Beloved
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.87 (561 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0739342274 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 10 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. A dead child, a runaway slave, a terrible secret--these are the central concerns of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved. And Morrison is master of the telling detail: in the bit, for example, a punishing piece of headgear used to discipline recalcitrant slaves, she manages to encapsulate all of slavery's many cruelties into one apt symbol--a device that deprives its wearer of speech. We lucky this ghost is a baby," comments Sethe's mother-in-law. And not stopping them--looking and letting it happen. Morrison, a Nobel laureate, has written many fine nov
*****SPOILER ALERT******* Amazon Customer In Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, Sethe, a runaway slave, has spent the last sixteen years of her life free from Sweet Home, the farm in which she was enslaved. She runs away-- pregnant with her fourth child-- and on the way to her husband’s mother’s house in Ohio. Morrison’s novel reveals that slavery and family will never coexis. T. Decker said This Novel is a Classic of American Literature. This is a very complex novel based on a true story of a slave woman who killed her children in order to prevent her slave owner from taking them back into slavery. The story does not develop in a linear fashion but rather goes back and forth - sometimes in the present then again in the past. Slowly and bit by bit we learn the story of Beloved, the myster. Beloved Having read and enjoyed Sula by Toni Morrison, I was excited to finally pick up a copy of Beloved. In this book Sethe and her daughter Denver live alone in a house in Ohio shortly after the Civil War. Sethe's two sons, run away from home by the time they are thirteen.The house is haunted by the ghost of Sethe's 2 year old unnamed baby, simply known as Be
Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding audio transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as tau