Summary Of Beloved
Beginning of paper
The theme of Beloved is revealed in the first few pages of the novel as Sethe wants to leave her house as well as the pain within it. Her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs tells her that "not a house in the country ain't packed to the rafters with some dead Negro's grief." Running from grief will lead to m ....
Middle of paper
.... on the same farm in Kentucky, which was ironically named Sweet Home, though for them, it was neither home nor sweet.
Plot
The plot of the novel is loosely based upon the life of a former slave named Margaret Garner, who tried to kill all of her children when they were captured by her slave owner, and she did succeed in killing one. When the novel begins, Sethe and her daughter, Denver, are living with the ghost of the baby Sethe killed when she was about to be recaptured. After another f ....
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Word count: 512
Page count: 2 (approximately 250 words per page)
