Literature November 6th‚ 2012 Sisterhood in The Bluest Eye I’m writing about love or it’s absence. —Toni Morrison The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without close woman-friend. —Toni Morrison From the quotations above‚ I’d like to choose two words‚ “love” and “woman-friend”‚ to reveal the focus of Toni Morrison’s novel‚ The Bluest Eye‚ that is‚ the representation of sisterhood. In The Bluest Eye‚ personally‚ sisterly love is represented as a “voice” to speak
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friends should definitely not be forgiven! I remember being in sixth grade. I had the greatest and sweetest friend around. We shared many fun moments together but‚ after entering grade 7‚ she became an actress. With me‚ she was usually very welcoming and kind. When my back was turned‚ she would morph into someone else and say the most outrageous things about me. Her words became very harsh and hurtful. Once I realized the things she had done behind my back‚ I immediately ended our friendship. After
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little to no affection for them. Some children have a complicated mix of affection and fretfulness or are filled with angst for no apparent reason. As children‚ many are unaware of their parent’s affection or the struggles that exist from parenthood. I was lucky enough to be
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The Greatest Emotion In the poem “somewhere i have never...”‚ author E. E. Cummings personifies the feeling of love and the almost mysterious and uncontrollable supremacy it seems to have over men. The poem is referring to the ability of the author’s‚ what seems to be‚ lover to affect him with “[her] most frail gesture[s] are things which me” (3). And yet‚ the author starts the poem by referencing his inexperience with love and almost expresses a wonder to this new experience (Cummings‚ 1).
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"Those Winter Sundays" Robert Hayden’s‚ "Those Winter Sundays"‚ is a poem of a son’s regret over his inability to honor and appreciate his father during the course of his upbringing. It uses one event to describe a father and son’s entire relationship. Actually‚ "Those Winter Sundays" is a poem written for Robert Hayden’s father. Although at first the poem does not seem to be a great tribute to his father‚ Hayden’s admiration and love for his father breaks through the lines. In the poem‚
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In the poem Those Winter Sundays‚ I believe it would not make a difference if the character was a male or female‚ since I believe the character of the story is a young child. Additionally‚ a young female or male child could narrate the details of the poem‚ and its meaning would remain unchanged by the gender‚ since the details only perceive a young child trying to grasp his or hers dad’s role in their life. I interpreted the structure of the poem‚ as a young child realizing his father’s effort to
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Vanessa Mateo AP English The Beauty and Race Subjectivity in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eyes In The Bluest Eye‚ author Toni Morrison uses a combination of race and beauty as factors that contribute to a culture’s creation of artificial scale of beauty. An establishment of an artificial scale of beauty showing how a race and culture values are easily being disallowed by the ideology of being the perfect beauty of a human being. Morrison uses characters such as Claudia Macteer
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In this paper‚ I will discuss how various short poems reflect on the idea of family. The poems I will evaluate are ‘Those Winter Sundays’ by Robert Hayden‚ ‘My Papa’s Waltz’ by Theodore Roethke and finally‚ ‘Eating together’ by Li-Young Lee. I will also determine how the poems construct the feeling of family and how this may emotionally affect the reader. Moreover‚ I will investigate how the speaker influences the perception of family. Using my own opinion and experience of family‚ I will also discuss
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“Those Winter Sundays” Explication In the poem “Those Winter Sundays”‚ a man concludes that he was once blind to the love his father portrayed; as a young boy he incapable of understanding love is not always exposed as affection. This poem dramatizes the conflict of ability‚ between father and son‚ to effectively show and recognize love when specific gender roles are given. Gender roles are something that we are all familiar with‚ whether we fall into it or not. In this poem‚ the time setting
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The Bluest Eye Essay #4 by: Jason Berry EWRT 1B Instructor: C. Keen June 16th 2010 Toni Morrison the author of The Bluest Eye‚ portrays the character Pecola‚ an eleven year old black girl who believes she is ugly and that having blue eyes would make her beautiful‚ in such a way as to expose and attack “racial self- loathing” in the black community. Toni Morrison the author of The Bluest Eye‚ portrays the character Pecola‚ an eleven year old black
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