She lives in a house at 124 Bluestone with a woman referred to as Baby Suggs who actually dies shortly after the book begins. ... Her youngest daughter, Denver, was grabbed by Stamp Paid, an old friend of Sethe, before Sethe could kill her by another violent and gruesome act. ... However, some people are mentally prepared and able to deal with tougher material and the lessons to get out of these writings. ... This novel was packed full of different emotions to feel and ways to take text but overall the lesson that Morrison gave was worth more than the problems that are within the book. ...

• Word Count: 1428
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He never knew her in his older years, however, because she died when he was only seven or eight. ... In slavery it was very common, before puberty, for a slave child to play with the master's children. ... He ordered her to cease these lessons at once. ... Douglass later had this to say of her, Nature made us friends, but slavery made us enemies.# this taught Frederick a very valuable lesson. ...

• Word Count: 1368
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Schools have not brought out the great importance of proverbs in the lessons being taught in school. ... (Lawrence) They say that when an old man dies in Africa, a library dies with him. ... Some of the many jobs a griot had were to entertain and teach the moral lessons a culture had to the children. ...

• Word Count: 2075
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

She once walked in on School Teacher giving his pupils a lesson on her animal characteristics. ... Before Baby Suggs's passed away, she reminded Sethe that love is an emotion that cannot be felt because it leads to depression and sadness. ... Only her third child, her older daughter, dies, her throat having been cut with a handsaw by Sethe. However, after Sethe's act of homicide, Baby Suggs sinks into great depression and eventually dies. ... The past comes back to haunt him from this point on and will so until he dies. ...

• Word Count: 2030
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

These people before hand, especially Sethe, dealt with prejudice, but that was just a little aspect of it. ... She knew living meant hell on earth, so dying was the only way for her children to know freedom. ... I knew this before, but I honestly didn't put it together until I began writing this paragraph. ... We learn a lot of life's lessons through others and not just books or lectures. ...

• Word Count: 1629
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Douglass gave bread to white children for lessons. ... He faced emotional struggles knowing that his grandmother who was the only mother figure he knew and who was considered too old for any work had been evicted from her cabin and sent into the woods to die. ... We may all fail before we succeed. ...

• Word Count: 1886
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School