Edited by author 04-12-2002 03:53 PM
I thought Beloved was an amazing book. I have also read Song of Solomon and personally believe that Morrison's style of writing is spectacular. I wish I could write like her. I know that there was a lot of discussion on whether the act performed by Sethe was right or wrong. I think that Morrison wanted to upset the reader but I think that in a different way then many of the individuals in the class were becoming upset. Beloved is a book about slavery and how awful it really was. I personally feel that Sethe killing Beloved was put into the book so that the reader could say, wow slavery was so horrible, someone would rather kill a child instead of sending them back into slavery. Morrison makes a very strong statement by saying this. I think that was the most signifcant point of the act.