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lived with her before her death and that Sethe sought her out after escaping from slavery. The presence of the baby girls ghost ...

shown in his marriage to Rosamond. She is from a very wealthy family and insists that Lyndgate keep her in a manner to which she h...

to those themes" (Mayo 231). Another author indicates that "Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye emphasizes the de-culturing effects o...

not acknowledge Pecola as her daughter, and Pecola does not avow Pauline as her mother. Distance is quite evident in this so-calle...

forbidden to them, they have set about creating something else to be" (Morrison 52). For example, Sula would go to Nels house to s...

that most people believe to be haunted. A friend, Paul D determines to exorcise the ghost for her. After he has done so, Sethe is ...

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

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

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

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...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

mass culture for anyone who is not included in it and for African-Americans especially, usually requires a leaving of ones own sel...

This 5 page paper discusses the way in which Toni Morrison handles the issue of racism as the definition of belonging, beauty and ...

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...

at first, her "kindly" master died, and a man known as "schoolteacher" took over; he embodied the worst traits of the slave owner ...

home to beauty, serenity, love and happiness. In the case of Pinters story there is a family comprised of five men and then one of...

under the chinaberry tree until its over: "... while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye ...

Awakening: Marriage and Independence In Kate Chopins controversial novel The Awakening, which was first published in 1899, the n...

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...

life of the white people in society. Morrison often uses excerpts, that gradually become very distorted and run together in lines,...

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...

depictions of Black America" (Nobelprize.org). Another critic notes that, "Morrison powerfully evokes in her fiction the legacies ...

remembering what happened. With disremember she is primarily taking a memory and pushing it away so that it will not become real t...

and sung amidst a house that was less than perfectly organized. As we can see in this very simple beginning, a beginning that sets...