In Beloved Toni Morrison sets the novel after the end of the civil war where slaves freed by Emancipation and those who were given or bought their freedom earlier were victims of random acts of violence. There are several power relationships that Morrison links together to show the aftermath of the civil war from the blacks point of view. The key relationships Morrison focuses on are master and slave, and marriage . In every political and …showed first 75 words of 1289 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1289 total…time when she killed Beloved out of mercy when she meets Beloved in person. I think that Morrison could have been more clear in defining characters because the reader sometimes gets confused as to which character is doing what. An example is when Sethe tells Denver that her mother slapped her when Sethe told her mother she wanted a mark too. At first I was confuse as to which time frame Morrison was talking about.