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Part 1, Chapter 3
Explanation and Analysis—Rememory:
The novel uses a non-linear narrative structure to explore how the past impacts the present. Beloved is centered around numerous flashbacks that provide context for the way characters act in the present day. The concept of "rememory" in Chapter 3 illuminates the way the novel uses flashbacks:
Some things go. Pass on. Some things just stay. I used to think it was my rememory. You know. Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it’s not. Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it’s gone, but the place—the picture of it—stays, and not just in my rememory, but out there, in the world. What I remember is a picture floating around out there outside my head. I mean, even if I don’t think it, even if I die, the picture of what I did, or knew, or saw is still out there. Right in the place where it happened.
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Part 3, Chapter 27
Explanation and Analysis—Rememory:
The novel uses a non-linear narrative structure to explore how the past impacts the present. Beloved is centered around numerous flashbacks that provide context for the way characters act in the present day. The concept of "rememory" in Chapter 3 illuminates the way the novel uses flashbacks:
Unlock with LitCharts A+Some things go. Pass on. Some things just stay. I used to think it was my rememory. You know. Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it’s not. Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it’s gone, but the place—the picture of it—stays, and not just in my rememory, but out there, in the world. What I remember is a picture floating around out there outside my head. I mean, even if I don’t think it, even if I die, the picture of what I did, or knew, or saw is still out there. Right in the place where it happened.
Related Themes:
