Beloved by Toni Morrison

Beloved 

by Toni Morrison

Read as Apart of Crash Course Literature 

10 Words: Dark actions stemming from dark actions, consequences will always haunt.

     Beloved is the story of an African American Lady named Sethe who escaped slavery. Adventualy though  her masters found her and her children, in an attempt to protect them from being returned to life as a slave - which she felt was no life at all -  Sethe attempted to kill her children, and actually managed to killed her 2-year old daughter. 

     This act meant that there was always a missing place felt in the home. Her sons never forgot the fear she felt of the slavers and the fear they felt of her and so as soon as they were able they left the home. They all feel that a ghost of that child lives with them in their home. 

     This story goes on to express the way those surviving this event, and there past as a slave do the best they can do to honor the past but to continue onto a new life as time moves on. 

   This book shows the pain and mental trouble someone who is treated as the slaves were treated goes through. It shows the love that a mother can have, and the pain she went through to keep her children safe from the worst possible life she can imagine. The book  is doing its best to show us how the unstable lives slave had took a toll on the people that lived them.