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Professor Delcourt English 265 20 November 2017 Literary Analysis: Sula Toni Morrison is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels and a professor at Princeton University. In 1998, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved, and then, in 1993, received the Nobel Prize in literature. In 2012, at the age of 81, Toni Morrison received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Toni Morrison was born February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio. In 1953, she graduated

identity cannot be acquired as long as those individuals and communities acquiesce in and conform to the oppressive definitions of the mainstream culture. The Bluest Eye is one of the finest pieces of English literature. This masterpiece is written by Toni Morrison. Here in this novel The Breedlove family has shown the individual identity and perception of beauty perfectly. The Breedlove family is a group of people under the same roof, a family by name only. Cholly the head person of the family is always

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison takes place in Ohio in the 1940s. The novel is written from the perspective of African Americans and how they view themselves. Focusing on identity, Morrison uses rhetorical devices such as imagery, dictation, and symbolism to help stress her point of view on identity. In the novel the author argues that society influences an individual's perception on beauty, which she supports through characters like Pecola and Mrs. Breedlove. Furthermore, the novel explains how

Often times in literature, the inevitability of death tends to be ignored or put aside. Throughout the novel Sula, Toni Morrison is often, if not always, talking about death and she reflects her own concept of what it is and what it does to us, humans. Death to her is that constant idea that is always controlling us and influences our acts and choices on our day to day life. Shadrak for example who is controlled by that idea, established a special day to raise awareness about suicide because the

and neglect. Pecola in The Bluest Eye internalizes the western standards of adorableness beneath the ancestral burden of the ascendant culture life The Bluest Eye is an able announcement of Toni Morrison’s indigenous cultural feminism, an

Who is the killer? Why did this happen to Lucy? In this book you find yourself asking those questions over and over. Once you think you know who the killer is he ends up being a nice guy who wants to save her life. It's a mystery at every turn. There is a girl in a grave you have no idea who she is until near the end. She is Byron’s sister who left home, she saw visions of people getting killed by this man just like Katherine. “The night katherine left home, she woke me up and told me she couldn’t

The famous Hoosier I choose was a writer named, Mary Jessamyn West, but she went by Jessamyn West. She is remembered for all the books and the screenplay she wrote. She is also known for receiving the Newbery Honor Book award three times. Jessamyn was born in Jennings County, Indiana. She is the daughter of Eldo Roy West and Grace Anna Milhous. She had two brothers, Merle, Myron, and a sister, Camron. When she was 6 her and her family moved to Los Angeles County in California. Two years later, they

People usually feel like they are not good enough for society, so they strive to change themselves to please society’s expectations. In the novel The Bluest Eye, the author, Toni Morrison, uses point of view to reveal how the characters of Pecola and Claudia regard the standards of beauty in their society, having blue eyes and blonde hair, and how it affects them. From Pecola’s point of view, people are disgusted by her when they see her ugliness. She spends “long hours [...] looking in the mirror

Aching Affliction Toni Morrison is the author of such a mysterious but exhilarating book Sula (1973). Growing up she love to story-tell and read; leading her to become a professor and editor at many places and universities. Also, winning a Noble Prize for Literature in 1993 for many of her phenomenal works that provide powerful depictions of the world that Black people currently or use to live in (America). For example, the novel Sula; Toni Morrison writes this story to be about a friendship in its

Trees and Plants in Beloved In Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, each character holds a special connection to trees and each places different meaning in them. The motif of trees and plants represent a calming force, escape from hardship, and circle of life that can heal the wounds of slavery. Paul D and Sethe are two characters in particular who place unique meaning in plants and use them as a way to escape their painful memories and the horrors of slavery. Throughout the novel, Paul D looks at physical