Toni Morrison1s work reflects history from the black view point because she showed the long term and psychological damage slavery made on the black people. The psychological damage can be seen in Sethe1s ghost Beloved that haunted her for almost 20 years (183). The physical damage was the 3chokeberry tree2 that was on Sethe1s back from the whippings that School teacher gave her while she was pregnant with Denver (202). Toni Morrison1s argument is convincing because she uses the story line format to entertain her readers as she introduces a different view of Emancipation from the blacks. House 124 does exist historically and so do the events where a ex-slave mother kills her own daughter and is sentenced to jail for destroying her owner1s property. The historical truth of these events makes it more convincing because it shows that Toni Morrison has done research to back up her political and historical implications. Morrison makes good use of the flash backs where she links the past to the present. An example of this is when Sethe flashes back 18yrs to the time when she killed Beloved out of mercy when she meets Beloved in person. I think that Morrison could have been more clear in defining characters because the reader sometimes gets confused as to which character is doing what. An example is when Sethe tells Denver that her mother slapped her when Sethe told her mother she wanted a mark too. At first I was confuse as to which time frame Morrison was talking about.

ind. Number my teeth. she though he was a fool.2 (191) Morrison deliberately created both characters, Mr. Garner and School-teacher as opposites to reflect the different white masters of that time. Slavery presented by Morrison also show how most people behave when they are given absolute power over other people. First they start believing in their own superiority and justifying their decisions by i

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