beloved

Your novel Beloved evokes a tremendous amount of emotion from its readers. The various stylistic techniques enable the reader to see beyond the twisted story. Your use of stream of conscientiousness, symbolism, and characterization bring forth a well-written novel containing strong emotion.

While I was reading your novel, I found myself very enthralled with the character Sethe. She is such an iron-willed woman, and a daily survivor of guilt and inner-conflict. Sethe must have felt tremendous guilt for killing her own flesh and blood, but it was worth it to her. She loved her child so much that she wouldn’t allow her to suffer in slavery as she did. When Beloved returns, Sethe felt guilty because Beloved loved her so much. I also found it very interesting that life seemed so normal only after a few days of living with Beloved. Before she arrived, Sethe felt ostracized in her community, but when Beloved was there she feels as if everything was back to normal. Beloved changed Sethe from her visit. Sethe represents the many African Americans that went through the pain and suffering of slavery. Here is a quote from Beloved that directly explains Sethe’s pain. “Her past ha

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From reading Beloved I learned a lot. I learned to respect and savor every moment with my mother. One major symbolism in Beloved was the tree. Narritive of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave. Cambridge:Belknap P of Harvard UP, 1967

Smailes, Tom, “Toni Morrison/Beloved Backround Stuff. Another use of symbolism was the water. ” Classnotes, 3/oo

Multiple authors, Contemporary Women Authors, 1997, pp. Thank You!

Sincerely Yours,

Travis Baum

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Simpson, Angela C. The scars that form a tree on Sethe’s back symbolize slavery. Myself and other sources found the themes of slavery, dealing with the past and how it can come back to haunt you, love-concept-misunderstandings, relationships such as mother-daughter, personal endurance -remaining sane, and the black community life. I think that this symbolized the cleansing of the human soul. The whole novel was about helping Sethe deal with and try to recover from the murder-sacrifice of slavery for her daughter. With the stream of conscientiousness writing, these help portray the effects of the past into the future-it gave opportunity to go into the mind of the character. Beloved came out of the water, just as a newborn does after the mother’s water breaks. I learned form the character Sethe that the people who dealt and lived with the torture of slavery were the strongest people mentally and physically I’ve ever known.

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