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This paper addresses Toni Morrison's use of misnaming and other dramatic techniques. This six page paper has no additional source...

This 5 page paper analyzes the first chapter of Song of Solomon, a novel by Toni Morrison. The writer suggests that in this openin...

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...

these women to seek relief in laudanum." Laudanum was a drug and apparently many plantation mistresses were living in incredibly o...

African Americans, the Latin Americans and the Native Americans) away into the foreground the white man, so to speak, could feel t...

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...

world with it" (Morrison PG). Morrison shows how overcoming stereotypical racial images is not an easy accomplishment in Pecolas...

treated like a horse, complete with a bit in his mouth. Sethe managed to escape. In fact, because she was very pregnant and had b...

has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...

a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see that the past, which involves at least Sethes enslavement, is very real ...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

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...

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...

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 research paper/essay pertains to the subject of sexual molestation and domestic violence in black literature. The writer disc...

also alienates Sethes daughter Denver, who hates him because Beloved is interested in him; Denver wants to keep Beloved to herself...

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...

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...

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...

the acquisition was thought to bring value and that in hindsight the problems that were seen were only those which should have bee...

This 5 page paper summarizes Tony Morrison's novel Sula. Primary source only....

that what is white is beautiful, lovable and normal, while black facial features, skin color and everything else associated with b...

be that" (Bloom 17). The Bluest Eye fulfills this need, as it describes life from Pecola perspective, which includes how Pecola, a...