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.... Through the concept of the home, Morrison shows that if we estrange one element of our lives, then we have estranged our identity fr...

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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). ... Although Denver did not really know her sister, she still missed her and was traumatized over the situation (Morrison, 34-51). ... Before she was what we assume reincarnated, Beloved was a ghost that haunted Sethe's home, but when Paul D exorcised it, Sethe was not to happy (Morrison, 236). ... " (Morrison, 241). ...

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Living Through The Eyes Of Slavery Beloved, by Toni Morrison, explores the physical, emotional, and spiritual devastations created by slavery. ... (Morrison, 171) When she is with Beloved, Sethe gets, paralyzed in the past. ... (Morrison, 77) Dubinsky 6 When Beloved compels him to have sex with her, the tobacco box gets opened. ... (Morrison, 123) His confession for true love allows the tobacco lid to reopen. ...

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