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as a child adapts to the language requirements of the native environment (Gliedman). Animal studies verify his perception in that ...

684). There is what several theorists describe as "language learnability" that enables children to take that seed of syntax knowl...

is beautiful, acceptable, and normal while black physical characteristics, i.e., broad lips, kinky hair, flat nose and dark skin, ...

She has attempted to find a place in herself wherein she can survive and go on despite her actions. It is a very cloudy place that...

at first, her "kindly" master died, and a man known as "schoolteacher" took over; he embodied the worst traits of the slave owner ...

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

Awakening: Marriage and Independence In Kate Chopins controversial novel The Awakening, which was first published in 1899, the n...

under the chinaberry tree until its over: "... while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye ...

Nel and Sula. Nel is light-skinned and lives in a tidy, respectable middle class home. Sula is deep brown and lives in a disrep...

became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...

"blackness" and the sense that the darker a person is, the less worthy they are of gaining social acceptance. In fact, Pecola is ...

However, this influence is seldom acknowledged by critics, who "see no excitement or meaning to the tropes of darkness, sexuality ...

life of the white people in society. Morrison often uses excerpts, that gradually become very distorted and run together in lines,...

and sung amidst a house that was less than perfectly organized. As we can see in this very simple beginning, a beginning that sets...

the ease and comfort of old friends. Because each had discovered that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and t...

remembering what happened. With disremember she is primarily taking a memory and pushing it away so that it will not become real t...

friendship: conflict between human beings. The exact manner in which Morrison reveals this conflict is an integral component to t...

However, each contact with the white community in the town below reminds the reader of the constraints established by racial bigot...

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...

extremely close friends. Nel is abandoned by her husband, Jude, when she catches him making love to Sula. This is a double loss fo...

where people were loud as they danced and sung amidst a house that was less than perfectly organized. As we can see in this very s...

all her transitions into adulthood. She feels she is special, because of her religion, and is, in many ways, without a strong p...

very beginning of the book a reader understands that this will not be, in any way, a "usual" story, especially as the logic behind...

money, and she now has nothing. With this simple background in mind we note that she, at one time, wanted to explore herself an...

in her own tragedy. While Sethe is still enslaved, she is treated by Schoolteachers despicable nephews as if she were no more th...

We see that part of the past is dead, with the death of Baby Suggs who was a constant reminder of slavery and the hope inherently ...

beginning, as we see the characters in a somewhat present condition, a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see tha...

survivor of a slave ship, which crossed the water. With this crossing of the water, vast numbers of people had their way of life c...

In 8 pages this paper examines the thematic significance of motherhood and the symbolism of breastfeeding in the 1987 novel Belove...

In a paper consisting of five pages the shared theme of an identity search as reflected in these texts by John Okada, Ralph Elliso...