Beloved 3

I first want to comment on the imagery that Morrison uses to portray Sixo murder. The imagery that Morrison uses really allows the reader to gain a visualization of what is exactly going on in the scene. As I was reading about this incident I couldn’t help but think that this was a positive scene even though something terrible was happening. The way that Sixo was singing and laughing made me think that he was ready to die. Dying seemed to be his escape from slavery and all of the horrors it incorporated. I didn’t see it as a murder really I saw it more as a celebration of a great man’s life.
Speaking more on Morrison’s writing style, I still had trouble understanding what was going on with all of the flashbacks. I think that her writing style is very unique and I just found it hard to follow, even after reading the whole book I was still lost and confused about what it was exactly that she was trying to do with all of the past references.
The ending of the book was great! I was a little worried for a while because the plot seemed to continue to grow and it seemed like there wasn’t enough pages left to answer the questions and lighten the suspense that was building throughout the novel. As soon as I read about Denver leaving the house I knew that the story was going to wrap up, I just wasn’t sure exactly how Morrison was going to do it. I think that the ending Morrison chose was a powerful and meaningful one. The way she described the assembly of women walking down the dirt road, it was like an unstoppable force of some kind. This really showed the sense of community and family that the women had for one another.

Beloved 2

I think the part in the story that describes the aftermath of the killings is pretty intense, but the reaction and thoughts of the sheriff are very telling of the differing mentalities and the interpretations of the business of slavery and its mechanisms. When he thinks “all testimony to the results of a little-so-called freedom imposed on people who needed every care and guidance in the world to keep them from the cannibal life they preferred”. He’s standing there looking at the carnage before him and it just seems that it’s irrelevant, like tying his shoes or a momentary burden, until he can get back home. I found that the statement brought more reality to the scene then the whole descriptions of the killings.

I definitely don’t like the term they use to remember the baby girl, crawling-already? I just feel that the author could have used another term it just throws me off every time I read it and frankly what is it describing so she crawled early.

I don’t practically like the flashback, reverse story telling of the book. I can’t figure out if she’s just trying to add to the jumbled thoughts or what, but beginning middle and end works rather well, without using her technique.