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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...

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

is beautiful, acceptable, and normal while black physical characteristics, i.e., broad lips, kinky hair, flat nose and dark skin, ...

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 ...

money, and she now has nothing. With this simple background in mind we note that she, at one time, wanted to explore herself an...

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

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...

relationship to his own sense of honor and integrity. In the beginning he had no doubts about getting his stepfather alone and kil...

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

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

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

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...

"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,...

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...

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

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...

black people of the nation to begin to take control, to rid themselves of 19th century dreams or ideals or expectations. His work ...

would lead one to believe there is any religious elements in the poem, the manner in which she presents the poem is, again, filled...

society within they wished they lived. In Bambaras story we have one woman, a black woman, who is trying to educate the inner c...

of being marginalized and stereotyped, and just beginning to understand that they have a collective identity (Maslin, 1995). The ...

had more of an anthropomophic approach to them than a strictly preservationist approach. Thus enters the argument ecologists have...

to civilisation? Probably not. We can, therefore, only speculate as to whether or not McChandless might have seen his death as mer...

one way or another, and men who perhaps want something more out of life. With Quoyle we have a man who moves to Newfoundland an...

who has always studied hard and done what is right in order to get ahead. He has gone to college and is a successful lawyer. In es...

father" (Mukherjee NA). Without even getting into the specifics of this story we can immediately see that the patriarchal society ...

Koran, and all those involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death. I ask all Moslems to execu...

Tom rescues his daughter (Little Eva) from a drowning death. St. Clare is one who believes in paying his debts and, in fact, promi...

began to write what came to be called "confessional poetry," which is defined as "an undisguised exposure of painful personal even...