Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison is a brilliant writer, one adored by both casual readers around the world, as well as critics. Beloved by all for her exceptional story weaving, and praised by critics for “her incisive analyses of the dynamics of race and gender but also for the lyricism of her language and the inventive originality of…

Slavery was one of the most horrific crimes in the history of the United States. People were captured and forced into lives of captivity in which they were treated like animals and brutally punished for disobedience. Though the effects of slavery’s tyranny are ongoing, the history of slavery has essentially been ignored and forgotten–the physical…

Throughout Toni Morrison’s Nobel Lecture there is a common reference to the story of the old lady and the bird. In the original story there is an idea that these young children came to mock the blind old lady and that she in a way, won the argument in the end. These children come in…

The tragedy of demoralizing a human being by making him work in harsh conditions all day until he no longer has any enduring hope nor pride left within himself is not only heartbreaking to envision, but it was once a routine way of life. It is incomprehensible that such behavior was once practiced within the…

Many Ran from It as seen in Toni Morrison’s Beloved “all persons held as slaves within’… ‘the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free’…’and the United States, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any…

The Bluest Eye is a great American novel. A great American novel serves as a storehouse of values, issues and beliefs most central to the American culture while also helping to understand it. A great novel has the following characteristics: it connects to culture, addresses issues that affect a whole group, it is outside of…

What makes the greatest American author? America views a great author based on a writer’s literature dialogue. But also look through the way that a writer is able to get their readers attention. Toni Morrison is a type of author that is influential to her readers by viewing her own opinion about American Literature, and…

It is embedded within human nature to keep secrets, lock away memories, and hold truths only fully known to oneself. Yet, the human body is not impermeable to fully concealing these truths. The eyes have always been known to be the windows to the soul, yet, in the book Beloved, Toni Morrison takes that ideology…

Many writers use certain motives in their stories to portray a major point or theme. When trying to doing this, authors go about it in many different ways. Some may be very blunt, coming right out and saying it, some may use examples to portray their point or theme, or some, like Toni Morrison in,…

Projected reification is when an individual puts onto others a sort of hate that they have for themselves. One cannot constantly live hating themselves; to overcome that, they allow it to radiate around them. This is generally demonstrated as the creation of stereotypes. Projected reification follows a gradual course, starting with self-reification, and if severe…