Beloved toni morrison genre Continue 1987 novel Byni Morrison Beloved First edition of coverageAutonCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishGenreAmerican LiteraturePublisherAlfred A. Knopf Inc. Set after the American Civil War (1861-1865), it is inspired by the life of Margaret Garner, an African American who escaped slavery in Kentucky in late January 1856 by crossing the Ohio River to Ohio, a free state. Captured, she killed her child, not put her back into slavery. Morrison came across Garner's story A Visit to a Slave Mother Who Killed Her Child in an 1856 newspaper article published in the American Baptist Book, and reproduced in The Black Book, a different compilation of black history and culture that Morrison edited in 1974. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 and was a finalist for the 1987 National Book Award. It was adapted as a 1998 film of the same name, starring Oprah Winfrey. A survey of writers and literary critics compiled by The New York Times rated it as the best work of American fiction from 1981 to 2006. In the background, the book's dedication reads Sixty Million or More, referring to Africans and their descendants who died as a result of the Atlantic slave trade. The epigraph of the book - Romans 9:25. The plot of the beloved's resume begins in 1873 in Cincinnati, Ohio, where the protagonist Setha, a previously enslaved woman, lives with her eighteen-year-old daughter Denver at 124 Bluestone Road. The book explores the lives of Sethe and her daughter after their escape from slavery, opening in 1873 after the Civil War. Their Cincinnati home has been haunted for years by abusive retribution, which they consider the ghost of Sethe's eldest daughter. Because of the haunts, which often involves objects thrown around the room by Sete Denver's youngest daughter shy, friendly, and at home. Sete's sons, Howard and Buglar, ran away from home at the age of 13. Sete thinks they escaped because of an evil ghost. Baby Suggs, the mother of her husband Setha Halle, lived with her family but died in her bed shortly after the boys fled, eight years before the affair began. Paul D, one of the enslaved people of Sweet Home, the plantation where Setha, Halle, Baby Suggs, and several others were once enslaved, arrives at Setha's house. He's trying to dismiss what he considers superstition. He tries to help the family forget the bitter past and stick out the spirit. At first, he seems successful: he persuades Denver to leave home for the first time in years. But when they return home, Setha, Denver and Paul D encounter a young woman sitting in front of the house, calling herself beloved. Paul D is and warns Sete, but she is fascinated by the young woman and ignores him. Paul D begins to feel increasingly uncomfortable in Setha's bedroom and starts sleeping in different places on the property, trying to find a place that feels good. One night, while sleeping in a wooded area, Paul D is cornered by beloved. While they were having sex, his mind is filled with terrible memories from his past. Shocked by guilt, Paul D tries to tell Setha about it, but can not. Instead, he says he wants her to get pregnant. Sete is apprehensing, but eager to prospect their relationship. Paul D resists the Beloved and her influence on him. But when he tells friends at work about his plans to start a new family, they react terribly. One of them, Stamp Paid, reveals the reason for the community's rejection of Setha. When Paul D asks Setha about it, she tells him what happened. After escaping from Sweet Home and joining their children at his mother-in-law's house, four riders came to the house at 124 Bluestone Road. A schoolteacher, one of his nephews, a slave catcher, and the sheriff wanted to bring her and her children back to life of slavery on the Sweet Home plantation in Kentucky. Sethe grabbed her children, ran to the forest strip and tried to kill them all. She only managed to kill her eldest daughter, then she was two years old and she was already crawling. Sete said she was trying to put her children where they are safe. Paul D leaves after this revelation. Sete comes to believe that the beloved daughter she killed as BELOVED was all she could afford to have engraved on her daughter's tombstone. Setet begins to spend all his time and money on the Beloved, carelessly spoiling the Beloved out of guilt, to the fact that Setha loses his job. Beloved becomes angry and more demanding, throwing tantrums when she doesn't get her way. The presence of the Beloved consumes Setha's life until it is depleted. She barely eats, while beloved grows more and more, eventually taking the form of a pregnant woman. In the climax of the novel, Denver reaches out to the black community for help. Some of the local women come to the house to expel the Beloved. In the meantime, the white man, Mr. Bodwin, arrives at the house on a horse. When Baby Suggs arrived in Ohio after Halle bought her freedom from her owner, Mr. Bodwin offered her a Cincinnati home as a place to stay in exchange for laundry and wash tasks. He came for Denver, who asked him for a job. Denver didn't tell his mother, and without understanding why he was here, Sete attacks a white man with an ice pick, thinking it's a schoolteacher trying to take her daughter. While Setha is confused and has the memory of his master coming again, the village women take it upon themselves, and the Beloved disappears. Denver is getting member of the community, and Paul D returns to bedridden Setha, who, exhausted exhausted life at the disappearance of the Beloved, remorse tells him that beloved was her best. He replies that Sete is her own best thing, leaving her questioning I? Me? The main themes of mother-daughter relationship maternal bonding between Sete and her children hinder her own individuation and prevent the development of her self. Sete develops a dangerous maternal passion that leads to the murder of one daughter, her own best self. Her surviving daughters are moving away from the black community. Both outcomes are the result of Sete trying to save her fantasy of the future, her children, from living in slavery. In Ohio, Setha does not recognize the need for his daughter Denver to interact with the black community to enter into femininity. At the end of the novel, Denver manages to create himself and begin his individuation with the help of the Beloved. Setet becomes only individuated after the exorcism of beloved. Then she is free to fully accept the first relationship that is completely for her, her relationship with Paul D. This relationship rids her of the self-destruction she causes, based on maternal relationships with her children. Beloved and Setha are both emotionally weakened, which has become associated with the enslavement of Setha. Under slavery, mothers lost their children, with devastating consequences for both sides. Sete was traumatized by the fact that her milk was stolen, instead of feeding her own child. This made her unable to form a symbolic bond between herself and her daughter. 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