This book is turning out to be really interesting! I really didn't think it would be that good. But anyways...the book opens with meeting the former slave Sethe. She and he daughter Denver have been living in their house for 18 years and it is haunted by Sethe's daughter Beloved, who she had to murder. Objects get thrown around, and this entity even forced her two sons to run away. One day, one of Sethe's friends from the plantation, Pauly D, comes to visit her. She hasn't seen her in a while and they talk and flirt. This sort of angers Denver because she feels excluded and she cries. We can imagine that this makes her feel really lonely.
Sethe tells Pauly D about her scars, and he "rips the top of her blouse off" and begins to kiss the scars. Then, the house begins to shake violently (a fit of rage from the ghost) and Pauly D scares the ghost off much to Sethe's dismay. She said the ghost was the only company she had...
Overall I'm liking the book and it sort of has an edge of mystery to it. I'm excited to see where this books keeps going to.
It seems to be an interesting story. Its kind of odd that she considers the ghost her only company.
ReplyDeleteThis seems quite strange. So is it a drama, a horror story? And isn't Pauly D some dude from Jersey Shore? It sounds really interesting though, is the book old?
ReplyDeleteThis story seems crazy. I have many questions Dallas! Why did she have to kill her child? That is just horrible and the child has a right to haunt her. The whole tearing of the blouse is also odd. It just seems innapropriate.
ReplyDeleteThis seems to be quite an interesting story! It kind of gives off chills though with the explanation that you have given.
ReplyDeleteLOVE LOVE LOVE this novel, but I didn't quite fully understand it. There is one chapter where it is like Beloved is speaking from the grave. I'd love to has that out with you. I do think this novel examines the powerful emotional/psychological damage that slavery did to generations of black Americans. So much is written about the physical abuse, but this is the first novel that fully examines what it does to the mind as well...which I believe is a more important and lasting impact generations later. What do you think?
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