YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara
Essays 91 - 120
relationship to his own sense of honor and integrity. In the beginning he had no doubts about getting his stepfather alone and kil...
social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...
to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...
a reference to "St. Louis Blues" by W.C. Handy which is one of the very first, and most popular, of blues songs (Morrison 25). F...
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...
However, each contact with the white community in the town below reminds the reader of the constraints established by racial bigot...
the ease and comfort of old friends. Because each had discovered that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and t...
Awakening: Marriage and Independence In Kate Chopins controversial novel The Awakening, which was first published in 1899, the n...
(Morrison 51). Throughout the novel, "cold statisticians," such as Schoolteacher, evaluate slaves according to "their animal ten...
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 ...
under the chinaberry tree until its over: "... while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye ...
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...
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...
It is a story that could well be about any community in any part of the world. In essence, unlike many of Morrisons...
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...
bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...
also alienates Sethes daughter Denver, who hates him because Beloved is interested in him; Denver wants to keep Beloved to herself...
at first, her "kindly" master died, and a man known as "schoolteacher" took over; he embodied the worst traits of the slave owner ...
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...
This paper examines the self actualization of women in an analysis of the poems 'Daddy' and 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath and the novel...
In 5 pages sex as an instrument of power rather than an expression of intimacy is considered in this analysis of Beloved by Toni M...
typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is someone who today would appear on The Jerry Springer Show. His life has always been dy...
As the development of bound labor in the American south moved from the indentured servitude system of the colonial era to the grow...
Sula deals with the lives of these two opposed characters, The novel opens at the time when the girls were around the age of twel...
In six pages the concept of freedom through death as a release from life's hardships is examined through such works as William Fau...