YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara
Essays 121 - 150
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
(Morrison 51). Throughout the novel, "cold statisticians," such as Schoolteacher, evaluate slaves according to "their animal ten...
Awakening: Marriage and Independence In Kate Chopins controversial novel The Awakening, which was first published in 1899, the n...
under the chinaberry tree until its over: "... while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye ...
This essay presents an overview of Donald Barthelme's "The School," Zitkala-Sa's "The School Days of an Indian Girl," and Toni Mor...
This essay pertains to a reality show, Braxton Family Values, that focuses on the family of Toni Braxton. The action in the episod...
This research paper/essay pertains to the subject of sexual molestation and domestic violence in black literature. The writer disc...
became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...
these women to seek relief in laudanum." Laudanum was a drug and apparently many plantation mistresses were living in incredibly o...
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...
depictions of Black America" (Nobelprize.org). Another critic notes that, "Morrison powerfully evokes in her fiction the legacies ...
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...
"blackness" and the sense that the darker a person is, the less worthy they are of gaining social acceptance. In fact, Pecola is ...
Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...
planned any of it, but he had to know that one day, after Macon hit her, hed see his mothers hand cover her lips as she searched w...
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...
African Americans, the Latin Americans and the Native Americans) away into the foreground the white man, so to speak, could feel t...
are somewhat consistent with superstitions followed by the slave culture of the time and a segment of the African heritage of the ...
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...
extremely close friends. Nel is abandoned by her husband, Jude, when she catches him making love to Sula. This is a double loss fo...