1. In what way does music inform the novel
Toni Morrison, as in a jazz band, provides the "double bass" of the novel through the omnipresent narrator, keeping a continuous rhythm and providing effective continuity throughout the novel. ... Comparatively, at the climax of the novel, during Beloved's complete domination of Sethe, the community sing together. ... Morrison creates an essential contrast within the novel's structure, at the two pinnacle extracts within the writing. ... The repression of Sethe through the black community's rejection, and then her final acceptance creates the concept of "tension and release"...
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