beloved
Toni Morrison depicts the physical and psychological effects slavery has on an African American woman and her family following the civil war in her famous book, Beloved. Throughout the novel, Morrison uses various themes to capture the impact of slavery had on the various characters portrayed in Beloved. The effects on these characters were not just physical but psychological as well. The impact of slavery has left a great impression on this family even long after the civil war. Slavery has led to physical damage, the killing of one’s child, families being broken up, characters going crazy, and not being able to move on from the past that haunts them. Slavery has had a physical affect on many characters. “School teacher made one open on my back, and when it closed it made a tree. It grows there still,” (17) states Sethe describing the scar of a tree on her back. Sethe was whipped with cowhide for telling Mrs. Garner that the boys of the schoolteacher had taken milk from her that was for her baby. Sethe was whipped so hard that “…he had touched every ridge and leaf of it with his mouth, none of which Sethe could feel because her back skin had been dead for years” (18). Even though years had passed Sethe is still ef
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Approximate Word count = 1118
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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