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A 10 page research paper that analyzes how Naylor handles the characterization of male characters in The Men of Brewster Place. The writer argues that this book increases the reader's understanding of how a black man can be an ex-con, a drunk, or half a dozen other things that are all negative, and still also be a genuine human being, with a heart. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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as a "force that heals" (Puhr, 1994, p. 518). The public first encountered Naylor through her tales seven women who lived at Brewster Place. In the works that followed Brewster
Place, Naylor continued to focus on the lives of African American women. In her novel The Men of Brewster Place, she returns to her original starting point and shifts
her emphasis to spotlight the lives of the men who inhabit her fictional neighborhood (Bauer, 1998). Although some critics, such as Montgomery (2001) have indicated that this novel "lacks the
lyricism and character depth" of earlier Naylor works, it is still considered to be a significant contribution to increasing social understanding of the contemporary black male situation (p. 159).
As this critics rather grudging estimation of The Men of Brewster Place acknowledges, this book does, indeed, increase the readers understanding of how a black man can be an ex-con,
a drunk, or half a dozen other things that are all negative, and still also be a genuine human being, with a heart. The following discussion of how Naylor characterizes
the men in her books will demonstrate how this sensitive, empathetic author delves right to the heart of a person, showing that black men are not all that different from
black women -- they strive, sometimes they fail, but they are who they are. Ben As narrator for this novel, Naylor brings back the most detailed and most memorable
male characterization from The Women of Brewster Place, Ben, the custodian/janitor who acts as an omniscient voice, seeing everything that transpires within the confines of Brewster Place. As Naylor has
Ben inform the reader on some details from this childhood, the fact dehumanizing and symbolically castrating aspects of how black men had to live during the greater part of the
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