Than why don't you settle down and stop acting like it" (Morrison 1996, p.121). ... What Thérèse means here is that there is a deep history that unites all black people. ... She doesn't have the black background like Son does and that is a vital role in why they arent compatable. ... For example, Jadine had an encounter with a black woman dressed in yellow. ... All of this being said, thinking about todays society makes me question whether or not two people from completely separate spheres would be able to make a relationship work or fail like Son and Jadines. ...

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Considering that the work concerns itself with black America, it would follow to look to history to understand what was happening in black America in 1965. ... A popular saying among the troops of the time, "no Vietnamese ever called me nigger," echoes the dissent black America felt against the white status quo of the day (Jackson). ... This connection is heightened by the fact that, in the novel, both Hannah and Plum were burned alive, like Norman Morrison (Morrison 75, 47). ... Like 1965, Sula represents anti-conservativism. ... From an early age, demonstrated by the death of Chicken Little...

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• Grade Level: High School

Please forgive me. ... 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. ... Like vanity. ... "O Solomon don't leave me here, Cotton balls to choke me, O Solomon don't leave me here, Buckra's arms to yoke me, Solomon done fly, Solomon done gone, Solomon cut across the sky, Solomon gone home." ...

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The Life of Emily Dickinson After getting my midterm prospectus back and reading all the feedback given to me, I realized the original topic I chose was too broad. ... "Her subjects are often parts of the topography of her own psyche; she explores her own feelings with painstaking and often painful honesty but never loses sight of their universal poetic application; one of her greatest techniques is to write about the particulars of her own emotions in a kind of universal homiletic or adage-like tone ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes") that seems to describe th...

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With moral support of the city's black residents, Baby Suggs's speeches at the Clearing made her an inspiration for the community. ... Like Paul D, Sethe and Baby Suggs get flashbacks that bring themselves closer to their true identities. ... For example, Paul says to Beloved, "She don't love me like I love her. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"How does it feel To be without a home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone?" ... Better than me. ... In the Clearing, described as a "wide-open place cut deep in the woods nobody knew for what at the end of a path known only to the deer," (87) Baby Suggs, full of vigor and emotional strength, taught the black residents to exercise their freedom to love what they chose. ...

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• Grade Level: High School