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This 5 page paper analyzes The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and the way in which she observes the standards of beauty society sets,...

shod. Geraldine did not talk to him, coo to him, or indulge him in kissing bouts, but she saw that every other desire was fulfill...

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 twelve pages this paper examines how reality is perceived in the literary works Jazz by Toni Morrison, Waiting for Godot by Sam...

as he, also, is an exile from civilization (12). Also like Prospero, Valerian exerts control over the rest of the characters (Walt...

argue he is standing up to injustice in the world as it involves the young girls. As one author states, "At first glance, Sammy, t...

This paper examines the self actualization of women in an analysis of the poems 'Daddy' and 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath and the novel...

typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is someone who today would appear on The Jerry Springer Show. His life has always been dy...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

money, and she now has nothing. With this simple background in mind we note that she, at one time, wanted to explore herself an...

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...

extremely close friends. Nel is abandoned by her husband, Jude, when she catches him making love to Sula. This is a double loss fo...

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...

first of the story, show a young man, still engrossed with pigeon holing everyone he meets. They either are good or they are bad. ...

which are primarily told through an oral tradition, combining the blues with the cultural wisdoms. "The blues are first represente...

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...

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...