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A 15 page analysis of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize winning book, Beloved, by Toni Morrison. Unlike traditional narrative techniques, there is no attempt in Beloved to deliver a chronological retelling of the protagonist's life as a slave. Rather Morrison uses the raw material of Sethe's life as the clay from which she sculpts the imagery that allows the reader to enter into Sethe's psychological landscape. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Morrison uses the raw material of Sethes life as the clay from which she sculpts the imagery that allows the reader to enter into Sethes psychological landscape. In so
doing, she portrays the psychological disintegration and reintegration of individuals rather then either a collective or representative narrative. Morrison, in this novel, offers a "slave narrative in which the self
is not effaced...the narrator does not transcribe the facts and incidents of...her life in captivity, but rather translates" them into a "psychological and experiential view" of past events (Koolish 421).
Interwoven in the narrative are various viewpoints, or voices, that demonstrate for the reader different perspectives that each add a new dimension to the readers growing comprehension of what slavery
did to African-Americans feelings of self. Besides Sethe, Morrisons protagonist, the reader is also allowed into the minds of Baby Suggs, Sethes mother-in-law; Denver, her daughter; and Paul D., the
last of the "Sweet Home" men who was a slave on the same plantation as Sethe. Morrison uses these voices and the relationships that they represent as a medium
that facilitates the development of various themes that form the novels overall structure. However, before examining the specific voices and the roles they play in the narrative, it is
helpful to have an understanding of the overall plot and its major components. Plot Synopsis Although the actual story of the novel begins far earlier when Sethe was
still in slavery, Beloved opens with Sethes life in Cincinnati in 1873. Sethes was once a slave on a Kentucky plantation called "Sweet Home," but has been free for eighteen
years. She lives with her 18-year-old daughter, Denver, in a house that she refers to as "124," which is haunted by the ghost of her dead baby girl. Because of
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