Dec 24, 2009

Beloved | Sample Essay Outlines

Topic #1
Mother love is supposedly the strongest and strangest love there is. For example, Sethe maintains throughout the novel that murder was a better alternative than slavery for her children. How may her statement be supported?

Outline
I.Thesis Statement: In Beloved, Toni Morrison’s protagonist—Sethe—believes death for her children is superior to a life lived in slavery.

II. Treated as Animals in Slavery
A.
Sethe’s animal characteristics listed alongside her human ones as an exercise in schoolteacher’s classroom