Beloved: Contemporary Connections

When looking at the biggest issue of dehumanization of African Americans in 2017, I think the most prolific issue has been police brutality and our criminal justice system. This can be seen from both sides especially through groups like Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter. In today's America we face this issue and looking at it through Uncle Toms Cabin and Beloved shows me how both sides tend to view this issue. As looking at it through my topic, I used the theme of dehumanization and I said in my other projects that to me this issue wasn't described as horrible as it really was. Almost like just scratching the surface, especially for an anti-slavery novel. Then with Beloved it goes into the details and not overemphasize it but really giving a point. I can see this seen in today's version of the police brutality and the dehumanization that is seen with it. Through the Black Lives Matter movement you can see that there message is going to be put through with a point just like Beloved. You can see this with the media as well. If you want to sell a story you want to make it interesting, so you make it sound a lot worse than maybe it was. Where they dont want us to forget these things that are happening and they want to make it sound really bad and that's the message they want to bring. Then with lets say with Police you could say that they are the Uncle Toms Cabin in which with these instances they kinda glaze over these incidents. Now whether or not these things are true or whatever happened or who initiated these incidents to happen will have to talked about at a different time however this is what I see when looking at today's issues through these two books.



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