In the novel "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, Morrison provides an interpretation of how whiteness is the standard of beauty, which warps the lives of black women and children, through messages everywhere that whiteness is superior and beautiful. ... "The Bluest Eye" has many elements that relate to Toni Morrison's own personal life. ... After twenty years later Toni Morrison asked herself and wondered about how one learns of that. ... For that reason, Toni Morrison wrote the novel because she wanted to show how much colored people suffered because of the criticism t...

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Toni Morrison Toni Morrison is a wonderful writer. ... Toni Morrison was born on February 18, 1993. When Toni Morrison was born her name was Chloe Anthony Wofford. ... Like I said earlier, Toni Morrison was a wonderful writer. While writing this essay I learned a lot about Toni Morrison. ...

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Rebuttal to Toni Morrison's Cinderella's Stepsisters. Although I agree with many of the points that Toni Morrison made in her address, Cinderella's Stepsisters, to the students at Barnard College, I find myself in sort of a quandary. ... In Morrison's address to the women at Barnard Collage she is trying to provoke the career minded feminist women to not use other women as stepping stones to further their own career. Morrison refers to this as abuse or violence ("... ... Morrison concludes with this thought provoking statement: "Women's rights is not only an abstr...

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In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, the chapters are separated by the evolutions of seasons. ... Pecola provides an extended depiction through her ideals of the ways in which internalized white beauty standards deform the lives of blacks, especially black women, in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. ... Toni Morrison's The Blues Eye is composed of sections that are labeled by the seasons: autumn, winter, spring, and summer. ... Morrison also uses the seasons to order her novel, but through the use of diction and irony narrator's memories brings horror rather than beauty. ...

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The Bluest Eye By: Toni Morrison Blonde hair, blue eyes, and white skin was the envy of most young African American girls in the 1940's. In the tragic novel, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old black girl is a victim of racial self-loathing and also rape by her father which results in pregnancy. ...

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-Toni Morrison, Beloved (270) In Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, we learn how hurtful memories and the past can be. ... Toni Morrison develops each character by putting together pieces of their past to form who they are. ... Morrison writes, "But her brain was not interested in the future. ... On the other hand, Denver is developed by Morrison as being a character who wants a past and a history. ... Facing the past is a theme of Beloved in which Toni Morrison develops her characters. ...

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The novel Beloved was written by Toni Morrison in 1987. Toni Morrison is an African American citizen from Lorian, Ohio born in 1931. ... This part was not explicitly explained but Morrison made it obvious what she was talking about. ... This novel was packed full of different emotions to feel and ways to take text but overall the lesson that Morrison gave was worth more than the problems that are within the book. ...

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Morrison's Beloved: The Psychological Suffrage of Former Slaves Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) was her fifth novel, and consequently the most controversial work she had ever written. ... However, Snitow did state " If Beloved fails in it's ambitions, it is still a novel by Toni Morrison, still therefore full of beautiful prose, dialogue as rhythmically satisfying as music and scenes so clearly etched they're like hallucinations" (25-26). ... Overall, I believe that Toni Morrison's Beloved is one of the most thrilling novels that I have read. ... Morrison, Ton...

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TONI MORRISON Toni Morrison was the first black woman to receive a Novel Prize award. In 1970 Toni Morrison wrote her first book called "The Bluest Eye" which soon after gaining the attention of both critics and a wider audience for epic power, unerring ear for dialogue and her poetically expressive depictions of Black America (www.nobel ). ... Toni had also been awarded with a number of literary distinctions. ... At Howard she met Harold Morrison who was an architect. ... Toni Morrison has received many honorary degrees from many colleges and universities. ...

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Toni Morrison invites the reader to be drawn into this emotional situation alongside our main protagonist who has evidently been through a life ridden with trauma some of which is revealed in the given extract. Its unique written form enables Morrison to relate this trauma more sensitively. ... The experimental structure of the extract allows much room for interpretation, and has been purposely designed by Morrison to allow her readers to become actively involved. ... Flashbacks appear to be an incorporated element of Morrison's masterpiece too and they add to the surrealism and similarly...

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Toni Morrison is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. ... Morrison thought so, but the little girl disagreed. ... Morrison recalls her reaction well. ... Morrison remembers looking at her. ... Morrison uses two narrative voices. ...

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Toni Morrison's "Recitatif,"" narrates the temporally isolated encounters of two women first brought together within the walls of St. ... Smell funny, I mean"" (Morrison 243). ... In the orchard"" (Morrison 254). ... Toni Morrison employs such a puzzling use of ambiguity that the balance of the story almost becomes a "choose your own adventure" in the effort for racial distinction. ... But now I can't be sure"" (Morrison 261). ...

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Portrait of a Victim: Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye (1970) is the novel that launched Toni Morrison into the spotlight as a talented African-American writer and social critic. ... (Morrison 160). ... She thought they were pretty" (Morrison 41). ... They are weeds" (Morrison 43). ... In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison tells the story of a little black girl who thinks that if she can live up to the image of the blue-eyed Shirley Temple and Dick and Jane that she will have the perfect life that they have. ...

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In Toni Morrison's novels, she describes the racial tension, the heritage of Blacks, and the struggles Blacks have to overcome in a world that doesn't accept them. While exploring these various emotions, Toni Morrison also changes the styles in each novel. ... Morrison "uses the contrast between Shirley Temple and Pecola to underscore the irony of black experience" states Phyllis R. ... Toni Morrison lets the characters add their own bits and pieces to the stories, as it contributes to the narrative. ...

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Speaking Things Unspeakable Throughout Toni Morrison's story Beloved, there are many occurrences of unspeakable acts. The way Morrison portrays these acts, usually through dialogue, is subtle and not gruesome. ... All the unspeakable acts Toni Morrison proclaims assists in showing the horrors that African Americans had to go through during slavery. To begin, throughout Morrison's story she shows how African Americans were treated worse than animals were. ...

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Beloved The book I read was Beloved, by Toni Morrison. ... Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. ... Thus, Toni Morrison was brought up to be proud of her heritage and rich cultural background. ... In Beloved, Toni Morrison portrays the barbarity and cruelty the slaves were subjected to. ... The author Toni Morrison has successfully developed a novel which represents the hopes, aspirations, and historical memories of black America in 273 pages. ...

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Some say that Toni Morrison's Beloved was written similarly to slave narrative, showing the reader Sethe's pains of being a slave and the ongoing pain she suffers being free. ... Morrison constantly focuses on pain in order to keep a background theme in the readers mind throughout the novel. ... The language alone of Morrison's novel is enough to see the incredible difference between the two. ... Another obvious stylistic difference between the two is the fact that a narrative was dictated by and actual slave, and Toni Morrison was certainly not a slave. ... These parallels allo...

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By the aforementioned standards, Toni Morrison's Beloved has undeniably earned its place in contemporary literature. Disregarding the supporting fact that Morrison received the Nobel Prize in Literature for Beloved, I intend to prove that not only is this work literature, but it will become a classic (Morrison, cover). ... But the beauty of this book is that Morrison did not stop there. ... With regards to Solzhenitsyn's quote, Morrison would have earned his approval. ... Having met all requirements, vague and specific, Toni Morrison's Beloved is unmistakably a work of li...

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This paper will attempt to exploit these limitations and explain why Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, is superior to its film version. ... Morrison's coverage of controversial themes provides for a more compelling piece. Morrison's novel is superior to Demme's film in that the novel is much more interactive and open to interpretation. ... Jonathan Demme's film version of Beloved fails in comparison to Toni Morrison's novel due to its limitations as a medium. ... For these reasons, Morrison's Beloved is superior to Demme's Beloved. ...

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It further accumulates within Toni Morrison's poetical style, symbolising the repression of slaves, but paradoxically, symbolising their own livelihood and freedom. ... As a jazz musician, my personal experience with the theory of the blues and improvisation allows me to observe the release and tension technique within Toni Morrison's work. ... Judith Thurman writes of Toni Morrison's literary style, "She treats the past as if it were one of the luminous old scenes painted on dark glass and she breaks the glass, and recomposes it in disjointed and puzzling modern form." ... ...

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Toni Morrison in her novel titled Sula uses death as a reoccurring theme, which essentially allots the reader to use divergent rather than convergent thinking. ... It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of it (Morrison 14. All other references to Toni Morrison's Sula will be indicated by page reference to this text). ... Morrison presents yet another situation that shows death by the action of killing. ...

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The story is told from the perspectives of the sisters, Claudia and Frieda MacTeer, Morrison's goes through four seasons and traces the Pecola's descent into madness. Morrison provides readers with the context and history behind the Breedloves" misery and Pecola's obsessive desire to have the "bluest eyes". ... In Toni Morrison's book the Bluest Eye we will see how Cholly demonstrates "that disadvantage" that he goes through all his life and how because of that he is lead to being a cold person. ... (Bluest Eye, 123) Toni Morrison shows the pain and struggle that C...

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"Beloved," by Toni Morrison, contains descriptive and graphic scenes, such as a brutal rape scene, tragic infanticide, and bestiality. ... Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio into a working class family of six. ... Toni Morrison is a fantastic writer which allows her to imagine and describe all of these occurrences, but the fact that none of them are true and that they are all figments of her imagination further withdraw from the novels credibility. ... Even in these chapters, Morrison's bias is dominant. ... "Beloved," by Toni Morrison should be removed from required reading list arou...

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The Eyes of Society In The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, the central theme is society's negative influence on the individual. ... Morrison tries to show a little girl as a total and complete victim of her surroundings. ... By this short anecdote, Morrison delivers a subtle, profound message. ... Morrison doesn't try to portray Pecola as the only victim of society's racism. ... Toni Morrison writes this novel as a metaphor for black society and the hardships and suffering it had to deal with. ...

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