YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Works of Toni Morrison
Essays 91 - 120
In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares these literary works regarding the lasting impressions of the slave experience up...
In seven pages this paper examines how the female protagonists in these respective literary works maintain their morale and intern...
not acknowledge Pecola as her daughter, and Pecola does not avow Pauline as her mother. Distance is quite evident in this so-calle...
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...
forbidden to them, they have set about creating something else to be" (Morrison 52). For example, Sula would go to Nels house to s...
as dark and as evil as could be imagined." This could perhaps be followed with a statement arguing that "this is exactly the case ...
This 5 page paper analyzes the first chapter of Song of Solomon, a novel by Toni Morrison. The writer suggests that in this openin...
in a celebration that includes dances that are a tribute to the "Old People," an annual tribute to ancestors. Avey is deeply moved...
who seems to have been originally placed in the plantation to serve as the woman of the slaves. She was somewhat innocent and was ...
complex, contradictory, evasive, independent and liquid modernity . . . (that) . . . ushers in the Jazz Age" (Basu 93). The Jazz A...
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 ...
of this is seen when she passes dandelions on the way to the store. "Why, she wonders, do people call them weeds? She thought they...
and perverts every aspect of their lives. Unlike the Hubbards, Reginas husband, Horace Giddens, is a man of principle. He has jus...
Sula because she has divorced herself so completely from her own emotions. By the end of the novel, both characters come to the re...
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...
of Denver and Sethes children, and many others.This establishes the idea that family is very important and thus we can assume that...
lived with her before her death and that Sethe sought her out after escaping from slavery. The presence of the baby girls ghost ...
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...
Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...
bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...
It is a story that could well be about any community in any part of the world. In essence, unlike many of Morrisons...
that, in truth, Morrison never reveals the race of the two characters although most people will assume that one is black and the o...
is affirmed in Pecolas mind when Maureen comes to her aid to protect against the boys who are teasing her and they immediately sto...
This 5 page paper examines the structure of Toni Morrison's novel Sula. The writer argues that Morrison uses the friendship betwee...
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...
in her own tragedy. While Sethe is still enslaved, she is treated by Schoolteachers despicable nephews as if she were no more th...
extremely close friends. Nel is abandoned by her husband, Jude, when she catches him making love to Sula. This is a double loss fo...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these novels by Toni Morrison in terms of how each feature murders. There are no ...
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...
In six pages this paper examines the ties to the South northern based characters have in The Bluest Eye, Jazz, and Beloved by Toni...