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.