Beloved by Toni Morrison | Plot Summary

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    Kristen Over, Associate Professor at Northeastern Illinois University, provides an in-depth summary and analysis of Toni Morrison's famous novel Beloved.
    Toni Morrison's Beloved, first published in 1987, tells the story of Sethe, an escaped slave. Tragically, Sethe murdered her own infant daughter rather than allow the child to grow up in slavery. This terrible past returns to haunt Sethe's home and family in the form of Beloved, a ghost that is central to all the events in the story.
    In the novel, we encounter characters such as Baby Suggs, Paul D, Denver, and of course Beloved, whom we learn about in relation to Sethe, the protagonist. Themes such as identity, guilt, and past vs present are all explored in an unforgettable plot. It is a vital, haunting work in modern African-American literature that raised important, unanswered questions about America's history and culture.
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Komentáře • 48

  • @beliciamaria8167
    @beliciamaria8167 Před 3 lety +70

    i wasn’t able to read this book … the writing was too confusing for me. thank you for this ! it helps me understand it a lot better

  • @nachinwa9187
    @nachinwa9187 Před rokem +11

    I read this book in my first year in Uni. It was very traumatizing for me,probably because I was too immersed in the story. I dreamt about it for weeks. It got recommended again in school and just the thought of it scares me to death. I can’t bear reading it again. That’s why I am here.
    If you can read, it is a very good read. It opens your eyes to a lot of things. Just try to detach yourself from the story for your mental health.

  • @abishekv9522
    @abishekv9522 Před 4 lety +10

    This video is very helpful to my study.thank you❤️❤️❤️

  • @susamongus9617
    @susamongus9617 Před 3 lety +109

    Who else is here because of their teacher?

  • @itsvanessa1267
    @itsvanessa1267 Před rokem +3

    I had to ready this book but its was so hard to understand thank you for this summery.

  • @jessicayu5812
    @jessicayu5812 Před 2 lety +2

    Thank you so much for this incredible video! It has greatly succeeded in helping me study as well as thoroughly analyze the novel.

  • @jessicawang7494
    @jessicawang7494 Před 4 lety +25

    it's so helpful for me to read this book as well as my essay!

    • @PipByMac
      @PipByMac Před 2 lety

      Maybe you should try to read, oh I don't know, a good book?

    • @Hannah_The_Elon_Jew
      @Hannah_The_Elon_Jew Před 6 měsíci +1

      It is your fault, man up

  • @DangeRuss316
    @DangeRuss316 Před 2 lety

    Great book!

  • @cadehogan3061
    @cadehogan3061 Před 5 lety +27

    missing the relationship between Paul D and beloved, where beloved tries to seduce him several times, bringing up hi memories of slavery, and how he was emasculated.

  • @Hoshinko
    @Hoshinko Před rokem

    I'll surely fail without course hero

  • @opmules2574
    @opmules2574 Před 2 lety +2

    Why was this book banned? It's relatively tame compared the media teenagers consume now. Do you know how high school students have already watched Squid games?

    • @tonystarks2713
      @tonystarks2713 Před 2 lety +1

      It was banned because some people were conned into believing it had something to do with CRT, so the racist white people didn’t want it in schools because they heard CRT is bad and it makes white kids feel bad about themselves 🤷🏽‍♂️🤦‍♂️

    • @PipByMac
      @PipByMac Před 2 lety

      @@tonystarks2713 it does have something to do with crt, you disingenuous dummy. Not to mention, SOMEONE IN THE BOOK CUTS A BABY'S THROAT WITH A HACKSAW.
      By the way, stop calling everyone that disagrees with you racist. You're not only taking away the meaning of the word, you're creating actual racist that weren't there before.

    • @PipByMac
      @PipByMac Před 2 lety

      @@tonystarks2713 BP suck, by the way. Fix your crappy culture and maybe people won't think so poorly of you.

    • @tonystarks2713
      @tonystarks2713 Před 2 lety +1

      @@PipByMac The fact that you said “someone” cuts a baby’s throat tells me right there that you haven’t read the book nor watched the movie so you don’t even know what you’re talking about you disingenuous idiot🤣🤣. This book has nothing to do with CRT, it’s just a graphic and at times weird book about a former slave who lost her damn mind after being haunted by her dead baby. Damn, why are people so ignorant??? Oh it’s because they don’t read and they only assume….smh

  • @user-cn5fo9pt2q
    @user-cn5fo9pt2q Před 2 lety

    Wow 👍 nice American literature

  • @joeburreaux7953
    @joeburreaux7953 Před 4 lety +7

    You forgot a *LOT* of things, Course Hero.

  • @toolbox6740
    @toolbox6740 Před 4 lety

    Why would you make us pay for this? Like it was free before...

  • @tanyatejaswi1027
    @tanyatejaswi1027 Před 2 lety

    Baby sugg was a baby or a name

  • @dwainewhitley2227
    @dwainewhitley2227 Před rokem

    Good summary but fails to give the historical context behind the movie which would have been helpful (Slavery, Fugitive Slave Act, etc).......DW.

  • @corinnemilot4727
    @corinnemilot4727 Před měsícem

    Ib gang reviewing

  • @harwa9398
    @harwa9398 Před 2 lety

    منو هنا كشما فاهم من الموضوع 😂

  • @buraktoksoy3132
    @buraktoksoy3132 Před 4 lety

    It is far more worse than bestsellers craps.

  • @PipByMac
    @PipByMac Před 2 lety +4

    I love how people want to ban Dr. Seuss but allow this trash to be read by children

    • @gracemadlynn
      @gracemadlynn Před 2 lety +8

      trash?

    • @kevinnava3902
      @kevinnava3902 Před 2 lety +14

      L+ratio claim

    • @user-vt1mb4iv3v
      @user-vt1mb4iv3v Před rokem +5

      no one’s reading beloved to children…

    • @nanayaa.a6387
      @nanayaa.a6387 Před rokem +6

      I’m in college and we are reading this we aren’t reading this in Highschool or middle school sir next time it will be easier to say your a racist

    • @PipByMac
      @PipByMac Před rokem

      @@nanayaa.a6387 I'm sorry you're black and that's the only argument you have. Also, if you're going to claim superiority to me in an argument, maybe you should learn how to form a grammatically correct sentence.
      Dumbass.

  • @shihyizu
    @shihyizu Před 2 lety +2

    How come this kind of books can win Nobel Prize. Full of trash. I knwo black people had been treated unfairly. But this kind of books do not provide any healing or comforting to suggesting any vision for the future.

    • @PV-po6zt
      @PV-po6zt Před 2 lety +1

      Black people deserve for their story to be told. This was based on a real enslaved woman who killed her children to save them from slavery. Are you scared of facing the reality that African Americans endured through, or do you hate being uncomfortable because your privilege is being threatened?