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    In Toni Morrison’s Beloved‚ the character Sethe views the past with feelings of longing because she was a former slave who endured a tough life. Due to Sethe’s longing feelings‚ the theme of slavery as a destruction of one’s identity is developed in the work. Sethe is an enslaved woman in Cincinnati‚ Ohio who is determined to escape to freedom in the 1850’s. In order to keep her children from any trauma from Sweet Home‚ she attempts to murder them. She manages to kill Beloved and her two older

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    “Thank God I don’t have to rememory or say a thing because you know it all‚” Sethe says on page 115 of Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel Beloved. “Beloved” deals with the trauma and aftermath of slavery in Reconstruction era Ohio‚ while introducing the idea of “rememory‚” which main character Sethe describes as the experience of remembering and engaging directly with a memory (Morrison‚ 21). This concept of rememory has become a formidable critical tool for understanding how trauma continues to haunt literary

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    State of Fear 1. In the first couple of chapters‚ a laboratory experiment dealing with tsunami waves were introduced‚ a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology‚ and a submarine was leased. This will come together later on in the book. Morton is a philanthropist who donates money to the environmental cause and Evans is his lawyer. Along with Kenner‚ Sanjong‚ and Sarah‚ their goal was to stop these “natural” disasters from happening. Morton gets into a car accident and was pronounced

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    write. Nevertheless‚ the author can write using a sort of general template for that genre or they can develop the novel with a personal priority in mind. The historical fiction novel‚ Beloved‚ by Toni Morrison is written outside of the conventions of the genre‚ although it is‚ yet a well written novel. In the novel Beloved‚ the author‚ Toni Morrison‚ deviates from the conventions of historical fiction as she narrates the plot through the perspective of different characters with an objective of allowing

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    A Night to Remember My heart was pounding rapidly; it felt like a thunderous roar in my ears. The blood was quickly drained from my face. I was slightly nauseous‚ the only thing that kept me from covering the other girls with the unsatisfying scarlet likes of my mothers tasteless spaghetti‚ was the loud wailing of my empty stomach. The pounding was louder now‚ so loud I could barely make out my own thoughts. How could a mere gathering of complete strangers cause these unlikely‚ unknown feelings

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    to be called Beloved‚ is infatuated with Sethe and has the characteristics of Sethe’s daughter who has been deceased for eighteen years. The events of eighteen years prior are retold as members of the community continue to question Sethe’s choice and the actions leading up to Sethe killing her own daughter in order to save the young girl from the torment of slavery. While in Beloved’s company‚ Sethe is able to express her own past and the past of her mother. In this passage‚ Beloved shares with

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    Mazandrea Guiam Class 151B-20 Essay #2‚ Prompt #1 Trying Something Out For the First Time Everyone has their biggest fears‚ and growing up‚ mine was to experience a rollercoaster ride. My fear for heights has always made a big impact on me. From being not able to look down from a bridge for more than ten seconds to still getting petrified when that elevator ride gives that “floating” feeling‚ being afraid of heights tend to always make me different from others. It made me feel shameful every

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    A Far Cry from Africa By Derek Walcott Derek Walcott was a black poet writing from within both the English tradition and the history of his people. The speaker is conflicted‚ on the one hand he loves his native homeland in Kenya and he does not want to see his people being slaughtered and treated the way they are now. He also loves his English home‚ but if he stays in Britain‚ He feels that he is letting down his people by not going back to his native homeland to help with defending Kenya from

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    of the severe social conflicts and economic downfall linked with England’s exploring into the Industrial Revolution. Conditions in the new industrial and coal-mining areas were harsh. One of England’s most famous poet Elizabeth Barrett’s poem “The Cry of the Children” (1843) convey her thoughts to an official report on child labor that describes children straining their bodies by working sixteen hours a day in horrible conditions. Victorian writers were more worried about social difficulties‚ unlike

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    have taken the main roads and stop hiding‚ “They saw twelve dead blacks in the first eighteen miles”(pg.317) “In the place where once a shaft of sad red light had bathed him‚ locking him where he stood‚ is nothing”(pg.318) Paul D perceives that Beloved has gone‚ the baby´s ghost is gone. “I think I might have lost my mother Paul D”(pg.314) Sethe has no plans; she is just all day in Baby´s Bed. Maybe wanting to die there as Baby did. “Sethe‚ me and you‚ we got more yesterday than anybody.

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