Toni Morrison Narrative Structure

Toni Morrison, a famous American black woman writer, is the only black American woman writer who has been awarded the Nobel prize for literature so far. She is regarded as one of the most outstanding novelists in the world. "In the novels with rich imagination and poetic expression, make an extremely important aspect of American reality full of vitality", this is the Swedish Academy in 1993 to the Nobel prize winner Toni Morrison 's words. Of course, Morrison deserves it, and her beloved is considered by many to fill the gap in American history". The story happened in the Cincinnati suburb of blue stone road No.124 haunted house, and slavery has been abolished for 10 years at that time. In 1855, beautiful and arrogant female slave Sethe alone

First of all, thanks to the author 's unique narrative style and the clever arrangement of the structure of the text, the book is full of bitter poetry and nervous suspense. Personally, I love the beginning of beloved: "124 is full of malice.". Filled with a baby 's hatred. The women in the house knew, and the children knew." Beginning with this novel, full of suspense in the text to the reader into the mysterious world of a strange atmosphere, so can not help but want to read: what is the reason for the number 124 is full of malice, filled with a baby 's hatred? Toni Morrison tells the story of No. 124 in such a way as a mystery novel. In this way to create the background atmosphere. The author uses the technique of stream of consciousness in the novel, the characters constantly reveries and distraction and slide, past and present and symbiotic also increases and tends to plot, clear and complete, the truth slowly surfaced. The novel begins on account of the little girl was cut throat that subsequently repeatedly on the truth of infanticide implied, but the scene was to complete reproduction of infanticide has been more than half, and infanticide motivation but also in the future space again and again three will discuss the water falls out. The novel is full of suspense, such as: "Denver shivered and approached the house (of 124), as usual, take it as a person, not a building. A person who cries, sighs, shivers, and often attacks." "A well-dressed woman walked out of the water. She is not easy to be dry creek bank...... No one saw her appear, and no one happened to pass by...... On the second day, she spent the whole morning climbing from the ground, through the woods, through a large boxwood temple into the fields, towards the house of the slate house." This kind of strange breath novels have been filled in the story progresses, the life and mentality of Sethe 's realistic reduction has become "a personal