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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 nine pages Melville's message in Billy Budd is analyzed and then the novel is compared to the works by Arthur Miller and Toni M...

In eight pages this paper examines how Toni Morrison reflected the Harlem Renaissance artistic movement in her novel Jazz. Two so...

This 10 page paper analyzes the Toni Morrison story Sula and then discusses it with reference to her novel The Bluest Eye. There a...

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

very beginning of the book a reader understands that this will not be, in any way, a "usual" story, especially as the logic behind...

where people were loud as they danced and sung amidst a house that was less than perfectly organized. As we can see in this very s...

all her transitions into adulthood. She feels she is special, because of her religion, and is, in many ways, without a strong p...

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