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Four Novels and the American Dream

girl who is rejected by nearly everyone. In fact, so too is her family as the lot of them is cursed with ugliness and rejection. ...

Myth in Beloved by Toni Morrison

in her own tragedy. While Sethe is still enslaved, she is treated by Schoolteachers despicable nephews as if she were no more th...

Literary Device of Symbolism

Morrisons work because water is symbolic of Beloveds need to fulfill a basic desire, but also a thirst for freedom. Another impo...

'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...

Elements of Toni Morrison's Beloved

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

Two Authors View Coming of Age

all her transitions into adulthood. She feels she is special, because of her religion, and is, in many ways, without a strong p...

Beloved by Toni Morrison and Slavery Issues

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 ...

Naming Conventions in "Beloved"

harrowing existence would lead a mother to that sort of desperate act. But still, no matter why she did it, and even if death is b...

Morrison: “Song of Solomon” and “Beloved

at first, her "kindly" master died, and a man known as "schoolteacher" took over; he embodied the worst traits of the slave owner ...

Beloved and Personal Demons

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...

A Psychological Examination of Sethe, from “Beloved”

also alienates Sethes daughter Denver, who hates him because Beloved is interested in him; Denver wants to keep Beloved to herself...

Racism in The Bluest Eye

read. Morrison presents these excerpts, and the distorted excerpts, to illustrate a nation that has long held racism out for all t...

Issues in Morrison's The Bluest Eye

that is, as more closely comply with white standards of beauty are regarded with more favor by both whites and blacks, such as the...

Plantation Mistress and Beloved by Morrison

these women to seek relief in laudanum." Laudanum was a drug and apparently many plantation mistresses were living in incredibly o...

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...

Toni Morrison: Life and Works

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

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 ...

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and Pecola

life of the white people in society. Morrison often uses excerpts, that gradually become very distorted and run together in lines,...

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. ...

Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison

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

African Americans and Racism

became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...

New Deal in Framing America by Frances K. Pohl and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

African Americans, the Latin Americans and the Native Americans) away into the foreground the white man, so to speak, could feel t...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

'Interior Life' of Slaves and Toni Morrison

As the development of bound labor in the American south moved from the indentured servitude system of the colonial era to the grow...

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...

'Beloved' Daughter in Toni Morrison's Classic Novel

In three pages this paper considers Beloved by Toni Morrison in an argument that the Beloved character represents Sethe's daughter...