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    Title Jim Morrison has been arrested several times (Simons‚ 2008). Its seems obvious that he followed his own rules and he has proven that throughout his career and lifetime. Along with his struggles he has also had many musical accomplishments. As the Doors made some of the best rock and roll songs of all time‚ they modified rock and roll with their own rules as they caught people’s attention. The two major members of the Doors had met at school. Jim had enrolled in film school at UCLA in 1964.

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    Toni Morrison effectively provides reasons for the behaviour of her magical realism and gothic horror novel characters via her style of writing and the representation of them. Beloved is mainly written in third-person omniscient. However‚ Morrison’s novel is written in a constant flux‚ changes in point of view and narrators. This in course outcomes to repetition used to reveal other perspectives and the importance of key events‚ as well as to carry out a main symbol or notion. Beloved is filled with

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    over others. Power ultimately leads to disempowerment with the transformation of an individual to the stereotypical views of society. This concept of power is explored in both ’Othello’ a play written by Shakespeare in the Elizabethan period and in Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’. The Shakespearian tragedy‚ establishes Othello as articulate‚ charismatic and self-assured. Othello exerts power in the means of military command. He has the power of heroic achievement and storytelling that makes

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    The Bluest Eye is a novel written by the famous author Toni Morrison. Toni Morrison whoms real name is Chole Anthony Wofford was born in 1931 in Loraihn‚ Ohio. She was the second of four childern in a black working class family. Morrison grew up in a integrated neighborhood and did not fully realize racial divisions until she was a teenager. She admits that as a child she was the only black and the only one who could read. She always had an interest in literature and even took Latin in high school

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    metaphorically‚ instead of literally. Because the novel is so short (174 pages) you need to read carefully. Discussion questions: 1. Sula is in many ways a study of opposites (think about characters‚ setting‚ and themes) Find an example where Morrison explores these opposites- how do they play off each other? What is the author trying to say? 2. Also consider how men are portrayed in the novel. Think about male characters‚ like Boy Boy‚ Tar Baby‚ Plum‚ Chicken Little‚ Shadrack‚ and Ajax.

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    Harry Potter Hour 6 Female Identity in Literature 18 October 2010 The Role of Motherhood in Sula by Toni Morrison As seen by many different mothers in the novel Sula by author Toni Morrison‚ mothers play an important part in kid’s life‚ shaping how they view different beliefs in the world and setting up values in their child. Every individual’s life is shaped by personal relationships they have with others. The mother and child relationship greatly affects the identity development in the

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    Beloved

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    The Effect of Tone in Beloved Tone is the way an author conveys a feeling to the reader through a piece of writing. In Beloved‚ by Toni Morrison‚ the book begins with a dark and foreboding tone and as you traverse through the memories of the characters the tone becomes more and more gloomy but as the book comes to a close the tone becomes more hopeful in 124. “124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom.” P.1 is the first words of the book and sets up the dark foreboding tone that trails throughout

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    In Song of Solomon‚ a novel by Toni Morrison‚ flight is used as a literal and metaphorical symbol of escape. Each individual character that chooses to fly in the novel is “flying” away from a hardship or a seemingly impossible situation. However‚ by choosing to escape‚ one is also deliberately choosing to abandon family and community members. The first reference to this idea is found in the novel’s epigraph: “The fathers may soar/ And the children may know their names‚” which introduces the idea

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    Motherhood: Characterization of Sethe In “Slavery and Motherhood” Terry Caesar claims Toni Morrison’s novels pertains to the issues of violence from slavery but isn’t primarily historical or racial.  Caesar focuses on the issue of infanticide to reveal the foundational basis of the narratives which are the “fundamental concerns of contemporary feminism‚ such as abortion and child abuse have”. Also Caesar argues that Morrison could only convey the hopes and fears of being a mother within the context of slavery

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    At the end of chapter 8 in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye‚ the reader is reminded of a graphic scene that was mentioned on the first page of the book between a father and his daughter. In this chapter‚ Cholly comes home very drunk and rapes his daughter‚ Pecola. While almost all of Morrison’s readers cannot understand‚ at the beginning of the book‚ how a man could impregnate his own daughter‚ they later start to grasp at why Cholly could do such a thing because of his past. Tragically‚ Cholly is

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