Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison
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Book Reviews of Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction)
Book Review: As I read it over and over It impressed me more and more!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a book that will trap your mind and soul from page 1. I believe it is a difficult book to understand due to the way Morrison can play with time...but the effort is worthwhile!I wrote my thesis on this book...I worked on the topic of slavery...I was trying to investigate and discover if the abuses,done to slaves, that are described in the book were based on real historical facts or if they were only fictional. To my surprise I discovered that those abuses were based on real historical facts and that some history books tried covering the thruth and the novel, due to the fact that it was protected under the tittle of a fiction novel, told us more about the cruel reality black epople had to live than many history books do.
This novel has fascinated me more more than any other novel I've ever read, each character contained in it carries so much history and such much pain to tell us about that we could say they are each a short novel by themselves playing a crucial role in a larger story.
It is a great book to read at any point in life, but I believe it is better appreciated if one has the opportunity to discuss its content.
A MUST FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE LOVERS!!
Book Review: Beloved--The Review
Summary: 5 Stars
The literature know-hows knew exactly what they were doing in awarding Toni Morrison with a Nobel Prize in Literature for this novel. Beloved is a true masterpiece! A unique story into the hideous crimes of slavery and their effect on the enslaved! This novel reopens everyone's slavery wounds regardless of race. Unlike many novels, Beloved offers personal healing in us all. As the main character Sethe revists her past, you will cry her tears and feel her pain. Only after "rebirthing" the daughter that Sethe, herself, has murdered(and at the same time saved from the treacherous claw of slavery), can Sethe be at ease. As Sethe finds her inner peace she invites the reader to share in her joy. Morrison has turned an extraordinary woman into a universal symbol of heroinism and self preservation. Sethe's triumphs are transferred to the reader making Beloved a truly enjoyable book to read and re-read throughout the years. Beloved is not the typical touching heartache novel. Beloved is a novel of life and sacrifice. Go to Sethe and free yourself! You'll be amazed at what you have in common with a woman with a tree on her backBook Review: Should be mandatory reading material for all
Summary: 5 Stars
Very few writings have provoked me to an extent where even months later they cloud my thoughts. However these works generally revolve around one person, Toni Morrison. After reading each of the six novels, I felt as if the inside of me had been ripped apart. But the novel that wields her weapon most effectively is Beloved. Mrs. Morrison conveys the anguish of sixty million slaves in the space of its few hundred pages. But she does it without preaching; not once does she blame anyone. Instead her magic lies in the realistic pain and suffering relayed by the main character, Sethe. I felt so helpless as I was reading, angry at myself for not being able to do anything. Each time Sethe was hurt, I would flinch. I felt humiliation when she was called an animal, and fear when her owner came after her. Beloved's power lay in this ability to reach beyond the material pages of the book. It raised awareness in me of what enslavement creates. It taught me how powerful love can be. I know that I will never truly understand nor feel the amount of pain the slaves did, but Beloved shed light on what I had not seen before.Book Review: Beloved was groundbreaking in its style and approach
Summary: 5 Stars
I preface this by saying, I am NOT a regular reader of fiction, more of poetry. -but I love Hemingway, I love Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, and now, I love Morrison . I read Beloved two and a half years ago, and my mind still shakes when remembering the journey. With relatively accessible vocabulary, simple sentence structures, and shockingly deep understanding of a reader's mind, Toni Morrison weaves a story that takes the reader down a vortex to the center of the deepest layer of our selves. In her most remarkable passages, Ms. Morrison solders her characters' shocking, horrific actions with lines illustrating their undeniable humanness. By simply, but honestly placing our most human drives within breathing room of our most hideous actions, She forces the reader not only to feel the characters in himself, but also to acknowledge his own potential for great love/horror/shock/beauty/magnificence. This feat alone makes her a groundbreaking author - the fact that she does this with language that makes you want to shout it aloud agian and again , ...wow.Book Review: A Great Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
Tony Morrison's Beloved is the type of book that separates the readers of serious literature from the readers of escapist fiction. In this masterpiece Morrison has successfully created a magical world where every seemingly trivial detail serves to convey a larger, deeply meaningful theme. Unfortunately, some readers were unable to grasp Morrison's masterful work and went as far as to disparage her writing skills. Sadly, it is obvious that those readers either have some blatant prejudices against the author, or they simply have an aversion to literature that forces them to think. After all, I'm certain that countless "readers" would proclaim that the works of Grisham, Crichton, and Steel are better than those of Hemingway, Dickens, and Chaucer. I guess this kind of inadequate assessment of literature is what Alexander Pope had in mind when he wrote on his "An Essay on Criticism" that "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.