YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Toni Morrisons Writings and the Use of Trauma
Essays 211 - 240
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...
depictions of Black America" (Nobelprize.org). Another critic notes that, "Morrison powerfully evokes in her fiction the legacies ...
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...
a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...
at first, her "kindly" master died, and a man known as "schoolteacher" took over; he embodied the worst traits of the slave owner ...
bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...
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...
white. The reader is offered clues, but then are clues that could be perceived from either direction. For example, in the beginn...
Within 3 pagess, Toni Morrison's 1979 speech at Barnard College is analyzed. Is it possible for women to survive a man's world if ...
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...
great deal of literature there is a foundation that is laid in relationship to a community. The community is a part of the setting...
under the chinaberry tree until its over: "... while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
African Americans, the Latin Americans and the Native Americans) away into the foreground the white man, so to speak, could feel t...
to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...
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...
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...
remembering what happened. With disremember she is primarily taking a memory and pushing it away so that it will not become real t...
"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,...
became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...
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...