Sethe had to make the most difficult decision to kill her children, but only was successful in killing her baby, Beloved (Morrison, 174-180). ... For example, at the carnival is where Sethe felt happiness in a long time (Morrison, 52-59). ... When Sethe wanted to bury her baby girl, she wanted to engrave "Beloved" on her dead baby's tombstone, and because she was not able to afford it, she was forced to have ten minutes of intercourse with the engraver (Morrison, 5-6). ... Before she was what we assume reincarnated, Beloved was a ghost that haunted Sethe's home, but when Pa...

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In Toni Morrison's Beloved, each generation hopes to find a better home despite a malignant world: Sethe's mother traveled from the slave ship to the plantation, Sethe from the plantation to Cincinnati, Beloved from Cincinnati to death, and Denver from a strange, haunted land of ghosts and despair to her community at large. To Morrison, the various "spaces" of the Sethe's life constitute a broader understanding of her "self.... Beloved's role in Morrison's book, as a manifestation of a slave history and a personal history, underscores the fluidity ...

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At the end of Toni Morrison's Beloved, it is unclear as to whether or not Sethe has actually forgiven herself for killing her daughter. ... This time Beloved realizes that "Sethe is running away from her " (275). ... If she were comfortable with her actions from the first time she was in that situation, she would have run towards Beloved again. ... She felt Beloved had forgiven her because she wasn't "mad with me. ... Sethe told Beloved she was a "good girl " for coming back to her to make herself feel even more forgiven (213). ...

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Toni Morrison was born as Chloe Wofford on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio, near Cleveland. ... In 1970, her first novel The Bluest Eye was published under the name of Toni Morrison. ... Several other novels followed in quick succession: Song of Solomon (1977), Tar Baby (1981), Beloved (1987), Jazz (1992), and Paradise (1998). ... In the novel Sula, author Toni Morrison proves that love is not easy. ... Toni Morrison's Sula expresses death in this way, as a part of life. ...

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In the novel, The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, the evils inflicted upon blacks by a white society indoctrinated by the inherent beauty of whiteness and ugliness of blackness are thoroughly depicted. ... (Morrison 48, Miner's italics) Mr. ... You're my prisoner- (Morrison 90). ... Junior kills his mother's (Geraldine) beloved cat. ... Get out of my house- (Morrison 92). ...

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In the novel, The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, the evils inflicted upon blacks by a white society indoctrinated by the inherent beauty of whiteness and ugliness of blackness are thoroughly depicted. ... (Morrison 89). ... (Morrison 90). ... Junior kills his mother's (Geraldine) beloved cat. ... (Morrison 92). ...

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There is no way I would be able to compare the lives of Toni Morrison and Emily Dickinson. ... Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in 1931 and spent the first years of her life in Ohio. ... When many of her classmates had difficulty pronouncing her uncommon first name, she changed it to Toni. ... Her other works include Tar Baby (1981), Jazz (1992), Paradise (1998), and, of course, Beloved. ... Today, Morrison is the Robert F. ...

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This twist similarly relates to that in the novel Beloved by Toni Morrison. ... This theme is also strongly found in Beloved by Toni Morrison. ... Jessel and Peter Quint at Bly in order to move on with her life, Sethe, the main character in Beloved, has to confront the ghost of her murdered daughter to move on with hers. ... In Beloved, Sethe murdered her baby daughter to try and save her from becoming a slave. ... Beloved, Sethe's daughter, is a corruptive mean child. ...

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