"Beloved" should be removed from all required reading lists because there is a multitude of better selections and authors students can be introduced to that are more credible and culturally valuable than "Beloved." ... Another faulty aspect of "Beloved" is that it is categorized as a ghost story. ... In "Beloved," the ghost appears out of nowhere with no introduction whatsoever. ... In "Beloved," the only character insight the reader receives is in the last few chapters which are told from the Sethe's, Denver's, and "Beloved's" point of view. ... Other narrative and historical ...

• Word Count: 1397
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Morrison's Beloved are similarly in the fact that both portray how community plays a key role in a families functionality in society. Looking at the novel Beloved from a chronological standpoint, the story truly begins with Sethe's time on the Sweet Home Plantation. ... Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, while dealing with a situation almost polar opposite to Beloved, follows the same pattern of community playing a role in a family's functionality. ... Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Morrison's Beloved both have a similar theme of how com...

• Word Count: 1008
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Sacrifice between Raskolnikov and Sonia. After a long exasperating reading through an insanely complex novel, Crime and Punishment, One will find themselves mentally anguished and disassociated with vocabulary understanding. Fyodor Dostoevsky style of writing was one of articulate detail c...

• Word Count: 966
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"I do not know, - the story-teller interferes with "objective-epic" narration, destroying illusion of the all-knowing author, - whom she could become in our century, but is sure, that a lot of centuries back she would become a saint or a beloved of an emperor. ...

• Word Count: 2592
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate