Toni Morrison – Beloved

Discussion Question 1:

What does the Author want to express by depicting slaves as having intercourse with farm animals? Was this a common reality on remote farms? (p. 11)

Discussion Question 2:

What is meant by Paul D when he says he was “licking iron with his hands crossed behind him”? (p. 72)

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Fact:

Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 for her book Beloved, and is therefore considered one of the most influential African American writers of our times.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1993/morrison-bio.html#

The Book of the Month Club was founded in 1926 and is a book sales club that offers a new book each month to customers, who receive this book via mail. The club was initially founded, because the founders found it difficult to build interest in a new book. It was to be a brand of its own, as one of the founders explained: "It establishes itself as a sound selector of good books and sells by means of its own prestige. Thus, the prestige of each new title need not be built up before becoming acceptable." With 550,000 subscribers, the size of the club did, in fact, create the Book of the Month Club as a brand. Being a "Book of the Month Club" selection was used to promote books to the general public, which helped Richard Wright, the first African-American author to be selected by the club, as well as Toni Morrison, whose novel Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention as a main selection of the club. The club is still active today, and if the dedicated reader wants to join this elaborate club, he can visit http://www.bomcclub.com/

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