Jim Morrison

Vocabulary Diction: Toni Morrison mostly uses concrete diction rather than abstract diction. She shows the reader a concrete image instead of telling, or leaving anything up to the imagination.
“He reached through brambles lined with blood-drawing thorns thick as knives that cut through his shirt sleeves and trousers” (Morrison 160). Rhetoric: John Howard Griffin’s friend, P.D. East, is a journalist who writes about improving race relations and segregation. He uses rhetoric to argue his points.…

hair straight? Should I wear it natural? Should I conform to society? Should I stand my ground and show my pride? Am I good enough? These are the things that black women asked themselves in the 1960s and 1970s. In “The Bluest Eye”, written by Toni Morrison, there is an underlying theme: the faces of black women. To use in comparison with “The Bluest Eye”, the chapter “Contexts for the Emergence of ‘Black is Beautiful.’” in Maxine Leeds Craig’s book “Ain’t I a Beauty Queen? Black Women, Beauty,…

The Bluest Eye is written by Toni Morrison, in 1970. This book aimed toward exposing the destructive idea that black skin, and black culture were inherently ugly. Also, it is about how black community hates itself simply for not being white. Morrison starts this novel with Dick and Jane text. Dick Jane text often represent basal reader. The Dick and Jane represented white wealth and white beauty. In this book, the Dick and Jane are representations of the development of the black lives. Also,…

herself would would be different...Each night, without fail, she prayed for blue eyes.” (Morrison, page 46) At a later point in the book, Polly claims that “The onliest time I be happy seem like when I was in the picture show...I ‘member one time I went to see Clark Gable and Jean Harlow.I fixed my hair up like I’d seen hers on a magazine…I sat in that show with my hair done up that way and had a good time.” (Morrison, page 123) By repeatedly exposing herself to those films portraying white…

Pecola, instead adopts the view of beauty as white, blond, and blue eyes. She feels that ugliness connects her to her family that if she was beautiful they will love her, As long as she looked the way she did, as long as she was ugly she would have to stay with these people.…Each night without fail she prayed for blue eyes.…If she looked different, beautiful, maybe Cholly would be different, and Mrs. Breedlove too. Maybe they’d say, “Why look at pretty eyed Pecola. We musn’t do bad things in…

"Wife" is a poem written by Marra PL. Lanot and was published in 1998. The film of Director Jun Robles Lana "Barber's Tales (Mga Kuwentong Barbero)" is an entry for the 2013 Tokyo International Film Festival where Eugene Domingo won the Best Actress Award. The two literary works are both set in a society dominated by men, where women are confined and marginalized. Also, their main characters are both women who are pressured by the society's expectations of a wife. Poems and films convey their…

Let us start talking about Sethe, this iron nigger woman and former slave, She was living in 124 with her daughter Denver. They had a company, a ghost. Paul.D came, he was one of Sweet Home men, where she lived there before with her husband Halle, she describes herself as: So as we read above, she had bad memories from the slave age, Torture traces in her back from 18 years ago, when schoolteacher's nephews whipped her. After they treated her like an animal. Although she was pregnant, she…

The novels Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulker and Beloved by Toni Morrison both tell elliptical, multigenerational stories of families that are impacted by the struggle of slavery. As demonstrated in both novels, this concept is a never-ending hardship that affects each character mentally, physically, and emotionally. Through the lens of each characters’ words and behaviors, they are able to display the impact that slavery has on each generation. It not only leaves a permanent scar on each…

Song of Solomon is based on a story that Morrison heard from her maternal grandparents and it is imbued with folk myths and legends from the African Diaspora. The author draws on Afro-American legends about Africans who could fly and who used this marvellous and magical ability to escape from slavery…

In the novel "The Bluest eye" by Tony Morrison, Morrison attempts to explore the meaning of beauty through the point of view of adolescent black girls as they tackle poverty, racism, sexism and the transition to adulthood. Morrison accomplishes this, through her writing she scrupulously decides which rhetoric devices to use in order to do so. Throughout her writing Morrison uses Scesis Onomaton to emphasize particular aspects she deems vital to the storytelling, while using symbolism to…