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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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    Toni Morrison doesn’t include a strong sexual theme in Sula just for shock value. Rather‚ the author uses sex to reveal clues towards the personalities of different characters‚ and how traits get passed down from one generation to the next. Some of the important clues provided in each characters personality traits come from differing sexual attitudes they hold. Disagreements between sexual appropriateness develop the relationship between Nel and Sula‚ as well as Sula’s broader relationship with the

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    In Toni Morrison’s novel‚ Beloved‚ Denver is the most dynamic character. She goes through a transformation from a young‚ shy‚ sensitive and dependent girl who has little interaction with others into an independent‚ motherly and courageous young woman. There are many events in Denver’s life that have lead to her change‚ but the two events that are biggest turning points are when Beloved first arrives‚ and when Denver leaves 124 for the first time by herself in eighteen years. These moments in her

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    The Bluest Eye

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    Toni Morrison’s‚ The Bluest Eye‚ is about a girl named Pecola who wishes she had blue eyes so she looked beautiful. She was also black‚ lonely‚ and came from a poor family. In short‚ herself an society didn’t think she was pretty. Pecola prays for blue eyes cause she think that’ll make her prettier. Blue eyes are the accepted sign for being beautiful. Blue eyes are unique and are considered beautiful by most Americans an also most people in general. Pecola thinks she’s very ordinary and ugly

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    The Emerald Forest

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    All About “The Emerald Forest” movie “The Emerald Forest” is a movie produced by John Boorman in 1985 and based on a true story in the Brazilian Rainforest. The film is a about Tommy‚ a young boy‚ quickly and silently taken away by a tribe in the Amazon called‚ The Invisible People. His dad then‚ spends 10 years searching for him and eventually succeeds after running into a war party with another tribe called‚ The Fierce People -enemies of the invisible people- who pursue him. They finally

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    Life through a Black Lens Becoming an individual and finding a true self-identity is not always easy as it seems‚ but can be seen as a sign of growing up. This is seen as an issue in Toni Morrison’s‚ novel The Bluest Eye. The main character is a young girl named Pecola Breedlove‚ who deals with the struggles of developing an identity and being accepted by society. Pecola is a young girl growing up in the early 1940s; she would face many great trials along the way such as‚ being poor and black. She

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    Pecola Beauty Standards

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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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    Foxes By Alice Munro

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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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    What Is Sula Evil

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    Although Sula is represented as an evil source in the black community‚ her perspective of life was not bad enough to earn that role. Her actions and attitudes towards the community is reckless and hurtful‚ but they must been a reason for her ways. Everyone has their own perspective on life‚ so maybe thats what Sula had in mind when she grew up. Her life is much different than Nels so‚ it would turn out more complicated or easier than hers. But in the end with Sula’s habits and problems

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    Many of the characters from the novel Beloved suffered extreme abuse. Sethe‚ an independent mother‚ was no exception to the abuse. Sethe survived through many different accounts of mistreatment. The school teacher’s nephews made Sethe suffer the cruelest oppression. They held her down against her will‚ while she was pregnant‚ and brutally stole the milk that her body was producing for her child. This is the worst pain for Sethe because‚ besides the obvious obtrusions‚ she feared she would not be

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