Paul D. Challenging the View that Morrison is a Feminist Writer

In chapter 2, at the party he is described as a feminine man. He

Toni Morrison, the infamous novelist, took the stand as a concerned citizen of the United States when she wrote a public letter to presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama. At the time, the country was divided with contrasting opinions on George W. Bush, which seemed to block the focus of the candidates’ elections. Morrison mentioned this issue as one of her reasons for writing the endorsement, when she wrote, “One reason is it may help gather other supporters; another is that this one one of those singular moments that nations ignore at their peril.” Morrison addressed her personal thoughts on the two presidential candidates, and gave reasoning as for why she chose Barack Obama rather than Hillary Clinton. Overall, Morrison created a very concerned tone regarding the United States and its political future, using phrases such as “multiple crisis facing us” and “peril” to describe the issues that faced the country. Furthermore, when describing Obama’s political future, the tone was much more optimistic and light. Morrison used phrases such as

Introduction: Morrison’s PLC is one of the largest food retailers in UK. It has changed a lot over the last 8-10 years. Thanks to HR guidance it has improved all his sections and departments. To maintain this growth Morrison’s has to offer new services and products by using new selling strategies. To improve Morrison’s performance the HR changed the internal and external factors.

In Toni Morrison’s Sula, gender heteronormative relationships are demonstrated in a very punishable manner. The two main characters Sula Peace, and Nel Right share a very strong, well connected friendship. The two of them are a mirror reflection of each other, with the same desires. Heteronormative institutions in the book do not seem to be stable for the most part. Hannah Peace, the single mother Sula, lives a disordered life in her household while Helene Wright belongs to a conservative and peaceful life, but her husband is never around. With the two daughters of both families being part of each other’s lives, they create a friendship that shows the privilege for female-female bonds over male-male bonds.

The postmodernist period was a period in literary period where writers used their voices to express how they felt about what was going on in the world around them. During the postmodern period there was many events going on that would cause an author to feel a certain way and feel the need to express themselves. An event that could make an author feel the need to express themselves during this period is the Civil Rights Movement. As a result of the Civil Rights Movement, a color fence, or barrier of sorts between African Americans and white people, was created based on opportunity and privilege. In an analysis of Toni Morrison’s short stories “Sweetness”, “The Color Fetish”, and “The Work You Do, The Person You Are”, one can see how the postmodernist elements of irony and allusions are demonstrated.

Racism and sexism are both themes that are developed throughout the novel Sula, by Toni Morrison. The book is based around the black community of "The Bottom," which itself was established on a racist act. Later the characters in this town become racist as well. This internalized racism that develops may well be a survival tactic developed by the people over years, which still exists even at the end of the novel. The two main characters of this novel are Nel Wright and Sula Peace. They are both female characters and are often disadvantaged due to their gender. Nel and Sula are depicted as complete opposites that come together to almost complete one another through their once balanced

Toni Morrison was born “Chloe Ardelia Wofford” on February 18th, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. Chloe earned her nickname “Toni” in college and took Morrison as her married name. She was born in an predominantly African American town, to a poor family, which was like most of Lorain’s residents. Her parents always emphasized the importance of education. “The world back then didn’t expect much from a little black girl, but my father and mother certainly did.” In 1949 she attended college at the Howard University in Washington, DC, which was an historically black college. In 1953 Toni graduated from Howard University with her bachelor’s degree in English. Continuing her education at Cornell University, she earned her master’s degree in 1955. Morrison is an Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize winning American novelist but among those awards she also received many more such as the American book award and the F. Kennedy book award. She also had publications of major works such as Song of Solomon, Beloved, and Paradise to name a few.

Toni Morrison's novel, Sula, places women chiefly at the forefront, examining the matriarchies of the Bottom, and the relationship the novel’s female protagonists. Despite Morrison’s focus on women, men play just as important of a role within the text, as their various actions greatly impact the central females within the novel. All of the men who live in the Bottom impact the women of the novel in similar ways due to their struggles with their masculinity. Morrison’s text characterizes manhood and masculinity as a cycle commencing with men’s fleeting desire to elevate their status, either through marriage or employment, and ending the cycle with their tendency to abandon these desires once they are achieved or deemed out of reach.

One of my favorite Toni Morrison quotes that inspires me is “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” I have taken this into everything I create, I hope to bring a new perspective, something original that people may not have thought about before. Although most of my stories were linear, they were personal and abstract to the point they could not be recreated, such as the view from my dorm window. I want the stories to tell how I believe the future is going to look like from my point of view. All three stories I will be presenting involve transitions, first from the country to street view, storyboard to production, and finally technological advances and their place in society. I

his ideals of innocence. The way he orders his drinks, dances with the two ladies in

Although Toni Morrison does an excellent job at explaining the difficulties that African Americans face, she does not express if African Americans came together. Having hope illustrates how people can get through hard times. They know that whatever they are going through is only temporary and their life will soon get better. African Americans needed to come together and show that their race is not inferior. Instead, they will be able to prove that they are strong individuals and can withstand anything that comes their way. Eventually, they will realize that the love for each other is unbreakable and the people that relates to them will always be by their side. Plus, coming together shows that they will support each other and not downgrade someone

Heba Judeh Dr. Werner English 2238-001 1 December 2015 Sula: Gender in Relation to Race In a short novel of only one hundred and seventy pages, Toni Morrison’s Sula manages to span fifty years of a strange friendship between Nel Wright and Sula Peace. This novel is set in the early 1900s in a black community called the Bottom but was not published until 1973, right after the Civil Rights Movement.

    Toni Morrison makes a good point when, in her acceptance speech upon receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, she says, “Narrative . . . is . . . one of the principal ways in which we absorb knowledge” (7).  The words we use and the way in which we use them is how we, as humans, communicate to each other our thoughts, feelings, and actions and therefore our knowledge of the world and its peoples.  Knowledge is power.  In this way, our language, too, is powerful.

He is performing maleness, checked by his social class and lifestyle. He is tied up for most of the story, and in the woman’s account, he does not emote at all, even in the face of perceived betrayal. This lack of emotion, or rather control of emotion, is juxtapositioned against the thief's constant angry outbursts, and the woman’s tears. He was clearly very upset with his wife, however he was angry, not sad (a feminine reaction), yet has learned to not express emotion in order to perform masculinity in a more restrained way, as is expected even today of “higher class” people. His form of masculinity is performed through

Toni Morrison's Sula is a novel that tells the story of the complex situations of two very different, yet quite similar, women who represent the society of African-American females in the middle twentieth century.  It allows the reader to see how people in the situation of these characters react to obstacles and events, showing a vision of American womanhood that might not be evident to people of other ethnic backgrounds and experiences.  In my opinion, this novel also portrays the changing role of women in the twentieth century, and the struggle between the old ideals versus the newfound independence of women.