Jim Morrison

Do children absorb bias? In recent years, children from Russia and Ukraine, in light of the recent wars between their countries, have been taught that the opponent is evil, although both are of the same blood and ancestry. Other children around the world are being placed in studies which explore this effect of society on their minds. In America, some children participated in the doll experiment, in which two toys were placed in front of them; one black and one white. When asked which doll was…

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is a jaw dropping perspective of the lives of young black girls that are forced into believing that they are ugly and therefore suffer from self-loathing. The role models in their lives are not exactly the most stable to provide them with the answers of live; therefore, they leave the girls to look into society to fill that ever expanding void of their purpose in life. In this shockingly realistic story, the young black girls such as Pecola take on the burden from…

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison is, at its core, a call to awareness for pressing social injustices, as well as a criticism on how various communities combat those injustices. Through the use of clever symbolism and equivocal character names, Morrison explores central themes of societal and emotional neglect, the needs of minority groups, and violence as a means of resistance. The characters of Hagar and Guitar are both representative of those themes. Though their justifications and actions may…

Love can bend and break many rules but just how far will one take it? In the novel Beloved, by Toni Morrison, an African American Slave woman by the name of Sethe lives out her life after attempting to murder all four of her children but only killing one. Throughout the book, many flashbacks and stories are shared between the characters and between the reader so that the reader can pick up clues about the past. Since the story takes place after Sethe’s tragedy, the only way to share something in…

Toni Morrison, author of The Bluest Eye, reflects the feminist theory throughout the novel. Characters narrate the novel from different point of views to help understand the story of the protagonist, Pecola Breedlove, and the hardships of growing up as a young black girl. The eleven-year-old fails to get help because of the suffering from other characters, which eventually contributes to her fate. The feminist theory is presented by Pecola’s desire to be beautiful, black women resisting…

The complex usage of separate narrators in The Poisonwood Bible explores the idea that guilt is an individual emotion and processed by everyone differently. One of the chief concerns of Orleanna's guilt is the death of her youngest child, in response she drags her second youngest out of the reach of Africa “as if it was her last living act,” (Kingsolver 410). Orleanna's response to Ruth May’s demise has a twofold effect, first, she freed herself and Adah from the hold of Africa and Nathan Price.…

Analyzing “What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl” Patricia Smith’s poem, “What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl” (for those of you who aren’t) was an extremely emotional and eye opening poem. The poet describes through the eyes of a nine year old, what it’s like growing up in society a black girl, and suffering through life’s changes known as puberty. Society has planted a seed in her young and impressionable mind that being ethnic means nothing about her is right. To fully comprehend her perspective,…

Light skin, silky corn yellow hair, and clear crisp blue eyes. Who is to say this is what defines beauty. The Bluest Eye a novel by Toni Morrison is about a little eleven years old girl named Pecola Breedlove, in the 1930’s, her family and her two friends Frieda and Claudia who are sisters. Pecola believes she is ugly, and is regarded by many of the characters as such; but she believes that if she were to have a pair of blue eyes she will become beautiful, and in turn the ones around her would…

Jazz by Toni Morrison is set during the Harlem Renaissance, an era in which music, specifically Jazz music, was generating popularity, as well as controversy. Morrison incorporates the importance of music throughout the book in many ways, including, the style in which the narrator tells the story, for example, how characters were introduced and the way certain scenes were explained, as well as the language used. Although the structure of the novel is significant in understanding the role of jazz…

formats the journey of love, independence and identity for characters development. ‘The Bluest Eye’ endures reconciliations between the protagonist, Claudia MacTeer and the world as she recalls a childhood memoir of being surrounded by “ruined” (Morrison, p.101) women, a corrupt family and a misfortunate lifestyle. Similarly, ‘The Complete Persepolis’ scrutinizes the irony of a bildungsroman, where Marjane Satrapi the protagonist reflects on the rollercoaster that was her childhood and how it…