... enormously, achingly alive" (Metzger 413). In the beginning of Sula, a golf course is put in place of a Black community known as "the Bottom." History of "the Bottom" is told in chapters concentrating on the years of 1919 through 1965. The community, "the Bottom" gets its name after a mean white farmer plays a joke on them. He tells them after they finish some ... hard chores they will gain their freedom. He gives the slaves the worst part of the land because he doesn't want to give up his best land. The land the slaves receive is hilly land. It is hard to grow anything and the wind ......

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... images- in The Bluest Eye. The narrative structure of The Bluest Eye is important in revealing just how pervasive and destructive the "racialization- (Morrison's term for the racism that is a part of every person's socialization) is (Leflore). Morrison is particularly concerned about the narration in her novels. She says, "People crave narration . . . That's the way they learn things- (Bakerman 58). Narration ... and typography of the novel itself help to illustrate how much and for how long white ideas of family and home have been forced into black culture. Instead of conventional chap...

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• Grade Level: High School

... existing with each are parallel meanings of these settings when they are thought of literally and also collectively with the thoughts of memories. In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, the chapters are separated by the evolutions of seasons. These conjugate the moods that are brought about within the text of the characters, but a certain irony as well. John Kotre speaks of ... this worship of whiteness, imagining Pecola's unborn baby as beautiful in its blackness. Once Claudia reaches adolescence, she too learns to hate herself, as if racial self-loathing is a necessary part of maturation....

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... as an individual. To Denver her mother's view is her view, the idea of having her own opinion of the world does not occur to her until the last few chapters of the novel. This shows that until then Denver cannot realize her individualism. Paul D.'s arrival seriously confounds Denver's perception. Suddenly Sethe is focusing her attention on someone else and because ... her attention and efforts to Beloved. In some respects, Denver's inability to separate herself from Sethe means Paul has not only "taken" her mother from her, he has also taken a part of Denver. So she seeks to fill the vo...

• Word Count: 693
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• Grade Level: High School

... and composition of the novel itself help to illustrate how much and for how long white ideas of family and home have been forced into black culture. Instead of conventional chapters and sections, The Bluest Eye is broken up into seasons, fall, winter, spring, and summer. This type of organization suggests that the events described in The Bluest Eye have occurred ... just how prevalent and important the images of white perfection are in Pecola's life; Morrison's strange typography illustrates how irrelevant and inappropriate these images actually are. Names play an important part in The ...

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... , and water. Additionally, the "bridge- she talks about could be the bridge of a ship. These uncanny images resurface in Beloved's monologue in Chapter 22 Song and dance played an important part in the lives of the slaves. They would sing songs as they were made to work for their masters thus showing that even during their bondage they were free. They ... has on her mouth similar to the impairment that her mother's face went through after wearing the iron bit and her peculiar manner of speaking. The stream of consciousness' in chapters 20-24 brings the past and present to life through th...

• Word Count: 1034
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• Grade Level: High School

... McTeer parents, who show us how, black parents govern. Reverend Soaphead, a man just looking for acceptance. And many other characters who made this novel what it was. Instead of conventional chapters, The Bluest Eye is broken up into the four seasons. These types of divisions in the novel mark a correlation between the seasons and the chain of events in the story ... try to cope with it. In the same manner, Pauline Breedlove's personal history is shown to have played out in extreme measure, in life of her daughter. From the early part of her life up to the time the reader is introduced...

• Word Count: 2499
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