beloved2

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In her novel Beloved, Toni Morrison writes about the life of former slaves of

Sweet Home. Sethe, one of the main characters, was once a slave to a man and his wife,

Mr. and Mrs. Garner. After Garner's sudden death, schoolteacher comes to Sweet Home

and takes control of the slaves. His treatment of all the slaves forced them to run away.

Fearing that her children would be sold, Sethe sent her two boys and her baby girl ahead

to her mother-in-law. On the way to freedom, a white girl named Amy Denver helped

Sethe deliver her daughter, who she later names Denver. About a month after Sethe

escapes slavery, schoolteacher found her and tried to bring her back. In fear that her

children would be brought back into slavery, Sethe killed her older daughter and

attempted to kill Denver and her boys. Sethe, along with Denver, was sent to prison and

spent three months there. Buglar and Howard, her two sons, eventually ran away. After

about eighteen years, another ex-slave from Sweet Home, Paul D., came to live with

Sethe and Denver. A few days later, while coming home from a carnival, Sethe, Paul D.,

and Denver found a young woman of about twenty on their porch. She claimed her nam

point, the prisoners decided to escape. They dove through the mud and ran away to safety

"Just when she thought he was taking her back to Kentucky, he turned the flatbed and

us to better understand the novel. Water comes to represent birth, re-birth, and freedom

comes out of the water. But she also needs to drink a vast amount of water. It seems as

In Beloved, one of the things that water represents is birth. When Sethe was

though she had crossed a desert" (p. 51). Water is an essential part of life. It is necessary

would never have escaped form the prison camp.

amount of urine reminded her of flooding the boat when her water broke at the time

two boys. She tells them who she is and where she is going. Stamp Paid takes her across

schoolteacher and slavery, she had to cross the Ohio River, which is a large body of water.

Approximate Word count = 1449
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)

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