Gloria Naylor

syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? In particular the novel, The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor explains to readers about seven black women who live life in Brewster Place by confronting alienation.Sometimes a place can take on the characteristics and functions of a living character, and such is the case in Brewster Place. Naylor identifies alienation by exploring racism and sexism. It serves as a testament to the life of African American women…

unfit. In the novel Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor on the 21st of December: Maxwell is hungry for starvation. Maxwell lives on the fourth crescent drive in Linden Hills. He hunts for the substance that will satisfy his unimaginable hunger for success via controlling himself, others, and the natural world. Gloria Naylor alludes to the fourth circle of Hell in Dante’s Inferno. The punishment in the 4th circle of Dante’s Infernos is to be submerged in filth. Gloria uses the reflection of this…

Each author, Brent Staples and Gloria Naylor, present their arguments about certain aspects of American society in a unique and reflective manner. Brent Staples explains the issues with assumptions based on stereotypes from his own experiences. Gloria Naylor expresses how the meaning and presentation of a word holds different effects for an individual or group. These works eventually reveal how groups of people are perceived can drastically affect the groups themselves and society. Overall,…

In “The Meanings of a Word” by Gloria Naylor, Naylor discusses how the aspect of a word can mean different things to different people in many different situations. She speaks on how the word “nigger” is used often in her neighborhood. She describes how the word can transition to having a positive meaning, to a very negative meaning just by the way it is said or who says it. She goes on to explain how words are harmless and don’t mean anything, but once the general public agrees that a word has a…

seems like almost every word can have a different meaning given the right emphasis and context of the surrounding sentence. This is a lesson that Gloria Naylor learns in her story “Meanings of a Word”. In this story a young, third grade age Gloria makes a comment on a young white boy’s score on a math test. This child then calls her the “N” word, leaving Gloria confused yet knowing it was not an appropriate word. After recalling how she questioned both her teacher and her mother of the meaning…

conventional rules of social behavior that are set in place by a society are prominent in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day. Morrison looks at an individual who understand the norms but decides to go against it. Naylor predominantly examines the effects of one person against an entire group when they ignore the history of the community, and the concept of magic. Unlike Naylor, Morrison delves deeper into the outsider theme and looks at the effects of an entire group being…

likely against the use of the term as it evidently still brings negative memories (Kente, 15). In her essay, Naylor turns the other cheek and realizes how the people around her are now taking the word lightly; one rarely thinks about the word and it’s past. Contrast to Zulu Kente’s poem, Gloria Naylor mentions how she’s heard the word as a “term of endearment for husband or boyfriend” (Naylor, 115). She then states how the word ‘nigger’ hold a representation of manhood deriving from times of…

In comptent of, nowadays countless words are used in many different ways to detriment people and not to comfort them. Equivalent to what Gloria Naylor expressed in her essay, “The Meanings of Words,” she states, “Words themselves are innocuous;it is the consensus that gives them true power”(118). For instance, the word that identified her and several African Americans was the “n” word and for me the word that identifies with my group is Oaxacan yet, both these words are used within the same…

We have two very different stories being told in “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” and in “Mama Day”. Both of them take place in different time frames and places. The story about the Garcia family leaving the Dominican Republican for New York and going through the growing pains of an immigrant family in a new land, takes place across three decades in the mid to late 20th century. Whereas Mama Day’s setting is in the South during the late 19th century to early 20th century and it’s about…

The novel, The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor, is the story of six individual characters residing at Brewster Place. Brewster Place is a low-income housing development created by corrupt dealings of city managers. It seems destined to be a hopeless place since the people who created the development were all immoral. Initially, it was built to house the diaspora of Irish and Italian immigrants coming into the city. For many years the development housed this population, but following…