Beloved-Reader Response

I’m not sure how I feel about the book, Beloved. It was kind of hard to follow and understand at some parts of the story. Some of it I just kept reading and then I understood what some of it meant. What impressed me the most was the creativeness of the writing. Certain sentences where so creatively written that it took me a while to figure what they meant. I think that is really neat. I will probably think of that as I put together marketing documents. The stuff that Sethe goes through is terrible and very vividly put. You can feel her pain and degrading like when she tells about how they whip her and take her milk. I can’t imagine being black and having to live like the slaves did back then. It is terribly inhuman. I’ve always been ashamed that my ancestors would have treated people so inhumanely. The ghost part of the story lends certain suspense throughout the story. You never really know if Beloved is going to be dangerous because of her love/jealously of Sethe. I liked the ending how Paul came back to be there for Sethe. I really liked the show of loyalty after all that she had been through. They both had such a hard struggling life. I like how the author shows the changes in Denver throughout the book. You feel her alienation and loneliness, almost desperate for someone to notice her. It wasn’t as easy to read as Indian Killer but it was a really good book to open your eyes to how black people were treated, the hell they went through. It makes you feel their pain; breaks your heart to see how they have to displace themselves totally to not feel any love. They do this purposely knowing the pain will be unbearable when all their children are taken away to be sold into slavery over and over.