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    The attempt at recapturing the past is important in plays‚ poems‚ and especially novels. In Toni Morrison’s Beloved‚ the character Sethe views the past with feelings of longing because she was a former slave who endured a tough life. Due to Sethe’s longing feelings‚ the theme of slavery as a destruction of one’s identity is developed in the work. Sethe is an enslaved woman in Cincinnati‚ Ohio who is determined to escape to freedom in the 1850’s. In order to keep her children from any trauma from

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    Comparison of “Winter Dreams and Recitatif” Toni Morrison was a twentieth century writer‚ and still a current day writer. She was lauded as a writer "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import‚ gives life to an essential aspect of American reality." (Burton Blooms) It takes a very careful reader to actually get the contents of Morrison’s works because of the depth of her creativity. F. Scott Fitzgerald was also an early twentieth century writer. He was also as creative as

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    represent a person and their state of growth throughout their lives. As Sethe states in page 43‚ “Some things go. Pass on. Some things just stay”. Memories are things‚ people‚ or events that are remembered/recollected from the past. In the book Beloved by Toni Morrison‚ the story takes place back and forth during Sethe’s life. Sethe is a mother of four and a former slave. As a slave and a mother she encountered situations in which extreme

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    According to a recent blogger‚ Nenad Smikić‚ there are five suggested main life-lessons portrayed within Disney films that we as an uneducated audience should revisit (Smikić‚ "5 Life Lessons from Disney Movies."). These lessons vary from not talking to strangers to seeing beauty on the inside rather than on the outside. Another recent blogger‚ Sompong Yusoontorn‚ agrees with many of these lessons and he even gives additional lessons given from these films. Yusoontorn believes that‚ “When thinking about

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    A lesson learned… I wonder‚ is it at all possible to learn harsh lessons of our life? Indeed‚ in most spheres of human activity we can hope to take our previous mistakes into consideration and avoid them in the future. But concerning human feelings‚ is it right to blame ourselves if it turns out that we had made a mistake by sincerely investing a part of us into a wrong person who has lead us into the devastating emotional state? And can we avoid such mistakes in the future without becoming desensitized

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    want to give up now. You know that?” – Reverend Ambrose‚ 216. Life tests you all the time and it’s up to you to find the answers and learn from your choices. The most important lesson from the book “A Lesson Before Dying” is to never give up‚ fight for yourself‚ your people and against injustices. In the novel‚ this lesson is shown through the characters of Jefferson‚ Grant Wiggins and Miss Emma. Jefferson is a sincere‚ and sensitive young black man who is put into jail under false charges. His own

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    Toni Morrison: Changing The Game Author Toni Morrison shaped the culture of writing in three main areas; she garnered attention and award of the Nobel Prize society‚ she captured minds of reading audiences in a way that other black authors had not‚ and she gave a voice to difficult subject matters that has been followed by modern authors. The following from one of her novels gives good example of her journey; “You can’t do it all. You a woman and a colored woman at that. You can’t act like a man

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    Viewing life through a lense that focuses on race and physical features‚ rather than one that looks deeper than the skin distracts you from seeing all someone or something has to offer. In the story “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison‚ the author purposely tests the reader as to what lense they are viewing the story through by never revealing the race of any individual character. In the beginning of the story‚ when Big Bozo first introduced Twyla and Roberta‚ Twyla says‚ “My mother won’t like you putting

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    Author Toni Morrison’s short story‚ “Recitatif” explores a subject vital to the story which is racism. The two main characters are Twyla and Roberta‚ one is Afro-American and the other Caucasian‚ and at no point in the story does Morrison reveal which one is which‚ “It didn’t matter that we looked like salt and pepper standing there and that’s what the other kids called us sometimes.” (Morrison 201) I got the impression that Twyla was a Caucasian girl whose mother danced all the time‚ and Roberta

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    What Is Beauty? “It’s true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” A well-known quote by famous author Margaret Wolfe Hungerford. The Bluest Eye a novel written by Toni Morrison‚ the theme beauty comes into place. In the novel; the reader is introduced to two protagonists who share a similar belief to what the standard of beauty is. Pecola Breedlove describes herself to be the opposite of what beauty is. Unlike Pecola‚ Claudia Macteer despises what the standard of beauty is. Pecola Breedlove

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