Beloved by Toni Morrison
A Novel
What effect did slavery have on each of these characters?
Beloved
Sethe's third child and oldest daughter who was killed at the age of two. Her restless spirit haunts the family first as a ghost and then as a flesh-and-blood woman.
Denver
Sethe's fourth and youngest child. Traumatized as a young girl by what she discovers about her mother, she grows up lonely and isolated, focusing her love and devotion on Beloved's spirit.
Sethe
A former slave whose love for her children and hatred of slavery causes her to commit an unthinkable act in order to keep her children free from a life of bondage.
Denver, Sethe & Beloved
How might the dynamic between Beloved and Denver represent the effect of history on subsequent generations?