SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. This one-page guide includes a plot summary and brief analysis of Song of Read More …
Morrison’s Sula is a story of motherhood, friendship, and love. It follows two girls, Nel and Sula, from childhood to adulthood and describes the way their deep bond is tested by societal norms. Set in a mostly black town in Read More …
The Bluest Eye is split into an untitled prelude and four large units, each named after a season. The four larger units begin with “Autumn” and end in “Summer,” with each unit being split into smaller sections. The first section Read More …
Morrison’s fine-tuned, high-strung characters this time—black and white Americans caught up together in a “wide and breezy” house on a Caribbean island—may lack the psychic wingspread of Sula or Milkman of Song of Solomon. Yet within the swift of her Read More …
It is clear from Morrison’s dedication (“Sixty Million and more”) that she intends to embrace the social document potential of the novel, as, indeed, any novel that treats injustice and its effects must do. This acceptance of the novel’s power Read More …
Toni Morrison’s Jazz is a simply titled novel, but this simplicity belies the complexity of the narrative structure to which the word “jazz” alludes. Toni Morrison’s novel “Jazz” is experimental in that it challenges the conventions of the American canonical Read More …
Not since her fellow Nobel laureate William Faulkner has a writer populated a few acres with so much richness and desolation. Toni Morrison’s new novel traces the history of two extraordinary communities, a town of intransigents and a house of Read More …
Nobel Prize winner, Princeton professor, Oprah Book Club best-seller – Toni Morrison long ago reached that peak of literary veneration at which her regal, high-priestess face alone is sufficient adornment for the covers of her books. No less a literary Read More …
When Florens, the central figure of Toni Morrison’s new novel, asks on the first page “Can you read?”, she is not inquiring about any simple kind of literacy. She means, can you read the nature of the world? Do you Read More …
Home is the tenth novel by the American author Toni Morrison, originally published in 2012 by Alfred A. Knopf. It tells the story of Frank Money, a 24-year-old African-American veteran of the Korean War, and his journey home “a year Read More …