African American women writers helped with the setback of these stereotypes and African American women have been develop to be seen as "living human being[s] with [their] own desires and needs" (Christian, Black Feminist Criticism 16). ... Helene does not want Nel to lose Nel from the community in any shameful way like Helene's Creole family did. ... Nel looks into a mirror and she whispers: "I'm me. ... I'm me. Me" (Morrison 28). ...

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I was the only black in the class and the only child who could read." Her writing is definitely influenced by how she views her writing functioning much like storytelling in the past. ... Cholly as a child was impressed by watching the father of a family's god-like stance raise a watermelon over his head to smash it on the ground and sees this example as the opposite of the unimpressive white image of God, as the white image is woefully inadequate for Cholly who at this time embraces his African heritage. ... He understands that Morrison is quite attentive to silences and gaps in the...

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