Analysis Of Toni Morrison 's Beloved

Toni Morrison once said, “ Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.” What Morrison means is that the violence and malice that black people have suffered began with a perpetrator, the inhumane treatment originates from a person or group in which is beneficial towards them in terms of wealth,power or love even if it means hurting others. This idea starts coursing through the veins of how society thinks or feels about a certain group and spreads throughout the nation and becomes a norm. These ideas vary, some as simple as inflicting pain, to a more extreme extent as to how it is perfectly normal to treat human beings like animals, dehumanizing them and performing unacceptable acts of cruelty upon these human beings. In the story Beloved by Toni Morrison, Morrison portrays the fact that some acts of cruelty will forever affect a slave’s life, preventing them from creating a family therefore altering their actions, thoughts, and the perspective of the society they are exposed to. The violence from the quote correlates to the cruel treatments of the “60 million and more” (Morrison) slaves by the white people. Millions have died by the hands of white people who are oblivious to the pain and sufferings of that they have inflicted upon others to make money or to prove their dominance over the slaves.
The slaves do not get to decide what they could do or own instead the slave owners give them orders and if they dared defy the punishment would certainly be physically painful , sometimes it might even lead to death. Incidentally, the main character in the novel, Sethe, out of desperation kills her own daughter, hoping...

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...d into the minds of the black community as well as other communities.The “60 million an more” shall never be forgotten because they are the true heroes that have paid a price to make this country a better place for the future generation. What white people have done to the slaves is unacceptable, brutal, and their acts of cruelty show that they are more of a “baboon” than blacks people, the difference being is that they were inferior and didn’t get the chance to govern themselves while the white people swiftly took over and controlled them. Cruelty is something that one will forever sustain in the minds of those who have been perpetrated since it has turned a slave’s life upside down and their isn’t much people can do to reverse their life so the only way is to move on in pain. The pain will eventually fade away leaving just the scar and happiness will mask that pain.