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Alice Lowe is a busy (five features in 2016)‚ talented‚ and sympathetic British actress and poignant writer (“Sightseers”) whose name is from now on associated to film direction. Her directorial debut feature is entitled “Prevenge”‚ a dark comedy thriller in which she plays Ruth‚ a psychologically disturbed pregnant widow who decides to slit throats to calm down her anger and her baby’s. Her chosen victims are the ones who were involved in the climbing accident that killed her husband and she truly
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Throughout the story Mariam and Laila have humble beginnings but tough lives. Mariam was just an ordinary girl in unordinary conditions. Living a life of lies and hurt. Being used and broken bit by bit. But through it all‚ she ended her life satisfied. At the end of the brutal marriage to her time at the prison‚ she found her purpose accomplished. Saving Laila’s life‚ and Aziza’s and Zalmai’s. Laila grew up with an unloving mother and the turning point in her life was seeing the mutilated body of
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There is no need to introduce Toni Morrison‚ she has world fame. Her works and accomplishments are her introduction itself. She is a path breaking Afro-American writer. Her writing engages a wide variety of readers in compelling themes that turns around community‚ racial discrepancy‚ sexual harassment‚ love‚ equality‚ incest etc. She is the voice of downtrodden Black woman. She does not take issues and themes from all over the world‚ but she writes on the crucial issues of her people and universalized
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nation‚ the United States. More than a century later‚ Toni Morrison‚ the great African American novelist‚ publishes Beloved. Her novel supplements the story of Frederick Douglass by adding an emotional and almost maternal insight to the horrors of slavery. While Douglass gave the perspective of a young boy growing over time‚ he somehow is able to make the story of his own life objective to readers on both sides of the slavery argument. Morrison on the other hand brings her own fictional character
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Windows to the Soul Many Characters in the novel Grand Avenue‚ by Greg Sarris‚ are wearing masks. Masks that conceal themselves and their culture in an attempt to fit into the world that has enveloped their history and stifled their heritage. The key to these masks is the eyes. The eyes of the characters in the novel tell stories. The despair of the Native Americans is first shown in The Magic Pony when Jasmine‚ the voice of the story‚ describes her Aunt Faye’s eyes. “Her
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oppress and subjugate‚ Toni Morrison gives examples in her Nobel lecture. A example we are given is when the young people go to the old woman’s house and test her if the bird is dead or not because of her disability. “They stand before her‚ and one of them says‚ "Old woman‚ I hold in my hand a bird. Tell me whether it is living or dead."” We see a sign of dominance since‚ like I said earlier‚ the youngsters know the old woman can’t see. A noble purpose of language here is when Morrison said “The blind
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In “BURN THIS BOOK - “peril” ” Toni Morrison contends that the art or work of a writer should be protected from the constant censorship and other forms of similar prosecution that they must face as a part of their job. This prosecution is believed by the author to be the writers peril. The regimes ran by dictators and authoritarians alike would never relinquish their control over the media and use methods that may range from censorship to absolute slaughter and violence in the process of silencing
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Beauty Standards at the Age of Innocence Beauty standards set by society for black women fuels into their insecurities and drives them towards self-hatred. From the start‚ Pecola’s community‚ classmates‚ teachers and parent’s drill into her head that she is unattractive. Pecola Breedlove comes to admit she is ugly as she starts obsessing over the idea of having the bluest eyes to make her attractive. Pecola full-heartedly believes that blue eyes are a necessity for beauty and if she were to by some
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In Munro’s short story the protagonist grows up on a fox farm with her family‚ she is well aware of the role of the fox’s lives‚ as they are maturing the process of slaughter is the turning point for the foxes lives for their pelts. The maturing of the foxes to become slaughtered‚ link to the idea of a girl maturing to a woman. As the foxes are skinned and their pelts are sold compared to a woman being a “pelt” to the man she marries. “The naked slippery bodies were collected in a sack and buried
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