Plot Summary
A Part I In Beloved, Toni Morrison chronicles the hardships Sethe and her family endure before, during, and after the American Civil War. The novel […]
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Characters
A Stamp Paid Stamp Paid was originally named Joshua, but he renamed himself after he “handed over his wife to his master’s son” and gave […]
Themes
A Human Condition A1 Race and Racism “You got two feet, not four,” Paul D tells Sethe when she reveals her secret to him, and […]
Construction
Narration/Point of View For the most part, Beloved uses a third-person narrator-one who tells the story by describing the action of other people (“he said” […]
Historical Perspective
A The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 One of the central events of the novel-Sethe’s attack on her children-is described as “her rough response to […]
About the Author
Kate Chopin was born in 1851 to the well-to-do St. Louis couple Eliza and Thomas O’Flaherty. She attended a convent school, took piano and French […]
Setting
Chopin lived in, and generally wrote about, life in the South. In The Awakening, she wrote specifically about Creole society in Louisiana. Creoles saw themselves […]
Themes and Characters
The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier and the changes that occur in her thinking and lifestyle as the result of a summer romance. […]