In Zora Neale Hurston’s book, Their Eyes Were Watching God- we follow the life of a young black woman, Janie, as she matures and experiences life. Ms. Hurston uses many metaphors to further illustrate the experiences that Janie goes through. Her use of metaphors greatly enhances the book by allowi...

Marcus Garvey Book Review The title of the book was Marcus Garvey: Black Nationalist. It was authored by Peggy Caravantes in October, 2003. This book is about Mr. Marcus Mosiah Garvey. What makes Marcus Garvey an interesting subject for a book is his life and the way he impacted others lives fo...

‘Although fictional, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a work of Historical remembering’ Discuss. Beloved is not an easy book to read. It is beautiful, frightening, surprising and enlightening. It tells a story of pain and suffering that is difficult to comprehend because we know of its scale, it ...

What Do We Learn in the First Ten Letters of The Color Purple? Although slavery was abolished in 1863, following the American Civil War, people’s attitudes towards black people in the Southern States, remained very much the same. Beatings and lynching were common (in The Color Purple Celieâ€...

L=letter Characters: Fonso (Pa), Celie, Nettie, Mr.__/Albert, Harpo, Sofia, Shug Avery L 1-6: After reading Celie’s first letter, I already found some background information of her family. The father, Fonso, sexually abuses his own family members. Celie, the daughter of Fonso who is bein...