Friday, March 21, 2008
Beloved
The story begins by explaining the members of the family and their background. It takes place in Ohio and since the characters in the book are ex-slaves, the main issue deals with slavery. At the beginning of the book we find out that a ghost of baby Suggs is haunting Sethe and her daughter Denver. Her other children, Howard and Buglarran away from home to get away from the ghost. Denver spends most of her time playing in her secret spot in the woods where she can hide and play house. Meanwhile Sethe is beginning to spend more time with Paul D and keeps asking him how long he is going to stick around for becuase she doesn't approve of ex-slaves loving her child, however when she see's their shadow on the ground at the carnival, it shows them holding hands happily. On the way back from the carnival when peeing outside they meet a women who tells them her name is Beloved, which shockes Sethe and Denver. The reason for shocking them is becuase on the babies grave stone due to lack of time and money, the only word engraved was "Beloved." The part of the book that I am at now, Sethe and Beloved are becoming close friends. They see eachother when Sethe is on her way back from work and Sethe is beginning to enjoy the attention that she is recieving.
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This is a good summary, however, there are a few things that you could work on. The first is to come up with some sort of thesis instead of starting with "The story begins by explaining..." This will help to engage the reader and help your summary flow better instead of listing events that occured. Which leads me to my next piece of advice. I would use longer sentences to help the summary come together instead of shorter sentences. The shorter sentences make the summary seem more like a list which is common for people to do (Dont worry I did the same thing!). Good Luck!
try to go a little deeper into what issues along/within slavery are covered. work on the transitions between sentances. also go mmore into why sethe doesnt want an ex-slave with her daughter because the way its put is kind of confusing
You could start with a thesis besides saying the story starts...Let it flow instead of going from this happens then this takes place and so forth.You could also take out the part where you said something like "the part of the book I am at."Try to explain more about the ex-slave situation.
Rather than just straight explaining what happens in the book, start with a thesis statement and build from there. A good conclusion is needed too.
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