In Beloved, Toni Morrison writes about a very important and controversial time in American history. It is not easy to describe the lives of freed and escaped slaves and the people dear to them. Morrison, through the use of diction, personification and repetition, creates a story that grabs attention...

‘Although fictional, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a work of Historical remembering’ Discuss. Beloved is not an easy book to read. It is beautiful, frightening, surprising and enlightening. It tells a story of pain and suffering that is difficult to comprehend because we know of its scale, it ...