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Essays 61 - 90
they were dead, rather than face a fate similar to hers. She is successful in killing only one, her infant Beloved. "Sethes murder...
also alienates Sethes daughter Denver, who hates him because Beloved is interested in him; Denver wants to keep Beloved to herself...
these women to seek relief in laudanum." Laudanum was a drug and apparently many plantation mistresses were living in incredibly o...
It is a story that could well be about any community in any part of the world. In essence, unlike many of Morrisons...
It is also interesting to note that when they grow, and separate, they take on the roles of their mothers: "Nel struggles to a con...
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...
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...
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...
a sense of innocence. "I had begun to worry about my speech again. How would it go? Would they recognize my ability? What would th...
tells her that if she does marry this man, Morris, she will never receive any money from him, her father. Up till this point Cath...
to the community, a clear case of moral ambiguity wherein Sula and her family felt they had a right and that their behavior was, o...
(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 ...
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 research paper/essay pertains to the subject of sexual molestation and domestic violence in black literature. The writer disc...
the acquisition was thought to bring value and that in hindsight the problems that were seen were only those which should have bee...
This 5 page paper summarizes Tony Morrison's novel Sula. Primary source only....
that what is white is beautiful, lovable and normal, while black facial features, skin color and everything else associated with b...
do believe that knowledge comes from testing, such as in science, and has little to do with experience. This is because experience...
On five pages this report considers Locke's subdivision of human ideas into relations, modes, and substances within the context of...
In three pages John Locke's perspectives and philosophy of ideas as presented in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding are exami...
that standard then the entire concept of innate knowledge cannot possibly be true. He further argues that those who say...
being things such as substances that are found in the material world (Honderich, 1995). Modes and relations are two other complex ...
occurred. One of the only things that one can find to argue about Locke is that he eventually becomes as inflexible as the rest o...
to those themes" (Mayo 231). Another author indicates that "Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye emphasizes the de-culturing effects o...
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 ...
not acknowledge Pecola as her daughter, and Pecola does not avow Pauline as her mother. Distance is quite evident in this so-calle...
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...