The passage begins with aural sounds from noises heard outside of Mary's house, causing IM to suddenly feel upset. Ellison highlights certain circumstances where IM feels discomfort, such as from the siren and other loud noises, inside the house. ... The white economics house represents the modesty of the African Americans, which is what IM's grandfather told him to be careful about. ... The two-faced doll is also black and is made of "orange-and-black tissue paper.... They, along with other whites, laugh at his new role: a doll conductor. ...

• Word Count: 1967
• Approx Pages: 8

When Cholly Breedlove, Pecola's father, burns down his family's house, his daughter is placed in the MacTeer house. ... Claudia, as a child, never really understands the adoration of the other girls to love white baby dolls, but she also lacks understanding of why the blue-eyed baby doll is adored even by the grown-ups in her black community. When she gets a white doll for Christmas, in attempting to discover the beauty inside the doll, she destroys the doll and finds out that she can see only the disk with six holes that makes the white doll bleat: she  had only one desi...

• Word Count: 2371
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Her brother, who consistently tries to escape the mad house. ... Later her envy turns to hatred and inspirers her to tear apart the "blue-eyed Baby Doll- that she receives for Christmas (David 69). ... (David 68) But Claudia, too, learns to interject those ideals knowing that, in order to be loved and accepted, she must conform because, as she remembers, "all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured-(Morrison 20) But Morrison is not intent upon merely affirming the existence of the fear, frustration, and fury inherent in blac...

• Word Count: 2499
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography

In the song "Back Door Man" Howlin Wolf sings about how he is sneaks in mens' house when they aren't around: "Well the men don't know, but the women understand/ when everybody's tryin' to sleep/ I'm somewhere making my midnight creep.... In the song Tupac says "You picked the wrong guy, baby, if you're too fly/ you need to hit the door, search for a new guy/ cause I only got one night in town/ break out or be clowned, baby doll are you down?...

• Word Count: 1900
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School