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A 1977 novel by American author Toni Morrison. It follows the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead III, an African-American man living in Michigan, from birth to adulthood.

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1. John Bellew Refers To Clare Kendry As 'nig'. How Does Irene Redfield React To This?

Pilate Reflects The Power Of The Spoken Word By Keeping Her Name That Her Father Wrote In An Earring. This Reflects The Importance Of The Spoken Word - And Being In Touch With Your Past To Have Abetter Knowledge About Yourself.Names Are Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts. In Passing - Irene Used To Be Known As 'rene Which Rhymes With Green. In Some Aspects We Can View Irene As Ascribing To American Capitalist Concepts By Marrying In Order To Secure Herself Financially And Socially. Moreover - Macon Thinks That 'surely - He And His Sister Had Some Ancestor...Who Had A Name That Was Real'. Perhaps Macon Dead Lets Go Of His African Heritage Because He Feels No Ties To It Due To The Fact That He Carries A Name That Symbolises The Death Of All The Fathers Before Him. Pilate - However - Is Much More Life Affirming. Her 'lips Are Alive' As She Gives Macon Dead Something He Misses- Music.Irene Finds It 'positively Insulting'.Clare Kendry Is Described As 'catlike' - With 'dark - Almost Black Eyes' And With A 'wide Mouth Like A Scarlet Flower'. This Has Sexual Connotations Because Irene Picks Out Her Features - And The Use Of 'scarlet Flower' Is Very Suggestive. A Flower Can Be Used As A Metaphor For The Vagina - And The Use Of The Adjective 'scarlet' Is Very Provocative. This Reading Is Justified Through The Fact That Irene Describes Her Smile As Very 'seductive'. Clare Seems To Be Subjected To Irene's Female Gaze.

2. Talk About Why Names Are Very Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts.

Clare Kendry Is Described As 'catlike' - With 'dark - Almost Black Eyes' And With A 'wide Mouth Like A Scarlet Flower'. This Has Sexual Connotations Because Irene Picks Out Her Features - And The Use Of 'scarlet Flower' Is Very Suggestive. A Flower Can Be Used As A Metaphor For The Vagina - And The Use Of The Adjective 'scarlet' Is Very Provocative. This Reading Is Justified Through The Fact That Irene Describes Her Smile As Very 'seductive'. Clare Seems To Be Subjected To Irene's Female Gaze.Pilate Reflects The Power Of The Spoken Word By Keeping Her Name That Her Father Wrote In An Earring. This Reflects The Importance Of The Spoken Word - And Being In Touch With Your Past To Have Abetter Knowledge About Yourself.Irene Finds It 'positively Insulting'.Names Are Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts. In Passing - Irene Used To Be Known As 'rene Which Rhymes With Green. In Some Aspects We Can View Irene As Ascribing To American Capitalist Concepts By Marrying In Order To Secure Herself Financially And Socially. Moreover - Macon Thinks That 'surely - He And His Sister Had Some Ancestor...Who Had A Name That Was Real'. Perhaps Macon Dead Lets Go Of His African Heritage Because He Feels No Ties To It Due To The Fact That He Carries A Name That Symbolises The Death Of All The Fathers Before Him. Pilate - However - Is Much More Life Affirming. Her 'lips Are Alive' As She Gives Macon Dead Something He Misses- Music.

3. How Is Clare Kendry Described In Passing? What Does This Connote? What Justifies This Reading?

4. How Else Pilate Reflect The Importance Of The Spoken Word?

5. What Does Charles Scruggs Say This Shows About Irene?

Names Are Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts. In Passing - Irene Used To Be Known As 'rene Which Rhymes With Green. In Some Aspects We Can View Irene As Ascribing To American Capitalist Concepts By Marrying In Order To Secure Herself Financially And Socially. Moreover - Macon Thinks That 'surely - He And His Sister Had Some Ancestor...Who Had A Name That Was Real'. Perhaps Macon Dead Lets Go Of His African Heritage Because He Feels No Ties To It Due To The Fact That He Carries A Name That Symbolises The Death Of All The Fathers Before Him. Pilate - However - Is Much More Life Affirming. Her 'lips Are Alive' As She Gives Macon Dead Something He Misses- Music.Irene Finds It 'positively Insulting'.Irene Chooses To Stay In The Land Of Oppression Because She Wants To Feel Safe In The 'land Of Rising Towers' In Order To Move Up With The 'black Elite' (Scruggs).Clare Kendry Is Described As 'catlike' - With 'dark - Almost Black Eyes' And With A 'wide Mouth Like A Scarlet Flower'. This Has Sexual Connotations Because Irene Picks Out Her Features - And The Use Of 'scarlet Flower' Is Very Suggestive. A Flower Can Be Used As A Metaphor For The Vagina - And The Use Of The Adjective 'scarlet' Is Very Provocative. This Reading Is Justified Through The Fact That Irene Describes Her Smile As Very 'seductive'. Clare Seems To Be Subjected To Irene's Female Gaze.

6. What Does Toni Morrison Evoke In Her Language? Use Examples From The Text To Elaborate.

Names Are Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts. In Passing - Irene Used To Be Known As 'rene Which Rhymes With Green. In Some Aspects We Can View Irene As Ascribing To American Capitalist Concepts By Marrying In Order To Secure Herself Financially And Socially. Moreover - Macon Thinks That 'surely - He And His Sister Had Some Ancestor...Who Had A Name That Was Real'. Perhaps Macon Dead Lets Go Of His African Heritage Because He Feels No Ties To It Due To The Fact That He Carries A Name That Symbolises The Death Of All The Fathers Before Him. Pilate - However - Is Much More Life Affirming. Her 'lips Are Alive' As She Gives Macon Dead Something He Misses- Music.Toni Morrison Evokes The Improvised Culture Of The Spoken Word. For Example - 'it Was All Language... No - It Was Not... It Was What Came Before Language'. Morrison Incorporates A Strong Emphasis On Aural Folk Culture And The Power Of Song In Order To Retain An African Sense Of Self. For Example - One Of The Main Reasons Milkman Manages To Unearth His Past Is Because He 'memorised All Of What They [The Children] Sang'.Irene Finds It 'positively Insulting'.Clare Kendry Is Described As 'catlike' - With 'dark - Almost Black Eyes' And With A 'wide Mouth Like A Scarlet Flower'. This Has Sexual Connotations Because Irene Picks Out Her Features - And The Use Of 'scarlet Flower' Is Very Suggestive. A Flower Can Be Used As A Metaphor For The Vagina - And The Use Of The Adjective 'scarlet' Is Very Provocative. This Reading Is Justified Through The Fact That Irene Describes Her Smile As Very 'seductive'. Clare Seems To Be Subjected To Irene's Female Gaze.

7. Talk About Larsen's Dissociation In Passing. Give An Example.

Names Are Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts. In Passing - Irene Used To Be Known As 'rene Which Rhymes With Green. In Some Aspects We Can View Irene As Ascribing To American Capitalist Concepts By Marrying In Order To Secure Herself Financially And Socially. Moreover - Macon Thinks That 'surely - He And His Sister Had Some Ancestor...Who Had A Name That Was Real'. Perhaps Macon Dead Lets Go Of His African Heritage Because He Feels No Ties To It Due To The Fact That He Carries A Name That Symbolises The Death Of All The Fathers Before Him. Pilate - However - Is Much More Life Affirming. Her 'lips Are Alive' As She Gives Macon Dead Something He Misses- Music.Irene Feels Torn Between Protecting Herself Against Clare Kendry - And Protecting Her Race - Which Means Protecting Clare Kendry. For Example - 'she Was Caught Between The Two Allegiances - Different Yet The Same. Herself - Her Race. Race - The Thing That Bound And Suffocated Her'. She Is Caught Between Herself - The Individual - And Loyalty To Her Race. This Is An Interesting Variation On Dubois Because It Shows Not Only A Split Across The Self - But A Split Across The Colour-line.Clare Kendry Is Described As 'catlike' - With 'dark - Almost Black Eyes' And With A 'wide Mouth Like A Scarlet Flower'. This Has Sexual Connotations Because Irene Picks Out Her Features - And The Use Of 'scarlet Flower' Is Very Suggestive. A Flower Can Be Used As A Metaphor For The Vagina - And The Use Of The Adjective 'scarlet' Is Very Provocative. This Reading Is Justified Through The Fact That Irene Describes Her Smile As Very 'seductive'. Clare Seems To Be Subjected To Irene's Female Gaze.Irene Finds It 'positively Insulting'.

8. How Does Macon Dead Remember Ruth's Underwear In Song Of Solomon - And What Does This Reveal About Him?

Names Are Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts. In Passing - Irene Used To Be Known As 'rene Which Rhymes With Green. In Some Aspects We Can View Irene As Ascribing To American Capitalist Concepts By Marrying In Order To Secure Herself Financially And Socially. Moreover - Macon Thinks That 'surely - He And His Sister Had Some Ancestor...Who Had A Name That Was Real'. Perhaps Macon Dead Lets Go Of His African Heritage Because He Feels No Ties To It Due To The Fact That He Carries A Name That Symbolises The Death Of All The Fathers Before Him. Pilate - However - Is Much More Life Affirming. Her 'lips Are Alive' As She Gives Macon Dead Something He Misses- Music.Clare Kendry Is Described As 'catlike' - With 'dark - Almost Black Eyes' And With A 'wide Mouth Like A Scarlet Flower'. This Has Sexual Connotations Because Irene Picks Out Her Features - And The Use Of 'scarlet Flower' Is Very Suggestive. A Flower Can Be Used As A Metaphor For The Vagina - And The Use Of The Adjective 'scarlet' Is Very Provocative. This Reading Is Justified Through The Fact That Irene Describes Her Smile As Very 'seductive'. Clare Seems To Be Subjected To Irene's Female Gaze.In Song Of Solomon - Macon Dead Remembers Ruth's Underwear As 'the Most Beautiful - The Most Delicate - The Whitest And Softest Underwear On Earth'. This Reveals His Favour Of White Customs Because He Describes Ruth's Underwear As Beautiful - Because It Is 'white'. This Symbolises How He Has Been Enslaved By American Capitalism Because He Favours This Colour.Irene Finds It 'positively Insulting'.

9. Which Two Things In Each Novel Can Be Compared To Show This Theme Of Capitalism As Enslavement?

Clare Kendry Is Described As 'catlike' - With 'dark - Almost Black Eyes' And With A 'wide Mouth Like A Scarlet Flower'. This Has Sexual Connotations Because Irene Picks Out Her Features - And The Use Of 'scarlet Flower' Is Very Suggestive. A Flower Can Be Used As A Metaphor For The Vagina - And The Use Of The Adjective 'scarlet' Is Very Provocative. This Reading Is Justified Through The Fact That Irene Describes Her Smile As Very 'seductive'. Clare Seems To Be Subjected To Irene's Female Gaze.Milkman's Journey To The South And Irene's Desire To Remain In The 'rising Towers' Of The City Can Be Compared To Show How Capitalism Is A Form Of Enslavement.Names Are Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts. In Passing - Irene Used To Be Known As 'rene Which Rhymes With Green. In Some Aspects We Can View Irene As Ascribing To American Capitalist Concepts By Marrying In Order To Secure Herself Financially And Socially. Moreover - Macon Thinks That 'surely - He And His Sister Had Some Ancestor...Who Had A Name That Was Real'. Perhaps Macon Dead Lets Go Of His African Heritage Because He Feels No Ties To It Due To The Fact That He Carries A Name That Symbolises The Death Of All The Fathers Before Him. Pilate - However - Is Much More Life Affirming. Her 'lips Are Alive' As She Gives Macon Dead Something He Misses- Music.Irene Finds It 'positively Insulting'.

10. What About Milkman's Dreams Exhibits His Capitalist Ideals Before He Journeys To The South?

Irene Finds It 'positively Insulting'.While Dreaming Of Things That They Will Buy Once They Find The Money - Guitar Dreams Of Things That He Can Buy For Himself And For His Family - But All That Milkman Dreams Of Is Things He Can Buy For Himself That Will Increase His Mobility - Like 'cars - 'boats - And How These Will Ultimately Increase His 'command'.Names Are Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts. In Passing - Irene Used To Be Known As 'rene Which Rhymes With Green. In Some Aspects We Can View Irene As Ascribing To American Capitalist Concepts By Marrying In Order To Secure Herself Financially And Socially. Moreover - Macon Thinks That 'surely - He And His Sister Had Some Ancestor...Who Had A Name That Was Real'. Perhaps Macon Dead Lets Go Of His African Heritage Because He Feels No Ties To It Due To The Fact That He Carries A Name That Symbolises The Death Of All The Fathers Before Him. Pilate - However - Is Much More Life Affirming. Her 'lips Are Alive' As She Gives Macon Dead Something He Misses- Music.Clare Kendry Is Described As 'catlike' - With 'dark - Almost Black Eyes' And With A 'wide Mouth Like A Scarlet Flower'. This Has Sexual Connotations Because Irene Picks Out Her Features - And The Use Of 'scarlet Flower' Is Very Suggestive. A Flower Can Be Used As A Metaphor For The Vagina - And The Use Of The Adjective 'scarlet' Is Very Provocative. This Reading Is Justified Through The Fact That Irene Describes Her Smile As Very 'seductive'. Clare Seems To Be Subjected To Irene's Female Gaze.

11. What Happened After The Civil War In The 1860s? What Happened By 1870? What Does Brian Observe In Passing About The State Of The Climate Of America After This? What Does This Show About Irene?

Names Are Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts. In Passing - Irene Used To Be Known As 'rene Which Rhymes With Green. In Some Aspects We Can View Irene As Ascribing To American Capitalist Concepts By Marrying In Order To Secure Herself Financially And Socially. Moreover - Macon Thinks That 'surely - He And His Sister Had Some Ancestor...Who Had A Name That Was Real'. Perhaps Macon Dead Lets Go Of His African Heritage Because He Feels No Ties To It Due To The Fact That He Carries A Name That Symbolises The Death Of All The Fathers Before Him. Pilate - However - Is Much More Life Affirming. Her 'lips Are Alive' As She Gives Macon Dead Something He Misses- Music.Clare Kendry Is Described As 'catlike' - With 'dark - Almost Black Eyes' And With A 'wide Mouth Like A Scarlet Flower'. This Has Sexual Connotations Because Irene Picks Out Her Features - And The Use Of 'scarlet Flower' Is Very Suggestive. A Flower Can Be Used As A Metaphor For The Vagina - And The Use Of The Adjective 'scarlet' Is Very Provocative. This Reading Is Justified Through The Fact That Irene Describes Her Smile As Very 'seductive'. Clare Seems To Be Subjected To Irene's Female Gaze.Irene Finds It 'positively Insulting'.After The Civil War Of The 1860s - America Saw A Period Of Hopefulness Called The Reconstruction. In This - White And Black People Were Thought To Be Able To Live Together In Harmony - But It Did Not Work Out Like This. Instead - By 1870 - The Reconstruction Gave Way To Jim Crow Laws. Brian Tries To Talk About The Lynching Of Emmet Till At The Dinner Table - But Irene Does Not Want To Talk About It. That Irene Is Not Comfortable Talking About Race Problems And Would Rather Stay Away From The Issue In Order To Remain Safe In Her Capitalistic Bubble.

12. What Is Hagar To Milkman? What Does This Show About Milkman's Attitude Towards Her In The Novel?

Names Are Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts. In Passing - Irene Used To Be Known As 'rene Which Rhymes With Green. In Some Aspects We Can View Irene As Ascribing To American Capitalist Concepts By Marrying In Order To Secure Herself Financially And Socially. Moreover - Macon Thinks That 'surely - He And His Sister Had Some Ancestor...Who Had A Name That Was Real'. Perhaps Macon Dead Lets Go Of His African Heritage Because He Feels No Ties To It Due To The Fact That He Carries A Name That Symbolises The Death Of All The Fathers Before Him. Pilate - However - Is Much More Life Affirming. Her 'lips Are Alive' As She Gives Macon Dead Something He Misses- Music.Clare Kendry Is Described As 'catlike' - With 'dark - Almost Black Eyes' And With A 'wide Mouth Like A Scarlet Flower'. This Has Sexual Connotations Because Irene Picks Out Her Features - And The Use Of 'scarlet Flower' Is Very Suggestive. A Flower Can Be Used As A Metaphor For The Vagina - And The Use Of The Adjective 'scarlet' Is Very Provocative. This Reading Is Justified Through The Fact That Irene Describes Her Smile As Very 'seductive'. Clare Seems To Be Subjected To Irene's Female Gaze.For Milkman - Hagar Is The 'third Beer...The One You Drink Because It's There'. This Shows His Lack Of Appreciation For Her In The Novel.Irene Finds It 'positively Insulting'.

13. What Does Missy Dehn Kubitschek Say About Hagar's Fashion Faux Pas? How Can This Tie In With Clare Kendry?

Names Are Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts. In Passing - Irene Used To Be Known As 'rene Which Rhymes With Green. In Some Aspects We Can View Irene As Ascribing To American Capitalist Concepts By Marrying In Order To Secure Herself Financially And Socially. Moreover - Macon Thinks That 'surely - He And His Sister Had Some Ancestor...Who Had A Name That Was Real'. Perhaps Macon Dead Lets Go Of His African Heritage Because He Feels No Ties To It Due To The Fact That He Carries A Name That Symbolises The Death Of All The Fathers Before Him. Pilate - However - Is Much More Life Affirming. Her 'lips Are Alive' As She Gives Macon Dead Something He Misses- Music.Clare Kendry Is Described As 'catlike' - With 'dark - Almost Black Eyes' And With A 'wide Mouth Like A Scarlet Flower'. This Has Sexual Connotations Because Irene Picks Out Her Features - And The Use Of 'scarlet Flower' Is Very Suggestive. A Flower Can Be Used As A Metaphor For The Vagina - And The Use Of The Adjective 'scarlet' Is Very Provocative. This Reading Is Justified Through The Fact That Irene Describes Her Smile As Very 'seductive'. Clare Seems To Be Subjected To Irene's Female Gaze.Missy Dehn Kubitschek States That 'once Hagar Internalizes A Standard Of Beauty That Defines Her As Ugly - Even Pilate Can't Keep Her Alive'. Similarly - Once Clare Kendry Is Discovered As Having Internalised And Simultaneously Externalised The Same White Standard Of Beauty That Would Not Have Been Available To Her Had She Not Passed - She Too Cannot Be Kept Alive. Clare - Once A 'vital Glowing Thing - Like A Flame Of Red And Gold' - Could Be 'gone' Just As Quickly As She Had Passed.Irene Finds It 'positively Insulting'.

14. What Is The First Theme?

'double-consciousness' - Tensions Between The Self.Names Are Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts. In Passing - Irene Used To Be Known As 'rene Which Rhymes With Green. In Some Aspects We Can View Irene As Ascribing To American Capitalist Concepts By Marrying In Order To Secure Herself Financially And Socially. Moreover - Macon Thinks That 'surely - He And His Sister Had Some Ancestor...Who Had A Name That Was Real'. Perhaps Macon Dead Lets Go Of His African Heritage Because He Feels No Ties To It Due To The Fact That He Carries A Name That Symbolises The Death Of All The Fathers Before Him. Pilate - However - Is Much More Life Affirming. Her 'lips Are Alive' As She Gives Macon Dead Something He Misses- Music.Irene Finds It 'positively Insulting'.Clare Kendry Is Described As 'catlike' - With 'dark - Almost Black Eyes' And With A 'wide Mouth Like A Scarlet Flower'. This Has Sexual Connotations Because Irene Picks Out Her Features - And The Use Of 'scarlet Flower' Is Very Suggestive. A Flower Can Be Used As A Metaphor For The Vagina - And The Use Of The Adjective 'scarlet' Is Very Provocative. This Reading Is Justified Through The Fact That Irene Describes Her Smile As Very 'seductive'. Clare Seems To Be Subjected To Irene's Female Gaze.

15. What Does Milkman First Observe About The South? Who Does He Meet - And How Does This Lead To The Space Setting Him Free From His Capitalistic Enslavement? Use An Example From The Text.

Clare Kendry Is Described As 'catlike' - With 'dark - Almost Black Eyes' And With A 'wide Mouth Like A Scarlet Flower'. This Has Sexual Connotations Because Irene Picks Out Her Features - And The Use Of 'scarlet Flower' Is Very Suggestive. A Flower Can Be Used As A Metaphor For The Vagina - And The Use Of The Adjective 'scarlet' Is Very Provocative. This Reading Is Justified Through The Fact That Irene Describes Her Smile As Very 'seductive'. Clare Seems To Be Subjected To Irene's Female Gaze.Irene Finds It 'positively Insulting'.Milkman Arrives In The Southern Lands - And Thinks - About How 'his Father Had Raved About The Beauty Of This Part Of The Country - But Milkman Saw It As Merely Green - Deep Into Its Indian Summer'. But Once Milkman Meets Reverend Cooper - Who States - 'i Know Your People!' - The Space Begins To Set Him Free. The Symbolism Of Milkman's Journey To His Past Starts To Take On Its Significance At This Point In The Novel - Because Milkman Starts To Learn That It Is What You Have Done With Your Life That Takes Precedence Over What You Own. For Example - He Learns That Old Macon Dead Was So Revered In The Montour County - Not Because He Owned A Farm - But Because He Owned It Without Being Able To Read Or Write Down/Record That He Owned It.Names Are Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts. In Passing - Irene Used To Be Known As 'rene Which Rhymes With Green. In Some Aspects We Can View Irene As Ascribing To American Capitalist Concepts By Marrying In Order To Secure Herself Financially And Socially. Moreover - Macon Thinks That 'surely - He And His Sister Had Some Ancestor...Who Had A Name That Was Real'. Perhaps Macon Dead Lets Go Of His African Heritage Because He Feels No Ties To It Due To The Fact That He Carries A Name That Symbolises The Death Of All The Fathers Before Him. Pilate - However - Is Much More Life Affirming. Her 'lips Are Alive' As She Gives Macon Dead Something He Misses- Music.

16. What Does Juda Bennet Say About Morrison's Reworking Of The Passing Narrative? Give An Example. Give Another Example.

Irene Finds It 'positively Insulting'.Juda Bennet States That Morrison's Reworking Of The Passing Narrative Highlights 'the Myth - Stories And Debates That Surround It'. Milkman Notes How His Grandmother - Sing - 'passed For White'. He Wants To 'see' Her At First - But Eventually 'decides Against It'. Bennet Argues That The Significance Of This Lies In The Fact That Passing Allowed Families To Be 'cut Off From Their Past'.Clare Kendry Is Described As 'catlike' - With 'dark - Almost Black Eyes' And With A 'wide Mouth Like A Scarlet Flower'. This Has Sexual Connotations Because Irene Picks Out Her Features - And The Use Of 'scarlet Flower' Is Very Suggestive. A Flower Can Be Used As A Metaphor For The Vagina - And The Use Of The Adjective 'scarlet' Is Very Provocative. This Reading Is Justified Through The Fact That Irene Describes Her Smile As Very 'seductive'. Clare Seems To Be Subjected To Irene's Female Gaze.Names Are Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts. In Passing - Irene Used To Be Known As 'rene Which Rhymes With Green. In Some Aspects We Can View Irene As Ascribing To American Capitalist Concepts By Marrying In Order To Secure Herself Financially And Socially. Moreover - Macon Thinks That 'surely - He And His Sister Had Some Ancestor...Who Had A Name That Was Real'. Perhaps Macon Dead Lets Go Of His African Heritage Because He Feels No Ties To It Due To The Fact That He Carries A Name That Symbolises The Death Of All The Fathers Before Him. Pilate - However - Is Much More Life Affirming. Her 'lips Are Alive' As She Gives Macon Dead Something He Misses- Music.

17. What Does The Decolonizing Of Language Denote In Song Of Solomon? Give An Example From Something Morrison Says About The Book.

The Decolonizing Use Of Language In Song Of Solomon Exhibits How Individuals Can Attempt To Find Their Own Identity Within The Community. Guitar's Name Symbolises (Artistic) Expression - And Emphasises How He Can Easily Express Himself And His Beliefs. Milkman's Name - However - Suggests That He Cannot Have An Identity Independent From His Family - Because The Name Was Given To Him From The Town After Finding Out How Long His Mother Had Been Nursing Him. Morrison States That Song Of Solomon Is Her 'own Giggle (In Afro-american Terms) At The Proto-myth Of The Journey To Manhood'. Milkman's Journey Seems Like A Nervous Giggle At The Fact That He Might Not Be Able To Forge His Own Identity This Far Down The Line In His Life.Clare Kendry Is Described As 'catlike' - With 'dark - Almost Black Eyes' And With A 'wide Mouth Like A Scarlet Flower'. This Has Sexual Connotations Because Irene Picks Out Her Features - And The Use Of 'scarlet Flower' Is Very Suggestive. A Flower Can Be Used As A Metaphor For The Vagina - And The Use Of The Adjective 'scarlet' Is Very Provocative. This Reading Is Justified Through The Fact That Irene Describes Her Smile As Very 'seductive'. Clare Seems To Be Subjected To Irene's Female Gaze.Irene Finds It 'positively Insulting'.Names Are Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts. In Passing - Irene Used To Be Known As 'rene Which Rhymes With Green. In Some Aspects We Can View Irene As Ascribing To American Capitalist Concepts By Marrying In Order To Secure Herself Financially And Socially. Moreover - Macon Thinks That 'surely - He And His Sister Had Some Ancestor...Who Had A Name That Was Real'. Perhaps Macon Dead Lets Go Of His African Heritage Because He Feels No Ties To It Due To The Fact That He Carries A Name That Symbolises The Death Of All The Fathers Before Him. Pilate - However - Is Much More Life Affirming. Her 'lips Are Alive' As She Gives Macon Dead Something He Misses- Music.

18. What Does Dubois Fail To Talk At Length About?

Names Are Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts. In Passing - Irene Used To Be Known As 'rene Which Rhymes With Green. In Some Aspects We Can View Irene As Ascribing To American Capitalist Concepts By Marrying In Order To Secure Herself Financially And Socially. Moreover - Macon Thinks That 'surely - He And His Sister Had Some Ancestor...Who Had A Name That Was Real'. Perhaps Macon Dead Lets Go Of His African Heritage Because He Feels No Ties To It Due To The Fact That He Carries A Name That Symbolises The Death Of All The Fathers Before Him. Pilate - However - Is Much More Life Affirming. Her 'lips Are Alive' As She Gives Macon Dead Something He Misses- Music.Clare Kendry Is Described As 'catlike' - With 'dark - Almost Black Eyes' And With A 'wide Mouth Like A Scarlet Flower'. This Has Sexual Connotations Because Irene Picks Out Her Features - And The Use Of 'scarlet Flower' Is Very Suggestive. A Flower Can Be Used As A Metaphor For The Vagina - And The Use Of The Adjective 'scarlet' Is Very Provocative. This Reading Is Justified Through The Fact That Irene Describes Her Smile As Very 'seductive'. Clare Seems To Be Subjected To Irene's Female Gaze.Dubois Fails To Talk At Length About The Difference Between Male And Female Consciousness. Female Subjectivity Has Always Been Constructed By And Through The Eyes Of Others. Dubois Fails To Mention How Female Subjectivity Could Lead To Something More Complex Than 'double-consciousness'.Irene Finds It 'positively Insulting'.

19. What About Milkman's Face Presents A 'double-consciousness'? Give An Example.

Names Are Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts. In Passing - Irene Used To Be Known As 'rene Which Rhymes With Green. In Some Aspects We Can View Irene As Ascribing To American Capitalist Concepts By Marrying In Order To Secure Herself Financially And Socially. Moreover - Macon Thinks That 'surely - He And His Sister Had Some Ancestor...Who Had A Name That Was Real'. Perhaps Macon Dead Lets Go Of His African Heritage Because He Feels No Ties To It Due To The Fact That He Carries A Name That Symbolises The Death Of All The Fathers Before Him. Pilate - However - Is Much More Life Affirming. Her 'lips Are Alive' As She Gives Macon Dead Something He Misses- Music.Milkman's Face 'lacked Coherence - A Coming Together Of The Features In A Total Self' - And He Is Always 'trying To Make Up His Mind Whether To Go Forward Or To Turn Back' During His Journey. This Presents His 'double-consciousness': On His Journey - He Wants To Find Out About His History - But He Finds Himself Wanting To Turn Back To His Normal Life - Where He Found Security In Subscribing To The Same Standardised White Ideals His Father Engaged In. For Example - Guitar Compares Macon Dead To A 'white Man' And Describes How He Lives And Works As 'voluntary Slavery'.Irene Finds It 'positively Insulting'.Clare Kendry Is Described As 'catlike' - With 'dark - Almost Black Eyes' And With A 'wide Mouth Like A Scarlet Flower'. This Has Sexual Connotations Because Irene Picks Out Her Features - And The Use Of 'scarlet Flower' Is Very Suggestive. A Flower Can Be Used As A Metaphor For The Vagina - And The Use Of The Adjective 'scarlet' Is Very Provocative. This Reading Is Justified Through The Fact That Irene Describes Her Smile As Very 'seductive'. Clare Seems To Be Subjected To Irene's Female Gaze.

20. How Does Nella Larsen Explore The Self-consciousness Of Females In Passing? Use Charles Scruggs' Comments. What Does This Show About Desire In The Novel - And How Double-consciousness Can Be Tripled?

Clare Kendry Is Described As 'catlike' - With 'dark - Almost Black Eyes' And With A 'wide Mouth Like A Scarlet Flower'. This Has Sexual Connotations Because Irene Picks Out Her Features - And The Use Of 'scarlet Flower' Is Very Suggestive. A Flower Can Be Used As A Metaphor For The Vagina - And The Use Of The Adjective 'scarlet' Is Very Provocative. This Reading Is Justified Through The Fact That Irene Describes Her Smile As Very 'seductive'. Clare Seems To Be Subjected To Irene's Female Gaze.Irene Finds It 'positively Insulting'.Names Are Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts. In Passing - Irene Used To Be Known As 'rene Which Rhymes With Green. In Some Aspects We Can View Irene As Ascribing To American Capitalist Concepts By Marrying In Order To Secure Herself Financially And Socially. Moreover - Macon Thinks That 'surely - He And His Sister Had Some Ancestor...Who Had A Name That Was Real'. Perhaps Macon Dead Lets Go Of His African Heritage Because He Feels No Ties To It Due To The Fact That He Carries A Name That Symbolises The Death Of All The Fathers Before Him. Pilate - However - Is Much More Life Affirming. Her 'lips Are Alive' As She Gives Macon Dead Something He Misses- Music.In Passing - Nella Larsen Explores The Self-consciousness Of Females Through Writing About Desire. For Example - Charles Scruggs States That 'sexual Desire In Passing Cannot Be Reduced To A Simple Theme. It Is Triangulated By The Three Major Characters - All Of Whom Desire In Different Planes. If Irene Desires Clare - That Desire Turns To Murder. Brian's Desire For South American Is A Reflection Of A Desire For A World Elsewhere - And Clare's Desire For Brian - If It In Fact Exists - Is A Reflection Of Her Desire To Live In Multiple Worlds And Live Multiple Lives'. Clare's Desire Then Emerges As Not Merely Double - But Triple.

21. What Is The Next Theme?

Names Are Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts. In Passing - Irene Used To Be Known As 'rene Which Rhymes With Green. In Some Aspects We Can View Irene As Ascribing To American Capitalist Concepts By Marrying In Order To Secure Herself Financially And Socially. Moreover - Macon Thinks That 'surely - He And His Sister Had Some Ancestor...Who Had A Name That Was Real'. Perhaps Macon Dead Lets Go Of His African Heritage Because He Feels No Ties To It Due To The Fact That He Carries A Name That Symbolises The Death Of All The Fathers Before Him. Pilate - However - Is Much More Life Affirming. Her 'lips Are Alive' As She Gives Macon Dead Something He Misses- Music.Irene Finds It 'positively Insulting'.Class Conflicts - Capitalism As A Perpetual State Of Enslavement.Clare Kendry Is Described As 'catlike' - With 'dark - Almost Black Eyes' And With A 'wide Mouth Like A Scarlet Flower'. This Has Sexual Connotations Because Irene Picks Out Her Features - And The Use Of 'scarlet Flower' Is Very Suggestive. A Flower Can Be Used As A Metaphor For The Vagina - And The Use Of The Adjective 'scarlet' Is Very Provocative. This Reading Is Justified Through The Fact That Irene Describes Her Smile As Very 'seductive'. Clare Seems To Be Subjected To Irene's Female Gaze.

22. What Does A. B. Schwarz Say About The Idea Of 'passing'?

23. Irene Chooses To Stay...

Irene Finds It 'positively Insulting'.Clare Kendry Is Described As 'catlike' - With 'dark - Almost Black Eyes' And With A 'wide Mouth Like A Scarlet Flower'. This Has Sexual Connotations Because Irene Picks Out Her Features - And The Use Of 'scarlet Flower' Is Very Suggestive. A Flower Can Be Used As A Metaphor For The Vagina - And The Use Of The Adjective 'scarlet' Is Very Provocative. This Reading Is Justified Through The Fact That Irene Describes Her Smile As Very 'seductive'. Clare Seems To Be Subjected To Irene's Female Gaze.In The 'land Of Rising Towers'.Names Are Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts. In Passing - Irene Used To Be Known As 'rene Which Rhymes With Green. In Some Aspects We Can View Irene As Ascribing To American Capitalist Concepts By Marrying In Order To Secure Herself Financially And Socially. Moreover - Macon Thinks That 'surely - He And His Sister Had Some Ancestor...Who Had A Name That Was Real'. Perhaps Macon Dead Lets Go Of His African Heritage Because He Feels No Ties To It Due To The Fact That He Carries A Name That Symbolises The Death Of All The Fathers Before Him. Pilate - However - Is Much More Life Affirming. Her 'lips Are Alive' As She Gives Macon Dead Something He Misses- Music.

24. What About Milkman's Conversation With Guitar About Money Exhibits His Capitalist Greed?

Names Are Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts. In Passing - Irene Used To Be Known As 'rene Which Rhymes With Green. In Some Aspects We Can View Irene As Ascribing To American Capitalist Concepts By Marrying In Order To Secure Herself Financially And Socially. Moreover - Macon Thinks That 'surely - He And His Sister Had Some Ancestor...Who Had A Name That Was Real'. Perhaps Macon Dead Lets Go Of His African Heritage Because He Feels No Ties To It Due To The Fact That He Carries A Name That Symbolises The Death Of All The Fathers Before Him. Pilate - However - Is Much More Life Affirming. Her 'lips Are Alive' As She Gives Macon Dead Something He Misses- Music.Clare Kendry Is Described As 'catlike' - With 'dark - Almost Black Eyes' And With A 'wide Mouth Like A Scarlet Flower'. This Has Sexual Connotations Because Irene Picks Out Her Features - And The Use Of 'scarlet Flower' Is Very Suggestive. A Flower Can Be Used As A Metaphor For The Vagina - And The Use Of The Adjective 'scarlet' Is Very Provocative. This Reading Is Justified Through The Fact That Irene Describes Her Smile As Very 'seductive'. Clare Seems To Be Subjected To Irene's Female Gaze.Irene Finds It 'positively Insulting'.Milkman Tells Guitar That He Needs Money. Guitar Replies That 'everybody Does' And Milkman Retorts - 'not As Much As Me'. This Shows Milkman's Greed And His Capitalistic Sense Of Entitlement; He Is A Lot Better Off Than A Lot Of People In His Community. His Want For More Makes Him Blind To This.

25. What Does W. E. B. Dubois Describe The Concept Of 'double-consciousness' As?

Clare Kendry Is Described As 'catlike' - With 'dark - Almost Black Eyes' And With A 'wide Mouth Like A Scarlet Flower'. This Has Sexual Connotations Because Irene Picks Out Her Features - And The Use Of 'scarlet Flower' Is Very Suggestive. A Flower Can Be Used As A Metaphor For The Vagina - And The Use Of The Adjective 'scarlet' Is Very Provocative. This Reading Is Justified Through The Fact That Irene Describes Her Smile As Very 'seductive'. Clare Seems To Be Subjected To Irene's Female Gaze.W. E. Dubois Talked About The Psychological Concept Of 'double-consciousness' When Talking About African American Selfhood - And Used The Term As A Way To Explain As The Concept Of Looking At Yourself Through They Eyes Of Others; Instead Of Having A Solid - Fixed Sense Of Self - Dubois Describes African American Identity As A Feeling Of 'two-ness'.Irene Finds It 'positively Insulting'.Names Are Instrumental In Revealing Something About Self In Both The Texts. In Passing - Irene Used To Be Known As 'rene Which Rhymes With Green. In Some Aspects We Can View Irene As Ascribing To American Capitalist Concepts By Marrying In Order To Secure Herself Financially And Socially. Moreover - Macon Thinks That 'surely - He And His Sister Had Some Ancestor...Who Had A Name That Was Real'. Perhaps Macon Dead Lets Go Of His African Heritage Because He Feels No Ties To It Due To The Fact That He Carries A Name That Symbolises The Death Of All The Fathers Before Him. Pilate - However - Is Much More Life Affirming. Her 'lips Are Alive' As She Gives Macon Dead Something He Misses- Music.

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