In Beloved, Toni Morrison makes a point out of including numerous flashbacks in each chapter. Some other authors do this too, but I think that the way Toni Morrison does it is different, because it's done in the same way that the mind works.
In real life, random thoughts often have the power to bring back memories, causing us to have flashbacks. This is the natural way of the human brain, so in Beloved, these flashbacks that Toni Morrison includes feel natural. They make reading feel like less of a task.
Wow Lily I never thought about it that way, but you are so right. The flashbacks do come randomly in the book just as how they do in real life.
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