The impression one receives when closely reviewing portions of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness - embracing New Criticism strategies along the way - is a frank and seemingly journalistic encounter / recounting utilizing Conrad's original storytelling and fictional ideas. The ideas from the narrati...

Alice Walker's novel, The Color Purple, follows Celie down the winding road of her life. As a poor black girl living in the South, Celie endures and overcomes many hardships. As the novel opens, the readers learn that she has been raped repeatedly by her father, then later is forced into a loveles...

Ernest J. Gaines was the brilliant author of the novel, A Gathering of Old Men. This book mainly is a fictional story about the real life prejudices whites had against blacks in the 1970\'s. Earnest displays these prejudices through carefully thought out characters. The main protagonist of the story...

Malcolm X Malcolm was born on May 19, 1925 in an Omaha hospital. He was born into a world of hatred and violence toward his kind, and from he was little, he knew that he would die in a similar manner. Malcolm's father who was a large black man was a Baptist Minister. Though he and his family on many...

Spike LeeThe man we know as "Spike" was born Shelton Jackson Lee onMarch 20, 1957 in Atlanta ,Georgia. The first of five children, hegot the nickname Spike from his mother for being "a tough baby". Spike's tendency to be difficult is one that goes right back to thecrib. The infant Spike, much like...