Speaking Things Unspeakable Throughout Toni Morrison's story Beloved, there are many occurrences of unspeakable acts. The way Morrison portrays these acts, usually through dialogue, is subtle and not gruesome. ... All the unspeakable acts Toni Morrison proclaims assists in showing the horrors that African Americans had to go through during slavery. To begin, throughout Morrison's story she shows how African Americans were treated worse than animals were. ... Beloved is a book that is filled with unspeakable acts. ...

• Word Count: 999
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

-Toni Morrison, Beloved (270) In Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, we learn how hurtful memories and the past can be. ... Toni Morrison develops each character by putting together pieces of their past to form who they are. ... Beloved is also a constant reminder of the past. ... Beloved is in the past but hovers over Sethe everyday. ... Facing the past is a theme of Beloved in which Toni Morrison develops her characters. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This is when Toni Morrison's famous, well-written novel, Beloved was taken place. ... Morrison's intense metaphorical writing serves as a constant remember of Sethe's infinitely enslaved life. ... The physical appearance of Beloved makes Sethe a slave to her guilt. When Sethe went to the carnival, which was her first social outgoing in eighteen years, Beloved shows up. ... Morrison has created a devilish figure to ensure that Sethe does not get carried away, free herself from her traumatic past, and start a life with Paul D. ...

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Tackling the task of reading Toni Morrison's "Beloved" can be quite daunting. ... As one reads through the story of Sethe and her family, Morrison's very powerful thoughts on the period after slavery are revealed. In Beloved, Toni Morrison uses the recounting of Seethe's experience in being milked and Paul D's description of his experience with the bit to convey a message of the horrible unjustifiability of slavery. ... " (20 Morrison). ... " (86 Morrison). ...

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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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• Grade Level: High School

Everyday Sethe tries to forget it even happened, "As for the rest, she worked hard to remember as close to nothing as was safe " (Morrison 6). Later in the novel a character, Beloved, is introduced. ... She forces him to open his "little tobacco tin " that holds the horrors of his past (Morrison 137). ... Before long Sethe and Beloved's roles merge and invert as Sethe comes to act like a child while Beloved looms over her like a mother. ... Toni Morrison reminds the reader that the past can be painful. ...

• Word Count: 966
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Beloved, by Toni Morrison, is filled with reoccurring symbolism that adds deeper meaning to the story. ... For three characters in Beloved, trees represent safe havens from tragic memories and painful experiences in the characters" lives. ... Morrison gives insight to the emerald closet with, "Veiled and protected by the green walls, [Denver] felt ripe and clear, and salvation was as easy as a wish"(31). Morrison's words "protected by the green walls" prove that when Denver is inside the walls of the trees, she is not burdened with the problems that she has in the real world. ... Reoccu...

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The Mother in Beloved by Toni Morrison, as well as the mother in Media by Euripides, makes decisions concerning the survival of their children, but were these mothers looking out for the best interest of their child or themselves. In Beloved by Toni Morrison, the mother makes a very crucial decision in the lives of her children. ... She would not be able to witness her own daughter, Beloved; go through what she had to go through and therefore murdered her. ...

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In the novel Beloved, written by Toni Morrison and in "Looking for Zora" by Alice Walker, both of the communities in the stories had many similarities. In Toni Morrison's novel, the main character is Sethe, an ex-slave who lives with her daughter, Denver and boyfriend Paul D. in a small town. ... She is only successful in killing her youngest daughter, Beloved. Throughout the story, Sethe is shown dealing with the ghost of Beloved haunting her, and making her sick with stress. Beloved drives Paul D. out of her home, and tries to make her mother suffer, just as she had. ...

• Word Count: 1132
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• Grade Level: High School