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Toni Morrison

            
             Toni Morrison was the first black woman to receive a Novel Prize award. In 1970 Toni Morrison wrote her first book called "The Bluest Eye" which soon after gaining the attention of both critics and a wider audience for epic power, unerring ear for dialogue and her poetically expressive depictions of Black America (www.nobel ).
             Toni was born on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, a steel town twenty-five miles west of Cleveland, where she grew up most of her early life (Colby). She was born Chloe Anthony Wofford. Her parents Ramah and George Wofford were not poor, but were a black working class family. She was the second of four children. Her father was a shipyard welder. Her parents moved to Ohio hoping to find better opportunities and to escape the racist attitudes. She was brought up to be proud of her heritage. This is where she heard many songs and tales of Southern black folklore. She displayed an early interest in literature. .
             When she went to a school in first grade she was the only black student and she was the only one that could read. She was friends with many of the white students and it was when she got older that she was discriminated against (www.cob ).
             She loved the arts and she wanted to become a dancer and she loved to read. She was an excellent student and she graduated with honors from Lorain High School in 1949.
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             She majored in English at Howard University where she got her B.A. in English. She then went to Cornell University where she received a master's degree in1955. Cornell University is where she wrote her master's thesis on the works of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner. Since people couldn't pronounce her name correctly she changed it to Toni a shortened version of her middle name. Her real name was Chloe. In 1955 she went to Texas Southern University to teach introductory English. In 1957 she returned to Howard University as a member of the faculty (www.


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1. Black is Beautiful - The Works of Toni Morrison

In the novel "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, Morrison provides an interpretation of how whiteness is the standard of beauty, which warps the lives of black women and children, through messages everywhere that whiteness is superior and beautiful. ... "The Bluest Eye" has many elements that relate to Toni Morrison's own personal life. ... After twenty years later Toni Morrison asked herself and wondered about how one learns of that. ... For that reason, Toni Morrison wrote the novel because she wanted to show how much colored people suffered because of the criticism t...

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2. Toni Morrison

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3. Rebuttal to Toni Morrison's Cinderella's Stepsisters

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4. Memory in toni morrison

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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5. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye By: Toni Morrison Blonde hair, blue eyes, and white skin was the envy of most young African American girls in the 1940's. In the tragic novel, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old black girl is a victim of racial self-loathing and also rape by her father which results in pregnancy. ...

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6. Beloved:Facing the Painful Past

-Toni Morrison, Beloved (270) In Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, we learn how hurtful memories and the past can be. ... Toni Morrison develops each character by putting together pieces of their past to form who they are. ... Morrison writes, "But her brain was not interested in the future. ... On the other hand, Denver is developed by Morrison as being a character who wants a past and a history. ... Facing the past is a theme of Beloved in which Toni Morrison develops her characters. ...

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7. Banning Toni Morrison's Beloved

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8. beloved

Morrison's Beloved: The Psychological Suffrage of Former Slaves Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) was her fifth novel, and consequently the most controversial work she had ever written. ... However, Snitow did state " If Beloved fails in it's ambitions, it is still a novel by Toni Morrison, still therefore full of beautiful prose, dialogue as rhythmically satisfying as music and scenes so clearly etched they're like hallucinations" (25-26). ... Overall, I believe that Toni Morrison's Beloved is one of the most thrilling novels that I have read. ... Morrison, Ton...

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9. Beloved by Toni Morrison

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