A Dream Deferred
Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet?While Langhston Hughes authors this poem, A Dream Deferred, it can easily be interpreted as Toni Morrison’s description of Nel and her life of sorrow and dissatisfaction. Sula and Nel, the protagonists in Toni Morrison’s Sula, are each the only daughters of mothers whose distance leaves the young girls with dreams to erase this solitude and loneliness. There is no question that Sula alleviates this aloneness with a lascivious and experimental life, "I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world"(143). Nel, however, for the most part, fails terribly at realizing her dreams and experiencing a happy existence. Compromising her individuality, her emotional stability, and her dreams mark Nel’s banal and unfulfilling life. Early in Nel’s life during a trip to New Orleans, she watches as her mother is humiliated by a train’s white, racist conductor; she watches the indignity of her mother’s having to squat in an open field to urinate while whi
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Some common words found in the essay are:
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Approximate Word count = 1170
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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