It is up to the reader to determine which character is speaking, which can be confusing, but clues are provided to aid the reader in deciphering it. Beloved’s point of view is presented twice: the first being highly poetic and abstract and the second a little more structured. These memories for Beloved occurred when she was a young child. She tells them in such a way that forced the reader to face that. Rhodes says, “Memory is a disorienting, disjointed function which Morrison captures through the complex layering and interweaving of her narrative structure.” This is seen with Beloved’s narration. It is disorienting and seemingly changes time and location, even when it becomes clearer the second time around. Beloved tells her childhood memories first, describing them in the best, though unstructured manner, she has as a child and then again as if describing them through her adult mind. There are parts that seem almost dreamlike in description and vagueness, but it is easier to decipher in its form. The reader in a small way experiences the fear and confusion along with Beloved, greater understanding where her pain and even perhaps why she acts the way she does and much of this is due to these style
It is up to the reader to determine which character is speaking, which can be confusing, but clues are provided to aid the reader in deciphering it. Beloved’s point of view is presented twice: the first being highly poetic and abstract and the second a little more structured. These memories for Beloved occurred when she was a young child. She tells them in such a way that forced the reader to face that. Rhodes says, “Memory is a disorienting, disjointed function which Morrison captures through the complex layering and interweaving of her narrative structure.” This is seen with Beloved’s narration. It is disorienting and seemingly changes time and location, even when it becomes clearer the second time around. Beloved tells her childhood memories first, describing them in the best, though unstructured manner, she has as a child and then again as if describing them through her adult mind. There are parts that seem almost dreamlike in description and vagueness, but it is easier to decipher in its form. The reader in a small way experiences the fear and confusion along with Beloved, greater understanding where her pain and even perhaps why she acts the way she does and much of this is due to these style