Beloved : Sethe

            
             Toni Morrison's novel Beloved is an intense story of Sethe, the protagonist, who's a runaway slave trying to find her identity and a connection to her past and present. The novel consists of ideas such as identity and rememory. These ideas are both connected in such a way that allows the plot and events to take place, flow and to fit together into one big picture. Morrison expresses the search for Sethe's identity throughout the novel with correlation through various events of rememory. .
             The last two pages of the novel are the most important factors behind Sethe's search for her identity. The passage within these two pages is talking about Beloved. Beloved is a reincarnation of Sethe's baby girl, whom she murdered as a child. The baby girl was one of Sethe's most cherished aspects of her life and it was only for her protection that she did what she did. Before Beloved's reincarnation, the spirit of Beloved was haunting 124, the house in which Sethe lived in. When the spirit suddenly disappeared, it came back as Beloved. Once again it disappeared and this whole passage is of the town trying to forget Beloved. The reason for her disappearance was probably because she was "disremembered and unaccounted for" and "she cannot be lost because no one is looking for her." "So they forgot her. Like an unpleasant dream during a troubling sleep." Beloved was a burden to the town and to Sethe and ones whom were close to her. They forgot about her. The line "This is not a story to pass on" is repeated various times throughout that passage and this is the same reason as to the quotes mentioned previously. Sethe and the whole town refuse to remember Beloved because all she does is bring bad luck. As a matter of fact, they refuse to think of the past, they don't want to remember anything negative that has happened. And if no one thinks of Beloved, then the occurrences with her in the past will never be mentioned again, thus it is "not a story to pass on.