The manner in which the past is brought out in Beloved Toni Morison's Beloved is a narrative-cum-description of a family's hardships and individual personal struggles during the mid-1800, a time when slavery was rampant in the United States of America. ... Toni Morrison uses inanimate objects effectively as a kind of time-travel device, meaning that the characters begin to reminisce when they see or talk about an object. ... The songs in Beloved are very crucial to the plot of the novel. Beloved's recollection of the song that Sethe used to sing to her children is the decisiv...

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