Beloved by Toni Morrison
In “The New Colossus,” Emma Lazarus welcomes those seeking freedom and opportunity to come through “the golden door” of America. Has the United States lived up to this promise? discuss by referring to a minimum of four texts
August 7, 2017Determine what the net income would have been if the allowance method had been used, and the company…
August 7, 2017a) Some things you forget. Other things you never do(…) If a house burns down, it’s gone, but the place – the picture of it – stays, and not just in my rememory, but out there in the world” (p. 43)
b) Sethe learned the profound satisfaction Beloved got from storytelling. It amazed Sethe (as much as it pleased Beloved) because every mention of her past life hurt. Everything in it was painful or lost. She and Baby Suggs had agreed without saying so that it was unspeakable. …” (p.69)
Using the quotations above as your starting point, analyse Morrison’s treatment of memory and storytelling as means of remembering a traumatic past and of resolving Sethe’s present impasse.
