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to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these novels by Toni Morrison in terms of how each feature murders. There are no ...

In five pages this report contrasts and compares the 1987 novel Beloved written by Toni Morrison with the 1998 movie adaptation. ...

cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...

but also from other novels from Morrison, as well as the wider context of mainstream culture, as she examines how African American...

This 6 page paper is a biography of Toni Morrison, the renowned African-America author. The writer examines some of the events in ...

girl before she is stopped. It is this sin -- the sin of Cain, to murder ones own flesh and blood -- that traps Sethe both in tim...

This 5 page paper examines the structure of Toni Morrison's novel Sula. The writer argues that Morrison uses the friendship betwee...

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...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

treated like a horse, complete with a bit in his mouth. Sethe managed to escape. In fact, because she was very pregnant and had b...

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

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...

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

planned any of it, but he had to know that one day, after Macon hit her, hed see his mothers hand cover her lips as she searched w...

Jadine and Sons respective interpretations of race and social stature represent. That each conflict intertwines with one another ...