Monday, July 12, 2010
Beloved, Here I am
My impression of the novel "Beloved" was that it was very realistic to slavery at the time in Kentucky. As Kentucky was a state that was close to non-slave states the owners were a lot stricter. They wanted to dissuade escape and used fear and beatings to do so. The saddest part about Sethe's story was when they came to claim her two boys and Beloved, and she slit all of their throats to prevent them from becoming slaves. Better off dead was how she felt. I thought it was ironic that the owner cried but spat at her feet and called her an animal to make hisself appear as though he didn't care. There were many instances of abuse: the hanging of her mother, the cross burned into her mother's chest, the shacklin, the mothe pieces, when the boys drank her milk, the beating she took while pregnant for telling about the breast milking incident, etc. I found "baby Suggs" an inspiration as she was bold and preached a positive message to other slaves. I don't think she would have been able to get away with that in Kentucky. There is still slavery today going on. For instance, Haiti inslaves its own people. Those that are less fortunate financially are sold and used as workers whom are not allowed to be in the house while the owners are gone. They beat these individuals on a daily basis and you can imagine what else they do. Any type of abuse is bad. It's just a way for twisted and perversive people to get their rocks off. They should walk a day in the victims shoes and see how tough it is to live an abusive life. Putting money in an evil person's hand is bad for society. We sould take their money and inslave them! Beloved was a little strange with the inclusion of ghosts. I believe as a message to be haunted by your past. But one can only be haunted if they give a damn!
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That’s interesting that Haiti enslaves their own people, I’m doing a speech on the earthquake and didn’t realize that to be true. I can appreciate the story but it’s almost hard for me to believe because it seems so distant from my life, almost like it happened in another world. This was a nonfiction book but i feel like most of it probably did or could have happened to someone, however i do wish it would have been a little bit more modern so that the story would have been easier to understand and possibly relate to. It does open my eyes a lot more than they were before, I’m not very educated in the area and thought that even though Africans were made into slaves, that their owners treated them like Mr. and Mrs. Garner did, with respect. I would have never imagined the things that they actually had to encounter.
ReplyDeleteFinancing evil is terrible for society. The rich white plantation owners of the 18th and 19th centuries got rich off of exploiting slavery and it nearly ripped our country in half as a result. The cheap way to do things is not always the right way to do things. Which is something that we as a country should examine today to help improve our economy. Just because it is cheaper to build factories in foreign countries does not mean it is the right thing to do. We need to give Americans jobs if we want to jumpstart our economy. We need to buy American made things so that we do not support such dispicable behavior exhibited by the sweat shop barons that run the majority of foreign industry.
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