Rhetorical Analysis Of Beloved

SUMMARY: In the article “To Be Loved: Amy Denver and Human Need: Bridges to Understanding in Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’,” by Nicole M. Coonradt, the author goes into more depth in the story’s motives and message it tries to speak out to the reader. The article talks about slavery and its unfairness, acceptance in a community, racism, and love. Mainly, it talks more about Amy Denver—as without her, there would be no story. The author talks about the “bridges” that make up the main points in the story and where it got them to where they were at in the end: the physical hunger they had to endure for the hunger of their love to not only be loved but to love others, giving and receiving, overlooking racial differences, compassion, experiencing pain in order to heal, stereotyping, resisting taking sides only with the black community and not condemning whites either, mutual understanding and love.
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She uses instability of language, revealing signs of symbolic meaning. In the article, she states: “I think, all the time that I write, I’m writing about love or its absence. Although I don’t start that way….But I think that I still write about the same thing, which is how people relate to one another and miss it or hang on to it…or are tenacious about love.” Their love and souls is what provides the overall theme in Beloved—with Morrison highlighting the characters’ struggles to survive the painful injustices they are forced to deal with as a result of their