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Beloved - College Essays

Beloved

Justin Vieira January 23, 2000 SUPA WRT 105 Mrs. Weiss I Love Mommy #3 “Inside, two boys [Howard and Buglar] bled in the sawdust and dirt at the feet of a nigger woman [Sethe] holding a blood-soaked child [] to her chest with one hand and an infant [Denver] by the heels in the other. She did not look at them; she simply swung the baby toward the wall planks, missed and tried to connect a second time…” (page. 149). One of the first things a baby sees when they are born is their mother. A baby can be certain their mother loves them more than anything because they are of the same flesh and blood. What is a baby to think when their own “face” decapitates them with a hacksaw? It is only natural ...

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things as a baby does. For this reason, she does not know how to form sentences. The only word that is consistently punctuated correctly is “I.” The only thing that is truly sure about, is herself. Everything else has the power to deceive her. “we are all trying to leave our bodies behind the man on my face [Halle] has done it it is hard to make yourself die forever” (page 210). has been amongst the living and the dead. According to her, the purpose of life is to become dead. Halle, the man on her face, has accomplished this through disappearing. Nobody knows anything about him, so he is as good as dead. Contrarily, has always been on Sethe’s mind. Killing her own daughter is memory that she can not forget. is brought back to life because she can not be forgotten. “What I remember is a picture floating around out there outside my head” (page 36). It is impossible to forget the memory of because she was murdered in the shed right outside 124Bluestone Road. The memory stays right ...

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