In Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, the same issue has occurred. ... Beloved allows the characters in the novel to develop and realize that memories never die by becoming the physical memory, which makes them relive it, accept it and move on with their lives. ... 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. ... Toni Morrison, in her novel, is portraying that memories can be painful, however, over time people can accept...

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• Grade Level: High School

However the focal point of the novel is the contention between its fundamental characters Jadine and Son. ... Unfortunately, in spite of vague result of the novel, it is still hardly possible to believe that such people could be eventually united and live in love for a long time. ...

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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
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When reading the novel, you meet and interact with many of the characters. ... And many other characters who made this novel what it was. ... Morrison tells this novel in circular narration. ... The 2nd is the novels central narrator Claudia McTeer. ... There are many different themes that Morrison examines and explores in this novel. ...

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Morrison's novel illustrates the disastrous affects racism had on African-Americans during the late nineteen hundreds. ... Over the year in which this novel spans Pecola Breedlove is on a quest to discover her uniqueness. ... In essence, Claudia despises the black community in the novel because they suppress their black beauty. ... This novel speaks to masses of people, black and white, illustrating how a racist social system wears down the minds and souls people. ... Lastly, Morrison uses this novel to illustrate a reflect...

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Morrison's novel illustrates the disastrous affects racism had on African-Americans during the late nineteen hundreds. ... According to critic Raymond Hedin, Morrison divides the novel into small excerpts of theDick and Jane? ... pages of the novel is the complete opposite of theideal? ... Over the year in which this novel spans Pecola Breedlove is on a quest to discover her uniqueness. ... In essence, Claudia despises the black community in the novel because they suppress their black beauty. ...

• Word Count: 1667
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

At the end of the novel, however, Nel reveals that she has an evil heart, while Sula's heart is really much purer. ... Part One of the novel ends with Sula's departure. ... 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. ... Suicide is another type of death visited in this novel. ...

• Word Count: 1824
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• Grade Level: High School

Her first novel, "The Bluest Eye," was published in 1970. In the book's foreword, Morrison explains her reasons for writing the novel. ... The second is the voice of Claudia, whose memories frame the events of the novel. ... From the prologue of the novel, Claudia anticipates the events that the novel will describe: Pecola's pregnancy by incest and her wish for the baby to live. ... Throughout the novel, Claudia is the one who narrates Pecola's story. ...

• Word Count: 2371
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• Grade Level: High School

Her 1970 novel The Bluest Eye was followed by Sula in 1974, which secured Morrison a nomination for the National Book Award. ... That novel, considered by many to be her best, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. ... Morrison uses a great deal of imagery in all her novels and many times she seperates her novels in sections. The first read of one of Morrison's novels seems confusing and unclear to the reader at first. Readers often times must go back and either re-read the entire novel or certain passages to understand what is going on in the novel. ...

• Word Count: 1665
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The novel Beloved was written by Toni Morrison in 1987. ... This novel is about a mother named Sethe who escapes from slavery and brings her kids with her. ... This novel contained more of a creepy plot about a ghost who comes back to haunt the house and family so it's understandable that it gave some kids the creeps. ... This novel was a little odd at parts and hard to understand but it all came together after a bit of thinking. ... Oddly enough, there was a small connection between these two novels. ...

• Word Count: 1428
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• Has Bibliography
• 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. ... 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

This immediately indicates to the reader that this chapter is going to be distinct from the others, and indeed the novel concludes itself here. ... This connection is heightened by the fact that, in the novel, both Hannah and Plum were burned alive, like Norman Morrison (Morrison 75, 47). 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. ... Later in the novel, "Sula [...] watched Hannah burn not because she was paralyzed, but because she was interested" (Morrison 78). .....

• Word Count: 2386
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• Grade Level: High School

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. ... Death is introduced in the beginning of the novel via the eyes of Shadrack, a major character, while in combat in World War I. ... Suicide is another type of death visited in the novel. At the beginning of the novel, Eva cuts off her leg by placing it in front of a train so she can collect the insurance and take care of the very child whom she later murders as well as his siblings. ...

• Word Count: 1552
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Toni Morrison puts a great emphasis on places and the history that accompanies them in her novel Song of Solomon. ... This is the first introduction of flying as a theme in the novel as well in Milkman's life. ... With this knowledge, Toni Morrison allows Milkman to define himself in her novel Song of Solomon....

• Word Count: 1274
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• Grade Level: High School

However, in this novel Morrison is placing the spot light on African-Americans and how racism within the race accelerates their self destruction. ... Morrison however details repeatedly in the novel how these exact social categories: Black females and children are the aggressors of the stereotypes, prejudice, and racial self-loathing. ... This is the only one example throughout the entire novel that Morrison writes a detailed description. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

At the end of the novel, Cholly snaps under the influence of alcohol and rapes his daughter, Pecola, as his only way of showing affection, through an act of violence. ... This separation from other people caused her to claim sanctuary in her romance novels. ... Pecola's timid and shy behavior throughout the novel may have been a warning sign for her Schizophrenia. ...

• Word Count: 1567
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The novel, Song of Solomon, is one of self-discovery for Milkman and the subsequent acceptance of the risks of truly living, of taking life as it is and making the most of it, of 'flying', as Morrison presents it. ... The thesis statement of the novel, Song of Solomon, is one of self-discovery for Milkman and the subsequent acceptance of the risks of truly living. ...

• Word Count: 1472
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• Grade Level: High School

Living Through The Eyes Of Slavery Beloved, by Toni Morrison, explores the physical, emotional, and spiritual devastations created by slavery. The characters in this story get continuously haunted by these devastations even in freedom. The most dangerous of slavery's effects are the negative impa...

• Word Count: 2030
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Most works of contemporary American fiction involve one individual's search for self- identification in a stifling and unsympathetic world. 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. Contemporary Literary Criticism. Online. ...

• Word Count: 1910
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• Grade Level: High School

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James can be interpreted in many different ways. James, in writing his story, seemed to be purposely leaving the actual interpretation of the story up to the reader. Rather than having one true explanation for the strange happenings in his novella, he provokes thought ...

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John Kotre's How Memory Speaks describes memory as: "A scene we experience for a moment-and only once-remains clear in our minds for a lifetime, yet we forget the looks of things we see and touch almost every day." There is a scene that exists for every memory in the mind. Also existing with each ...

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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. The unhealthy male/female relationship in this novel is between Milkman and Hagar. Toni Morrison also created a character like Hagar to comment o...

• Word Count: 1568
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• Grade Level: High School