The mother-daughter issue is a common topic throughout many of Jamaica Kincaid's novels. Annie Potter, Lucy 's mother has great influence on Lucy's thoughts and action. The author not only uses it to explore the complex tension between mothers and daughters, but also uses it to represent the strained relations between colonized region and colonial power. The image of Lucy's mother is really worth exploring.
Melanctha is the longest part of the Three Lives stories of Gertrude Stein in which the author tried many creative ways of writing. The most outstanding two writing methods used by Gertrude Stein are variations of repetition and the prolonged present tense. This essay will try to analyze how the author demonstrates her aesthetic, philosophical and ethical thoughts by a new writing style beneath the surface of her work.
American Scholar Joseph Campbell puts forward a more detailed model of heroes in which a successful journey usually contains three major phases:"separation""initiation"and"return".In Song of Solomon written by Toni Morrison,the hero,Milkman Dead leaves his family to the south to find his family’s lost tradition and memory and the journey of Milkman Dead turns out to be a journey of understanding himself,his ancestry and African heritage.The journey also fits into the legendary model of hero’s journey"Separation—Initiation—Return"model.
