Junot Diaz's 'Beloved'

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Memory As we all know, many writers and publishers all have one specific message behind their book, poem, or even short stories in order to give out a message that many people aren't aware of. Each theorist Martin Espada, Junot Diaz, and Chimmamada Ngozi Adichie have one main goal to prove to readers. Without metaphors, representation, and stereotyping/ single-storying, literature wouldn’t be what it is today it would just be the thought of one main genre and wouldn't have much meaning. For example, Junot Diaz has a very powerful insight on representation. Diaz’s main purpose in writing is not just one direct point but to usually point out more than just one specific idea. On the interview with NPR with Peter Sagal, Diaz mention …show more content…
In which the story unrevealed itself little by little but really pulling in the reader and making the reader put their own show in the character place. Toni state in Forward, “ In trying to make the slave experience intimate, I hope the sense of things being both under control and out of control would be the persuasive throughout; that the order and quietude of every life would be violently disrupted by the chaos of the needy dead; the the herculean effort to forget would be threatened by memory desperate to stay alive” (Morrison …show more content…
In the article it includes the Civil War and how it effected Kentucky especially when Abraham Lincoln was dealing with the Proclamation.“The Proclamation, which took effect January 1,1863, freed only the slaves in rebel territory. Kentucky slaves would have to wait until 1865 when the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery throughout the nation” (Beloved 63). In the book Beloved about 20th day after Sethe arrives the a dark is in the air. Shortly as the “four horse man” (slave catcher) arrive and everyone in Bluestone panic and they start running. Sethe on the other hand panic and without thinking she grabs Beloved and slits her thoart and start banging Denver head toward the wall. Even though Sethe and Baby Sugg were in a different state and were free they always ran the risk of being caught again by slave catchers, back in 1860s no matter what was going on with the 13th Amendment slavery was always around even after the law was

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