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For many animals and people around the world, nature represents something very unique. Often times, people find nature to have a serene and calming effect on their moods. Toni Morrison explores this idea many times in her novel Beloved. In this novel, Toni Morrison uses trees to symbolize comfort, protection, peace, and emphasize the serenity that the natural world offers. Several characters in her novel believe that trees to offer calm, and the black characters …

…Although people today don't have to suffer through slavery, almost everyone still experiences personal tragedies such as sickness or death of a friend, and perhaps experiencing the beauty of nature first hand is the perfect answer. Morrison's pleasing imagery brings back a time when the little secret hiding place in the woods or one's special thinking rock meant a simple healthy escape from life and it's problems. Works Cited Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York: Plume, 1987.