Literature

1) Choose one of the two topics listed below. Topic 1 “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” (43). “As long as the ghost showed out from its ghostly place shaking stuff, crying, smashing and such—Ella respected it. But if it took flesh and came in her world, well, the shoe was on the other foot. She didn't mind a little communication between the two worlds, but this was an invasion” (302). Engage with relevant ideas from one or two of the following chapters from Bennett and Royle: “Racial Difference,” “Ghosts,” “The Uncanny.” Answer the following question: What is the significance of how Beloved is represented as a tangible, fleshly ghost? Topic 2 “So, in the end, they forgot her too. Remembering seemed unwise” (324). “This is not a story to pass on” (324). Engage with relevant ideas from one or two of the following chapters from Bennett and Royle: “History, “Racial Difference,” “Ghosts.” Focusing on 2-3 characters, answer the following question: What does Beloved suggest about the characters’ responsibility to remember the past?