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In twelve pages this paper examines confrontation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and in Toni Morrison's Jazz. One othe...

this 5 page paper summarizes the main issues Toni Morrison discusses in her award-winning novel Beloved. In particular, the writer...

In 8 pages the erogenous and nursing significance of breasts and the freedom and oppression they represent to Sethe are the focus ...

Sula deals with the lives of these two opposed characters, The novel opens at the time when the girls were around the age of twel...

In six pages this paper charts the course of American literature in a consideration of popular movements with examples and a focus...

This 5 page paper analyzes the first chapter of Song of Solomon, a novel by Toni Morrison. The writer suggests that in this openin...

This paper addresses Toni Morrison's use of misnaming and other dramatic techniques. This six page paper has no additional source...

they were dead, rather than face a fate similar to hers. She is successful in killing only one, her infant Beloved. "Sethes murder...

girl who is rejected by nearly everyone. In fact, so too is her family as the lot of them is cursed with ugliness and rejection. ...

world with it" (Morrison PG). Morrison shows how overcoming stereotypical racial images is not an easy accomplishment in Pecolas...

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...

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...

a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see that the past, which involves at least Sethes enslavement, is very real ...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

African Americans, the Latin Americans and the Native Americans) away into the foreground the white man, so to speak, could feel t...

planned any of it, but he had to know that one day, after Macon hit her, hed see his mothers hand cover her lips as she searched w...

Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...

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...

also alienates Sethes daughter Denver, who hates him because Beloved is interested in him; Denver wants to keep Beloved to herself...

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...

It is a story that could well be about any community in any part of the world. In essence, unlike many of Morrisons...

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...

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...

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...

white. The reader is offered clues, but then are clues that could be perceived from either direction. For example, in the beginn...