Post three..I'VE FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT!

       Alright, so I'm not sure if you all are aware of this or not, but there is this wonderful and emotional novel, called Beloved by Toni Morrison. It is a historical fiction novel written in the 1980's in Albany, New York and was published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1987. The narrator in the story is mostly anonymous, but is occasionally taken over by some characters. The setting is in 1873 in Cincinnati, Ohio but occasionallh has flashbacks to the 1850s to the Sweet Home plantation in Kentucky and to the prison in Alfred, Georgia. This is a story of heartache, death, slavery, ghosts, and a little love. Anyway, I have this professor, and he told me that he was giving me an assignment, well, he was giving our class an assignment. He said that if we want to get into the arts, it is important for us to know how to get into a character's head through our own actor's knowledge, and how to use research to get into the character's head, but more importantly, write about it. This is why I have created this blog. I am going to update you on my processes on how to get into the character, Sethe's, head. I've picked her because I find her to be such an important character and she is so different from me. I know I'll never be able to give her character true justice, because we are so different and Toni Morrison is such an incredible writer, that I cannot compare. However, I would like to try and I hope that I would give Toni  Morrison a little something to be proud of. I, in no way, mean to offend anybody by doing so if I am, nor am I trying to steal work or get any sort of gain from this. Simply a learning experience. Anyway, not only did I pick Sethe to attempt to write about because we are so different, but because I had a motherly instinct of my own the other day with my dog, Cocoa. Weird, I know. She looks up to me like a leader and mother, and that's what Sethe is, I think. While I do not agree with everything she did, I understand to an extent why she did them and I think honestly she was just trying to give her children protection in the long wrong. I, in no way, support killing her child though. I know this project will be a challenge, but I think that I can do it.

~Malia

Also, this is my first blog..so please, be nice!