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    Toni Morrison’s novel “A Mercy” is set in the late 1600s around modern day Pennsylvania or Virginia. Throughout the book‚ we see perspectives from multiple different people during the growing slave trade in the New World. One of the main characters is Florens‚ an African American young girl born into slavery. She is given away because of a debt to Jacob Vaark‚ a white heir to a farm. During her narrative‚ she suffers and is shown and shows compassion in many different ways‚ which evolves into to

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    Toni Morrison is a renowned American Novelist. Her works are famous for their impactful elements of visual descriptions of characters and scenes paired with a variety of themes. One of her most famous works was her acceptance speech of her Nobel Prize in literature. Her style of language is that of a continuous story with vivid metaphors that discuss the life and death of “language”. Arguing that language of the future is in the hands of the next generation and how it is used can create catastrophic

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    desire to know and to positively identify the characters by race. Yet‚ Morrison avoided the racial identifications. It is interesting to me how when we think of a certain food‚ clothing‚ or a certain action that someone may do‚ we automatically place them in a certain race. Morrison has left off this information showing us that‚ race in a way‚ does not matter. What makes a difference is that people have an issue about it. Morrison is stating that race does not make a difference‚ what is important is

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    Dead Poets Society “O CAPTAIN! Me captain! Our fearful trip is done;...”- Walt Whitman. The Dead Poets Society took place at a fictional conservative boarding school by the name of Welton Academy. The school is in Vermont in 1959. The school emphasizes tradition‚ honor‚ discipline and excellence. Some students reincarnate the Dead Poets Society. This leads to the questions was Mr.Keating‚ the english teacher‚ at fault? Mr.Keating was not at fault because the school administration was prejudiced

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    Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon tells the story of Macon “Milkman” Dead III‚ an egotistical man who rediscovers himself through his past with the help of his best friend and aunt. Morrison shows how prejudice society can he when the white man dominates while only allowing very few blacks to survive. Morrison reveals how man must rediscover himself by reconnecting with the things of the past. To escape‚ one must break free from that of which they are being confined in. They must take flight. Morrison

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    A thought-provoking issue and one most significant based story line in Song of Solomon written by Toni Morrison is the rooted system of racism among black people. There is an undercurrent of racism that happens to all of the characters. All characters shown up in the book have issues with racism. In general‚ racism happens between the human races such as between white and black. However‚ upon their different social classes‚ every different internalized racism is a part in their everyday lives. This

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    in war. When this trooper does die‚ he asks not that his country be sorrowful for his death‚ but that they consider that the piece of earth "corner of a foreign field" that his body lies on be considered won for England "is for ever England". As his dead body decays into dirt or dust‚ that dirt will become rich because it came from an English body. England once "bore" this soldier’s body‚ loved him‚ educated him‚ offered his fresh English air‚ and landscape to walk through‚ and at one time cleansed

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    Dead Star Setting: house of Don Julian‚ House of Judge del Valle‚ Tanda where there are coconut plantation and a beach‚ Church of Our Lady of Sorrow‚ Calle Real‚ Calle Luz in Sta. Cruz (hometown of Julia) Time of the story: Lenten Season. Characters: Alfredo Salazar‚ Esperanza‚ Julia Salas‚ Don Julian‚ Carmen‚ Judge del Valle‚ Donna Adella‚ Calixta‚ Dionisio‚ Vicente‚ Brigida Samuy. Theme: forbidden love Moral: It was expectations and reality. We expect that there’s always a happy ever after

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    In both Jazz and Sula by Toni Morrison‚ the question of what defines a person is constantly asked. The way in which Morrison poses the question to the reader‚ however‚ changes drastically between the two works. Sula is Morrison’s second novel‚ and because of this‚ shows a more experimental and varied approach to the idea of identity‚ like she is trying to figure out exactly what she thinks. Jazz‚ on the other hand‚ while dealing with very abstract concepts‚ grapples with its ideas in a more focused

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    “The Lesson” A young‚ poor‚ black girl named Sylvia narrates Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Lesson”. Sylvia is growing up in Harlem during an unspecified time period known only as “back in the days when everyone was old and stupid or young and foolish and me and Sugar were the only ones just right.” (Pg. 2008‚ line 1) One day‚ Sylvia notices that someone new has moved onto the same block that she lives on. The lady is intriguing and “black as hell‚ cept for her feet‚ which were fish-white and spooky”

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