Set in Ohio 1873 after the civil war Seth a runaway slave tells her story of the violence and cruelty of slavery and of her escape of "school teacher" in Kentucky. Tracked down by her white master she chooses to kill her own daughter then to return her to the horror of slavery. I loved the style of ...
this is clearly goodness. this is clearly a really well thought out, mesmerizing, delicate, and heart wrenching book. But, I, like many others abandoned it. I rarely do this. my rating is PERSONAL, as I really never just give up on a book. So keep that in mind.It is literature; which i admit isn't s...
I had to read this for an English class and wouldn't have been able to understand any of it without my classmates and professor's help. Difficult reading, but worth it for the patient reader. That said, I wouldn't read it again.
I really, really disliked this book. I don't know what it was about it, but I just couldn't get into it-- to the point of seriously loathing almost every minute I spent reading it. To the point that 1/2 way through, I stopped reading and started skimming. I never, ever skim books. I wouldn't have ev...
There are reasons why Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Beloved may be the biggest one. The structure is a ghost story about a woman who killed her own children rather than see them be dragged back from freedom to live a life of slavery, and how the guilt of that act comes ba...
This book will affect you to the very soles of your shoes. It will fill you with both unimaginable horror and unimaginable rage. It will fill you with despair and impart a sense of shame and disgust at the history of slavery in our country. The fact that a woman was driven to kill her child because...
The book tells the story of Sethe, a runaway slave who is now living with her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, and daughter, Denver. Present in the house also is a not-so-kind spirit whom she believed to be her deceased daughter. 9 years after Baby Suggs died, a man from Sethe's past arrived and it change...
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