ENGL124 Lecture : English 124 Lecture March 14.docx

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Beloved historical background: margaret garner escaped from slavery from kentucky to ohio in 1850"s, kills her youngest daughter to try to prevent her from having to experience slavery, arrested and charged with murder, tries to kill her other children as well but is stopped, fugitive slave act in 1850"s criminalized act of helping slaves, made it so that slave owners from the south could follow their slaves to the north and bring them back. 1931, ohio: key works, the bluest eye, sula, beloved, jazz, paradise, works for random house, putting together a book about slavery when she comes across a newspaper with a story about margaret garner, constructs beloved based on story of margaret garner, changes name, ending, but emphasizes slavery, includes fantastic, gothic and supernatural elements, beloved appears to be, a poltergeist, a seductive female devil, a vampiric creature draining others" life force.

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