While she worked full-time as an editor at Random House and raised two sons, she began writing her first novel, The Bluest Eye. ... Years later, when her oldest daughter Hannah confronts Eva about Plum's death and asks if Eva ever loved her children or ever played with them, Eva's response is typical of the strong black woman: "I'm talkin' 'bout 18 and 95 when I set in that house five days with you and Pearl and Plum and three beets, you snake-eyed ungrateful hussy. ... Sula overhears Hannah tell some other women that she loves Sula, but that she doesn't like her....

• Word Count: 2614
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

One could assume that because it is her aunt she would be treated better as she really is true family, but this is not the case. ... Indeed, the full title of the book is "Jane Eyre: An Autobiography" and it is therefore written in first person. ... Bronte uses metaphors to accentuate the intensity of the atmosphere between Jane and her aunt, Jane says 'her eye of ice continued to dwell freezingly on mine.' ... She claims she is 'struck with wonder' (chapter 8 PAGE 74) by Helen. ... For example when the Pastor accuses Jeannette of not loving God because she lov...

• Word Count: 3018
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Even if she was hit by her husband, she had to do much for her husband. ... She should be responsible for this abnormal love, no matter what position she held in her son's growth. ... She however becomes dominant to a point where she becomes Paul's inspiration to his artwork. ... Morel, Miriam kept an eye on Paul's art creation, but the mother paid more attention to the achievement and fame that was brought by art, while Miriam focused on her lover's deeper feelings for nature, the great enthusiasm to art. ... When Miriam is over for dinner, she was rejected when she asked ...

• Word Count: 2551
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School