that his ferocious conviction in the rightness of his own actions would be of advantage to all whose interest lies with ...

to those themes" (Mayo 231). Another author indicates that "Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye emphasizes the de-culturing effects o...

as dark and as evil as could be imagined." This could perhaps be followed with a statement arguing that "this is exactly the case ...

who seems to have been originally placed in the plantation to serve as the woman of the slaves. She was somewhat innocent and was ...

flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all" (Faulkner). This is a clear indication that Em...

judge asks if he can produce the black man, Harris said no, he was a stranger; then he says "Get that boy up here. He knows" (Faul...

necessarily as depressing as one could envision in relationship to the process of dying and the construction of a coffin outside h...

child, which is further emphasized by his stiff nature. All of these symbolic descriptions lay the foundation for understanding th...

testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...

time reader knows the story may move on logically from her death to another consecutive event. However, after a couple of paragr...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...