Literary Techniques In Beloved, By Toni Morrison

In life everyone goes through many struggles. These struggles cause you to make an important decision, whether to hold in the pain or not. Some struggles may cause to change how you act towards others. In the novel Beloved, Toni Morrison has used many writing techniques. One of the techniques used was imagery. It is an effective literary technique to get the reader to understand it more clearly. Symbolism is another way in which Morrison expresses how good will always triumph over evil.

Paul D felt like he was not a true man. In the plantation Sweet Home, Mr. Garner treated his slaves as though they were men. Mr. Garner passed away and Schoolteacher started to run things on the plantation. Schoolteacher sold Paul D to Brandywine. Paul D was

The guards did not put prisoners to work in the rain. It rained for nine days straight. Paul D and the other prisoners believed that the guards left them out there to die. It rained so much that the prisoners were almost covered in mud. They are all attached to a chain and use it as a way of signaling each other to escape together. They felt someone yank the chain and they knew it was time to escape without even talking. The guards thought that they would never escape with everyone connected to each other. The rain helped the men breakout of jail without the guards knowing.

The white guards think the chain would keep the forty-six together and in line. It not only kept them together, but it creates a brotherhood bond. The narrator proclaimed, “A man could risk his own life, but not his brother’s”(129). If a man tried to run they could jeopardize someone else’s life. So they did not attempted to escape. The white guards would sexually abuse the prisoners, but some of refused and got shot. The rain helped the prisoners escape by using the chain to communicate with each other. They had to yank the chain to signal the others. They worked as a whole and