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Beloved is a book that stirred emotions in its audience throughout the entire story. This is the story of a young girl haunting her mother during the time of slavery. The mother, Sethe, had been a slave for years before she escaped to the free-state of Ohio. However, after a short time, a recovery party had followed Sethe to Ohio to take back the slaves they “rightfully” owned. Knowing how terrible the life as a slave could be, Sethe attempted to take the lives of her children in order to spare their innocence. She only succeeded in killing her oldest daughter, a two year old girl we presume to be named Beloved. Beloved is told through the perspective of several characters, particularly Sethe and Paul D. Their testimonies to the occurrences with Beloved are based around a few themes including slavery, death, love, anger, and jealousy.
Slavery is the most obvious theme in the book as the characters’ lives revolve around the fact that they are considered property. This had severe emotional and psychological effects on the slaves, particularly Sethe. This is evident in her attachment to the spirit called Beloved. Slowly she is seen to become obsessed with pleasing this spirit as she loved Beloved like her own child that she lost years ago. The ghost acts just like a child, eventually throwing temper tantrums when it doesn’t get its way. As time continues, Sethe falls deeper and deeper into depression due to her captivity and the presence that was once her daughter. The spirit also grows larger as Sethe slowly loser her mind. This causes the friends and family of Sethe to distance them from the craziness that surrounds her.
Sethe often saw her friends to be “jealous” of her relationship with Beloved. This was quite the opposite from...

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...behind. Beloved does not understand because again she is a baby.
Finally in chapter 23 Beloved states that she loves Sethe so much and begs her to never ever hurt or leave her. In no time at all, Sethe hurts her again. Beloved again turns back to Denver. Denver tells Beloved to give Sethe a chance to love her, but Beloved refuses to listen.
Beloved is one of the strongest books that I have read and actually got my attention. For some little girl to go through what Beloved did is unreal. Beloved spoke for all of those other kids who had no voice and went through what she did. Beloved just wanted her voice heard and be heard to those people who did not know what was happening. This book really opened up my eyes and made me understand what was happening back then and made me realize that there is little kids out there trying to make people understand them and cant.

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