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Richard Reyes September 29, 2017 AP Literature and Composition Period: 3 SOS LAP TOPIC #4 : Human beings did not always hold the reins as the most superior creatures in this universe. A long time ago, the common people were inadequate specimens at the grace of the dinosaurs. Such an era came to a staggering end from the grand celestial meteoroid which assaulted life into a different direction. It acted as a stimulus which guided us into a contrasting atmosphere; we are corresponding in that atmosphere

Literary Analysis Paper: “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison Many authors write fictional novels about historical events. A common topic written about is the racial integration between African Americans and whites during the 1950’s. Although the short story “Recitatif” explicate many different themes, the central topic of Morrison’s writing is about racism. Throughout the story, the author expresses examples of hatred between black and white races at the shelter, the different encounters they have, and

girls, coalescing on a grass-laden field while lying on their stomachs, dig a hole in unspoken harmony. A picture of youth and innocence, this scene depicts an innocuous moment which the two girls share as a result of their juvenescence--or does it? In Toni Morrison 's Sula, this scene, among others, appears at first to be both irrelevant to the novel’s underlying theme and out of place with regard to the rest of the plot. Yet, when analyzed further, the literary devices that Morrison uses in these scenes

describing the Great American Depression. The contexts and the structure of the story looks as if it was written for children. This realistic story describes the manner of life and reality of the African American, suffering form the pressure of whites. Toni Morrison interprets how whiteness is the standard of beauty which distorts blacks everywhere. Pauline and Pecola have troubles with the whites. "The Bluest Eyes." is one of the most prevalent concerns role appearance novel

Your skin begins to wrinkle. Your hair turns gray. You become frail, thin and weak. All of these transformations inevitably occur in everyone’s body over time. But what remains the same in a person after all these years? Toni Morrison, in her novel Sula, suggests that our inner selves do not change as much as we think. Through a consistent emphasis on body parts, color, and physical appearance, Morrison illustrates the coexistence of change and stability that lie within each person’s body and identity

such as anorexia, bulimia, and self-hate. There is clearly a need for re-self-identification within the Black female community. With focus on self-hate one can see that this problem particularly becomes apparent in African American communities, author Toni Morrison in her novel The Bluest Eye not only highlights this self-hated within the Black community but also displays an urgent need for feminism within the black community, through her characterization of Pecola, and Claudia. One indication of Morrison’s

or believing that there could ever be enough attention to go around. In the novel Beloved, by Toni Morrison, a theme of the cost of having too much love for ones’ children is portrayed. Sethe, a slave woman within the novel, helps develop this theme through the third person narration of her life. The novel takes place during the Reconstruction era during a time of turmoil for black slaves everywhere. Toni Morrison uses constant shifts in character’s perspectives in order to give the reader insight

Culture has a major role in deciding when that change is. Some cultures use a specific age, while others acknowledge physical changes. Regardless, cultures around the world understand that there is a distinct difference between adolescence and adulthood. Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye tells a story from the perspective of Claudia, a black girl growing up in the 1940s. Morrison uses Claudia as a narrator during her youth, and again when she is a grown woman. Morrison uses the shifting perspective to show

alcohol in front of his kids and he raped Pecola ,and later dies in a workhouse.The problem that most of the characters faced in this Novel was love and happiness. The incredible, marvelous author of the Great novel “The Bluest Eyes” is the one and only Toni Morrison. Ms. Morrison birth name was Chloe Anthony Wofford, she was born in Lorain, Ohio in February 18 1931, she was the older of two and one oldest. Her father , George Wofford was a welder and also held several jobs to support their family. Ms

slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave” (Harriet Tubman Quotes). In the novel Beloved, the dehumanizing elements of slavery affect the characters in every aspect of their lives. Toni Morrison paints the picture of slavery in a realistic frame. In her foreword she explains she wanted to throw the readers into chaos to simulate the real effects of racism and slavery (Morrison XIX). Throughout the story, readers get a brutal taste