Book Review of Beloved by Toni Morrison
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date published 23/10/2007
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SummaryIt is easy for cataclysmic traumatism to press to obscurity past history because of the weakness and shame of the human spirit itself. History is never a clean palindrome backward and forward, because during its recollection there is always an emotional motive, and nearly every motive is bruised. In her magnum opus Beloved, Toni Morrison lends her semiotic voice to people, who, during their own frangible history, were denied language itself. In one of the most spiritually brave novels ever written, Morrison refuses to allow the reader to disavow the imprint of history and pronounces the painful and debilitating effects it has on the collective humanity that does so. You will not read this novel and arise unmarked from the passing.
Table of Contents- The novel takes place in post Civil War Cincinnati, Ohio, where a former slave named Sethe has been living with her daughter, Denver.
- Sethe herself believes that the past is an entirely separate entity that continues on its own accord that you may walk into at any time.
- Beloved develops a strange attachment to Sethe and seems to have a mystical knowledge of her history.
- Ultimately it is left up to the reader as to who Beloved truly is.
- Beloved is the most spiritually and emotionally exhausting novel I have ever read.
- When reading this book, do not expect to even have the full capacity to truly understand, for that would be spiritually vain.
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