YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara
Essays 91 - 120
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...
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...
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 essay pertains to a reality show, Braxton Family Values, that focuses on the family of Toni Braxton. The action in the episod...
Awakening: Marriage and Independence In Kate Chopins controversial novel The Awakening, which was first published in 1899, the n...
(Morrison 51). Throughout the novel, "cold statisticians," such as Schoolteacher, evaluate slaves according to "their animal ten...
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 ...
under the chinaberry tree until its over: "... while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye ...
However, each contact with the white community in the town below reminds the reader of the constraints established by racial bigot...
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 ...
friendship: conflict between human beings. The exact manner in which Morrison reveals this conflict is an integral component to t...
Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...
relationship to his own sense of honor and integrity. In the beginning he had no doubts about getting his stepfather alone and kil...
social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...
to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...
a reference to "St. Louis Blues" by W.C. Handy which is one of the very first, and most popular, of blues songs (Morrison 25). F...
girl before she is stopped. It is this sin -- the sin of Cain, to murder ones own flesh and blood -- that traps Sethe both in tim...
to those themes" (Mayo 231). Another author indicates that "Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye emphasizes the de-culturing effects o...
This research paper/essay pertains to the subject of sexual molestation and domestic violence in black literature. The writer disc...
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...
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...
This paper examines the self actualization of women in an analysis of the poems 'Daddy' and 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath and the novel...