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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 ...

is beautiful, acceptable, and normal while black physical characteristics, i.e., broad lips, kinky hair, flat nose and dark skin, ...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

"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,...

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 ...

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

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...

in her own tragedy. While Sethe is still enslaved, she is treated by Schoolteachers despicable nephews as if she were no more th...

Morrisons work because water is symbolic of Beloveds need to fulfill a basic desire, but also a thirst for freedom. Another impo...

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

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...

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

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 ...