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to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...

is told that Sofia is a woman who does not know her place. She should not be allowed to talk back to her husband, or state her own...

reader the distinct impression that she is listening to everything that everyone says. This is borne out when Dee says that shes g...

about life, meeting Shug who is her husbands lover. She grows stronger and more intelligent as the story progresses and in the end...

This essay offers critical analysis of Alice Walker's The Color Purple. The writer draws on supporting sources to argue that siste...

This essay contrasts that similarities and differences between the way that Shanym Fiske and Sonal Singh and Sushma Gupta address...

This essay pertains to Margaret Edson's play "Wit," and Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use." The writer argues that each of ...

This essay discusses the influence of Zora Neale Hurston in regards to Alice Walker's perspective on black oral tradition and femi...

pleasure he has enjoyed is a violation of his rights" (Walker). As a man he is ignorantly assuming that he has the right to have s...

there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...

struggle to find her identity, an African American identity, is obviously influenced by the white society. This is noted when her ...

she has moved to the city and been educated. One sees perhaps the only conflict this mother has in her life because it is a confl...

But the memory of the house is misleading, because the author also says that much of the time they lived there she was angry, hope...

me turn on the one child at the school who continually calls me one-eyed bitch" (Walker). Her story is powerful, intimate, and inc...

used to scrawl after our stories, marked, "the end." This is true in the "thinking piece," Am I Blue. It is important for the st...

In seven pages the use of language and the symbolism of the quilt are examined within the context of Walker's short story....

In two pages this paper examines how American small town life is unsympathetically portrayed in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis....

that is a large part of the appeal of Alice Walker the writer. Biography of Alice Walker "Alice Malsenior Walker...

quality, and that is indeed the way she first appears. However we will soon see that she has many qualities, which add to her str...

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

This paper contrasts and compares different images of being an American in eight pages as represented in Toni Morrison's The Blues...

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

are somewhat consistent with superstitions followed by the slave culture of the time and a segment of the African heritage of the ...

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

the oppression thrust upon them by an unyielding and self-appointed superior white race. Evolution has a significant amount to do...

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

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

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 ...

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