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This book justly stands high in the pantheon of great American novels. Its harrowing story and profound themes provoked one of our most interesting discussions.
BELOVED
By Milica Lewis
Beloved is many things, too many to discuss in one evening, let alone in a short review like this. I will try to cover some of the aspects of Beloved that made it such a memorable book for me personally. Funnily enough, when I first attempted to read Beloved I was a teenager based in the Netherlands. I had chosen the book as one of the twenty-five works of English literature that I had to read in English in order to pass my A-levels and stand a chance of going to University. My mother has been an honorary member of a large African-Caribbean familuniversity of her life through a strong bond developed through a childhood friendship, so I have a very personal affinity with African American culture. Unfortunately, to my deep frustration, I found Morisson’s writing and Beloved’s world so impenetrable at the time that the book ended up infuriating me. I discarded it after thirty pages.
BELOVED
By Milica Lewis
Beloved is many things, too many to discuss in one evening, let alone in a short review like this. I will try to cover some of the aspects of Beloved that made it such a memorable book for me personally. Funnily enough, when I first attempted to read Beloved I was a teenager based in the Netherlands. I had chosen the book as one of the twenty-five works of English literature that I had to read in English in order to pass my A-levels and stand a chance of going to University. My mother has been an honorary member of a large African-Caribbean familuniversity of her life through a strong bond developed through a childhood friendship, so I have a very personal affinity with African American culture. Unfortunately, to my deep frustration, I found Morisson’s writing and Beloved’s world so impenetrable at the time that the book ended up infuriating me. I discarded it after thirty pages.