Write on the Theme of Memory in “Beloved.”

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Write on the theme of memory in Beloved NU In Beloved by Toni Morrison memory is a central theme The novel shows how the past of slavery lives on in memory For Sethe Paul D and Denver memory is painful haunting and necessary Painful Memories Sethe carries memories of Sweet Home She remembers being whipped until scars formed a chokecherry tree on her back In Part One Ch Morrison writes Your back got a whole tree on it In bloom These spots show how memory marks both body and spirit The Haunting Past The past returns as a ghost The house at is haunted by Sethe s dead child Morrison writes in Part One Ch was spiteful Full of a baby s venom Beloved herself is a living memory of Sethe s infanticide Memory becomes flesh forcing Sethe to face her guilt Buried Memories Paul D hides his memories in

a tobacco tin Morrison says in Part One Ch That tobacco tin buried in his chest where a red heart used to be He tries to forget but Beloved opens the tin releasing his buried pain Memory and Identity Memory also shapes identity Sethe insists on owning her past She says in Part Two Ch Beloved she my daughter She mine Even when memory is painful it gives meaning and connection The memory of Baby Suggs love helps Denver grow strong In short in Beloved memory is never simple It hurts haunts and sometimes heals Morrison shows that slavery lives on through memory To survive the characters must face the past because forgetting the past is impossible

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