Part one of term paper
“Two boys bled in the sawdust and dirt at the feet of a nigger woman holding a blood-soaked child to her chest with one hand and an infant by the heels in the other.” This gruesome image is a result of the many degradations that black slaves face. The humiliation these slaves suffer is often too much to deal with, forcing them to take ...

Part two of term paper
... humility these slaves face, Morrison is at least successful in giving the reader a better understanding of their hardships. By reading about the lives of Sethe, Halle, and Paul D., the reader is capable of identifying just what some of these trials consist of and the effects they have on American black slaves. One of the more obvious degradations the characters in Beloved face is that of physical abuse. Morrison writes, “ That’s what they said it looked like; a chokecherry tree.” In this ...