Final Reflection

Beloved’s underworld emergence into the physical world heavily impacted and influenced Sethe’s behaviors and interactions with others, or the lack of it. Gone mad with elation due to Beloved’s return to Sethe “of her own free will”, Sethe is drained of her vitality to continue living(236). Beloved’s transition from the underworld is possibly henuous because of its negative attachment to Sethe and her experiences. Because her daughter, Beloved’s spirit was killed in a horrific way, the spirits agony to be with her mother is agitated by the physical separation of eachother’s flesh. Her daughter consumes her sorrows and distress by “whipping” her mother for her behaviors and diminishes her livelihood(305). After the turmoil of Beloved’s tantrums and arguments, Denver leaves 124 in search of work to sustain her mother. After meeting a friend of Baby Sugg’s,in Cincinnati, Denver is hired to work for Mr. Bowdoin. As Denver waits for her employer to arrive, she waits patiently for her ride and detects a crowd shuffles down the street. To bless and cast away the ghost of 124, anger and anguish of the past are brought to the present and subsided as the compassion for one another emitted through the “all thirty” women of Elle’s Cincinnati's African American friends(304). As ”music entered the window”, Sethe’s juncture with Beloved is petitioned by the themes of Baby Sugg’s messages of humanity and tenderness(307). Although family, Beloved’s obsession is that of a “devil-child” and her “twisted hair” depicts the distorted mania of Beloved attention seeking(308). “Leaving Beloved behind”, Sethe attacks the incoming Mr. Bowdin in a hysteria of terror(309). Threatening Mr. Bowdin and expressing her extreme fury and exasperation induced the realization in Beloved of her domination over her mother. Her pressure on her mother caused her refusal to comply with understanding the safety needed to evade sexual assault and rape and comprehend the her pellucid decision to avoid the children experiencing the miseries at all costs. Beloved “disappeared” but her presence of remembrance was still present in 124 (310).

Sethe’s daughter, Beloved, represents the limited and dead futures of slaves. Agitated and whimpering at the hardships of slavery, Beloved’s childlike behaviors reflect the ignorance for human rights from whiter pigmented people toward African Americans and ignorance from each race to acknowledge their “personhood”. The “newborn tied to” Sethe’s chest (Denver) as she “jumped off the wagon” symbolizes the opportunities freedom brings with education and universities(102). Although tragic, “crawling-already’s” or “Beloved’s” death contrives the illustration of the whiter skinned’s actions impacts on slaves and African Americans and exposes the gruesome power masters had over slaves(188). Diverging away from slavery, Denver became able to bring up the new generation of freedoms.