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Essays 61 - 90
This paper contrasts and compares different images of being an American in eight pages as represented in Toni Morrison's The Blues...
this 5 page paper summarizes the main issues Toni Morrison discusses in her award-winning novel Beloved. In particular, the writer...
This paper addresses Toni Morrison's use of misnaming and other dramatic techniques. This six page paper has no additional source...
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. ...
are somewhat consistent with superstitions followed by the slave culture of the time and a segment of the African heritage of the ...
they were dead, rather than face a fate similar to hers. She is successful in killing only one, her infant Beloved. "Sethes murder...
also alienates Sethes daughter Denver, who hates him because Beloved is interested in him; Denver wants to keep Beloved to herself...
It is a story that could well be about any community in any part of the world. In essence, unlike many of Morrisons...
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...
Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
(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...
the acquisition was thought to bring value and that in hindsight the problems that were seen were only those which should have bee...
This 5 page paper summarizes Tony Morrison's novel Sula. Primary source only....
stanza, which pictures the listener, the person offering lifes big questions, emotionally stranded. The narrative voice states, "I...
that what is white is beautiful, lovable and normal, while black facial features, skin color and everything else associated with b...
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...
be that" (Bloom 17). The Bluest Eye fulfills this need, as it describes life from Pecola perspective, which includes how Pecola, a...