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Tony Morrison’s “Beloved” deals with the hardships of slavery in post-Civil War America-but does this through the interactions of its characters and Beloved, a baby ghost come back to haunt the community and who, by representing the past, affects everyone’s lives. One of the characters that Beloved affects is Denver, her sister. In “Beloved” Denver’s…

Toni Morrison writes in four main perspectives in her novel, Beloved. By including these different perspectives, Toni Morrison gives the reader a clearer understanding of the characters in the story and their actions. The third person omniscient point of view of the narrator, Sethe’s stream of consciousness, Denver’s stream of consciousness, and Beloved’s stream of…

The words are ironic: “this is not a story to pass on,” a Pulitzer Prize novel literally asking to not be spread around (Morrison 290). The author repeats this phrase three times in the novel’s final chapter, drawing attention to their significance. Throughout the novel, graphic images of figurative and literal slavery mar the minds of…

There are few social constructs as dynamic and damaging as slavery. A small handful of historical remnants have the resilience that slavery possesses. Unfortunately, the effects of 19th century American slavery have resulted in social hurdles that society has failed to conquer. Slavery devolved from a physically and mentally damaging system to a modern way…

In Beloved by Toni Morrison, the past, specifically slavery, is depicted as a destructive force that people are forced to deal with in order to move on. This is illustrated by the interactions that the characters have with Beloved who is seen as both the physical representation of the past and Sethe’s dead baby. Beloved…

In Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Paul D, a black slave, encounters a chicken, Mister, running around the yard while Paul is tied up to a bit and has his hands tied behind his back. Paul D feels inferior to a mere chicken due to its freedom and state of free being. As Mister walks by Paul…

In today’s society, violence abounds wherever one turns, assaulted with shocking headlines slashed across newspapers and television screens. As the media glorifies violence as a whole, one grows numb to such reprehensible actions as rape, murder, or assault. Unlike these senseless crimes, however, scenes of violence in literary works do not exist merely for the…

The novel talks about unloving children because a slave only needs to watch out for themselves, this passage focuses on the struggles in family life that slaves witness. They do not become attached to their children because they know that they will not be able to stay with them. This passage is an example of…