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How Toni Morrison's Novel Challenges the Idea of Paradise

This essay on Toni Morrison's novel Paradise examines how gender and friendship, violence and trauma, and acceptance and rejection create plot by stoking character conflict. These elements create the underlying irony of the novel's title.
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This essay received a B by one of Kibin's paper graders. Click here to see what was done well and what needs improvement.

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Bridget's feedback:

"This is a strong engagement with the novel on multiple levels, showing good control of the analysis and evidencing your careful work with the text. As a whole, the higher-order concerns are in good shape, so I recommend turning your attention to lower-order concerns to move into the final stages of the writing process. One task will be to proofread carefully; this should include making sure the novel's title is properly italicized each time it appears. Attending to this and cleaning up other minor errors will greatly enhance readability and ethos. A second task will also be at the levels of syntax, diction, and mechanics: I encourage you to revise for clarity, precision, and efficiency -- that is, style. This moves beyond correction into thinking about the reader's encounters with your writing. We can workshop the first sentence as an example by considering ways to transform it into a more succinct sentence: The plots of Toni Morrison's novels often build around some conflict her characters must overcome. or Toni Morrison often builds her plots around...."

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