A 5 page paper which examines how racial and patriarchal issues affect the character of Shadrack in Toni Morrison's 1973 novel, Sula. No additional sources cited. An eight page paper looking at the issue of separation in Toni Morrison s modern classic. Bibliography lists five sources. The paper shows how Walker's celebration of one's female aspect through a community of women contrasts with Morrison's celebration of the independent female mind.
Bibliography lists four sources.
An eight page paper analyzing the thematic importance of the theme of breastfeeding and motherhood in Toni Morrison s 1987 novel. The paper argues that the freedom to nurse one s children up to the normal age of weaning, and then use the maternal bond thus created to nurture one s children to adulthood, is denied to women under slavery, and this causes tremendous stress on mothers and children alike. Bibliography lists 6 sources, which follow paper. The paper asserts that the reason Klein was able to survive as a whole person while Morrison's Sethe was not is due to the strength of their self-concept during their formative years. Bibliography lists 6 sources.