Beloved and Slaughterhouse Reflections

Beloved by Toni Morrison
-Beloved becomes fatter and healthier in almost a parasitic relationship as she lives off Sethe's love.
-Denver and Sethe have been ostracized from the community because of Sethe acts 18 years ago. The community kicked them out without knowing the reason behind Sethe's actions.
-When Sethe and Denver first meet Beloved, she is wearing a new dress and shoes symbolizing that she is a new person.

Slaughterhouse 5 By Kurt Vonnegut
CONFESSION: I am not yet finished with the book. I will come back and edit once I finish the book.
-A friend of Vonnegut tells him not to write anti-war because he can't stop war. The suggests that there are so many anti-war books out there that their shock value (beauty?) has worn off and thus the truth isn't as shocking.
-Billy Pilgrim is described as looking like a dirty flamingo. This implies that he doesn't have much value at all. Flamingo are birds that are often thought of as very showy, but Billy is described as not very good looking, which implies that as a flamingo and a soldier he is useless.