Gloria Naylor

Theodore Roosevelt, a past president of the United States, once declared, “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing." In Gloria Naylor’s groundbreaking novel Linden Hills, a character named Braithwaite observes and records the day to day life of what occurs in Linden Hills all without acting to benefit the community. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story The Great Gatsby, the image of a character, called Doctor T.J. Eckleburg,…

"The Women of Brewster Place” by Gloria Naylor focuses on the lives of seven women and what ultimately brings them to Brewster Place. Each woman with a different story and struggle. One of them is Lucielia Louise Turner. Lucielia is first introduced to the reader as an infant, in the first chapter of the novel, Mattie’s chapter. Mattie, the mother figure. She represents comfort and home. The chapter dedicated to Ciel revolves around her life as a mother and lover. She has no easy life since her…

Disenfranchised Groups in America "What if the skinheads want to do the Pledge of Allegiance, we 're gonna [sic] do that too?" said Laura Ingraham, on her radio show."To some people that would be offensive, we 're gonna[sic] let them do that?"(Connar) Ingraham was commenting on an upstate New York school where a student saying the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic, with the intention of celebrating and promoting multiculturalism during foreign language week. There are many people in this country…

Only is the word tolerable when said from friends and family, similar to the word “nigger” in the article the “The Meanings of Word” by Gloria Naylor. Although the word can be used to tease around friends, its concept is used to put down an individual’s set of values because they do not follow someone else’s set of values. Until someone hears “a small pair of lips that had already learned it…

Throughout our everyday life, we are constantly bumping into someone who speaks a different language. Language has always been a beautiful trait a person may possess, especially when it’s something out of the ordinary. There are many different languages spoken within our community alone. Regardless of where we go, language has a major effect on our lifestyle. It plays a major role when we are searching for a job because most employers are seeking people who can speak languages that meet the…

Celebrities nowadays, such as Amanda Bynes and Lindsay Lohan are going crazy and getting addicted to drugs because of their fame and the pressure that comes with it. It is difficult to pinpoint an A-list star who hasn’t experienced some degree of insanity or addiction resulting from the stress of being in the spotlight all of the time. Why does the desire for fame and being famous seem to always cause some sort of mental breakdown in celebrities? Linden Hills is about a man named Nedeed who…

The writings of the black authors reveal their pains as a black. The 1993 Nobel Literature Laureate, Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. She writes for black women to reveal the pains of Afro-American woman as a black and female. Her works challenge the stereotypes present in writings by and about black women. She projects racism and gender discrimination in her novels. Feminism in Toni Morrison’s novels is grounded upon “the structure of a…

Both “Kiswana Browne” by Gloria Naylor and “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker focus on female characters with identities in conflict with the way in which they were raised. Kiswana, formerly Melanie, revolts against the older generation’s investment in politics of respectability, instead searching to reclaim her older, African roots. Kiswana is dedicated to a movement that advocates pride in being black, rather than a conformance to white normativity. This approach, unfortunately, splits the world…