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Summary Toni Morrison Beloved Notes
- Course
- ENG 210 (ENG210)
- Institution
- University Of Pretoria (UP)
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TONI MORRISON - BELOVEDMonday, 12 April 2021 11:36
INTRODUCTION
- Epigraph: an inscription; a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter,
intended to suggest its theme
"I will call them my people,
which were not my people;
and her beloved,
which was not beloved." - Romans 9:25
- Dedication: "Sixty Million and more"
○ Reference to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade; the Holocaust
Most vast practice of slavery
○ Time when industrialisation boomed in Europe
○ Sugar, tobacco and cotton were traded as well as people
ONE
- First page:
- "124 was spiteful."
○ Immediate suggestion of the people to whom numbers were given to people instead of
names
○ Productive confusion/ambiguity - 124 is a house
○ House has a personality
- "Full of a baby's venom."
○ We do not associate a baby with danger, venomous
- Very short sentences which set up paradoxes; lyricism
- Omniscient narrator
- "The women in the house knew it and so did the children."
○ Absent men
- Use of ;
○ When the 2 brothers leave
○ List of characters is separated
- "lively spite"
○ A house should be inanimate
○ One playful, one dangerous
- Theme of Name
○ interesting names
○ strangeness of naming
- Information:
○ Time
1873 (present)
□ Just after the end of the American Civil War of 1861-1865
□ War primarily over the status of slavery; North v South states
○ Place
124 Bluestone Road, Cincinnati, Ohio
□ Non-slave state
□ Ohio river
○ Characters
Grandmother - Baby Suggs
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