In this novel Morrison had used many ways of showing irony. For example, Sethe kills Beloved and then tries to kill the rest of her children thinking that it's out of love and there was nothing wrong with that because she was keeping them away from the horrors of slavery. Ironically, it is Paul D. who reveals the contradictions that Sethe refuses to see in her own logic: "This here Sethe talked about love like any other woman; talked about baby clothes like any other wo

also shows Morrison describes Beloved in this scene as having an expanding waist in order to illustrate Beloved as an expanding monster who is greedily consuming everything that belongs to the family and shattering the fragile infrastructure the family is tentatively gripping on to. (222)

Morrison used many techniques of flashbacks in this novel. For example, As the Bodwin approaches in a cart with his horses to pick up Denver, Sethe is triggered by a flashback of when the schoolteacher and the slave catcher came to get her children 18 years ago. Racing towards the cart, Sethe releases the hand of Beloved and runs toward to crowd using the ice pick as an attachment of her hand to protect her Beloved. "He is coming into her yard and he is coming for her best thing. And if she thinks anything, it is no. Sethe is running away from her, running, and she feels the emptiness in the hand S

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