Beloved by Toni Morrison

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Beloved by Toni Morrison

a) 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.


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