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Beloved

Beloved

Book report on the novel Beloved, written by Toni Morrison.

PLOT
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A general connection that each of three characters has with plot is that Beloved is Sethe's third child, murdered at the age of one and a ghost in 124 for the next twenty years. She is reborn in that twentieth year, but though 21 years old in appearance, her mind is of a child. Although, Beloved both seeks Sethe's affections as well as revenge for a murder she cannot understand. In the novel, she serves both as a character as well as a symbol for the past and the sixty-million slaves killed in the Middle Passage.
Sethe is the central figure of the novel. She was once a slave in Kentucky, but fled with her four children to Cincinnati. A month after her escape, she was discovered and, in an effort to keep her children out of slavery, Sethe murdered one of them. The main action of the story revolves around the return of the murdered child, twenty years later, and addresses themes such as justice,......


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Approximate Word Count: 812
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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