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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...

Jadine and Sons respective interpretations of race and social stature represent. That each conflict intertwines with one another ...

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...

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

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 ...

treated like a horse, complete with a bit in his mouth. Sethe managed to escape. In fact, because she was very pregnant and had b...

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 a story that could well be about any community in any part of the world. In essence, unlike many of Morrisons...

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 ...

also alienates Sethes daughter Denver, who hates him because Beloved is interested in him; Denver wants to keep Beloved to herself...

to the community, a clear case of moral ambiguity wherein Sula and her family felt they had a right and that their behavior was, o...

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...

Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...

planned any of it, but he had to know that one day, after Macon hit her, hed see his mothers hand cover her lips as she searched w...

these women to seek relief in laudanum." Laudanum was a drug and apparently many plantation mistresses were living in incredibly o...

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...

In five pages this research paper assesses the artistic and musical contributions of African Americans throughout history in the m...

This 8 page paper considers Sethe's sense of what it means to be a mother in Toni Morrison's novel Beloved. The writer argues that...

This 7 page paper argues that Toni Morrison's use of vacant facial expressions in her novel Beloved can be understood with referen...

This 5 page paper examines Toni Morrison's novel Beloved from a feminist perspective. The writer analyzes Beloved herself, who app...

This 8 page paper discusses the development of the character of Milkman Dead in Toni Morrison's novel Song of Solomon. The writer ...

This 6 page paper argues that Milkman Dead, a character in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, can be described as a classic hero. Th...

This 6 page paper analyzes Toni Morrison's novel Song of Solomon and argues that it can be seen as a modern day myth in which a ma...

This 4 page paper compares and contrasts the characters of Milkman Dead and his father Macon in Toni Morrison's novel Song of Solo...

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

In five pages this essay examines safety issues as they are represented in husband and wife Valerian and Margaret in Toni Morrison...