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    The Ghost of Beloved One of the most engaging arguments about Toni Morrison’s book Beloved is centered around the nature of the girl Beloved. The argument is whether Beloved is simply a young woman who herself had suffered the horrors of slavery, or the ghost of Sethe’s crawling already? baby girl. The evidence shows that Morrison intended Beloved to be the ghost of the crawling already? girl. It has been said that there are basically two reasons why ghosts walk: they have either

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    “Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can’t nothing heal without pain, you know”(Morrison 92). Healing is a prominent theme throughout Beloved; a novel about the life of an ex-slave, Sethe, and the repercussions of her past mistakes. She murdered her baby in order to prevent her from becoming enslaved. However, years later, the ghost of the baby haunts the family in their home on 124 Bluestone Rd. The ghost is filled with resentment towards her mother, therefore she becomes spiteful and seeks

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    . Beloved is one of the most beautifully written books and Toni Morrison is one of the best authors in the world. After reading the Bluest Eye and seeing how captivating it is, it is not highly expectant to think that Beloved to be just as enchanting. Anyone who has read Beloved would read it again and those of us who have not should be dying to read it. Beloved is a historical fiction novel based on a true historical incident. Beloved is

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    PRINCESS O’NIKA AUGUSTE ATLANTA, GEORGIA Beloved is one of the most beautifully written books and Toni Morrison is one of the best authors in the world. After reading the Bluest Eye and seeing how captivating it is, it is not highly expectant to think that Beloved would be just as enchanting. Anyone who has read Beloved would read it again and those of us who have not should be dying to read it. Beloved is a historical fiction novel based on a

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    Toni Morrison illustrates the traumatic effects of slavery and how it was able to substantiate itself through a family over time. In Beloved, Sethe was used to demonstrate that even after years of liberation, she was not able to break free from the past. Morrison’s novel emphasizes the cruelties of slavery and illustrates that the history of slavery should not be forgotten or avoided. Morrison’s novel not only demonstrates historical accuracy on the content of slavery brutality, it also reveals how

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    made by Beloved towards her mother at the end of the book when she and Sethe engage in a fatal, abusive relationship. It is a complaint that Beloved makes to draw sympathy from her mother, but it plays at a universal message Morrison conveys throughout the book and it is an implicit critique on the perception of black women. In Beloved, the “ghosts” Morrison describes are white people. A “ghost” by definition is an apparition of a dead person that is visible to the living. In this sense, ghosts are not

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    During Beloved’s conversation with Denver regarding her time spent in the dark, readers learn who Beloved actually is while also gaining insight concerning where she was before arriving at 124. Specifically, Beloved mentions that, “I’m small in that place. I’m like this here” (Morrison 88), showing that in the dark, Beloved was the size of a toddler, retaining the physical characteristics she possessed when she died. However, when “returning” to the world of the living, she took on the appearance

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    Beloved is one of the most beautifully written books and Toni Morrison is one of the best authors in the world. After reading the Bluest Eye and seeing how captivating it is, it is not highly expectant to think that Beloved to be just as enchanting. Anyone who has read Beloved would read it again and those of us who have not should be dying to read it. Beloved is a historical fiction novel based on a true historical incident. Beloved is set

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    Mr. Williams 2 period Book by: Toni Morrison Book Titled: Beloved Beloved is about a lady they call Sethe who lives in Bluestone with her daughter Denver and her mother in law Baby Suggs. Fifteen years before the story starts, Sethe kills her baby because she was trying to keep her kids from being brought into slavery. The community knew about her killing her baby and judges her. Her sons Buglar and Howard left fifth teen years before the book started. After Baby Sugg 's died, Denver and Sethe

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    Morrison use Denver as a figure desperation for love and human connection that human crave. Due to the lack of maternal love from Sethe, Denver began to “hunger” for the love of Belove. Denver claimed Beloved as her own, despite Beloved clear indifference toward her and obsession towards Sethe. Morrison explains for Denver “to go back to the original hunger was impossible… To be looked at was beyond appetite… it was breaking through her own skin to place to a place where hunger hadn’t been discovered

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