The music within the novel "Beloved" presses upon the reader's own emotional boundaries by presenting to us the treatment of slaves through an entirely different medium; not only through language but through sound; through the "soul" of those who give their voice melody. ... Music for the black American has always been an encoded language, a means of unification and cultural preservation. ... The convictions of the three characters are powerful and emotive, yet also composed of their own ideologies that form the final statement of "I am Beloved and she is mine" (p. 214). ... Such a prev...

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"Their complexions, differing so much from ours, their long hair and the language they spoke, which was different from any I had ever heard, united to confirm me in this belief. ... In fact he defines poetry as: "The illumination of experience through language" (Collected Prose) Hayden uses the same technique we can find in E...

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• Grade Level: High School