Monday, July 12, 2010
BELOVED
I hated beloved with a passion when I began to read it. It took me 3 days and numerous tries just to get through the first 4 pages. I kept beginning and stopping not able to get through it. Once I did, merely by force, the only reaction I had from it was confusion. I did not understand a lot of the situations that occurred do to the flashbacks with little transitions. I found it hard to relate with any of the characters and had to imagine Paul D as Pauly D from Jersey Shore just to allow the book to be some sort of entertainment. I think if I read a book on slavery that made it easier to relate, I may be enlightened with some new appreciation. But Toni Morrison story is less appealing to me because it seems so far fetched to me. I am not a fan of ghosts and spirits and was kind of thrown back from the idea that beloved was a ghost who had came back after all this time to seek revenge on her homicidal mother. I felt that you had to pay really close attention to every word that had been written or something significant would be meaningless to you in the end. This was true to me, while discussing the book in class, I realized that you as classmates had absorbed a lot more information from the book than I did, and some of the scenes being described seemed as though it was the first time id ever heard it. This was a really humbling book, much different than the other two we read in my eyes.
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I hated beloved with a passion when I began to read it. It took me 3 days and numerous tries just to get through the first 4 pages. I kept beginning and stopping not able to get through it. Once I did, merely by force, the only reaction I had from it was confusion. I did not understand a lot of the situations that occurred do to the flashbacks with little transitions. I found it hard to relate with any of the characters and had to imagine Paul D as Pauly D from Jersey Shore just to allow the book to be some sort of entertainment. I think if I read a book on slavery that made it easier to relate, I may be enlightened with some new appreciation. But Toni Morrison story is less appealing to me because it seems so far fetched to me. I am not a fan of ghosts and spirits and was kind of thrown back from the idea that beloved was a ghost who had came back after all this time to seek revenge on her homicidal mother. I felt that you had to pay really close attention to every word that had been written or something significant would be meaningless to you in the end. This was true to me, while discussing the book in class, I realized that you as classmates had absorbed a lot more information from the book than I did, and some of the scenes being described seemed as though it was the first time id ever heard it. This was a really humbling book, much different than the other two we read in my eyes. Overall, I think this was the hardest book for me to get into and to follow what was going on. At times, the number of pronouns being used became confusing to me.
ReplyDeleteeric: you typed the exact same thing as tiffanee.
ReplyDeleteTiffanee: I thinks its funny you had to think of Pauly D from Jersey Shore just for entertainment. This book surprisingly had me wondering throughout what was going to happen next. Possibly because it was kinda far fetched like you said, but I like ghost stories and do believe in them. I think also that after the class discussions that I got more out of the book and understood more of its meanings, and symbols, which I normally do after book discussions. If anything, you can come out of this book with knowledge of how hard slavery was and how powerful a mothers love can be for her children. With you being a mother, would you do the same as Sethe if you were in her position? I think I would probably do the same as her.
P.S. I dont think you are not going to like Warrior Woman very much because its got ghosts all throughout the book lol. But hopefully you find some enjoyment in it.