In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, the chapters are separated by the evolutions of seasons. ... Pecola provides an extended depiction through her ideals of the ways in which internalized white beauty standards deform the lives of blacks, especially black women, in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. ... Toni Morrison's The Blues Eye is composed of sections that are labeled by the seasons: autumn, winter, spring, and summer. ... Morrison also uses the seasons to order her novel, but through the use of diction and irony narrator's memories brings horror rather than beauty. ...

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The novel Beloved was written by Toni Morrison in 1987. Toni Morrison is an African American citizen from Lorian, Ohio born in 1931. ... This part was not explicitly explained but Morrison made it obvious what she was talking about. ... 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
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Toni Morrison is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. ... Morrison thought so, but the little girl disagreed. ... Morrison recalls her reaction well. ... Morrison remembers looking at her. ... Morrison uses two narrative voices. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Toni Morrison's "Recitatif,"" narrates the temporally isolated encounters of two women first brought together within the walls of St. ... Smell funny, I mean"" (Morrison 243). ... In the orchard"" (Morrison 254). ... Toni Morrison employs such a puzzling use of ambiguity that the balance of the story almost becomes a "choose your own adventure" in the effort for racial distinction. ... But now I can't be sure"" (Morrison 261). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Toni Morrison in her novel titled Sula uses death as a reoccurring theme, which essentially allots the reader to use divergent rather than convergent thinking. ... It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of it (Morrison 14. All other references to Toni Morrison's Sula will be indicated by page reference to this text). ... Morrison presents yet another situation that shows death by the action of killing. ...

• Word Count: 1552
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• Grade Level: High School

"Beloved," by Toni Morrison, contains descriptive and graphic scenes, such as a brutal rape scene, tragic infanticide, and bestiality. ... Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio into a working class family of six. ... Toni Morrison is a fantastic writer which allows her to imagine and describe all of these occurrences, but the fact that none of them are true and that they are all figments of her imagination further withdraw from the novels credibility. ... Even in these chapters, Morrison's bias is dominant. ... "Beloved," by Toni Morrison should be removed from required reading list arou...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Toni Morrison's Sula chronicles the unlikely friendship of two very different women. ... And while Norman Morrison is not a relative of Toni Morrison, the reader can't help but notice their same name - again allying the novel and Norman's untimely end. Toni Morrison first published Sula in 1973, and would have been aware of all the events just mentioned. ... (Morrison 92). ... Or so it seemed" (Morrison 163). ...

• Word Count: 2386
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• Grade Level: High School

Toni Morrison, in her 1993 Nobel Lecture, speaks to this power. ... In Morrison's piece, the human condition appears in the forms of patriotism and conformity. ... It is with this aspect of the human condition that political authors use to form society's ideals or as Morrison said "render [them] mute". ... However, Dostoevsky begins to submerge the reader into the piece through the human principles of conformity and exclusion, just as Morrison's politicians do. ... In the words of Toni Morrison, "the future of language is in the hands of the writer". ...

• Word Count: 1711
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, the same issue has occurred. ... In Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, Beloved is the past that becomes the present, where the characters are reliving their past, which helps them to talk about it and reveal the parts that they have hidden for years. ... As Toni Morrison writes, "Sethe learned the profound satisfaction Beloved got from storytelling. ... Toni Morrison, in her novel, is portraying that memories can be painful, however, over time people can accept it and overcome the fear of it. ... In Toni Morrison novel, the characters are not the o...

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"Tar Baby," by Toni Morrison, manages numerous issues and subjects. ... Than why don't you settle down and stop acting like it" (Morrison 1996, p.121). ... The triumph of ingenuity that had transferred the bored treachery of the sea into a playful gush of water that did exactly what it was told" (Morrison 1996, p.222). ... Not surprisingly, "she was grateful to be far away from his original-dime ways, his white-folks-black-folks primitivism" (Morrison 1996, p.277). ... Consequently, it is conceivable to presume that Toni Morrison has figured out how to portray the dis...

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The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye tells the sad story of Pecola Breedlove, a poor prepubescent black girl, who wants to be loved and cared for by her family and society. ... This is the only one example throughout the entire novel that Morrison writes a detailed description. It would be ridiculous for Morrison not to include such a character and his motivations. ... Readers could become enraged believing that Morrison was denying it as a societal crisis. Morrison would alienate the same readers she is trying to appeal to. ...

• Word Count: 1291
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• Grade Level: High School

In her novel Sula, Toni Morrison immerses the reader in the rich and diverse lives to be found in the black community of Medallion. ... Morrison portrays their everyday struggles and in doing so exposes white ignorance of black culture and ways of life. ... Morrison continues to portray blacks as on the outside of the dominant culture, members of the Other. ... Morrison foreshadows this relationship early on, describing the proximity of the ice cream parlor that "cater[s] to nice folks" to the pool hall where men lecherously gaze at passing females (Morrison 49). ... Morrison here again decons...

• Word Count: 1501
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In "The Bluest Eye," by Toni Morrison, the reader is led to question if society actually does try to predict events by seasons. ... Through the season of winter, Morrison argues how Geraldine's perfectness is an illusion of reality. ... Morrison uses Geraldine's 'mask of perfection' to break society's status quo. ... Morrison contradicts this idea by having a character be sexually assaulted. ... Here, Morrison argues that it was society's fault that Pecola was raped. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

However, throughout Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, the positive nature of this intense affection is challenged. Morrison explores the detrimental effects of a lack of mutuality when it comes to love. ... Morrison's italization of this word is used to highlight a certain distinction. ... However, the bible, a profound reference for Morrison's novel, does not associate sex with love. As a result, Morrison was able to analyze the distinction between the two and reflects it through the characters of Hagar and Milkman....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Toni Morrison was born as Chloe Wofford on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio, near Cleveland. ... To help pay for Toni's education, her father worked three jobs. ... In 1970, her first novel The Bluest Eye was published under the name of Toni Morrison. ... In the novel Sula, author Toni Morrison proves that love is not easy. ... Toni Morrison's Sula expresses death in this way, as a part of life. ...

• Word Count: 1824
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In the novel, The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, the evils inflicted upon blacks by a white society indoctrinated by the inherent beauty of whiteness and ugliness of blackness are thoroughly depicted. ... (Morrison 48, Miner's italics) Mr. ... You're my prisoner- (Morrison 90). ... Get out of my house- (Morrison 92). ... Lastly, Morrison uses this novel to illustrate a reflect...

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In "Sula," Toni Morrison gives us two such individuals, Nel and Sula. Morrison says she created Sula as "a woman who could be used as a classic type of evil force" and that she "wanted Nel to be a warm, conventional woman". ( Toni Morrison. ... Morrison says, "... if they had been one woman... they would have been a rather marvelous person". (Toni Morrison) Thus, Morrison, creates two completely different women yet allows them to merge into one. ... (p.29) Morrison makes it clear in these instances that "each one lacked something the other had." ...

• Word Count: 1910
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• Grade Level: High School

In the novel, The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, the evils inflicted upon blacks by a white society indoctrinated by the inherent beauty of whiteness and ugliness of blackness are thoroughly depicted. ... (Morrison 89). ... (Morrison 90). ... (Morrison 92). ... (Morrison 92). ...

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There is no way I would be able to compare the lives of Toni Morrison and Emily Dickinson. ... Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in 1931 and spent the first years of her life in Ohio. ... When many of her classmates had difficulty pronouncing her uncommon first name, she changed it to Toni. ... Today, Morrison is the Robert F. ... Both Morrison and Dickinson have a unique writing style. ...

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In Toni Morrison's Beloved, each generation hopes to find a better home despite a malignant world: Sethe's mother traveled from the slave ship to the plantation, Sethe from the plantation to Cincinnati, Beloved from Cincinnati to death, and Denver from a strange, haunted land of ghosts and despair to her community at large. To Morrison, the various "spaces" of the Sethe's life constitute a broader understanding of her "self.... Through the concept of the home, Morrison shows that if we estrange one element of our lives, then we have estranged our identity fr...

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In Toni Morrison's novel Song of Solomon, she explores several significant male identities by developing and metamorphisizing her male character aroubd the archetypal search for identity. ... Allen supports Morrison's male identities by providing a universal means of understanding for all readers. ... All Milkman has ever known is greed, power and wealth and Morrison develops Milkman's identity, originally, around these things. ... In Genevieve Fabre's critical essay "Genealogical Archaeology or the Quest for Legacy in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon,"" she best des...

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Morrison is a Nobel peace prize award winning African American writer who wrote The Bluest Eye. ... Morrison tells this novel in circular narration. ... There are many different themes that Morrison examines and explores in this novel. ... Toni Morrison wrote this novel in 1970, when racial tensions were high and the model of white beauty was accepted as the norm, but even now in today society we can see that it still applies to our culture. ... Dealing with it each according to his own way-(Morrison, 39) This cycle of rejection is developed further in the metaphors that Morrison uses througho...

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Sethe had to make the most difficult decision to kill her children, but only was successful in killing her baby, Beloved (Morrison, 174-180). ... For example, at the carnival is where Sethe felt happiness in a long time (Morrison, 52-59). ... Although Denver did not really know her sister, she still missed her and was traumatized over the situation (Morrison, 34-51). ... Before she was what we assume reincarnated, Beloved was a ghost that haunted Sethe's home, but when Paul D exorcised it, Sethe was not to happy (Morrison, 236). ... " (Morrison, 241). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Song of Solomon In Toni Morrison's book, Song of Solomon, Toni created a theme of unhealthy male/female relationships and false standards of beauty. ... Toni Morrison also created a character like Hagar to comment on the false standards of beauty. ... When Hagar wakes up after three days to the realization that she is not pretty enough for Milkman, Morrison brings in the theme of internalized racism. ...

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At the end of Toni Morrison's Beloved, it is unclear as to whether or not Sethe has actually forgiven herself for killing her daughter. It is evident that she knows she did something wrong, and that she wants forgiveness. The fact that others have forgiven her shows that what she has done is forgiva...

• Word Count: 1258
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• Grade Level: High School