In the novel, The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, the evils inflicted upon blacks by a white society indoctrinated by the inherent beauty of whiteness and ugliness of blackness are thoroughly depicted. ... One afternoon while Pecola is playing in the playground a boy named Junior invites her into his house. ... In essence, Claudia despises the black community in the novel because they suppress their black beauty. ... This novel speaks to masses of people, black and white, illustrating how a racist social system wears down the minds and souls people. ... Lastly, Morrison uses this novel t...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The unhealthy male/female relationship in this novel is between Milkman and Hagar. ... She told him of when she and his dad were little kids he was a nice boy, and he saved her life twice, once when her father died and they were stuck in the woods. ... Hagar and Milkman met when Milkman was only a little boy at the age of twelve, and Hagar was seventeen. ... The racist message, promulgated in one form of media after another, is that white is beautiful and black is ugly. ...

• Word Count: 1568
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

However, in this novel Morrison is placing the spot light on African-Americans and how racism within the race accelerates their self destruction. ... Morrison however details repeatedly in the novel how these exact social categories: Black females and children are the aggressors of the stereotypes, prejudice, and racial self-loathing. ... This is the only one example throughout the entire novel that Morrison writes a detailed description. ... " when the girls at school wanted to be particularly insulting to a boy she could say, Bobby loves Pecola Breedlove! ... Black e mo black e mo (65)...

• Word Count: 1291
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Before his death, he was one of the Seven Days, the small group of men devoted to keeping the balance of blacks and whites equal, which is one of the causes of his desire for an escape from life. As he says in his note, he had become one of the Seven Days for love of black people, not for any hate of whites. ... Instead, the boy had been dropped at a house and taken in by an Indian family. ... The novel, Song of Solomon, is one of self-discovery for Milkman and the subsequent acceptance of the risks of truly living, of taking life as it is and making the most of it, of 'flying', as M...

• Word Count: 1472
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Pecola provides an extended depiction through her ideals of the ways in which internalized white beauty standards deform the lives of blacks, especially black women, in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. ... Adult women, having learned to hate the blackness of their own bodies, take this hatred out on their children. ... Breedlove shares in the conviction that Pecola is ugly, and lighter-skinned Geraldine curses Pecola's blackness. ... "The time you won your town the race/ we chaired you through the market- place/ Man and boy stood cheering by/ and home we brought you shoulder high/....

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Tonni Morrison's novel Sula is about two young black girls who become very close friends but soon depart after taking different paths through life. ... There was also and incident where Sula was swinging a young boy by the name of Chicken Little, and accidentally lost grip of his hands which resulted in him flying into the water and drowning. ... The novel shows society's negative view of Sula when it describes how she returned to the Bottom "accompanied by a plague of robins" (89). ... It's this insistence that eventually gets read as a recklessness and Sula later becomes...

• Word Count: 2894
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School