After viewing Jonathan Demme's film Beloved, I felt as I usually do upon watching a movie based on a novel, disappointed. Films rarely live up to the expectations set up by a great novel and this is due to the limitations of working with film as a medium. ... A major flaw of the film Beloved is that it did not hint at many of the underlying themes that are ever present in the novel. ... Morrison's novel is superior to Demme's film in that the novel is much more interactive and open to interpretation. ... Jonathan Demme's film version of Beloved fails in comparison to...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

If a white male had written the novel, there is a definite probability that it would have flopped. ... This novel has credibility because the reader knows that infanticide was common in China, and because the novel was depicting scenes from her mother's life as a nurse in China. ... It is an abstract storyline that detracts from the novel's message and integrity. ... Within the novel, Morrison's bias is clear and overbearing. ... They debate that more important novels could replace the book on reading lists. ...

• Word Count: 1397
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In The Bluest Eye, Morrison thoroughly uses her previous experiences in aid to create the feeling of hardship and the melancholy tone of the novel. ... She also enjoyed lecturing across the country, teaching part-time, and writing many novels ("Toni Morrison Biography"). The Bluest Eye was Morrison's first novel. Her novels are all carefully written to produce poetic phrases and strong emotional responses from the readers. ... Frequently using childhood memories to help start writing, Morrison's real-life world is often included in her novels. ...

• Word Count: 2626
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In her novel Sula, Toni Morrison immerses the reader in the rich and diverse lives to be found in the black community of Medallion. ... From the start of the novel's very first chapter, Morrison aims to show the destructive effect of white male-dominated society in the lives of her characters. ... The ill treatment of blacks is brought into the novel's present day with the story of Shadrack, a World War I veteran and shell shock victim. ... As the novel progresses, the line between life and death slowly blurs. ... Even the distinction between good and evil eventually breaks down in t...

• Word Count: 1501
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Toni Morrison's novel "The Bluest Eye", the distortion of beauty instilled within Black Americans of the late 20th century are portrayed (taken apart?) ... On pages 21-22 of the novel, the protagonist Claudia recounts her Christmas memory of receiving a fair skinned doll. ... One of the novel's most visually powerful motifs, Claudia's doll, is introduced in this extract. ...

• Word Count: 655
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Toni Morrison, one of the most remarkable African American authors and her novels remind readers that there is a past to remember. ... Within the novels, Toni Morrison presents the complex stories of African American experience, and especially African American women's experience and their search for identity in the American mainstream society. ... The name which Morrison chose for this part of the town indicates that the African American inhabitants of the Bottom were dealing with racial oppression and moreover, they still are dealing with racial oppression in 1919, where the novel begins...

• Word Count: 5084
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In her novel The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison tells a tragic tale, carefully leading the reader through the circumstances which result in Pecola Breedlove's demise. She does not allow the reader to feel a satisfied hatred toward the characters who directly hurt Pecola, instead she spends chapters acquai...

• Word Count: 403
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate