Beloved

Even though Beloved caused so much trouble amongst everyone, in the end she helped people realize things. Beloved's departure helped Paul D. Realize how much he really did care for Sethe. He questions why he left Sethe before. Do you think Beloved's manipulation of Paul D. was intentionally for Paul D. to come to the realization of his deep feelings for Sethe? I wonder why Denver feels as though Beloved was more to her than a sister. How can something so secret and strange make people believe in being real?

Was anyone else a little confused with this own image of Beloved? She all of sudden disappears and no one can really recall anything she did or said. It is kind of strange.

Beloved 2

Morrison loves to throw curve balls int his novel. Who would have thought that Paul D would have sex with Beloved. As ra reader I thought that he had strong feelings for Sethe. Beloved's character is very strange for a reader. She has this power over everyone and anything. It didn't seem as though Paul wanted to have sex with her but she some how manipulated him into doing it. Her needy and wanting feelings does not show that she cares for Paul but just wants to be wanted by someone. Beloved seems to have a hold on many people and make them cling. Denver gets caught in Beloved force field. What I don't understand and am confused about is why are these people believing that this supposely dead girl is alive?

I am finding this book that I heard was very good to be very strange and confusing. I hope to figure out alittle more about what is going on through discussion in class, maybe it will have a new look ont he novel.

Beloved

From what I heard about this book, it is suppose it be really good. I am very interested to read more into. When I started readinging it though, I became a little confused. I feel as though Morrison could have addedd alittle more detail into describing the characters.

A part that caught my attention was in chapter one. This is where she comes in connect with the five former slaves she was pout with. Morrison writes about how she is "with" all fo them and finally decides on one of them and ends up having a fourth child. All of th eguys were waiting for her to pleasure them, but in the long run the man she chose disappeared. It seems as though she can not hang on to people she lost. She has lost her baby, her sons ran away, her mother-in-law, and the men she slept when. I feel as though I see a theme of lost happening in the book. I am veyr interested to see what happens.

Middle Passage 2

This part of the novel filled in all the holes that left me wondering in the first half as to what was going on. Calhoun talks about his family which clears up some confusion that I had and why he is the person he has become in the novel.His past experiences with his family comes in connection with his feeling on commitment and marriage. Johnson makes it known to the read in this part of the book why he doesn't want to settle down. He never really had that role model to follow, so he would rather be by himself and not involve anyone else in his mess.

This novel is very interesting because of what happend on the ship. We have not really read about slave being in control. It was very exciting to read that the slaves took over the ship.

Middle Passage

This book seems to be the easiest to follow out of all the books we have read. Charles Johnson does a good job with detail and allowing the reader to follow smoothly with the story. I am very interested in learning more about this character Rutherford.

I like how the book started off with some hummor rather than something depresing like other readings. I think this book will be easy to follow because it started off with something that we can relate to which is a man point of view. The first sentence states "Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I've come to learn, is women", which is so true about the way men think. I feel like this sentence modeled a good image of what might happen in the book. The struggle of slaveyr and love will be key themes in this book, I think.

Dessa Rose 2

I feel like Nehamiah is starting to feel more comfortable around Dessa. But I have noticed that it seems like he is being very sly with his questioning. On page 52, Dessa seems to becoming comfortable talking to him, but she says "They caught ev---". He automatically jumps to the conclusion she is referring to the slaves that have gotten away. For a moment before the reader may think that Nehamiah is understand Dessa, but this little extract makes it know he wants his story, especially by what he says at the end. He asks her where they have gone and reassures her she knows, but she shuts down again. He basically dug himself right back into the same hole he was in before, but he says "She will be brought to give up this information!".

I still think his motive in this is to get his book written and find out the truth, but I feel like he may doing it mulishly. As the the other side, further into he readings they seems to be corresponding in conversation quite well. He seems to have built his trust back, but she still is referring to Kaine a lot. Referring to Kaine would be natural for her and that brings me to a big theme of this book. The theme of love being displayed in this book has not really been shown in the other reading, well not this kind of love. What do you think would have happened if Kaine wasn't killed? I know this story would be extremely different, but it would have been a very good love story of a salve. Don't you think so?

Dessa Rose

This book seems interesting to read, but I feel like it jumps from several different things at once. I had to read it over a few times to fully understand what people were which. It has the slang that makes it alittle difficult to understand. I found it interesting to read about slave preventing conception. Along with the other readings we have viewed, things like slaves having this kind of power and control scares the whites greatly. What do you tink would have happen if slaves really never reproduced offspring?

The whole situation with Kaine confused me alittle bit? Not really sure if he is dead or alive? I feel once we get more in deth in the book it will be easier to understand.