Last Night At The Blue Angel

Passing by Nella Larsen is a story told in the perspective of Irene Redfield, a fair-skinned African American woman, who worries that her husband’s restlessness in their marriage is due to a possible affair with her friend Clare. As Irene gets ready for an event she thinks to herself: “With this self-assurance that she had no real knowledge, she redoubled her efforts to drive out of her mind the distressing thought of faiths broken and trusts betrayed which every mental vision of Clare, of Brian, brought with them. She could not, she would not, go again through the tearing agony that lay just behind her,” (Larsen, ch. 3.2). Having no real knowledge if her husband’s affair is true helps her to put the thought in the back of her mind, however the reader finds that the affair is not real. This imagination of Brian and Clare shows that Irene is mentally unstable, she does not like what she imagines when she thinks of Clare, of Brian, the two together, yet it is better to handle then the agony she faces at the thought of Brian’s sexuality. The matter of his sexuality is something she refuses to think about which is why she forms the theory of his infidelity to protect herself from the truth, yet it only drives her deeper into insanity. However, Irene is not the only one who is brought to insanity by the denial she creates. Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, tells of a young girl, Pecola who is African American

Toni Morrison, the author of The Bluest Eye, centers her novel around two things: beauty and wealth in their relation to race and a brutal rape of a young girl by her father. Morrison explores and exposes these themes in relation to the underlying factors of black society: racism and sexism. Every character has a problem to deal with and it involves racism and/or sexism. Whether the characters are the victim or the aggressor, they can do nothing about their problem or condition, especially when concerning gender and race. Morrison's characters are clearly at the mercy of preconceived notions maintained by society. Because of these preconceived notions, the racism found in The Bluest Eye is not whites against blacks. Morrison writes about

Throughout Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye, she captures, with vivid insight, the plight of a young African American girl and what she would be subjected to in a media contrived society that places its ideal of beauty on the e quintessential blue-eyed, blonde woman. The idea of what is beautiful has been stereotyped in the mass media since the beginning and creates a mental and emotional damage to self and soul. This oppression to the soul creates a socio-economic displacement causing a cycle of dysfunction and abuses. Morrison takes us through the agonizing story of just such a young girl, Pecola Breedlove, and her aching desire to have what is considered beautiful - blue eyes. Racial stereotypes of beauty contrived and nourished by

The aim of the thesis is to analyze and discuss the African American women`s quest for voice, acceptance and fulfilment. The analysis will be based on three selected novels, namely, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Color Purple and Beloved. Since their authors - Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker all - experienced some difficulties in their life related to the subject matter of the thesis, their biographies will be sketched, too. The analysis focuses especially on three women who are the protagonists of the selected novels. Their personal and social problems will be juxtaposed within the context of the criticism selected for the purpose of this thesis.

The book tells the story of the dreams of a young black American woman who has the beauty and characteristics of a young Caucasian woman. It

In the short story “Sunny Blues” by James Baldwin it is nothing more than the distance between two estranged brothers. As well coming to understanding the pain, suffering, frustration, and triumphs your brother have endured. The story takes places in Harlem NY, more around 1950 around the Harlem Renaissance, a time of poverty, drugs, violence around the African American community. The characters include Sunny, who is the opposite of his brother. He’s a musician, outgoing, he lives in the present, sympathetic, set his own rules, and content with his life choices. The narrator, Sunny brother he judgmental, he lives in the past as everyone he meets he create a little history about them. He does not know how to express his emotions. Isabel the wife and mother of the

Sonny’s Blues digs deeply into the “Negro American” during Civil Rights and Jim Crow Era’s. Set in Harlem, New York in the 1950’s. James Baldwin’s stories give insight based on events of his culture and this becomes apparent through the analysis of the characters in Sonny’s Blues. James Baldwin uses his talents to paint a vivid picture of African American life through a fictional story of two brothers who chose very different path’s in life in order to achieve the pinnacle of self-expression and acceptance.

This is a book that everyone will enjoy, if the person does not like to read this book will catch their attention as it did to the person writing the sentence. The book takes place in World War II in the holocaust. Night is about a kid named Elie Wiesel a Jewish boy that is sent to a concentration camp with his father with very little rations of food and treated like animals the have to survive the horrible beatings the Hungarian army give them for misbehaving.

“The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison, is a story about the life of a young black girl, Pecola Breedlove, who is growing up during post World War I. She prays for the bluest eyes, which will “make her beautiful” and in turn make her accepted by her family and peers. The major issue in the book, the idea of ugliness, was the belief that “blackness” was not valuable or beautiful. This view, handed down to them at birth, was a cultural hindrance to the black race.

Sonny’s Blue is a novel that was written in the 1950’s, a period and the book majorly revolves around themes of suffering to the greatest extent alongside brotherly division and its effects together with social misunderstandings which are majorly driven by passion (Stone 251). However, much of essence is the kind of suffering that was being experienced by the Afro-Americans as evidenced by several flashbacks by the narrator and also subsequent occurrences as the story develops (Stone 251-2). This paper focuses on the extent to which most of the characters in the story have been exposed to suffering in addition to being discriminated against considering the fact that most of the characters are blacks.

‘ Sonny’s Blues’ is a short singular narrative story written by James Baldwin. In this read we learn about the narrator and his relationship with his brother and their environment around them. Sonny’s brother, the narrator, is a Harlem math teacher who tells us about his experience growing up in poverty and having to deal with his brother’s drug addiction. Ultimately the story becomes about the journey of a black drug addict in the 1950's and his inevitable conflicts. Darkness is a recurring concept throughout the story. One of the more prominent themes in this piece is the balance between good and bad in life or light vs darkness.

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye explores the impact of home on childhood, the formative years of any human. Throughout the book, she describes the childhoods of both adults, namely Polly Breedlove and Cholly Breedlove, and children, specifically Pecola, Claudia, and “Junior,” and leaves the reader to figure out how their childhoods shaped who they are. In the novel. Morrison argues that the totality of one’s childhood, including one’s home and experiences, is key in forming one’s disposition and character later in life. In doing so, Morrison wants the reader to see that the best defense against a predatory, racist society is the home.

“Sonny’s Blue”, by James Baldwin, reflects a story of an unidentified narrator and his younger brother Sonny through their fights to overcome suffering and racism in Harlem in 1950s. The setting plays an important role in the story. The time period can be assumed to be an era filled with poverty, drugs and racial tension and Harlem being predominantly African-American. These factors seem to have a role in “Sonny’s Blue”. In “Sonny's Blues”, James Baldwin, a narrator, reflects a theme of suffering and how the settings play a key role in his and his younger brother Sonny's life. Two settings within the story are Harlem and the nightclub, and both have different impacts on the characters and the events of the story".

“The Bluest Eye” is an English novel written by Toni Morison. The novel “The House on Mango Street” is written by Sandra Cisneros. These two novels have a number of similarities. The novel “The House on Mango Street”, revolves around a young girl and her struggle to fit the perplex bits of her personality, sexuality, ethnicity, sex, monetary status and social legacy. These features become possibly the most important factor as Esperanza discovers more than whatever else, what characterizes her will be her capacity to recount stories. Sandra Cisneros’s written work permits her to accommodate herself to those parts of her experience that made her vibe uncomfortably unique in relation to her companions, and she raises a certain essayist with goal-oriented arrangements. “The Bluest Eye” characters associate beauty with whiteness. The novel constantly refers to white American icons of beauty and innocence such as Greta Garbo, Ginger Rogers, and Shirley Temple. Toni Morrison expressed,” Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs-all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured” (Morrison 20). During this time African-American girls were encouraged to aspire to be white. All the female African-American characters in the novel have grown up in a society that does not find them beautiful or even worthy of being looked at by. Pecola is

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison narrates the lives of two families, the MacTeer family and the Breedlove family. The novel digs into the themes of love, envy, and weakness, while maintaining a thick and interesting plotline. These themes are conveyed thoroughly through Morrison’s literary style. Toni Morrison’s powerful writing and structural techniques add depth to the novel, enhancing certain emotions while developing a riveting plot.