Analysis Of A Dynamic Character In Toni Morrison's Beloved

Beloved, a Toni Morrison novel, paints a vivid picture of the atrocities African-Americans faced during and after the time of slavery. Toni Morrison wrote Beloved in Albany, New York during the 1980s. First published in 1987 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., it went on to win multiple awards such as the Frederic G. Melcher Book Award, the seventh annual Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights Book Award, and was even nominated for the National Book Award. A New York Times survey of writers and literary critics even ranked it as the best work of American fiction from 1981 to 2006. However, despite all of the popularity and status, it is not universally claimed as a success. The novel is split between the present and flashbacks to

Throughout the book some of the characters change in many ways or only in some. The protagonist Denver is an example of a dynamic character, a character who goes through many inner changes such as personality or attitude. Denver begins as an isolated person who is split off from society. She also begins as a self-centered individual, caring for no one other than herself. While being young adult, she is proven to act very childish such as when Paul D first arrives. When he first arrives, Denver treats him coldly and not unlike how a child would act, asks him when he was going to leave. In some way, Sethe's inability to overcome the past has some ties to why Denver acts the way she does. However, Beloved's arrival is the beginning of Denver's change. With her arrival, Denver finds someone to love and act for, whereas before she was lazy and uncaring. When Beloved begins to weaken Sethe and becomes controlling, Denver realizes that the need for call for help rests on her. She leaves the house, something she hasn't done that many times and gets help. She also eventually grows enough that she gets her own job and can start her own life. In some ways her growth through the novel stand for her people's hope for a better