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When Jing-Mei fell short of achieving the lofty goal her mother set for her, her insecurity intensified. After seemingly endless ...

When she disappoints her mother by failing one of her tests, she acknowledges her mothers failed hopes, but she also sees her "pro...

Mothers and daughters are perhaps, first and foremost, women. And, as women they are often stuck in many social categories as well...

because when I was growing up, my mothers limited English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed t...

beings can sink. On December 9, 1937, Japanese troops attacked the city of Nanking; on the 13th, the "6th and 16th Divisions of th...

This 5 page paper examines the structure of Toni Morrison's novel Sula. The writer argues that Morrison uses the friendship betwee...

bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...

girl before she is stopped. It is this sin -- the sin of Cain, to murder ones own flesh and blood -- that traps Sethe both in tim...

This 6 page paper is a biography of Toni Morrison, the renowned African-America author. The writer examines some of the events in ...

In order to enjoy the better things in life, it was better to deny ones heritage, while reclaiming ones heritage, while noble and ...

attempt to attend Womans Medical College in Pennsylvania further supports the notion that there were areas of society in which Jan...

reveal different offerings such as health care, optical, and auctions. The auction area for example is something much like eBay wh...

her to school in Nashville when she was 15; finally, when she was 16, her mother told her "to make her own way in the world" (Sull...

travel without restrictions throughout the many worlds, sexualities and identities of all of American society. Larsens novel expl...

talked about decorators and expert gardeners and even wrote to some, and banged tennis balls against the large new garage (Gallant...

and sends her to learn to play the piano from a neighbor, Mr. Chong. Jing-Mei resents the lessons but tolerates them because Mr. C...

written. As the two essays continue they build in their complexity where language is concerned. Tan states, "a speech filled with...

she thinks her daughter should be doing. She tells her daughter "Only ask you be your best" (Tan). The author who discusses ambi...

a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...

reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...

Iin a paper consisting of six pages this essay discusses the short story in terms of how it reflects the author's own life. There...

The way in which protagonists in these respective short stories discover they are different than what their parents want them to b...

An eight page paper looking at the issue of separation in Toni Morrison's modern classic. The paper points out that there are real...

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 the concept of freedom through death as a release from life's hardships is examined through such works as William Fau...

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

In six pages this paper examines realiites of Pilate, Hagar, and Milkman in a consideration of the point of view featured in Toni ...

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...