YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Toni Morrisons Sula
Essays 151 - 180
remembering what happened. With disremember she is primarily taking a memory and pushing it away so that it will not become real 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...
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...
"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,...
Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...
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...
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...
a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...
depictions of Black America" (Nobelprize.org). Another critic notes that, "Morrison powerfully evokes in her fiction the legacies ...
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...
at first, her "kindly" master died, and a man known as "schoolteacher" took over; he embodied the worst traits of the slave owner ...
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...
is affirmed in Pecolas mind when Maureen comes to her aid to protect against the boys who are teasing her and they immediately sto...
need for all women, especially of color, to assert themselves and claim their individual identity. This narrative adds texture to...
was painful or lost" (69). Beloved wants to hear about the diamond earrings that Mrs. Garner gave Sethe to mark her marital union...
only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each others faces... Sometimes I dream a d...
the good parent, the grandparent. Some say he is father; others say she is mother. But the sentiment is the same: Nana is the sour...
and perverts every aspect of their lives. Unlike the Hubbards, Reginas husband, Horace Giddens, is a man of principle. He has jus...
girl who has no real identity aside from that which is perhaps preconceived by her and her community. We see this young ignorance ...
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 ...