Beloved

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Summary: Good old Cow Poly
Review: Beloved is a unique novel in that the events do not take place chronologically. The story is told through flashbacks and often confusing dream sequences, especially from the point of the main characters, much like Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club. The story takes place during the age of slavery and the story revolves around Sethe and her troubles. I felt that this book was not an easy read, and through all the flashbacks, memories, and nightmares it was sometimes hard to distinguish what was real and what wasn't.

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Summary: Beloved Review
Review: Beloved was a touching story that shows how much an individual will sacrifice for love. Although the book jumped from past to present, Toni Morrison did a great job guiding the reader beyond satisfaction. She described the stories that slaves had to live realistically. This book gave me more knowledge about the historicial period that was filled with racism and hate. It made me sypathize for those individuals who had to face the dark sides of life, as well as admire their bravery of being able to put the past aside and still live looking forward optimistically to the future.

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Summary: Beloved: Journal #9
Review: Toni Morisson's novel Beloved is filled with bittersweet emotion. How eloquently expressed is the torture of a mother's love and the pain of slavery. The picture of Sethe's love and life is so fully painted, that we can taste her blood and sweat. Those who have never experienced the degradation of slavery get a glimpse and its sinister reality. Toni Morrisson's Beloved is genius.

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Summary: CSU Pomona ENG 105-23
Review: Beloved is not an easy book to read and requires a insightful mind to read it. It plays through the settings of slavery and family and the hardships of the times but it's hard to fully appreciate the book especially without understanding every aspect of those times. This novel creates ideas and tickles the curious mind to find out more on the subject or to try to relate today's problems with theirs. I wouldn't recommend this to a friend but to anyone who does have natural curiosity, this book might fit you.

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Summary: ENG 105 #18
Review: I must say this book might be a powerful novel to others of the same view as Toni Morison. Although I find it intersting as how the book was written (the style) I find it very hard to keep up with Toni Morison in her description of slavry and love. Some details in the book made it intersting, ones that have little meanings but to show the way things are. The book did however, made me think about the life a slave lived back then, which i must admit, i never thought about it. Overall, if you are an excellent reader in "highlevel" novels, I'm sure you will find the book intersting SIMPLY becuase there are so many hidden meanings that I've failed to discover.

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Summary: Journal
Review: Beloved is one of the strangest stories I have ever had the ability to read. It starts in a very disturbing manner with the story of a slave woman who kills her child to protect her from the life the child's mother was forced to live. Her daughter then comes back from the dead to be with her. The story is a wonderful dipiction of the social distruction that can be caused by slavery. It is very well written and the author has a wonderful and unique stile.

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Summary: Confused
Review: This book has made me realize that either I am not quite literate enough or I do not have a mature enough appreciation or respect for great literature yet. Especially after the whole hype on this book because of the movie, I thought it would be great to read, however, I found it to be very difficult to read. Overall, I think that this book will only be appreciated, if it is read a couple times. I guess for you to appreciate this novel, you would have to really understand the time, setting, and circumstances that the characters in the novel at that time were faced with.

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Summary: Truely Beloved
Review: I enjoyed reading Beloved. This does not happen much, but I found myself unable to the book down at some points. One problem I had though was that it is a pretty difficult book to read. However, it was deeply emotional and was one of the most orginial stories i have ever read. I respect that a lot in books. Read Beloved, because you are not going to find anything else quite like it.

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Summary: journal #something
Review: I thought the book was very interesting. I did not really like the structure of of the book. I do not like books that start in the present or close to the present and then tell the past events through stories. I thought that the storyline was very interesting though. The fact that the book was a little vague in some parts made it a little difficult to understand but also gave the reader something to think about and figure out. Overall it was a fairly good book with an interesting concept.

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Summary: Beloved
Review: Uniquely written as only Toni Morrison could do, Beloved is a impressive novel. Toni Morrison has created a masterpiece, this book explores and exposes the reality of a slavewomen's love for her children. The characters in this book really come alive as you read from page to page, chapter to chapter. I did not just read this book, I experienced this book. Marcus Beard-Cal Poly Pomona