Beloved



 "I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved which was not beloved." (Romans 9:25).

TONI MORRISON


 * Born in 1931,in Lorain, Ohio
 * In 1949 Morrison entered Howard University(B.A. in English in 1953)
 * Master of Arts degree in English from Cornell University in 1955
 * Member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority

** AWARDED NOVELS **
 * The Bluest Eye (1970)
 * Song of Solomon(1977)
 * Tar Baby(1981)
 * Beloved(1987)
 * Jazz (1992)
 * Paradise (1997)
 * Love (2003)
 * A Mercy (2008)
 * <span style="color: #384666; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Home (2012)

<span style="color: #384666; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> She has also written children's literature together with her son:


 * <span style="color: #384666; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">The Book of Mean People (2002)
 * <span style="color: #384666; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;">The Big Box (1999)

<span style="color: #404040; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;"> ** //Book presentation// ** <span style="color: #404040; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;">//** Main characters: **//
 * <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Baby Suggs- Sethe's mother-in-law


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Beloved-Sethe's third child


 * <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Denver-Sethe's youngest child
 * <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Paul D-was a slave with Sethe in Kentucky
 * <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Sethe- the central figure of the novel

<span style="color: #800073; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; line-height: 29px; text-align: left;"> The Plot:

 * === **<span style="color: #800073; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The action begins in 1873, in the aftermath of slavery and the Civil War. ** ===
 * === **<span style="color: #800073; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The story begins just before Paul D comes to stay with Sethe and Denver at 124. ** ===
 * === **<span style="color: #800073; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In 1848, Baby Suggs left Sweet Home plantation in Kentucky and was driven to Cincinnati, Ohio. ** ===
 * === **<span style="color: #800073; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sethe becomes her replacement. ** ===
 * === **<span style="color: #800073; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">She marries Halle and they have 4 children. ** ===
 * === **<span style="color: #800073; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Changes in the household made the slaves attempt to run away. ** ===
 * === **<span style="color: #800073; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sethe and Denver make it to Baby Suggs at 124 and are reunited with Sethe's other children. ** ===
 * ===<span style="color: #800073; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">The schoolteacher shows up to take them back to Sweet Home. ===
 * ===<span style="color: #800073; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Sethe goes to the extreme in order to protect her children. ===
 * ===<span style="color: #800073; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Sethe's sons run away, while Baby Suggs lays in bed waiting to die. ===
 * ===<span style="color: #800073; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Paul D’s arrival at number 124. ===
 * ===<span style="color: #800073; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">vBeloved makes her entrance into the scene- chaos breaks into the house. ===
 * ===<span style="color: #800073; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">She succeeds in chasing away Paul D. from the house ===
 * ===<span style="color: #800073; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Sethe begins to believe that Beloved is her reincarnated daughter. ===
 * ===<span style="color: #800073; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Beloved and Sethe become interested only in one another. ===
 * ===<span style="color: #800073; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">An abandoned Denver starts to integrate into the local society. ===





<span style="color: #f24242; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> //**Themes:**//



<span style="color: #800075; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> **//Quotes://**
==== **<span style="color: #800075; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Sethe: "No more running-from nothing. I will never run from another thing on this earth. I took one journey and I paid for the ticket, but let me tell you something, Paul D Garner: it cost too much!“ ** ====

==== **<span style="color: #800075; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Sethe: ” If a house burns down, it's gone, but the place-the picture of it-stays, and not just in my rememory, but out there, in the world". ** ====

**<span style="color: #800075; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Denver: "If it's still there, waiting, that must mean that nothing ever dies." **

 * <span style="color: #800075; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Sethe: "Nothing ever does." **

**//<span style="color: #f24242; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Trailer //**
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<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Questions??? [[image:Ask-questions.jpg width="178" height="199" align="right"]]
===<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">1. Describe the relationships that slave mothers have with their children in //Beloved.// How are these relationships affected by slavery? How are they affected by freedom? ===

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5.What is the educational message of Morrison's "Beloved"?
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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800073; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;"> Monica: <span style="color: #800073; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;"> -presentation of the author-> __<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800073; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">general facts about the author,her other writings __ <span style="color: #800073; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; line-height: 25px; text-align: left;"> -__trailer__ <span style="color: #800073; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; line-height: 25px;">-chose the __<span style="color: #800073; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; line-height: 25px;">quotes __