Dying then may have been a blessing, never having to live a life knowing freedom was on the other side of the fence, never having to have live a life of freedom tainted brutal experience of having no self. Toni Morrison's Beloved depicts the lives of former slaves who are trying to live within the restraints of a traumatizing past. It is Morrison's use of parallel characters which emphasizes the degree to which slavery penetrated the human soul. ... His method of running the farm matched the landscape of brutality which existed just outside the Sweet Home fences. ... Toni Morrison&#x...

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• Grade Level: High School

Brown, Jean Toomer, Zora Neal Hurston, Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou and the list goes on to include newer African American authors and scholars such as Cornell West, Toni Morrison and Nikki Giovanni. ...

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