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as a child adapts to the language requirements of the native environment (Gliedman). Animal studies verify his perception in that ...

684). There is what several theorists describe as "language learnability" that enables children to take that seed of syntax knowl...

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...

depictions of Black America" (Nobelprize.org). Another critic notes that, "Morrison powerfully evokes in her fiction the legacies ...

"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...

However, this influence is seldom acknowledged by critics, who "see no excitement or meaning to the tropes of darkness, sexuality ...

friendship: conflict between human beings. The exact manner in which Morrison reveals this conflict is an integral component to t...

However, each contact with the white community in the town below reminds the reader of the constraints established by racial bigot...

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...

the ease and comfort of old friends. Because each had discovered that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and t...

Nel and Sula. Nel is light-skinned and lives in a tidy, respectable middle class home. Sula is deep brown and lives in a disrep...

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

and sung amidst a house that was less than perfectly organized. As we can see in this very simple beginning, a beginning that sets...

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...

under the chinaberry tree until its over: "... while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye ...

would then include the contrast and comparison on how the characters dealt with racism and their subjectivity to it. Finally, the ...

Awakening: Marriage and Independence In Kate Chopins controversial novel The Awakening, which was first published in 1899, the n...

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...

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...

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...

beginning, as we see the characters in a somewhat present condition, a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see tha...

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...

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 ...