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This 5 page paper discusses the central theme of Toni Cade Bambara's story The Lesson #2....
This 6 page paper discusses the theme of growth as explored by Toni Cade Bambara in The Lesson #3....
living sisters, felt trapped between the obligations imposed on her by the world of her parents and the conflicting concepts prese...
is not the presence or direct action of Wal-Mart, but rather its effect on the local economy combined with its pattern of predator...
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...
"blackness" and the sense that the darker a person is, the less worthy they are of gaining social acceptance. In fact, Pecola is ...
to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...
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...
However, each contact with the white community in the town below reminds the reader of the constraints established by racial bigot...
friendship: conflict between human beings. The exact manner in which Morrison reveals this conflict is an integral component to t...
relationship to his own sense of honor and integrity. In the beginning he had no doubts about getting his stepfather alone and kil...
very beginning of the book a reader understands that this will not be, in any way, a "usual" story, especially as the logic behind...
extremely close friends. Nel is abandoned by her husband, Jude, when she catches him making love to Sula. This is a double loss fo...
all her transitions into adulthood. She feels she is special, because of her religion, and is, in many ways, without a strong p...
money, and she now has nothing. With this simple background in mind we note that she, at one time, wanted to explore herself an...
is beautiful, acceptable, and normal while black physical characteristics, i.e., broad lips, kinky hair, flat nose and dark skin, ...
However, this influence is seldom acknowledged by critics, who "see no excitement or meaning to the tropes of darkness, sexuality ...
became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...
and prejudices can all create conflicts. Most conflicts are founded in resource limitations, psychological needs or value differen...
life of the white people in society. Morrison often uses excerpts, that gradually become very distorted and run together in lines,...
depictions of Black America" (Nobelprize.org). Another critic notes that, "Morrison powerfully evokes in her fiction the legacies ...
which are primarily told through an oral tradition, combining the blues with the cultural wisdoms. "The blues are first represente...
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...
would then include the contrast and comparison on how the characters dealt with racism and their subjectivity to it. Finally, the ...
as he, also, is an exile from civilization (12). Also like Prospero, Valerian exerts control over the rest of the characters (Walt...
In twelve pages this paper examines how reality is perceived in the literary works Jazz by Toni Morrison, Waiting for Godot by Sam...
This 7 page paper discusses the life and works of Toni Morrison, concentrating on Jazz, Sula and The Bluest Eye. There are 7 sourc...
In 5 pages this paper discusses how in this Jane Austen novel the mothers' relationships with their children and how their selfish...
This paper examines the self actualization of women in an analysis of the poems 'Daddy' and 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath and the novel...