What about the end of beloved? What do you think about it?

The structure is fragmentary, closely tied to the consciousness of each character and weaving suddenly between past and future. More time is spent describing past events than the action of the current moment, reinforcing the idea of the past lingering and shaping life in the present. The novel is often repetitive, telling the same stories of the past again and again, giving more information with each repetition. All of the characters of the novel, former slaves and the children of former slaves, suffer a troubled relationship to their own past. Their relationships to their past often make it impossible for them to live for the present or plan for the future, and slavery has often damaged the ways that they experience love and think about their own worth as human beings.

The structure is fragmentary, closely tied to the consciousness of each character and weaving suddenly between past and future. More time is spent describing past events than the action of the current moment, reinforcing the idea of the past lingering and shaping life in the present. The novel is often repetitive, telling the same stories of the past again and again, giving more information with each repetition. All of the characters of the novel, former slaves and the children of former slaves, suffer a troubled relationship to their own past. Their relationships to their past often make it impossible for them to live for the present or plan for the future, and slavery has often damaged the ways that they experience love and think about their own worth as human beings.

I absolutely love this novel. Morrison presents her characters and text in such away that you genuinely fall in love with them (well, not all of them). Regardless, she takes you through what was a very real historical struggle, and unveils its reality through the various perspectives of the people who 'lived' through it.

The novel's last chapter is mesmerizing; Morrison turns to poetry to trap us in this world of rhyming phrases through the voice of one so distant that it's almost dream like. She focuses on the way in which Beloved has naturally been forgotten.......... it very much reminded me of the day I woke up and realized I couldn't hear my father's voice anymore.......... it was devastating.

She continuously uses the explanation, “It was not a story to pass on,” of Beloved's story, and you know in your heart that what she means is the exact opposite. We can choose to push away the memories that hurt us, or we can sit up and remember why. Things never disappear; they just fade away........... always waiting to jump up and bite you at the most surprising moments. It's a difficult book to read, but in order to understand the present it's important to understand the past. Morrison gives us this lesson for a reason, we should embrace it for what it is and make sure it never happens again.