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    Ziglar Rasmussen College Authors Note: This paper being submitted for American Literature as a final project on June 19‚ 2014 Analytical Essay The main characters in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison were Pecola Breedlove‚ Cholly Breedlove‚ Claudia MacTeer‚ and Frieda MacTeer (Morrison‚ 2007). Pecola Breedlove is an eleven-year-old black girl around whom the story revolves. Her innermost desire is to have the "bluest" (Morrison‚ 2007) eyes so that others will view her as pretty

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    and find out about this communication situation on why they are not friends. Christine asks “Was he good to you‚ Heed?...Mind you at eleven I thought a box of candied popcorn was good treatment. He scrubbed my feet til the soles was like butter.”( Morrison 186) The misunderstandings of being young and ignorant‚ having no one to explain important things in life to them leads to the characters living the life they have. She started blaming everyone for a lot of things that were happening around her.

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    concept built on a set of characteristics and behaviours‚ which are generally considered to be typical or appropriate for men. Many tend to comprehend masculinity as a necessity‚ without it there is no purpose of being called a “man”. In Toni Morrison’s Beloved‚ the protagonist; Paul D‚ is portrayed as a kind and meditative personality‚ he lived a life of a lonely wanderer‚ someone so unsettled that he cannot really develop as a man. Originally‚ his memories at Sweet Home cause questions to arise

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    Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness‚ Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno‚" and Toni Morrison’s Beloved‚ use piety as an ironic comparison between the enslavement of Africans and early persecution of Christians to affect change in society. Conrad‚ Melville‚ and Morrison all share a common knowledge of the bible and infuse that knowledge with irony to show their audiences the issues of our society. In Toni Morrison’s Beloved‚ Biblical nomenclature is prominently used to portray the characters included

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    Born on February 18‚ 1931‚ in Lorain Ohio‚ Toni Morrison is the first African-American woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature and is one of the most celebrated authors of the 20th centaury. Toni Morrison is the voice of consciousness in America; she provokes us to become better‚ to look at the horrors of our past so we strive for a better future. With her subjectivity towards racism‚ Toni Morrison paved the way for an entire generation of African American women. With her two famous books “The

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    Reconnection While the struggle to individually survive is inherent in Toni Morrison’s Jazz‚ what stands out more is the way companionship helps the characters to survive. The relationships that develop within the story are potent in their effects on characters‚ especially Joe Trace‚ a fifty-three year old man struggling with a failing marriage. Trying to fulfill his own desires‚ he has an affair. But because he kills Dorcas‚ his young lover who does not truly love him‚ Joe finds himself isolated

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    A feminist approach to Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” When hearing about Toni Morrison’s novel‚ “Beloved”‚ one may imagine it as being another story about a slave’s life. And this is not wrong. “Beloved” does tell the tales of many slaves. It tells of whippings‚ rape‚ hard work and escape. But‚ while drawing this image of the historical aspect of enslavement and black culture‚ Morrison also tells the personal story of a very strong female slave. Morrison’s novel focuses mainly on the female characters

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    The novel‚ Beloved‚ by Toni Morrison‚ examines both the distinction and commonality between the characteristics of humans and those of animals. Thorough her poignant description of slavery: a machine that operates on the basis familial destruction and dehumanization‚ in which women and children are treated like cattle and calves‚ Morrison illustrates its distortion of the line between man and beast‚ driving Sethe and those chained within its influence through the full spectrum of the human emotions

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    the present moment.” In Toni Morrison’s novel‚ Beloved‚ the past influences the present of characters lives in a number of ways. Throughout the novel‚ she had a hard time dealing with her painful past‚ leading to a difficulty in healing herself in the present. Sethe was excluded from the community‚ had painful memories about what she endured as a slave‚ and most importantly she is being “haunted” by her dead daughter. Nothing in the story ever fully dies off‚ just how Beloved continued to be present

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    African- Americans. Its environment is poor‚ disgusting‚ uncomfortable and it’s hard to make ends meet due to its lack of jobs. This is important because Toni Morrison includes the Bottom near middle-class whites‚ and it is significant. Readers find out through this description of the community that the setting of the story is going

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