Blog Post #4_Abby

The interpretation of Beloved, by Nicole Coonrad, helps us to understand two significant characters. Amy and Sethe, the differences and similarities that both lived during the times of slavery. Coonradt highlights insightful connections between both characters in Beloved. Sethe is a very complex character meanwhile Amy is not, she is rarely mentioned in the book. To understand a little more about her, her mother died had died while working as an indentured servant which is why Amy became an indentured servant to serve her mother’s time. This may confuse us a bit because Amy is white. Not the typical story you might expect from a novel about black ex-slaves. But this means that Sethe and Amy had a bit in common because they both live, work without basic freedoms and they both try to escape from their conditions. Which makes it a lot easier for Sethe to relate to Amy. This is important because from this we learned that American slavery is a lot more diverse and complex. Besides the connection that both of these characters there is a connection to the Marxists lens.

Throughout the book we learn the important connections from both characters however, the most important one is the fact that they are both separated by race. Which is the primary reason between the two. The idea that servants are African American minorities goes more beyond when Morrison decided to talk about a white indentured servant. This connects to the Marxists lens because of the ideals that African Americans are in the lowest social class than everybody else, and it is not always true.