Beloved by Toni Morrison (review) :: essays research papers

Cincinnati, Ohio, 183. 124 Bluestone Road. Only a mother, Sethe, and her daughter Denver, are life history in a haunted signboard. They are African ex-slaves, survivors of a execrable and traumatic life. It is Paul D, another slave from sweet Home, that of a sudden comes, who brings back memories of a past that has been long since buried. The more Sethe and Paul D talk about their past sufferings, the more they are healed. However, the ghost that haunts the house remains as a mystery.This book, Beloved, a touching and justly social novel written by Toni Morrison, is a deeply great(p) reading experience. Morrison uses the same techniques as the most respectable and admirable authors. These acknowledge musical language, as she stated I wanted my language to be musical. This technique gives the novel poetic lines, like Lay em down, Sethe. Sword and shield. Down. Down. Both of em down. Down by the riverside. Sword and shield. (page 86). Also, she uses atomic precise images, tha t are described in detail. With this technique, the reader can witness as if he or she can contemplate the image and attend to the beauty in it. An example of this is She frowned and looked at her daughter-in-law bending toward the baby. Roses of blood blossomed in the blanket covering Sethes shoulders. (page 93). As the story unfolds, the reader discovers the rattling human nature of the characters by Morrisons excellent use of stream-of-consciousness. The rememory that takes fleck throughout the novel examines a cruel and obscene system of the not-so-old American society. Morrison presents some demonstrative examples of that last century America, that could be called Hell on Earth.Sethe and her family were all victims of slavery in a place called Sweet Home, where they worked at a plantation. Sethe was sexually abused while she was pregnant of a baby she later called Beloved. She was so terribly whipped by the dust coat nephews of the owner that she carries permanent scars. After she gives birth, she cuts the babys throat. She could not bust to think of the child living slavery.The overall plot consists of sources of conflict that cheer an important role in this story. These are race, gender, family and supernatural issues (which is the presence of