Summary and Analysis of Beloved: Based on the Book by Toni Morrison

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This short summary and analysis of Beloved by Toni Morrison includes:

• Historical context
• Chapter-by-chapter summaries
• Character analysis
• Themes and symbols
• Fascinating trivia
• Important quotes
• Supporting material to enhance your understanding of the original work

 
About Beloved by Toni Morrison:
 
A Nobel laureate and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison weaves a heartbreaking tale of legendary proportions. Set in post–Civil War Ohio, Beloved is the story of an escaped slave haunted by her past. Although Sethe is no longer enslaved, she is not yet free from her memories of the child and husband she buried, of the brutal violence on the plantation she fled, of life and of death, and of everything in between.
 
Beautiful, unflinching, and profound, Beloved is Morrison’s crowning achievement and is one of America’s greatest novels.
 The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of fiction.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Mar 14, 2017
• ISBN: 9781504044059

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Summary and Analysis of

Beloved

Based on the Book by Toni Morrison

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The summary and analysis in this ebook are meant to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of fiction. This ebook is not intended as a substitute for the work that it summarizes and analyzes, and it is not authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the work’s author or publisher. Worth Books makes no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this ebook.

Contents

Context

Overview

Cast of Characters

Summary

Character Analysis

Themes and Symbols

Author’s Style

Direct Quotes and Analysis

Trivia

What’s That Word?

Critical Response

About Toni Morrison

For Your Information

Bibliography

Copyright

Context

Beloved, published in 1987, explores America’s dark history of slavery and its deeply fracturing impact on individuals and society today. The novel takes place during the early post–Civil War years until after the nullification of the Dred Scott decision by Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.

Flashing back and forth between locations in a free state (Ohio) and a slave state (Kentucky), and shifting between the realities of the enslaved to their lives as freed blacks, the book addresses the struggles of ex-slaves in coming to terms with the indignities and incredible losses the inhumane system caused.

Toni Morrison first made a name for herself with her previous novels, The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Song of Solomon. She decided to write Beloved to show how painful the construct of racism is on the most vulnerable people in society. The novel went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1988, and was a key component in the decision to award the author the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997.

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