Toni Morrison Beloved Postmodernist Analysis

Toni Morrison a Nobel Prize winner novel Beloved captures the reader’s attention by the way it is written. In the book Beloved, the author uses different techniques that combines together to make the story so good. In the novel it is filled with stream-of-consciousness narration which has you wondering and guessing on what going to happen next in the story. But some of the techniques that she use is modernist and postmodernist innovations.But some of the techniques that she use is modernist and postmodernist innovations.Because of that you aren’t able to always logically order the present form the past in this book. Because of that you aren’t able to always logically order the present form the past in this book (TheBestNotes Staff). Also by having the whole novel talking about the the main character life and what she had to go through.

Morrison was inspired to write her book from an actually story about a slave named Margaret Garner. Beloved brings to life what really happen both physically and emotionally to African Americans to find a way to heal from the past.The best way to heal is to to connect with the characters in the novel or to understand what Margaret and her family had to go through to get by. This true story actually convey to readers to help them understand where this novel was coming from. The whole

story was talked in third - person point of view to reveal the thoughts and the language of who is ever speaking at that time. But the theme also plays a big part in this novel, which makes the main character have to bring er past into her future life that she doesn’t want to happen. Because most slaves didn’t have a clue on who they were and where they were from so the main character took her first husband’s last name and after her third child dies she got the named Beloved.
Because the novel follows two different stories, one told through flashbacks and one that is taking place in the novel’s present, there are two different climaxes.

The climax of the flashback plot occurs near the end when the novel finally reveals the circumstances of main character daughter’s death: eighteen years ago. The second climax occurs at the end of the novel, during the “exorcism” of Beloved, who seems to be the ghost of the daughter main character murdered to keep from going to slavery and having to deal with the same things she had to go through as a child and as an adult. The whole novel is filled with bitter poetry and

suspense.
At the end of the day this novel has a lot of heart - wrenching , heartfelt but it also tragic and symbolic It has a spiritual feel and it combines traditional and stylish storytelling to convey a sense of oral tradition within the novel's form (Toni Morrison). Morrison is a strong , powerful intelligent author that once you read her novels you can’t put it down because questions are floating around in your head to know what is going to happen next. The author was also making some great points on the Fugitive slave laws that a lot of people haven't gotten over yet but most have. Beloved is a powerful, physical and emotional novels that examines these effects of slavery illustrated by the main character's actions. Beloved is sometimes presents the freely flowing thoughts of the characters to give it more meaning to the novel, but it helps to get more into the true story and understand the feelings that are going on it the novel. To get a full understand the true actual background on this until you full dig into the novel, without that the novel will be a mystery to all. Thought the whole novel it's more than just a story it's based to help other and their problems with their past. It shows that the past will affect your present that's if you let it happen but sometimes it can't help with the lifestyle that's going on around. Throughout the novel the emotion will get to the readers and touch their hearts. The more powerful the novel gets the more readers will understand and comprehend what's going on.