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However, this influence is seldom acknowledged by critics, who "see no excitement or meaning to the tropes of darkness, sexuality ...

remembering what happened. With disremember she is primarily taking a memory and pushing it away so that it will not become real t...

the whole time, but to be careful not to let your eyes wander. Theres nothing more offensive to the person to whom youre talking 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...

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...

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...

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...

We see that part of the past is dead, with the death of Baby Suggs who was a constant reminder of slavery and the hope inherently ...

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

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

cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...

to her poetry is the element of history. For Rich, the "sea is another story/ the sea is not a question of power / I have to lea...

in her own tragedy. While Sethe is still enslaved, she is treated by Schoolteachers despicable nephews as if she were no more th...

Morrisons work because water is symbolic of Beloveds need to fulfill a basic desire, but also a thirst for freedom. Another impo...

extremely close friends. Nel is abandoned by her husband, Jude, when she catches him making love to Sula. This is a double loss fo...

friendship: conflict between human beings. The exact manner in which Morrison reveals this conflict is an integral component to t...

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...

beginning, as we see the characters in a somewhat present condition, a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see tha...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

However, each contact with the white community in the town below reminds the reader of the constraints established by racial bigot...

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...

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

In five pages the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg as seen through the eyes of author Michael Shaara is examined in this text review...

In 5 pages sex as an instrument of power rather than an expression of intimacy is considered in this analysis of Beloved by Toni M...

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

This paper examines the self actualization of women in an analysis of the poems 'Daddy' and 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath and the novel...

typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is someone who today would appear on The Jerry Springer Show. His life has always been dy...