• a. identify climax, major conflict, resolution or denoument, what type of plot (see page of literary terms)
  • b. comment about setting
  • c. identify one major symbol and one minor.
  • d. discuss two characters. Label as round or flat, dynamic or static. Are they archetypal or foils?
  • e. Open to the exact middle. What page? Write one paragraph about how this one page relates thematically, symbolically,
or other (just not all plot) to the rest of the book.
  • f. Tell me one thing other that really only someone who has read the book will get.

Beloved by Toni Morrison takes on an achronological plot, where the events aren't written in sequence of occurrence. The climax approaches as a woman Sethe, Denver, and Paul D meet randomly. She calls herself Beloved, and she seems to play the role of an embodied spirit of Sethe's dead sister. As a three-way excessive attachment arises between Denver, Beloved, and Sethe, the major conflict of 1/12