Beloved has to be one of the most abstract fictions I've ever read. It was really hard to follow until I rented the movie. Now I understand who the characters are and what exactly these flash backs mean. Even though the book has parts that aren't in the movie it does a fair job of following exactly what the book describes. I did not like the book due to the way that Morrison wrote. Her style is really hard to follow but then again if a writer is going to write about a baby coming back from the dead, he or she would have to be pretty creative. And Morrison did that really well by forming each of these characters with all of their pasts. If the book was written differently I think that I would have enjoyed this piece even more.