Beloved

Beloved Eighteen Years of Not Living Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a story of a former slave woman and the daughter that comes back to haunt her after eighteen years. It is the meaning of time and memory and how remembering either destroys or saves a future. In order to live in the present and make plans for the future, one must come to terms with the past. The novel opens with Sethe and her daughter Denver living as outcasts in a house outside of Cincinnati given to her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs. Sethe’s mother-in-law has been dead for eight years, and her two sons have run away; they are afraid of their mother and a ghost that shakes the house. The ghost is the spirit of the baby daughter that Sethe murders eighteen years prior in order to save her from slavery. The attempt is also made on the other children without success. To this house arrives Paul D, a former slave who has been wandering for years from the plantation Sweet Home, which Sethe escapes years before. Soon, there is another arrival, a mysterious woman sethe, beloved, paul, years, daughter, sethe’s, past, denver, mother, child, slavery, love, ghost, family, eighteen, dead, back, after, story, slave, living, future, feel, ella, community, children, world, remember, present, make, life, former, causes, because, baby, again, afraid, 124, woman, without, terms, suggs, remembering, process, painful, own, order, one, must, house