Beloved, By Toni Morrison

In a descriptive and well explained literary analysis of the book Beloved by Toni Morrison, the audience will analyze plot structure, character development, background information, and the various themes included in the book. Toni Morrison has won many awards for her book such as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the American Book Awards, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award all of which were awarded to him in 1988. The book Beloved takes place in 1873 in Cincinnati, Ohio where Sethe, a former slave, lives with her daughter, Denver, and her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs. In the book it flashes back to Sethe escaping Sweet Home and with the help of another runaway slave, she gives birth to Beloved. About a month later, Sethe’s master tracks her down and in the process she attempts to kill all of her children but only succeeded in killing one. The book explains that it was for a good cause and that it was to keep her children from being taken away from her by her master. Sethe’s master concludes that Sethe is unfit for slavery and
One of them is Paul D, a former slave who used to live at the Sweet Home plantation along with Sethe, and the other visitor is Beloved, which is somehow been brought back to life but at the age she would have been if she would have been alive. As the book goes on Paul D moves in with Sethe and Denver and has a relationship with Sethe. Because of this, beloved gets angry and tries everything she can to separate them. Throughout the book it talks about Paul D and Beloved getting into arguments and how Paul D tries to take control over the house and keep Beloved from haunting it. This seems to only make Beloved angrier. Further on in the book Paul D learns about Sethe killing Beloved through a newspaper article. After he confronts Sethe about and she confesses to it, he leaves I24. After Paul D leaves, Beloved then becomes stronger due to Sethe becoming