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The themes expressed in Morrison’s story are very real, factual, incomprehensible consequences of one of America’s darkest times. I went into this book almost blind and was completely wrapped up in how the deep deep traumas of slavery were expressed and imagined in a way I hadn’t been exposed before. Although each characters story was presented with vast differences in what they experienced, the traumas were elicited under the same conditions of extreme racial violence. Morrison focused on the impact of trauma blocking, the human psyches response when faced with the worst, the haunting of trauma and the transformation that occurs when continually faced with the hardest of hardships.
The story that played out throughout the book left me slightly confused with what was actually going on at 124, but I think it only added to the unbelievable reality of slavery and it’s irreversible stain on the African American people. The haunting of beloved was for me, symbolic of the inability to turn away from the fact that this time in history is very real and cannot be forgotten or taken as less than horrific. Denver represented the impact of her mother and fathers trauma and how for the generations to come after the height of enslaved America, life is forever impacted and can not be forgotten.
The story that played out throughout the book left me slightly confused with what was actually going on at 124, but I think it only added to the unbelievable reality of slavery and it’s irreversible stain on the African American people. The haunting of beloved was for me, symbolic of the inability to turn away from the fact that this time in history is very real and cannot be forgotten or taken as less than horrific. Denver represented the impact of her mother and fathers trauma and how for the generations to come after the height of enslaved America, life is forever impacted and can not be forgotten.