Favored one

Author: Morrison
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Publication Date: 2000-06-01
Features: A story based on a true event, with writing that falls between reportage and fiction. A Black slave family's desperate struggle for freedom and equality in the plantation, ending tragically. Such a story, such a history, such emotions will deeply move readers. The main plot of the book is based on a real historical event. In the 1850s, a female slave escaped from the plantation with her children, but the slave owner tracked them down. To prevent her children from repeating her own tragic fate as a slave, she picked up an axe and resolutely decided to choose death for them, but in reality, she killed one of her daughters. The author came across this story, which took ten years of incubation and three years of writing before finally being published. In the novel, the protagonist's name is Sethe, and the that symbolizes despair, madness, and extreme love has been transformed into a more dangerous saw. The novel caused a strong shock in the American literary and cultural circles after its publication. Major newspapers and magazines published articles praising it with the highest honors, considering it a monument to Black American history. In 1988, the book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. In the 1990s, the book was already ranked among the classics of modern literature. In this book, the author demonstrates exceptional writing skills and a profound ideological foundation. It is particularly effective in revealing the mental state and psychological activities of Black slaves under exploitation and abuse. This characteristic has allowed various schools of thought, such as psychoanalysis, structuralism, feminism, Western Marxism, and narratology, to find material in the book to support their theories. This book is a work with extremely powerful impact, immense appeal, and deeply moving ideas—such a book is a must-read! Through the experiences of the escaped Black slave Sethe, the book profoundly exposes the institution of slavery and its psychological impact on Black people, which even surpasses the suffering they endured. The book holds profound significance and is a classic of modern literature. Beloved is a monument to Black American history. The main plot is based on a true historical story. The protagonist of the novel, the Black slave Sethe, escapes alone from a slave plantation in Kentucky to Cincinnati in Ohio while pregnant. The slave owner tracks her down, and to prevent her children from repeating her own tragic fate as a slave, she resolutely kills one of her daughters. Although this happened eight years ago, the nightmare of the past has never ceased to haunt Sethe. Beloved won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. In 1998, Beloved was adapted into a film, with the renowned television host Oprah Winfrey playing the role of Sethe.