He left everybody down on the ground and he sailed on off like a black eagle. ... He soared off as like a strong black eagle, but he never came back for any of his people. ... Displaying her love for her father, Pilate wore an earring in her ear that was a box containing her father's writing of her name. ... Then she made a little hole with her fingers and placed in it Sing's snuffbox with the single word Jake ever wrote" (335). ... The two birds taking Pilate's snuff box symbolizes that Pilate is flying away to the air. ...

• Word Count: 2878
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Music for the black American has always been an encoded language, a means of unification and cultural preservation. ... Byatt writes, "In the foreground is the life of the black people whose courage and dignity and affection is felt to be almost indomitable. ... When Sethe is taken to prison, the black community do not sing at her departure: "Was her head a bit too high? Her back a little too straight? ... The community is represented, not simply through the black community around 124 and Bluestone Road, but also within 124 itself. ...

• Word Count: 3100
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography

She published her first children's book, The Big Box, in 1999, which she worked on with her son Slade, that focuses on describing the ways that well-meaning adults sometimes block their children's independence and creativity. ... I was the only black in the class and the only child who could read.... In an attempt to discover how Morrison influences the reader to feel and understand the cultural perspective of African Americans growing up in the Great Depression, Khayati explores the argument that Morrison is concerned with things unsaid or "unsayable" in the narratives of...

• Word Count: 2626
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate