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American Education, Three Representations

This essay presents an overview of Donald Barthelme's "The School," Zitkala-Sa's "The School Days of an Indian Girl," and Toni Mor...

Black Literature and Its Portrayals of Sexual Molestation, Domestic Violence

This research paper/essay pertains to the subject of sexual molestation and domestic violence in black literature. The writer disc...

Toni Morrison and Edward P. Jones

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

Violence and Pride: Ellison and Morrison

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...

The Bluest Eye and Abuse

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...

Toni Morrison: Life and Works

depictions of Black America" (Nobelprize.org). Another critic notes that, "Morrison powerfully evokes in her fiction the legacies ...

Alice McIntyre/White Talk

rationalize their own behavior. It is talk that serves to "insulate white people from examining their/our individual and collectiv...

True Life Stories, Literature, and Issues of Gender, Sex, and Race

end, giving us a young woman who was never able to come to terms with her race, her sexuality, or her gender. She is the character...

Comparing Alice Walker's 'Everyday Things' with Eudora Welty's 'Why I Live at the Post Office'

it clear that there are many unsolved frictions between the two sisters, frictions which include the fact that the youngers husban...

Alice Walker's Sudden Trip Home in the Spring

In six pages this paper analyzes the background and meaning of this autobiographical story and the importance of symbolism. Six s...

Charlotte Pierce Baker and Houston A. Baker's Analysis of Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' Reviewed

A review of this critical analysis of the short story 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker is presented in seven pages. There are no ot...

Steven Spielberg's Cinematic Depiction of Alice Walker's Novel The Color Purple

In five pages this paper analyzes if Spielberg structurally changed Walker's novel in his film version and concludes that he does ...

The Life, Works and Philosophy of Alice Walker

shacks they were forced to live in to the yield from their crops. From a very young age, Walker experienced the racism of the Sout...

Zora Neale Hurston's 'The Gilded Six Bits' and Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...

An Examination of The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker

as Grange becomes unhappy with his simple life. He leaves behind this wife and child in order to find something better. And, it is...

Virginia Woolf's 'The New Dress,' Alice Walker's 'The Color Purple,' and Gender Themes

that they tend to destroy themselves from within. This inner destruction of the community toward one another is also symbolic of ...

Imagery Comparison in Alice Walker's 'The Flowers' and Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour'

Myop finds herself in a "gloomy" little cove. This striking change in imagery foreshadows Myops discovery of a decomposing body. ...

Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....

Injustice in Alice Walker's 'The Color Purple' and Victor Hugo's 'Les Miserables'

This paper consisting of 6 pages explores the injustice that Celie and Jean Valjean experience in these literary texts. No additi...

Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Character Growth

In five pages this paper examines the growth of characters Albert and Celie as a result of their experiences as presented in The C...

Ralph Ellison's Battle Royal, Alice Walker's The Flowers and Lessons Learned

cotton, peanuts and squash ... that cause excited little tremors to run up her jaws" (Walker, 2002). Clearly, Myop was a h...

Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Oppression

In five pages this paper analyzes how Alice Walker thematically develops oppression in her novel The Color Purple. One source is ...

Comparative Analysis of Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road and Alice Walker's The Color Purple

In six pages these southern novels are contrasted and compared. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Celie's Maturation Process in Alice Walker's The Color Purple

In six pages this paper examines the importance of Celie's maturation throughout the course of the novel The Color Purple by Alice...

Toni Morrison's Paradise

In five pages this paper presents a summary and thematic analysis of Paradise, a novel by Toni Morrison. One source is listed in ...

The Depts of War in Toni Morrison's 'Paradise'

This essay of 5 pages explores the depths of war as something that encompasses people living everywhere. There are 4 additional s...

Community in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow

in a celebration that includes dances that are a tribute to the "Old People," an annual tribute to ancestors. Avey is deeply moved...

Blues, Growth, and Cultural Wisdom in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

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...

Toni Morrison's Beloved, Motherhood, and Sethe

of Denver and Sethes children, and many others.This establishes the idea that family is very important and thus we can assume that...

Understanding and the Supernatural in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gloria Naylor's Mama Day

lived with her before her death and that Sethe sought her out after escaping from slavery. The presence of the baby girls ghost ...