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Race, Socioeconomic class, and Identity in Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon I have interacted with the characters of Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. My views of the story relate to Macon Dead racism, Pilate identity, and Guitar socioeconomic class. The characters come from different background some similar to myself. I have made my own opinion about Toni Morrison characters based on racism, social economic class and the identity. First of all, take for example two related events in Toni…

What are the characteristics of a hero? Does a hero have to have a power, great looks, and are privileged? Does every hero have to be a hyper masculine male who go to a far off land to battle monsters? In movies and novels, heroes are depicted as a perfect hyper masculine male who is considerably perfect in all aspects from the moment of their birth. Going beyond the movie and novel realm, in the modern world most people’s concept of a hero is fairly narrow. Rarely do most people concern…

rock near a ravine is named “Solomon’s Leap” after him (Morrison 348). This idea of “flying off” is full of ambiguity. Within the novel it means fleeing slavery, actually flying, dying or leaving one’s responsibilities behind (as Milkman did with Hagar) (Morrison 357).This is confirmed by Storey as she indicates this “flying” is flight from a human representative of a coercive culture, and flight towards a refuge or home” (7).Milkman and Pilate bring her father’s bones…

Every aspect of the film is imbued, created and viewed through the lens of the black female spectator as filmmaker. Nana is arguably the center of the film – she’s an old wise woman and the leader of the Peazant family. She is regarded as the seat of knowledge in the family – which is already a subversion of mainstream cinema that usually gives that type of knowledge to old white men. Nana Peazant’s knowledge is ancestral and cultural, yet gives her the wisdom of any great scholar - the African…

Abrahamic Covenant What is its purpose? The Abrahamic Covenant established the Israelites a God’s chosen people and promised to Abraham that he will have a great nation, have a great name, and will be a blessing to the whole world. This is a Covenant of Salvation because it aims to save a chose people from sin. What’s the story? Before God made a covenant with Abraham, he first made a three fold promise. As mentioned above, God promised to Abraham that he will have a great nation (many…

The true meaning of Christmas, or rather the profoundness of the gift, and what it means. At this time of years, there is tremendous love that surges through our family’s, our churches, our school, and our communities. The love is imbedded into our American and English cultures across every level and every fiber, and this huge upwelling of compassing and love starts in the United States about two weeks before Thanksgiving, climbs to a peak on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and then for a week…

“Aahhhh”, a scream came from the upstairs. I quickly ran up the stairs. I heard two more on my way up. I swung the attic door wide open to see Dana stabbing Mas Ruf. In amazement, not knowing what to do or what was going on, watching her stab Rufus two more times I said, “Dana! What are you doing?” She started to scream, and then she vanished, everything but one of her arms which Mas Ruf was laying on. When she vanished, I went over to check the bloody body of Mas Ruf. He was still breathing…

The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood, is a dystopian novel narrated by a handmaid named Offred who’s one purpose in life is to conceive children. Atwood is known for including bits of feminism in her work, but The Handmaid’s Tale takes things to the extreme. Feminism is an ideology that promotes the equality of both men and women, and it has been an issue for centuries. In Canada, women did not get the right to vote until the early 1920’s and women were not accepted into the workforce until…

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam share a lot of similarity. They are all originated in what is called today “middle east”. They are considered the three major monotheistic religions in the world, they all believe and worship one god, and even if it’s called different names by each religion it still the same transcendent that is beyond our ability to comprehend, the creator and the sustainer of the universe, and that speaks through prophet …as sacred texts called holly book which differ for each…

Kindred was penned by Octavia Butler in the late 1970’s, a time where there was limited written legal differences between races, but still much in the way of unrecognized social disparities. The fabulist nature of Octavia’s book gives it the space to speak to the many abuses and inequalities faced by African-American women in the 1800’ and 1976. The disease of power, victimization and sexualization of women, the power of norms—all play a powerful role in the novel. Most noteworthy, however, is…