YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :White and Black Culture in Beloved by Toni Morrison
Essays 181 - 210
This 6 page paper discusses the theme of growth as explored by Toni Cade Bambara in The Lesson #3....
this was the stance of antebellum Southerners who saw slavery as a functional and crucial part of their economic system. Propon...
life of the white people in society. Morrison often uses excerpts, that gradually become very distorted and run together in lines,...
depictions of Black America" (Nobelprize.org). Another critic notes that, "Morrison powerfully evokes in her fiction the legacies ...
Awakening: Marriage and Independence In Kate Chopins controversial novel The Awakening, which was first published in 1899, the n...
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...
all her transitions into adulthood. She feels she is special, because of her religion, and is, in many ways, without a strong p...
very beginning of the book a reader understands that this will not be, in any way, a "usual" story, especially as the logic behind...
money, and she now has nothing. With this simple background in mind we note that she, at one time, wanted to explore herself an...
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...
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...
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...
However, each contact with the white community in the town below reminds the reader of the constraints established by racial bigot...
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...
friendship: conflict between human beings. The exact manner in which Morrison reveals this conflict is an integral component to t...
relationship to his own sense of honor and integrity. In the beginning he had no doubts about getting his stepfather alone and kil...
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...
In five pages The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is compared with Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed in terms their very different tragic an...
in full from the silver screen" (Morrison 97). Consequently, Pauline Breedlove becomes more and more wrapped up in her life as the...
In a paper consisting of five pages the shared theme of an identity search as reflected in these texts by John Okada, Ralph Elliso...
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. ...