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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, 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...

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...

to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...

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

in society provide numerous functions while at the same time explaining mans origins and how man relates with nature. Many of the ...

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

as his overarching rationale, as he is also in Birmingham "because "injustice is here" (King). In analyzing the situation in Bir...

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...

In a paper consisting of five pages the shared theme of an identity search as reflected in these texts by John Okada, Ralph Elliso...

in full from the silver screen" (Morrison 97). Consequently, Pauline Breedlove becomes more and more wrapped up in her life as the...

In five pages The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is compared with Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed in terms their very different tragic an...

must be left on a shelf, out of reach and safe from being broken. Macon Deads desire for a slice of metaphoric pie--the American ...

In 4 pages this paper examines the struggles of Nell and Sula in contending with apathy and evil in this novel by Toni Morrison. ...

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the relationship between black poetry and literature with jazz and blues music with...

This 5 page paper discusses the struggles African-Americans face as they move from a rural setting to an urban one, as portrayed i...

This 6 page paper compares and contrasts two novels, The Wedding by Dorothy West and Jazz by Toni Morrison. The novels are the onl...

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...

would then include the contrast and comparison on how the characters dealt with racism and their subjectivity to it. Finally, the ...

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

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...