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This 8 page paper discusses the use of the character Beloved symbolically throughout the story. Examples, quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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use of symbolism, especially in the title character, Beloved, is the driving force which brings all the converging storylines to its dramatic end. A quick summary of the book shows
Sethe Suggs and her daughter, Denver, living in a house that most people believe to be haunted. A friend, Paul D determines to exorcise the ghost for her. After he
has done so, Sethe is so elated that she asks Paul D to move in with them. Denver, however, is not so elated as the ghost was a little girl,
her sister, in fact. Denver is not happy with the arrangements, as she feels neglected. However, Denver does not know hard times like Sethe and Paul D have known
them. Sethe and Paul discuss their past lives as slaves. Sethe recounts the terrors of living on the plantation and of both the sexual and the physical abuse which she
had suffered. They discuss how the abuse had grown worse until one day they determined that they needed to run away. Things went terribly wrong. Sethes husband, Halle
was prevented from leaving. Several others were caught and lynched on the spot. Another was burned alive, while the last remaining escapee was caught, brought back to the farm and
treated like a horse, complete with a bit in his mouth. Sethe managed to escape. In fact, because she was very pregnant and had been whipped nearly to death the
day before, no one suspected that she would attempt to escape. However, she sent her children ahead and after making it to the Ohio River was found by members of
the underground railroad. An abolitionist named, Amy Denver, helped Sethe to deliver her fourth baby, which she named Denver. Sethe and her children lived happily for less than a
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