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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...

It is also interesting to note that when they grow, and separate, they take on the roles of their mothers: "Nel struggles to a con...

to the community, a clear case of moral ambiguity wherein Sula and her family felt they had a right and that their behavior was, o...

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

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

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

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...

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...

tells her that if she does marry this man, Morris, she will never receive any money from him, her father. Up till this point Cath...

white. The reader is offered clues, but then are clues that could be perceived from either direction. For example, in the beginn...

Within 3 pagess, Toni Morrison's 1979 speech at Barnard College is analyzed. Is it possible for women to survive a man's world if ...

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

(Morrison 51). Throughout the novel, "cold statisticians," such as Schoolteacher, evaluate slaves according to "their animal ten...

This essay presents an overview of Donald Barthelme's "The School," Zitkala-Sa's "The School Days of an Indian Girl," and Toni Mor...

This research paper/essay pertains to the subject of sexual molestation and domestic violence in black literature. The writer disc...

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

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

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

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

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 summarizes Tony Morrison's novel Sula. Primary source only....

that what is white is beautiful, lovable and normal, while black facial features, skin color and everything else associated with b...

In six pages this paper discusses the dark side of social commentary and how the writers reflect their respective societies in Tom...

on Queen Victoria allows the reader to judge for themselves if the book may be worthy of note from the beginning. And, what seems ...

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...

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

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...

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

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 ...