Beloved

To answer Marci's question about my opinion of the better storyteller: Fitzgerald or Morrison. I feel that Toni Morrison is a better storyteller because she has a very a very unique style. She puts a lot of flashbacks in the book. The flashbacks are about Sethe's past life as a slave. I like how Morrison allows Sethe to be the narrator of the story, even though, we as readers know that Morrison is the actual person wrting the story, it sems to me like Sethe (in reality, Morrison) confronts the exact brutal life that almost all slaves face and she also reacts to them in the same way that most slaves would. Her language also signifies that she was a former slave because she speaks in very old slang ( I am not sure if that is a language or not). When she recalls her gang rape as she is talking to Paul D., it apperas that she is still traumatized by the past event becasue she pauses a lot as she tells Paul D. about that event. Beloved's "broken language" also symbolizes that she is not in existence because she talks and moves like a little child would, even though she is as big as Denver. I like the movie version of Beloved because Beloved's ghost appears more realistic in the film than how it is described in the book.
Fitzgerald also uses flashbacks in his book when he talks about the past life and affair of Gatsby, before he joined the war. I like the fancy parties in the movie and how the characters react to some events in the book. For example, when Daisy starts crying randomly and doesn't stop crying. Overall, the book isn't that bad, but the ending just kills the book. I didn't expect Gatsby to die, he is so nice.