Beloved

The shift in narration from third person to first provided me with different insight into the character's lives and altered my perspective of each of them. The section that stuck out the most for me and gave me the most insight into a character's attitudes was section II. I had inferred things about Denver from what we had seen from the outside, but the look into her thoughts and stream of consciousness really gave me a better understanding of her character. For the first time in the novel, I really understood where Denver's strange habits and reclusive attitude came from. She even admits to her reclusive ways. "Not since Miss Lady Jones' house have I left 124 by myself. Never." (243) We also get to see how she spends every day in fear of her own mother and her pain of never really having a real family. She says, " I'm afraid of the thing that happened that made it all right for my mother to kill my sister could happen again." (242) This fear that she must experience every day made me understand just how destroyed their family is. Although the third person narration gives us different perspectives, viewing the character's thoughts opened up my eyes to a lot more.